{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.690.4", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "nifesto and we shall do so. We have already managed to cut the time taken to get persistent young offenders into court by seven whole weeks. That contrasts with the astonishing complacency of the Conservatives when they were in government. Not only did they refuse to do anything about the scandalous state of the youth justice system as it then was, but they described the pledge as \"undeliverable\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.690.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.690.4", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "trasts with the astonishing complacency of the Conservatives when they were in government. Not only did they refuse to do anything about the scandalous state of the youth justice system as it then was, but they described the pledge as \"undeliverable\". [Interruption.] They were going to do nothing about it. We have already delivered a significant part of the pledge in many parts of the country and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.690.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady wants some more facts, I shall give her some. The figures were rising under the 1996 legislation. The average decision-making time in May 1997 was 20 months. The latest figure, from October, is 11 months. She says that she would abandon the civil penalty and immediately introduce cash benefit payments for asylum seekers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "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": "early to mid-1990s. It is rich of the Conservative party, given its lamentable record, to criticise this Government for not doing more to tackle homelessness. In the 18 years that the Conservatives had to do the job, the number of households accepted as homeless more than doubled. Their record is a disgrace. They are wrong again to say that the number of homeless people has increased under Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.711.5", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, the obligation will be to make the seller's pack available when the property is put on the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "Once again, we hear entirely bogus figures from Opposition Front Benchers. No, there were not three. There were many more: there were 189 seller's packs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": " pack. They could not test how the system would work with a compulsory seller's pack, because only people acting voluntarily used them, and they were often part of chains involving many other sellers, which inevitably affected the speed of the process. The survey was not a test of the demand for packs. Given the advantages of the seller's pack, there will be huge interest when the scheme comes in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "yancing matters. It is a sad feature of this Parliament that we have spent endless hours debating gay rights and foxhunting, but much more serious matters affecting the daily lives of what Lord Falconer would grandly call ordinary people are relegated to the back of the queue. Instead, we have been obliged to follow the priorities of the liberal elite, who drive so much of the Government's agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.731.5", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "g irrespective of today's debate or the Bill, but the Law Society is still fundamentally concerned and opposed to the concept of including matters such as local searches, which may have a three-month shelf life, or survey reports, which also may have a shelf life of only a few months. It has clearly formed its own judgment, as I am sure most people will, on the results of the Bristol pilot scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.731.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the latter point. Perhaps my hon. Friend would like to develop it by volunteering to join the Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ground Force\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "he intention, but I hope that we can be given a clear assurance that the Government intend to offer a wider range of choice—not just one option. We welcome much of the Bill, but nevertheless believe that it represents work in progress. I do not know how many Members found a bit more time to watch television over the holiday and became glued to programmes such as \"Changing Rooms\" and \"Ground Work\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "ntion, he rather dismissively asserted that there would be more choice. I have not simply plucked the issue out of the air. On Friday, I took the trouble to visit Mr. Greg Spawton, the housing needs manager at New Forest district council, and he raised precisely that issue with me. Subsequently, he has confirmed the points that he made in an electronic-mail message to me, from which I shall quote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.763.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Fraser", "preceding_text": "in tackling the problems. The Prime Minister said that five years ago, just before going into an election campaign; he has now come out the other side, and the figures do not stack up in the Government's favour. Official figures show that the number of priority homeless people has increased by 3,000 since Labour came to power. As my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne so beautifully articulated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.768.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Commission", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ong the roles that he has previously undertaken is that of chief counting officer for the 1997 referendum on Scottish devolution. He is chairman of the Commission on Local Government and the Scottish Parliament, which reported in June 1999. The third name is that of Glyn Mathias, who will be known to many right hon. and hon. Members as a broadcasting journalist who has worked for various channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-08", "file": "debates2001-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "5c0190a413903112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Commission", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linton", "preceding_text": "e the point that the sooner the commissioners are allowed to get on with the job, the more they will be prepared for an election. The earlier the suggested date of the election, the stronger that argument. Unlike the hon. Member for Surrey Heath, I was concerned by the stringency of the conditions for commissioners which were introduced in an amendment in the House of Lords in October or November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-08a.836.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.869.5", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "We have just had a classic example of an hon. Member reading out a pre-rehearsed question and completely disregarding the answer given by a Minister from the Dispatch Box. The hon. Gentleman was clearly not expecting me to announce that, from April 2001 onwards, the new high definition/low definition cosmesis will be available on the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.869.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "arty are! The hon. Gentleman is completely wrong in all that he says. We are not counting the extra 20,000 home care packages as NHS beds; that is completely untrue. We are providing more beds in the NHS. I think most Labour Members will take the hon. Gentleman's complaints about bed losses with a pinch of salt. He might like to know how many beds were lost when his party was in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "It is traditional for the Minister for the Armed Forces to deal with this legislation. As has been made clear, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is having important discussions with one of our friendly powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell) had been aware that the hon. Gentleman would mention him in such detail during his opening remarks he would have ensured that he was here. In his defence—although he needs none from me—it is a constitutional point that the Prince of Wales of any day should not become involved in discussing party politics. I speak as a \"friend\" of His Royal Highness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "preceding_text": "is that many of the things that Conservative Members supported enthusiastically, they now appear to oppose. My wife accuses me regularly of being the personification of political incorrectness, but, in the many military units that I have visited, I have not discerned that women in the armed forces are a profound liability—quite the reverse. The recruiting crisis that began a long time before 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "olicing in general. I wish all hon. Members who will serve on the Select Committee considering the Bill an enjoyable and informative time. Despite the Opposition's decision to oppose the procedure, such Committees tend to produce consensus. No doubt, the Committee will visit the glasshouse in Colchester. The quality of the prisoners means that it is difficult to distinguish them from their guards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.921.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hancock", "preceding_text": " in our armed forces. We have an opportunity here. I am not pessimistic, and I believe that the select Committee on the Armed Forces Bill, under the excellent chairmanship of the hon. Member for Dunfermline, West (Ms Squire), will amend the Bill should the need arise. Those who are selected by the House to be members of it will keep an open mind and be willing to make improvements where necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "There has been an occasion when an early general election precluded completion of a Bill until after it had been brought back. There is very little chance of that event happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.986.6", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "Well, there was a good reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.986.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": " again. The previous Government set the abominable precedent of tabling 400 amendments, in some cases, at a late stage of legislation. When I sat in the Chair I found that unacceptable, and I would find it unacceptable if my own Government did the same thing. Tonight, we have on the Front Bench a Minister whose tact, ability and civilised intelligence marks him out as suitable for any Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "overnment alone, has he noticed that the Opposition Members of the Committee are all trusties? Because the Government members are all trusties, the Opposition members are all trusties. The Liberal Democrats have a trusty too, so is it not time that we recognised that the purpose of a Select Committee is have a few \"untrusties\" on it? It is the duty of the Government to make space for \"untrusties\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.998.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1004.6", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend may have noticed that the Minister spent a great deal of time guffawing, which usually means that he is embarrassed by what my hon. Friends say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1004.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "n the narrow area of law relating to national security. They will be poachers turned gamekeepers: people who have retired from the MOD but who may be prepared to offer their services. One or two excellent academics might participate and I shall make my suggestions to whoever the Chairman is. One of the great roles that a Select Committee can play is to abandon, as far as is possible in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": " has been formed by the present aberrant process will deliver the goods. If it is to make difficulties for the Executive, it will surely mean an act of masochism and self-abuse. The people who will be critical are those whom the Committee will be criticising, so I am not entirely convinced that the critical faculty that should be exercised on behalf of this House will be exercised. The last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " what we were created for, historically, and in that sense the right hon. Gentleman has a role of considerable importance. I shall deal finally with that role, because it relates to the so-called Select Committee. The right hon. Gentleman pointed to the fact that no other country in the European Union would accept the subsidiary role that his Committee has had forced upon it by our current system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES BILL (COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ave a Second Reading, then a 45-minute discussion of a guillotine, and then a discussion of the nature of the Committee considering the Armed Forces Bill. We are supposed to do all those things, but the Government have not given themselves time to listen to what the House of Commons says in the meantime. It is all right for the Executive, who are all happy, as they know that they have won the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-09", "file": "debates2001-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "3c4a7bb8b04bd76b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Commission", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " and £60,000 a year later. Someone with that business experience could have made a valuable contribution to the body, which is charged with trying to get its message across to the wider public. In that situation, someone with experience in communication other than the media would be excellent. I would have welcomed someone like Richard Faulkner, the managing director of Westminster Communications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-09a.1036.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1077.2", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "to the Bank of England. On manufacturing industry, it is the case—partly as a result of the euro's improvement in its competitiveness with the pound—that the situation is better, but it is still very difficult for some areas of manufacturing. However, for manufacturing, as for the rest of the British economy, the worst thing would be a return to the boom and bust of the late 1980s and early 1990s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1077.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " We are trying to get additional sums of money to hard-pressed groups in our public services, where we need to recruit and pay properly. It will take time and it has to be done in a way that will not put at risk the strength of the economy. We now know that the Conservative party would take that money away from the very groups to which my hon. Friend refers. The difference between the two parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You will be aware that the Prime Minister's final answer to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition lasted precisely one minute and 50 seconds. Given your periodic appeals for brevity on the part of right hon. and hon. Members and the fact that you are empowered to impose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "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": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. When the Government came to office, our first job was to stabilise the national health service. Decades of neglect, coupled with years of failed reforms, had left the NHS with neither the investment nor the fundamental changes that it needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "ory bodies. Claire Rayner is involved with patients' associations, and she said: I welcome the proposals put forward by the Government which will allow patients to influence directly the services they receive. The NHS Confederation supported the proposals, and the Local Government Association stated: The proposals are an important contribution to a more patient centred and locally accountable NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks for an explanation of what is happening in areas including his own. As he will know, it is true that some nursing homes are closing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "rst and foremost, the Bill is about devolving power from the centre to the local—from the NHS executive and the Department of Health to front-line clinicians, local hospitals, primary care groups and, above all others, patients themselves It transfers the oversight of local primary care services. Let us not forget that in all the discussions about hospitals that inevitably take place in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Howard Stoate", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Howard Stoate", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "for longer, in many cases avoiding altogether the need for them to enter residential care We could, of course, have chosen to spend the money instead—as I think the Liberal Democrats suggest—on implementing the royal commission's recommendation that all personal care, as well as nursing care, should he free. I believe that this would not have improved front-line services in any way, shape or form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "to the House. No Member would purposely mislead the House, but I did so inadvertently at Question Time yesterday and I want to correct the record. Yesterday, I said that the number of patients waiting for appointments—the waiting list for the waiting list—had gone up by 55,000 under the Labour Government. I should have corrected that, because the number has gone up by 188,000 under the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1098.5", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": " much echo our own ideas on prescription-first medicines and allowing pharmacists to re-prescribe, once the initial prescription has been given by a doctor. Most hon. Members will understand my own experience as an asthmatic, unable to get an inhaler on a Saturday morning when I was running my constituency surgery. I phoned my doctor and got the receptionist, who was probably a sad loss to the SS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1098.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1143.2", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "uring. It is Labour's style now that it is in government to dismiss the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nursing and community health councils because they do not suit its agenda. The Government are at least consistent on one front: when things occasionally go right for them they take the credit, but when things go wrong it is all the fault of the previous Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1155.4", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dawson", "preceding_text": "I do not regret that for an instant. I thought that I had made it perfectly clear that I think that community health councils have done a remarkable job. Since I signed that motion, the Government's vision of the future of patient involvement and patient empowerment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1155.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Turner", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for answering my question. It means that I can move on to another point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-10", "file": "debates2001-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "85ea47bafa8f1ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": ", can best be improved by centralising rather than by decentralising power, betrays a disappointing lack of ability to think outside the box. The key to prosperity or even survival of an organisation on the scale of the NHS must be devolution, flexibility and diversity of response, but on the evidence of the Bill the Secretary of State still hankers after absolute power to micro-manage the empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-10a.1170.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-11", "file": "debates2001-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "34e949ea6fc97225", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "oung children. She should also know that the Government have put extra resources into playgroups precisely to help them deal with the knock-on effects of this different range of opportunities available to the youngest children. The hon. Lady asked me to look at the management of Programming Sub-Committees. She will be aware that it was always envisaged that they would work by informal arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-11", "file": "debates2001-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "34e949ea6fc97225", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "he will be aware that it was always envisaged that they would work by informal arrangement—[HON. MEMBERS:\"By whom?\"] If hon. Gentlemen will allow me, I will finish the sentence—along the lines of those undertaken successfully, for example, in the Greater London Authority Standing Committee. It was always envisaged that they would work along the lines of previously existing Business Sub-Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-11", "file": "debates2001-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "34e949ea6fc97225", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "s envisaged that they would work by informal arrangement—[HON. MEMBERS:\"By whom?\"] If hon. Gentlemen will allow me, I will finish the sentence—along the lines of those undertaken successfully, for example, in the Greater London Authority Standing Committee. It was always envisaged that they would work along the lines of previously existing Business Sub-Committees. [Interruption.] As for the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-11", "file": "debates2001-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "34e949ea6fc97225", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "oceedings. The House as a whole has decided to adopt this new set of procedures, albeit not with the consent of all Opposition Members. It follows recommendations by successive Committees of this House for at least 10 years and it offers the Opposition an opportunity, should they wish to take it, to make constructive use of time for debate and to make sure that all legislation is properly debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-11", "file": "debates2001-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "34e949ea6fc97225", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shepherd's pie.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "ll reasonableness, the Opposition's demands for the debates upstairs in Committee to be properly planned and programmed, which should be to the advantage of the Opposition. Will the right hon. Lady make it absolutely clear that the Government share that intention? That would defuse some of the feelings that are boiling up, as illustrated by the hon. Member for Hammersmith—or is it Shepherd's Bush?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-11", "file": "debates2001-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "34e949ea6fc97225", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1252.4", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " accept that it will be shared by her constituents. She will know that both the Government and the Post Office have expressed concern, although she will be aware that, unfortunately, it is by no means a record: far greater numbers of post offices have closed in the past. Nevertheless, we continue to express concern at the rate of closures. Further analysis of what is happening is being undertaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1252.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-11", "file": "debates2001-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "34e949ea6fc97225", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1295.0", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ve just returned from visiting my family in Tanzania. I received a message a short time ago that my father-in-law has gone down with malaria, the symptoms of which are a cold, aching bones with the flu and the shakes. I feel a cold coming on and have aching bones, but I do not have the shakes. However, if I do get them, you will understand, Mr. Deputy Speaker, why I might withdraw from the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-11a.1295.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-15", "file": "debates2001-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b291a49319d507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-15a.3.5", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "Is not the truth that long-range traceable-source missile systems are effectively obsolete in the real world, and that the real threat comes from the container going through the port? Is it not also true that the Tories are divided on the issue and are trying to hide that division, which will surface over the next couple of months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-15a.3.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-15", "file": "debates2001-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b291a49319d507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-15a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Neighbourhood Renewal", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "educed. The actions of the DTI on the minimum wage, for example, and its work with the Small Business Service are absolutely critical. We shall not appoint the neighbourhood managers: they will be appointed locally. The appointments will come from whatever vehicle the local strategic partnerships decide to set up. Under the new deal for communities, many areas have already set up community trusts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-15a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-15", "file": "debates2001-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "09b291a49319d507", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-15a.47.4", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Tax Simplification (Joint Committee)", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "If I may answer one question at a time, I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman in due course. There is no chance that, without a majority, the Government could railroad anything through the Committee, nor would we want to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-15a.47.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "More people are travelling by rail than ever before. That was our intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.192.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.194.6", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robathan", "preceding_text": "The news today is full of the crisis in investment in the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "ight hon. and hon. Members who have a legitimate interest in the matter will have sufficient time and opportunity to give it their consideration and make their input if, for example, the Committee were to be very small or if consideration in Committee were to be very short? From what the hon. Member for Preseli Pembrokeshire (Mrs. Lawrence) said, she seems to want the process to be \"fast tracked\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "18 years … Much of the later abuse was not inflicted by persons in a position of trust in relation to him and there can be no doubt that he was significantly corrupted and damaged by what occurred. It is no good the Secretary of State coming to the Dispatch Box to tell us what a wonderful job the Government are doing; they used the Parliament Act to inflict the change in the age of consent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": " a plenary session of the Human Rights International Alliance conference on children's rights, which was held in Central hall, Westminster. I was pleased to be there, because I was the only Member of this place to have been invited to participate, amid a glittering array of international politicians, sociologists and other academics, High Court judges and lawyers. Of course, I was out of my depth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Whitney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Infamous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Whitney", "preceding_text": "s not dropped, but it is beginning to drop. There will be trouble ahead when people realise that the Scottish people enjoy different treatment and that there are differences in Wales. It behoves all of us to take note of that danger and to avoid that trouble. I welcome the creation of this new post, with the caveats that many hon. Members have made. I shall deal with the famous reasoned amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, but I do not want to continue in that vein. The message is clear. If the Bill covered England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, such conundrums would not exist. I have no doubt that, when we are returned to power after the next general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.284.5", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Neither have you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a minute, although I am not sure whether he has been present throughout proceedings on the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.300.6", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ned amendment, we give the Bill our full support. However, we shall seek in Committee to amend the Bill along the lines of our reasoned amendment. In his reply to the previous debate, and after listening to concerns expressed by Labour and by Conservative and other Opposition Members, the Under-Secretary of State for Wales said that he would carefully consider the amendments that we are proposing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.300.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children's Commissioner for Wales Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " deliberations. They view ours as the mother of Parliaments and they will consider how we pass legislation. The Bill is vital, and emerging democracies that wish to enter the 21st century and to he viewed as civilised may want to create their own children's commissioner. We have not acted in splendid isolation; we have looked at various examples, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.306.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-16", "file": "debates2001-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "260367e1dd75c8be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "There was never a threat that the threshold process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-16a.317.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.330.7", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "so will he help me? A year ago, the Government's progress report said that at the end of 1999 capability for electronic service delivery was 36 per cent.; now, the Government say that 42 per cent. has been achieved, which represents a peat triumph in the intervening year. Will he explain that apparent lack of progress and tell us how much take-up has increased on last year's figure of 17 per cent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.330.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have not said that we are opposed; what we have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.341.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.344.4", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right in the sense both that we are putting extra investment into the health service and that Conservative Members have refused to commit themselves to matching our additional funding for social services, which are a vital part of achieving improvements in the national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.344.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.344.4", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "vative Members have refused to commit themselves to matching our additional funding for social services, which are a vital part of achieving improvements in the national health service. [Interruption.] The right hon. Member for Bracknell (Mr. MacKay) keeps shouting across to my hon. Friend the Member for Wimbledon (Mr. Casale) that he will be out at the next general election, but we will just see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.344.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The job will, of course, take a very long time indeed, but the resources will be put into it. Those resources are going into inner cities up and down the country for the simple reason that this Government and this political party believe in prosperity being spread to every part of our country. We also believe that no one should be shut out and excluded from our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.351.4", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask you, as the guardian of the rights of Back Benchers, which are increasingly few, to have a word with the Prime Minister about the way in which questions are answered? I asked the right hon. Gentleman a question today of fundamental importance about when he, to put it frankly, was less than honest in a television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.351.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "r cent. increase in robbery. The reasons for that extremely distressing development have been extensively canvassed by Opposition Members. There are 2,500 fewer police officers than there were at the time of the previous election. There is widespread demoralisation among the police. The Home Secretary has caused more than 26,000 prisoners to be released early so that they may be free to re-offend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "The Burns report dealt with those issues. I want to focus on foxhunting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.374.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "Instead of diverting the Committee with bygone days and the cruelties of the urban lower classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "There are a number of reasons. One point about rabbit hunting is that, quite often, the rabbits get eaten—if not by dogs, by the people who shoot them. That argument is also made about pheasant shooting. I would not go shooting; it is one of the reasons that I am a vegetarian. If one had to kill one's own meat, many more people might convert to vegetarianism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.381.5", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "The rats would have been coming over to my garden if that were the case. No, I do not confirm that; there are no Conservatives in my constituency—or very few. I was listening to a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.381.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "d to be made clearer. I do not believe that killing 5 per cent. of foxes nationally or 50 foxes in my constituency makes much difference to the number of foxes. The argument about control is a bit of a red herring. Returning to my hon. Friend's point, there are areas where the argument for control is stronger. That brings me on to the Welsh Assembly and the amendment tabled by Plaid Cymru Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.398.4", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "I said Alan Clark—the right hon. Gentleman is clearly having an identity crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.398.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Öpik", "preceding_text": "I will in a minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "agrant example of double standards. Many Labour Members consider most people who hunt to be toffs. Those of us who live in the countryside know that that is not true. The vast majority of people who hunt are ordinary people. However, if the majority of people who hunt belonged to minorities—if they were coloured people or homosexuals—I suggest that the Bill would never have been brought before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Save?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into the question of coal, but I certainly strongly supported the proposals of my right hon. Friend the Member for Henley (Mr. Heseltine) to save a number of our pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paice", "preceding_text": "I would rather not. I have a lot to say and I know that other hon. Members wish to speak, Sir Alan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for that information. In that case, my remaining question is to Opposition Front-Bench Members: will Opposition Members have a free vote too? Plaid Cymru Members will of course have a free vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I must make a little progress, but I will give way because I am interested to hear the exponent of the third way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "ll be less healthy—there is no doubt about that. Yesterday, I spoke to the master of a German pack of drag hounds who was clear that, since the ban in Germany in the 1930s, the fox population has been plagued by diseases. Germany has just got on top of rabies, but it now has a particular problem with a tapeworm, which he described as FuchsbandswÖrm. The worm is so dangerous to human beings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "o enjoy 12 to 15 years of happy life. If a ban is introduced, this floor will be torn up and the only option will be the vile alternative of the Belgian meat market where prices are currently as low as £300 per carcase, and would obviously be depressed further. Hunts draw young people into a social network that lasts all their lives. Drag hunting is only suitable for wealthy, aggressive thrusters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "a person innocently walking his dog should be subjected to intrusive visits by police without a warrant. Above all, a ban will be supremely difficult to enforce. The last march in London totalled 300,000 people; the next will be a lot bigger. We understand that Members have their power, but it is not possible to run a pluralist society if the majority abuses its powers over a significant minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Todd", "preceding_text": "This is foreign territory for me because I have never spoken on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Todd", "preceding_text": "heir position I would have sought some time ago to discard certain, utterly indefensible hunting practices, so that much more of the ground on which they stand could be defended. Their tactical stance has instead been to make a brazen defence of every practice, however unjustifiable. To that extent, they have been their own worst enemy throughout much of this debate, but that is for them to judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said: The House of Lords prevented the foxhunting Bill from proceeding. —[ Official Report , 13 July 2000; Vol. 353, c. 1102.] That was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.436.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-17", "file": "debates2001-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "13e84c0d40251545", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is your boss?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I never thought that I would hear the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) described as politically correct. Furthermore, to describe one's boss as intolerant is bizarre, but I suppose that from time to time we, too, have described the right hon. Lady as intolerant. This has been a good debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-17a.450.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.507.5", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "everal industry initiatives have been taken. I am pleased to say that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is today announcing a new initiative from the energy company Innogy—a £10 million programme called \"health through warmth\", which will potentially help more than 20,000 households in England and Wales to make their homes more energy-efficient so that they can stay warmer at lower cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.507.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "rong with them. The precedent is not encouraging, but the reason why the hon. Lady may have been unwise to raise the matter is that, at the moment, we have no time I or private Members' legislation. That is because Opposition Members keep objecting to the motion to provide time for private Members' Bills. It is hypocrisy for the Leader of the Opposition to offer support to a private Member's Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": " conflict. Will the Leader of the House look very carefully at the timetable for next Tuesday? The Liberal Democrat education motion, which has already been referred to, has been put in the graveyard slot in the middle of the night. It looks very much as if next Tuesday's motion will be put in exactly the same position and that there will not be a proper debate on transparency in local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that he is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "n who apparently object to it. On the hon. Gentleman's first point, the proposals that are being discussed were made under article 191, which states that the provisions shall apply on the same basis to all the political forces represented in the European Parliament. There is no truth in the suggestion that that is particularly advantageous to the Labour party or to any other party in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to say that I do not think that the hon. Lady accurately represents what the Deputy Prime Minister said. What he said was that local authorities, which obviously incurred substantial costs in dealing with flooding, would have those costs reimbursed in full. I do not think that it was ever claimed that every individual would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "y of education that our children receive. Indeed, their complacency is breathtaking. It is not as if the figures have not been showing a problem. The Secretary of State's own Department's figures show that recruitment levels have dropped since 1997 and vacancies have been rising. Indeed, official figures show that teacher vacancies have increased by almost 50 per cent. under the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dispatch Box.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "y that 190,000 teachers will receive £2,000 more as a result of threshold payments. I welcome the extra money for teachers, but only 190,000 out of 500,000 will get it. The majority of the others will have only a 3.5 per cent. pay rise this year—40p a day for a cup of coffee is what most teachers will receive for all the efforts that they have put in. I defy the Minister to come to the ballot box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.546.3", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "e wrong message. In Scotland, there is no performance-related pay, no payment by results and no bureaucratic threshold. There are no external assessors checking on head teachers and there is no denial of employment rights for part-time staff and those belonging to trade unions. What a difference devolution has made. What a contrast there is in Scotland now that Liberal Democrats are in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "be. Moreover, we should abandon the external threshold assessors and ask them, rather than wandering about, to go into schools and teach. We need long-term solutions. The Secretary of State was not being entirely honest—honest is not the right word though, because I would not accuse him of being dishonest. But he was certainly manipulating the truth when he talked about the GTTR figures last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "another two Front-Bench speeches to be delivered, Back-Bench speakers will have only about half an hour. The hon. Gentleman spoke for 33 minutes and the hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) spoke for more than half an hour. Mercifully, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was quite short in comparison. It is not good for democracy or for Parliament for Back Benchers to have so little time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "he ability to teach than on keeping discipline. No Opposition Member commented on the disgraceful intervention made by the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow), who said that the role of teachers in most state schools was to provide crowd control. That is a gross travesty. We should consider the damage that one such Back-Bench remark can do when it is reported in the press and teachers read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": " had cut my local authority's education budget by £6 million. It had had to make 52 members of staff take early retirement or face redundancy. It is with great pleasure that I say to the House that, although it is a strain to fill all the posts, it is tremendous that there is demand in the system and we are seeking to supply it. Take it from me, that is a superb moment for the teaching profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "htly described the Secretary of State's speech as mercifully brief, before going on to make a courageous attack on the Barnett formula, thus starting the election campaign in Scotland a little early. My hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Randall) made the point that Ministers have not yet replied to letters received from a school in his constituency, which were sent in September and October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Maidenhead, and it is welcome and right that he should do so. Why does he not let us put all our policy recommendations into practice? Let us cut out the middleman and solve all Labour's problems. The Secretary of State unwisely used the metaphor of the highwayman. In fact, the highwayman is Labour's Chancellor of the Exchequer, who takes our tax but delivers no teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "e consultants were engaged. The Secretary of State will say that that is positive, because the service is so popular. I was then asked whether I would like to be sent a brochure rather than wait to speak to somebody. I said, \"No, I would like to speak to somebody.\" The person I was talking to asked whether I would like to enter the queueing system. I said, \"Yes\", whereupon I was told, \"Good luck\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "sm, and the space to be allowed to teach. Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers—a body that the Secretary of State now appears to hold in low esteem—has commented that the Government seems to have thrown in the towel— on teacher recruitment. He goes on to say that substituting adults with unspecified qualifications for teachers is a policy of despair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": " the country. Positions are being filled by overseas teachers. Schools are being forced to recruit new teachers from Australia over the telephone. The press in my area—the Manchester Evening News — reports, under the headline \"G'day Manchester\", that an army of Australian teachers is being flown in to stop the recruitment crisis. Overseas teachers consider this country a base while they do Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "y a base while they do Europe. [Interruption.] The Secretary of State says that that is good. It is good if they stay in the long term. It is good if they are sufficiently educated and sufficiently qualified and if they know the ways of the British education system. It is not good, the Secretary of State should admit, if they have been brought here for a short period to fill a gap. It is not good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Morris", "preceding_text": "ded to the number of people taking graduate-based routes. This is the beginning of a turnaround. I am not saying that that is enough. I know that we are still not hitting our targets. I know that the maths figures are still 3 per cent. below last year's, even though the figures for chemistry, for example, are 33 per cent. up on those for this time last year. The figures for biology are up as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.567.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I certainly believe that there is a direct correlation between the number of police on the street, the overall level of crime and particular types of crime. The hon. Lady has a treat in store because I am indeed going to turn to the crime figures fairly soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.583.2", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that in the Met, reductions in sickness, which are an indication of morale, have led to an effective increase in the force of an extra 500 police? Is it not also the case that wastage rates, in terms of retirement and resignation, are half the average of those for civil servants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-18", "file": "debates2001-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4d665620d0bb291f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.585.7", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Jack Straw)", "preceding_text": "reason why I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miis Widdecombe) for arranging the debate: it gives us an opportunity, yet again, to remind ourselves—but, more importantly, the public—that the Conservative party's promises today on the police are as worthless as all those that it made in 1992 and 1997, which led to the current, very sorry state of a once great party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-18a.585.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-22", "file": "debates2001-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "79e0a602a2eeadf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong on this, as he is on so many other things. The overwhelming scientific opinion, not just in this country but internationally, is that an increase in tobacco duties produce a fall in consumption levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-22", "file": "debates2001-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "79e0a602a2eeadf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.658.6", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "That will be a matter for the tobacco companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.658.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-22", "file": "debates2001-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "79e0a602a2eeadf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Fox", "preceding_text": "This is not a simple yes-or-no case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-22", "file": "debates2001-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "79e0a602a2eeadf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Woodspring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "vertising—whether any increase would be smaller or whether any fall would be greater without advertising. That is the evidence that should be sought. The relationship is not straightforward. Without conducting difficult control trials, the matter is difficult to prove. We should not look for one final silver bullet that would resolve the issue, as suggested by the hon. Member for—is it Wood Green?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-22", "file": "debates2001-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "79e0a602a2eeadf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: You're joking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": " know that smoking is addictive. I believe that we are going too far in trying to stop people smoking. I understand that Mr. Branson has announced a ban on smoking on Virgin trains, which will affect my constituents and those of my hon. Friend. Does my hon. Friend think it is fair for companies to be able to stop people smoking for six or seven hours, which is the length of the journey at present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-22", "file": "debates2001-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "79e0a602a2eeadf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.682.3", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "Splendid lady, Lady Boothroyd. I liked her very much and I am sorry if she was discomfited, but such measures are important and necessary. I believe that we should set an example in the House by stopping smoking in the Tea Room and similar areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-22", "file": "debates2001-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "79e0a602a2eeadf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "tler's Government were the only previous European Government to achieve a ban on foxhunting. Over the weekend, we heard that the Government intend to take DNA samples from people who have been arrested as suspects but then acquitted. One is bound to recall the words of Pastor Martin Niemöller, a Protestant minister who spoke out against the Nazis so courageously during the second world war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.727.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-22", "file": "debates2001-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "79e0a602a2eeadf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "islation. This debate has not been widely attended. Nevertheless, the Bill will probably be one of this Labour Government's more important measures and will have an enduring and positive impact on the lives of many people in this country. I am therefore proud not only to vote for the Bill, but to have caught your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to speak in its support. I approach the Bill as a socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-22a.735.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair)", "preceding_text": "As the House is well aware, I had a meeting this morning with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who has since announced his decision to resign from the Government later today. I would like to pay the warmest possible tribute to him for the tireless efforts he has made to secure peace in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.915.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I really think that by that performance the right hon. Gentleman diminishes himself far more than he diminishes anybody else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.917.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": " and it includes some of the businesses that have invested most heavily in innovation. Manufacturing clearly faces challenges, but equally it includes some of the United Kingdom's most successful companies. We have much to be proud of in our manufacturing sector. However, people too often talk down manufacturing, as the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) did in his 20-minute speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, ecstatic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " about the unit's major triumph: it has done away with a restriction on Sunday dancing. Hon. Members can now dance on a Sunday without fear of the law coming down upon them. At this point in my speech, I was hoping to look up from my copious notes to see happy and smiling faces on the Government Benches, but I do not see a single smile. Are my hon. Friends happy that they can now dance on Sundays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "an, and presumably other Opposition Members, would like the Government to get rid of. Those include measures on maternity pay and the national minimum wage. However, I am interested in conscious measures that have a direct relevance to ordinary people as they go about their lives. Opposition Members are determined to ignore the fact that the Government have been prepared to act to assist business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "ful single currency, but the economic preconditions must be right. Of course, Opposition Members say no to the single currency, or at least that it will not be introduced for a period that will be decided arbitrarily. The hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) spoke about the aerospace industry, but he failed to acknowledge the 22,000 additional jobs that are being created in British Aerospace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "chen (Mr. Denham), has already given a commitment that we will seek to get that information into the public domain, and that is the right thing to do. Relative risk is always a difficult issue, but it must be right to make the public aware. We must get away from a situation whereby politicians pronounce things 100 per cent. safe. We have to talk the language of safest, and assess what the risk is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.996.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": " work and had been dependent on benefits for two years or more. Four million children were living in poverty in 1995—three times the number 20 years before. The health gap had widened too. In the late 1970s, death rates were over 53 per cent. higher among men in social classes 4 and 5 than among men in social classes 1 and 2. By the late 1980s, the health inequality gap had widened to 68 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-24", "file": "debates2001-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "3ba0c0c1dcf74cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It may be an elephant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "chers, some of whom will not be best qualified to give advice on these subjects. The Secretary of State mentioned that he hoped very much to bring out his sexual health strategy within the next couple of months. I welcome that, although it must be said that it seems to have had an extraordinarily long gestation period. I hope very much that when it comes it will tackle the issues involved head on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-24a.1001.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1059.14", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "orward in that regard. We have implemented the main recommendations of the Scampion report as well, and are moving forward on that, too. I had thought that we would get an explanation from the hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell), who is the Opposition spokesman on education and employment matters, about the savings that the Opposition claim to be able to achieve and how they would achieve them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1059.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " in the Treasury, there were no targets for fraud. Secondly, the author of the report that he is referring to in The Times, whom the right hon. Gentleman has used as his evidence, says that he is satisfied that the Government are making progress. Thirdly, all the experts who look at the Conservative party's proposals for saving £1 billion in fraud say that that cannot be done in the way suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "g progress. Thirdly, all the experts who look at the Conservative party's proposals for saving £1 billion in fraud say that that cannot be done in the way suggested. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] The question is that the Conservatives claim that they could save £5 billion, £1 billion of it from fraud, and they must now explain how they would do it. Every expert says that it is impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The shadow Chancellor quotes the Scampion report every time and claims that the Government are not implementing it. In The Times this morning, Mr. Scampion answers the Conservative party once and for all. He states: \"I understand\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1062.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right: there is a sharp contrast between what the Conservatives say and do now and what they did in office. We remember the 22 tax rises and the VAT increases that they promised not to introduce. This Government have kept every promise that we have made on tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "made a spirited attempt to make something out of a matter that has already been put to rest. The Prime Minister made it perfectly plain yesterday—as the hon. Lady is well aware; indeed, she mentioned it herself—that he has asked for an investigation into the circumstances of the granting of nationality in this case. He also made it plain that the outcome of that investigation would be made public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "l involved has probably hardly started work yet, this attempt at phoney outrage is even less convincing than usual. The hon. Lady asked about the education prayer. I understand her concern. I accept tint it would have been useful if we had had the opportunity to debate the prayer at greater length, as we might have discovered whether the Conservative party was in favour of performance-related pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "intend to proceed by way of a private Member's Bill. What my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said very clearly was that there will be a Government Bill, and that the hope and the intention is to introduce it in this Session. The hon. Lady will also recall that what I said to her was that adoption is such an important, sensitive and complex issue that it is extremely important to get it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1086.4", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady will know that the two forced resignations of the right hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) will have netted him £48,443 in ministerial resettlement grants. Does she believe that he deserves it? If not, will she urge him not to take it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1086.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was the knockabout!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "t that he gave in European Standing Committee A: when we were discussing total allowable catch and quotas, he assured us that he would attempt to make room in the new year for the main annual fishing debate. The Minister said that fishing was not a subject for political knockabout, but at the end of his speech that is exactly what he indulged in. It is nice to be called a decent chap and all that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "preceding_text": "The Minister knows that I did not promise £300 million over three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "preceding_text": "The Minister knows that I did not promise £300 million over three years. [Interruption.] No, I did not. I said that in correspondence with me, the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations and the Scottish Fishermen's Federation had said that by their calculations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "g to, or whether Labour Members will call him Nigel. The joint statement called for greater regionalisation of the CFP through the establishment of a comprehensive series of regional management units and regional advisory committees based on the use of the ICES areas and sub-areas. That is a Conservative politician speaking in a European context, with an understanding of the needs of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "k Bencher, but from the Leader of the Opposition. The hon. Member for North-East Cambridgeshire, commenting on the proposals of the NFFO and SSF—which were discussed earlier—said those organisations were barking up the wrong tree. He believed that the answer was to take back national control. Clearly, as I have already pointed out, that view is not universally shared across the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "sibly come to the aid of our fishermen. There is only one solution to this problem, which the Conservative party has, to its credit, finally grasped. That is the concept of national control. The Minister and his royal satraps, the Liberal Democrats, may chortle away about some Conservative MEP. I do not know how these things are done in the Labour party—nothing at all is done in the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1158.4", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anne Begg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anne Begg", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, Central (Mr. Doran) has sat on my notes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "preceding_text": "rth and for Hastings and Rye (Mr. Foster) suggested that that was our policy, but it is not, and those who say that it is are repeating a fallacy. However, it is important to suggest the probable outcome of the CFP review—it will involve lower quotas for United Kingdom fishermen and a diminished industry. Zonal management has been discussed at length. We do not reject zonal management out of hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Industrial fishing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moss", "preceding_text": " they will press for such treaty changes to give real meaning to their policy of devolving effective power to zones or regions. If treaty changes are not forthcoming, there is every chance that equal access will finally make the finishing tape, with the inevitable consequence of a reduction in United Kingdom fishing quota. There was strong consensus in the debate on the banning of factory fishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-25", "file": "debates2001-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b50643aa5b31718c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1173.4", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Always?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "r Tynemouth (Mr. Campbell), who made a most detailed speech. He has obviously been spending a great deal of time with the fishermen in North Shields. From what he said, I suspect I know who they are. If the hon. Member for Ludlow (Mr. Gill) was indeed making his last contribution to a fisheries debate, I have to tell him that I shall miss hearing what he has to say. I do not always agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-25a.1173.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-26", "file": "debates2001-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a74fe18e148ec92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-26a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Green", "preceding_text": "e it harder for people in rural areas to travel and to work. The Government have not thought through the effects of their bus policies. The gimmicks of a rural bus grant, a bus challenge fund and a rural transport partnership cannot mask the fact that the Government are taking more money away from local budgets, to the tune of £180 million a year—more than they are putting into rural bus services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-26a.1198.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-29", "file": "debates2001-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "8b4be7455163b3e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-29a.73.5", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "are perfectly reasonable for dog fouling and litter dropping. However, it is unlikely that they will work in relation to drunken adults who may not stand around long enough to receive them or may not remember much about receiving them. Some cases may be prejudiced by a person's relative inability to comply with the fixed penalty. The proposal is unfair. The rich can pay up easily; the poor cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-29a.73.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-29", "file": "debates2001-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "8b4be7455163b3e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-29a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heald", "preceding_text": "comments from my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Hunter), who pointed out that it is all very well introducing measures such as child curfew orders, fixed penalty notices and so on, but there is not much point to them if there are not enough police officers to enforce them. Many Labour Members proudly read out how burglaries and car crime have fallen in their areas, which is good news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-29a.116.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-01-29", "file": "debates2001-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "8b4be7455163b3e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-29a.144.17", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, following the Order [20th November 2000], Mr. Nicholas Winterton, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Barry Jones and Frank Cook be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session— [Mr. Mike Hall.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-29a.144.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-01-29", "file": "debates2001-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "8b4be7455163b3e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-29a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND GRAND COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nsider the matter of human rights and equality in Northern Ireland, referred to it under paragraph (1) above; (b) the Chairman shall interrupt proceedings at 5 p.m.; and (c) at the conclusion of those proceedings a Motion for the adjournment of the Committee may be moved by a Minister of the Crown pursuant to Standing Order No. 116(5) (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings).— [Mr. Mike Hall.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-29a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.160.4", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Liddell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a poignant point. Like him, I represent a mining constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.160.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Irene Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Irene Adams", "preceding_text": "of Conservative Members in raising in this Chamber the subject of manufacturing jobs, on which they have shed crocodile tears both today and last week? When the Conservative Government were in office, my constituency and the area covered by the Paisley postcode lost 95 per cent. of its manufacturing jobs: 10,000 jobs at the mills in Paisley; 5,000 at the Linwood car plant; 5,000 at Babcock; 7,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "preceding_text": "Is not it interesting that the framework under which these decisions are rightly taken locally was not passed by this Government, but by the previous one? It was their decision to allow magistrates courts committees to take such decisions, and they must be taken locally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Vehicles (Crime) Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "I may have done so inadvertently. I have said that the Minister tends to take refuge behind civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "t not caring. That is a pretty clear distinction between concepts. I shall have a final stab at explaining that difference to the Opposition. \"Reckless\" means not taking pains to ensure whether what is said is true. We want to deter that in the application process, where it is important to be accurate, and that is consistent with clause 10, where reckless failure to notify will also be an offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.231.6", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": " We do not quite know the purpose of the intervention of the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston (Mr. Miller), because his purpose is rarely clear. However, the effect of his rather foolish intervention, whether he intended it or not, was to tie the Minister down. Will the Minister confirm that the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston said that the money must effectively be ring-fenced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.231.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": " not surprisingly, emerged victorious. Nevertheless, there are genuine concerns about the Government's position on the proposal to finance a wide-scale roll-out of additional speed cameras. The main concern that my hon. Friends and I have, which we explained in Committee and which was not convincingly answered, is that the proposal is far less a road safety measure than it is a tax-raising device.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "There are other matters on which there might be Divisions, and the hon. Gentleman, who has a natural and well-developed inquisitiveness, must await developments. I am not prepared to tell him now when we might have a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.236.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "funding, but I shall not animadvert on that subject now, Mr. Deputy Speaker, as you would probably get cross if I did so. I would not want that to happen as we approach the dinner hour of some hon. Members. None the less, the hon. Member for Colchester made a fair point. Will the Under-Secretary confirm that the funds are additional to any other funds that might be spent? That is a fair challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend rightly indicates that the approach is still for the future. We are not even getting multi-agency co-operation now; it is to occur in the far-distant yonder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shows an engineer's logic, if I may say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.249.7", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "he purchaser of a vehicle to ensure that it bore an appropriate identification mark. The new clause is particularly relevant to motor cycles. I am sure that Ministers will be familiar with—indeed, will have read avidly—a 1998 Home Office publication entitled \"Nought to Nowhere in five Seconds—a guide to motorcycle security\". It is not an election manifesto from any party that I would wish to name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.249.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-30", "file": "debates2001-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "461b9d866c3695bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Vehicles (Crime) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chidgey", "preceding_text": "I can see that the Minister is in some haste, for purposes not connected with debating my new clause. However, as I do not wish to play unpleasant games with the House, I shall take note of what he said and take a future legislative opportunity to check whether the facts that he elucidated are indeed correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-30a.251.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " They at last begin to show that, from a very low base represented by a drop of thousands, numbers are beginning to climb. There is another general point about numbers. I asked a direct question and the Home Secretary gave me an answer, which was that a reduction was expected in four forces next year—Humberside, Merseyside, the Met and West Yorkshire. Is a reduction in those forces still expected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Linda Gilroy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Linda Gilroy", "preceding_text": "oor that she introduced which has given Plymouth an additional £2 million over and above what it would have received under the formula invented by the Conservative Government? However, may I ask her to nail the story being put about in Plymouth by the leader of the local Tory-controlled council, who claims that Plymouth is always at the bottom of the pile when it comes to local government finance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.358.5", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I have already said that other funding that councils have received was weighed against the pressures that they face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.362.5", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waterson", "preceding_text": "entleman makes the obvious point, made by my hon. Friend the Member for Mole Valley (Sir P. Beresford) a moment ago, that as a result of bringing in the ceilings and floors, all other authorities must receive less grant to pay for the difference. This means that the 103 authorities between the floor and the ceiling lose about 4 per cent. of grant that they would have received under the old system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.362.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Beverley Hughes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Beverley Hughes)", "preceding_text": "We have had an interesting debate and some worthwhile contributions have been made, but our discussion has been all too short because of the antics of some Opposition Members. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, East and Mexborough (Mr. Ennis) that Opposition Back Benchers have done little more than sabotage this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I said that there had been no changes since 1999–2000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Upminster (Mr. Darvill) said that he did not think that adequate time had been allowed for the debate. I agree: I am surprised that the Minister has so little influence with the Government that she was unable to secure a whole-day debate on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Science and Technology Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "fy that when he winds up the debate. That is the immediate difficulty—the lack of clarity for which one would hope in such a motion. The motion goes on, even more confusingly, to state that our Select Committee will meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on science and technology\". I confess that I am not sufficiently familiar with the way in which the other place works to know whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Science and Technology Committee", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. He said that he does not want to quibble. That is precisely what he is doing. He is quibbling all the way. He indulges in his song-and-dance tradition of quibbling with everything, and reads into everything far more than is meant. Perhaps I can help the right hon. Gentleman. The spirit of the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Science and Technology Committee", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kumar", "preceding_text": "at is precisely what he is doing. He is quibbling all the way. He indulges in his song-and-dance tradition of quibbling with everything, and reads into everything far more than is meant. Perhaps I can help the right hon. Gentleman. The spirit of the motion— [Interruption.] I am trying to be helpful. The right hon. Gentleman is struggling, and I want to educate him. He could benefit from education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Science and Technology Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Of course I subscribe to that view; and, much as I normally admire precedent, which I think has an important role to play in our affairs, the reference by the hon. Member for Ellesmere Port and Neston simply to a vote on what on the face of it seemed to be a similar matter is not in itself conclusive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.409.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.410.9", "colnum": "410", "heading": "SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, following the Order [20th November 2000], Mr. Nicholas Winterton, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Barry Jones and Frank Cook be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session— [Mr. Dowd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.410.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-01-31", "file": "debates2001-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "59cad37d3512b386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.410.12", "colnum": "410", "heading": "LANGUAGE OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That— (1) this House approves the First Report from the Procedure Committee, Session 2000–2001 (HC 47); and (2) the Resolution of 5th June 1996 on the Language of Parliamentary Proceedings be amended accordingly by inserting, after the word `Wales,', the words 'and at Westminster in respect of Select Committees'.— [Mr. Dowd.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-01-31a.410.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.424.5", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is my intention that every penny of the £66 million that was allocated to the pig industry scheme over three years will be spent on the pig industry. Although I cannot announce the outcome now, discussions are taking place in Government that are designed to achieve that objective. I know, for what it is worth, that I have the hon. Gentleman's support in trying to achieve that objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.424.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "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 is right to refer to the previous Conservative Government's Fontainebleau arrangements because those arrangements put the cost of agrimonetary compensation primarily on the shoulders of the British taxpayer. The issue of further agrimonetary payments is under consideration by the Government and a decision will be made, as it usually is, in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Buckingham is right. The sum paid in agrimonetary compensation under the previous Conservative Government would not pay to heat anything at all, because they did not pay out a penny in agrimonetary compensation—not a single penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.435.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I think that there were some questions in that statement, to which I shall try to reply. The right hon. Gentleman speaks of transport costs. When he has time to read the detail of Corus's announcement, he will see that transport costs were not a major issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "We are used to bogus points of order from a Government who have no intention even of getting on top of bogus asylum claims. I shall tell them what they do not want to hear. The Audit Commission's report stated that there were inadequate support services outside London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "s are dispersed by a chaotic system that sends them to areas often without appropriate support. They are often exploited by unscrupulous landlords. Is that fairer? It might be faster, but it is certainly not fairer. The Guardian —no friend to the Opposition—reported on asylum barons in May 2000. They were growing rich on providing substandard accommodation for the Government's dispersal programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " alone are responsible. Another news report in October last year was that the relationship between local authorities and the Home Office was at breaking point because of the lack of co-operation between the two. The Government are trying to palm off their responsibilities on to local communities. In addition, the Government's voucher scheme for asylum seekers has ended in disaster. Refugee Action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I think that I made my intentions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.476.3", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Madam Deputy Speaker. I understand why Labour Members do not want to hear such things, but they are going to hear them. Professor Goodwin-Gill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.476.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Dublin convention was and is one of the major problems in removing applicants from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Two replies today have revealed the bankruptcy of the right hon. Lady's policies. This is another example of the magic wand. Her policy is a zero policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.484.2", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The admission of the new states to the EU will, almost by definition, have the effect of reducing unfounded claims from the applicant countries—for example, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.484.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.485.6", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "resent an improvement on the situation to date. The Audit Commission report also referred to the previous system, not the new one. What the Conservatives did—I now think that they did it deliberately—not only left chaos in the administration and the legislation, but collapsed the resources available to the immigration and nationality directorate, even though numbers were rising. We have increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.485.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.485.6", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ot least with our decision to commit the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 to a Special Standing Committee. That is what makes the recent pronouncements of the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald so absurd. If the Conservatives were serious about the alternatives to our reforms, why did they do virtually nothing to amend that legislation? Indeed, aside from the civil penalty, all they did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.485.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.485.6", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "mmittee. That is what makes the recent pronouncements of the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald so absurd. If the Conservatives were serious about the alternatives to our reforms, why did they do virtually nothing to amend that legislation? Indeed, aside from the civil penalty, all they did— [Interruption.] Aside from the civil penalty, which they opposed, the only other thing they did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.485.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "lict and poverty. We need to establish in this country an open and clear immigration policy. I welcome the Minister's recent remarks on the positive contributions of immigrants, and on the need to attract skilled workers to our shortage areas. People, particularly Conservative people, speak about economic migration as though it was somehow immoral or sinful for people to seek to better themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brazier", "preceding_text": "d be able to claim asylum in other parts of the country? We have to take a tough line, and it is reasonable that we do so. The United Kingdom has a long and honourable record on asylum. It is right that we should have such a record. However, the tensions that are building up in southern England in constituencies such as mine are unacceptable and are working against the interests of racial harmony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-01", "file": "debates2001-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "4afe047d439cd59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": " with misleading farmers, Labour is up to its old trick of increasing the burdens on them. The pre-Budget report published by the Chancellor last November confirmed his continuing support for a pesticide tax. The horticulture industry is threatened with the climate change levy, which is yet another stealth tax penalising British employers, and one that the next Conservative Government will repeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-01a.510.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-02", "file": "debates2001-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6d86ef7c9f56b79e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Outworking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. The fax obviously caught my eye. It continues: Get paid to have a drink in a pub. Get paid to have a nice meal in a restaurant! Get paid to go shopping! Earn money for doing the things you enjoy! Full details of all the companies that will pay you to do this part time!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-02", "file": "debates2001-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6d86ef7c9f56b79e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.572.3", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Outworking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tyler", "preceding_text": "ly those who care for the elderly, the disabled and young children, find the ability to earn limited but steady income in the home attractive. Like other hon. Members, I am concerned about those who have retired early. They, too, find that ability attractive. Redundancy may have caused early retirement for some people and their retirement pension may not be sufficient to maintain their life style.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-02", "file": "debates2001-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6d86ef7c9f56b79e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Outworking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "is a strong theme. It could put an end to bogus scams and the activities of those who rip off the most vulnerable in society. Indeed, the nature of the work that the most vulnerable seek in itself makes them vulnerable. Despite the misgivings expressed by some people about the nature of regulation, we should always discuss the merits of state intervention. What appears to be a nanny state to some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-02", "file": "debates2001-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6d86ef7c9f56b79e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Outworking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "people about the nature of regulation, we should always discuss the merits of state intervention. What appears to be a nanny state to some— [Interruption.] I hear that the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) does not support the Bill, even though it would protect people from being ripped off. What for some is a nanny-state measure is for others protection of their livelihood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-02", "file": "debates2001-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6d86ef7c9f56b79e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Outworking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " occupies with such distinction, I spent most of my two years fighting off bodies such as the National Consumer Council, which, in any case, the Government fund and whose members the Minister appoints. So I am not very impressed with that as a pedigree. The people at the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux are almost as bad—left-leaning, regulatory, interventionist bunch that they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-02", "file": "debates2001-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6d86ef7c9f56b79e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Outworking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "f this Act … every local weights and measures authority in Great Britain is the enforcement authority for its area. That may be okay as far as it goes. We all like local weights and measures authorities, except when—as in the ghastly little statutory instrument that the Minister is trying to smuggle through the House at present—they are going to impose metrication on us, but not until 2009—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.589.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-02", "file": "debates2001-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6d86ef7c9f56b79e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.613.3", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Outworking Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "e. We should not substitute the Government's judgment for that of the courts or magistrates. The Government will make the judgment—in advance, we hope, but often post event—not on an individual who is tried, but on whether a business is legitimate and would \"genuinely benefit workers\". How is the Department to decide that? If the election goes badly for me and I find myself seeking other activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-02a.613.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-05", "file": "debates2001-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "ba799f6def07f3b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-05a.647.4", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "Let me assist the right hon. Lady. I am anxious that she should be in possession of the full facts, although I realise that they will not alter her view. In 1996, 3,190 people were removed. In 1999, more than 7,600 were removed. In 2000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-05a.647.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-05", "file": "debates2001-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "ba799f6def07f3b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-05a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Poverty (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blame Corus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": " the House. I agree entirely with the right hon. Gentleman that things should not have happened as they did, but we have to question what action the Government took in the preceding few months. No one can condone what happened, and it is an absolute disgrace that those communities in Wales are now being cast aside in such a callous, cynical manner—the worst possible example of capitalism gone bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-05a.664.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-05", "file": "debates2001-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "ba799f6def07f3b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-05a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Poverty (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bayley", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that, because the redundancy package in the Netherlands is broadly the same as the severance arrangements here in the United Kingdom. Furthermore, there has been dialogue between the Government and the company. We have raised the question of a package of measures, including assistance with business rates, environmental projects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-05a.671.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-05", "file": "debates2001-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "ba799f6def07f3b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-05a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Care for the Elderly", "cue_speaker": "Ms Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Stuart", "preceding_text": "I was not for one moment suggesting that. I am simply saying that that is a logical conclusion of devolution: different choices are made. The debate is about making choices, but I am still somewhat puzzled about why the Liberal Democrats support the proposal in Scotland, but have different views in Wales and are not sure about England. There may be some inconsistency there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-05a.763.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.782.6", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": " is what we want to do, and we will do it on the basis of the extra investment that we are making. With respect, the question for the hon. Gentleman is this: if he thinks cancer treatment is such a priority, why does he back policies that involve cuts in public spending? Why does he back policies involving, for instance, cutting lottery funding for cancer services? That is the Opposition's policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.782.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before I call another Member, may I say this to Ministers? First, attacks on the Opposition are not really what I am looking for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.786.4", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "I should be happy to send the hon. Gentleman a note about that, if that would be helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Analysis of Costs and Benefits (European Union)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": " similar parliamentary commission was in 1890, when there was a debate about whether the French would attack Britain. The commission proposed by the hon. Gentleman is of the same order. The hon. Gentleman asks what benefit we derive from being in the European Union. The benefit is obvious to all those who are engaged in trade: 57 or 58 per cent. of our exports go to the European continental shelf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.803.8", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I shall give way for the last time on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.803.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is right. [Interruption.] The Bill will remove old, prejudiced provisions from the statute book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "e run-up to a general election, whenever that falls. A change in the law is relevant at such a time, and I hope that right hon. and hon. Members will deal with the matter sympathetically. I hope that they would do so whatever party David Cairns proposed to stand for. Those who say that the Bill should not be passed are, in effect, saying that this man should not stand because he has been a priest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.805.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.819.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Ryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Ryan", "preceding_text": "article 9 refers to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; and article 11 to freedom of assembly and association. Article 3 of the first protocol sets out the right to free elections. It is important that we act to remove clerical disabilities in relation to membership of the House before a situation arises where our human rights record is called into question. The Bill will help to clarify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.848.3", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "That opportunism has been created, as the Government Whip has just pointed out. Is the Minister aware of any Labour Members who oppose the Bill on the ground of conscience? Will they be allowed to vote against i,t or will the full might of the Government Whip be thrown at them, which, in the shape of the hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. McNulty), would be a very frightening prospect indeed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.848.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.851.2", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "I shall give way when I have dealt with the Minister's point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-06", "file": "debates2001-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f953585048ed6c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "d for a referendum. One of the obvious examples, going back over the past 60 or 70 years, was the border poll to which I referred earlier. If we are to have referendums, it is vital that there be a level playing field. The last referendum to take place throughout the United Kingdom was conducted in 1975. The Minister and I were perhaps on the same side of the argument. I campaigned for a yes vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-06a.879.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-07", "file": "debates2001-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "0d5e62285be0fca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-07a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly ensure that any proposals that we make as a Government are properly costed. That is the right way to go about it. On the Conservative party, I could not put it better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-07a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-07", "file": "debates2001-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "0d5e62285be0fca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-07a.940.6", "colnum": "940", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "ember for Tunbridge Wells (Mr. Norman), even to the extent of the dotting of an i or crossing of a t. As a member of the Conservative Front-Bench team, I sign up with enthusiasm and alacrity to the principle of collective responsibility. Therefore, it is to be assumed that I am in agreement with my Front-Bench colleagues in every particular and at all times. However, I am but one small and humble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-07a.940.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-08", "file": "debates2001-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f40dcf6dc2741016", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-08a.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": ". She is intelligent and, as far as I am aware, she is not deaf, so she must know what my right hon. Friend said. He was asked when early in a Parliament would be, and he answered that that naturally meant during its first half. That is when the Government propose that we should seek to make an assessment of the economic impact of joining the euro. That is precisely what my right hon. Friend said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-08a.1070.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-09", "file": "debates2001-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "40c3433c630222af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-09a.1186.5", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "t by doing what the Minister for the Environment suggested at a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference two years ago. The right hon. Gentleman said that parish councils had served their time and were a waste of space and that Labour would abolish them. He has since gone back on that view, because he realised how unpopular it was, but the Labour party does not really support parish councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-09a.1186.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-09", "file": "debates2001-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "40c3433c630222af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-09a.1250.15", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That— (1)this House approves the First Report from the Procedure Committee, Session 2000–01 (HC 47); and (2)the Resolution of 5th June 1996 on the Language of Parliamentary Proceedings be amended accordingly by inserting, after the word 'Wales,', the words 'and at Westminster in respect of Select Committees'.— [Mr. McNulty.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-09a.1250.14"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "What is breathtaking about the hon. Gentleman is the level of his ignorance of the way in which government works. If he understood anything about that—after he was elected to the House of Commons, he supported the then Conservative Government for five years—he would know full well that the underspend is available to the Department to carry over into the next year. He would also know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "t the underspend is available to the Department to carry over into the next year. He would also know— [Interruption.] This should be a matter of concern for Members of the House of Commons. The hon. Gentleman should know that the reason why there is so much anxiety to ensure that Departments stay within departmental totals is that those totals are approved by Parliament. That is why, year on year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "erruption.] —and, specifically under the previous Conservative Government, there was a series of underspends to ensure that the MOD stayed within the total granted by Parliament. The matter is not simply that the hon. Gentleman fails to understand how government works—I might expect that, because he is unlikely ever to be in government; he does not understand how the House of Commons works either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "I must point out that the original requirement was for six of those ships, not four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.16.2", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "ces. Everyone will have the opportunity to increase his earnings within his rank, in recognition of experience and qualifications. The second major change is a more targeted approach, which will allow us to address accurately particular areas of need. Allowances will be focused more efficiently on recruitment and retention. It is a strategy for retaining the best alongside the strategy for change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.16.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "than leap in to this subject, Ministers are awaiting the professional and thorough study undertaken by the Army, which will report later this year. We will evaluate that and report to the House. We are certainly not complacent about recruitment numbers. As I just said, we inherited a serious situation: not only were numbers down, but the impression had been given that we were no longer recruiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.30.4", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Schools Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State realise that much of what he has been doing recently has done nothing for the specialisation of schools in the countryside? I have a letter signed by the right hon. Gentleman, dated just over two weeks ago, in which he praises the additional £52 million for the SAS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.30.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.30.5", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Schools Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the SAS, but I know a bit about the SSA. We all agree that it needed revising a long time ago and we will do something about it. I do not want to be ungenerous to the right hon. Gentleman, but in fact Plymouth is not under Labour control, regrettably. We lost it at the last local elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.30.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.30.5", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Schools Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did say Plymouth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": " about the SAS, but I know a bit about the SSA. We all agree that it needed revising a long time ago and we will do something about it. I do not want to be ungenerous to the right hon. Gentleman, but in fact Plymouth is not under Labour control, regrettably. We lost it at the last local elections. [Interruption.] I heard the right hon. Gentleman say Plymouth; I am terribly sorry if I misheard him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.30.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "Oh dear; I have a feeling that a Tory gain is in the offing. Our proposals on policy have already been made clear, and I shall make them clear again a little later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The last thing that I want is for prisoners to do what they do at the moment: churn out more than 2 million pairs of socks every year—not for some sensible purpose such as sale to Marks and Spencer, but for consumption by a prison population who have never exceeded 64,000. So whether it is sacks or socks, I am not interested in purposeless activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.44.8", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "First, Prison Service industries, which supply products for the Prison Service, will obviously not be self-financing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.44.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.44.8", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "t to do it. They have reduced the hours of purposeful activity in our prisons, but all they can do is sit there and say, \"There ain't no solution\", and they are not bothered about finding one. We have the solution, we will impose it, and it will be welcomed by the public and the Prison Service alike. The Government should be ashamed of the fact that there has been four years of wasted opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.44.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "e to do so, he would find non-uniformity in the lamentably few prisons that have such enterprises. That non-uniformity makes it impossible to say that we will have that business in every prison and how much it will cost. That is nonsense. It would be important to do that if we were proposing that this scheme should be funded by the taxpayer, but we have already said that it will be self-financing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "It was not in two weeks. I spoke to the Bourne trust in 1995.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "d money into custody-to-work programmes to ensure that people in prison receive much better preparation to get jobs. We know for certain that if prisoners have a job to go to, they are much less likely to reoffend, and far too many of them do not have jobs to go to. The last substantive point that I want to make is on prison industries. The right hon. Lady could not leave alone the issue of socks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "d Member for Harborough (Mr. Garnier), which is the centre of the Leicestershire hosiery area. The industrial production of socks in the prison service is darn good value and we have developed a holistic approach, but I wish that the right hon. Lady would stop putting her foot into the matter. Some 600,000 socks a year are produced in prison industries to meet the demand inside the Prison Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "verall aim of reducing reoffending, for every prisoner to be engaged full-time in work because there would be no time for anything else; it would be an inappropriate use of their time. Yes, we should like more prisoners to be engaged in productive work. There is no argument about that. However, I have read the remarks that the right hon. Lady made on the subject at a Conservative party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "ds the fact that he has stolen yet another jolly good idea from us. However, on this occasion, I am very happy to discuss the issue with him, because I am aware of the case that he has quoted. If he studies my speech, he will see that I was very careful to say that it is possible to develop prison industry without competing with local labour. It is possible and the right hon. Gentleman knows that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ughout the prisons estate, but on average prisoners spend only 23.7 hours a week on such activity. Prisoners are not prepared for release and a constructive life outside if they spend half their time locked up with nothing to do. The statistics for the amount of time spent on education, on farms and in industries seems to show a decrease while the prison population has gone up, which is a tragedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed. The hon. Gentleman is right, and I saw those figures in the Lord Chief Justice's report. Many people have made the point that we must move towards having community prisons for all but the most high-risk offenders. The director general said that that was still a dream. It should not be a dream.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Paul Boateng)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Paul Boateng)", "preceding_text": "to 11. We are entitled to be proud of our record. The right hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Buckingham talked about the importance of constructive activity in prisons. We are addressing the causes of offending through offending behaviour programmes—we cannot be any more constructive than that. Total completions of such courses are up 240 per cent. from 1,373 in 1996–97 to 4,664 last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Paul Boateng)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Paul Boateng)", "preceding_text": " importance of constructive activity in prisons. We are addressing the causes of offending through offending behaviour programmes—we cannot be any more constructive than that. Total completions of such courses are up 240 per cent. from 1,373 in 1996–97 to 4,664 last year. [Interruption.] The Tories do not like hearing the good news, but they are going to hear it whether they like it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.73.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "ales of products, the right hon. Lady went on about socks, but they are given away, so let us consider what is sold. Sales of products from prison industries and farms to external customers rose from £6.7 million in 1996–97 to £10.45 million in 1999–2000. That is the difference between Conservative rhetoric and the Labour party in government delivering work and industries in prisons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boateng", "preceding_text": "e trying to do in prisons. My hon. Friend referred to the work in Usk. Rehabilitation of prisoners must lead to an understanding of the impact of their crime on their victims. We are addressing that in the work taking place in prisons. We are getting prisoners to see the harm that they have done to their victims and to confront what in their conduct has caused so much trouble and misery to others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "\"Shifting the Balance\"", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "The very reason that we are having this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.82.10", "colnum": "82", "heading": "\"Shifting the Balance\"", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) has signed today's motion. I have made it very clear that I do not care which party is in office, but I want democratic change to the way in which Whips and the Executive control Committees of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.82.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "\"Shifting the Balance\"", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman said, no one disputes the way in which the European Committees operate, and no suggestion has been made that scrutiny has diminished. I remind the hon. Gentleman that one change made by my Government is a substantial expansion of the role of the Select Committee on European Scrutiny. There is no longer one Committee, but three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "\"Shifting the Balance\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Brooke", "preceding_text": "mlock by the Front Benches on both sides of the House and frogmarched into the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee. Not all of us get on a Committee by the processes that she described. I was a member of the Norton commission and, once, a Whip. Without idolising me, my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) said that I was the best pairing Whip he had ever experienced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.100.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.129.8", "colnum": "129", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "before the word 'European' insert the words 'Environmental Audit Committee or with the'. Line 52, at the end insert the words:— '(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'— [Mr. Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.129.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-12", "file": "debates2001-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "9d85001f8ef0e032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.129.12", "colnum": "129", "heading": "LANGUAGE OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That— (1) this House approves the First Report from the Procedure Committee, Session 2000–01 (HC 47); and (2) the Resolution of 5th June 1996 on the Language of Parliamentary Proceedings be amended accordingly by inserting, after the word 'Wales,', the words 'and at Westminster in respect of Select Committees'.— [Mr. Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-12a.129.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.142.5", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " forecasts that ports serving the south-east are likely to run out of container capacity within the next one to two years? Is that not typical of the Government's integrated transport policy? The policy is merely more pretty pictures, more warm words and more truisms. Like the railway, the tube and the road jams—the worst we have ever had—the Minister's policy is nothing but paralysis by analysis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "preceding_text": "od use of parliamentary time. However, we should make it clear to occasional visitors to the House that, almost daily, the Opposition have to fight the same issue over and over again. We have to spend 45 minutes of a restricted period fighting for freedoms that are part of the democracy of this country—the ability properly to scrutinise legislation and to ensure that the best possible job is done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.186.7", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "preceding_text": "stand our rationale in coming back to it, because we need to find the answer. I find it difficult to understand why there is such strong opposition to legitimate diversification by companies that have nothing to do with the tobacco industry. Why do we want to make it so difficult for companies to diversify? Surely, with our shared public health agenda of trying to reduce the prevalence of smoking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.186.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "When my hon. Friend and I became Members of Parliament, parliamentary sovereignty existed, but new Labour does not care about such things. The current Government continually undermine the rights and privileges of the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.193.4", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "deed, under the previous Government, the Refreshment Department announced that it had decided not to have the cigarettes any more and that it would phase them out by selling whatever stocks it held. There must have been about 10 years of stock because packets are still being sold. It may be nice to have them, but why do we not set an example and say that we shall not share our brands with tobacco?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.193.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.194.5", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "it is either Lambert or Butler, especially if someone wants to start a business? I suspect that there are a few Rothmans floating around. Superking is a nice brand name. An enormous number of products use \"super\" and \"king\" in their names. There is St. Bruno rolling tobacco. Are we not to have Bruno Brookes on the radio any more? Will the boxer no longer be able to fight? There is Golden Virginia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Spelman", "preceding_text": "ther disquieted when the Minister defined \"product placement\" as a sponsorship agreement. We are going round and round in circles because the Bill does not clearly define \"sponsorship agreement\". The lateness of the hour and the fact that we have to curtail the Report stage in less than half an hour means that it is increasingly unlikely that we will get to the amendments on sponsorship agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Capital Allowances Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot wait.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Hon. Members at the Bar are making the quietest hubbub that I have heard for a long time No doubt their attention will be drawn when my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham speaks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Capital Allowances Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "Friend was in a minority of one, which shows that he was unable to persuade me that we needed to take expert evidence; nor was he able to persuade any Member of either House from any party that we needed to do so. However, that is not to say that he did not maintain a very stout argument to that effect and occupied a considerable time during our first sitting's informal and unreported proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-13", "file": "debates2001-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "74e08a81d8002eac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.263.8", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Capital Allowances Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " trying to understand the tax liabilities that they might incur and the allowances for their capital against the tax liability of their businesses. The other main users of the proposed legislation should be parliamentarians. It damages our debates on Finance Bills when most Members, with the greatest respect to them, do not understand the provisions before them because of the way they are drafted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-13a.263.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.298.6", "colnum": "298", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCartney", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman may be mixing up the transport infrastructure for the Commonwealth games with the proposal for the extension throughout Manchester of the metro system. The metro system is not part of the transport infrastructure for the games, and never has been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.298.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman that we cover the whole waterfront in terms of rural policy. Since 1997, we have provided an extra £1 billion to help the farming industry through difficult times and, now, an additional £1.6 billion for the English rural development programme will provide vital support to help farming play a greater role in the diverse economies in rural areas. On Europe, I assure the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.302.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Bercow", "preceding_text": "hten up the lives of miserable Labour Members who are about to lose their seats. Is it the right hon. Gentleman's policy that young offenders who abuse drugs should be eligible for drug referral schemes? If so, what assessment has he made of attendance at, and participation in, such schemes? Does he believe that it is necessary to have a mixture of a carrot-and-stick approach to ensure compliance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "The Government's annual report was produced by the strategic communications unit in the Prime Minister's office. Chapters on each section were written in collaboration with advisers from No. 10 and the relevant Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.310.4", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Casale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Casale", "preceding_text": "0 a month for an average mortgage, compared with more than £760 a month in 1992 under the Tories. Will he assure the House and my constituents that he will continue with his Government's policies to set a course for economic stability? Nobody in Wimbledon wants to go back to the high and fluctuating interest rates, negative equity and house repossessions that were the legacy of Tory boom and bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.310.7", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ben Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ben Chapman", "preceding_text": " however, that structural change is occurring, not least in manufacturing, and that the picture will vary from area to area. Excellent though the figures are, does he agree that the Government will be judged not only by these excellent headline items, but by the way in which they handle the process and help the areas, individuals and communities that are affected by economic and industrial change?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.310.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ose of Question Time is to hold the Executive to account. \"Erskine May\" says that a question must either seek information or press for action, and that it must relate to matters for which Ministers are officially responsible. Questions are out of order if they relate to Opposition party policies rather than Government responsibilities. Moreover, a question should not be, in effect, a short speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "er seek information or press for action, and that it must relate to matters for which Ministers are officially responsible. Questions are out of order if they relate to Opposition party policies rather than Government responsibilities. Moreover, a question should not be, in effect, a short speech. [Interruption.] Order. There is more. Answers should be confined to points contained in the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "ll study your ruling with great care. I was not quite clear which were your own words as Speaker, which we must follow, and which were words quoted directly from \"Erskine May\". I think that my constituents sent me to this place not only to test and question the Executive, but, in part, to test and question the ability of the alternative Executive, who are sitting on the other side of the, Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": " me to this place not only to test and question the Executive, but, in part, to test and question the ability of the alternative Executive, who are sitting on the other side of the, Chamber. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is a serious part of my job as a Member of Parliament. I should be grateful if, in due course, you could give some reflection to that duty that I have as an hon. Member, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.316.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.392.4", "colnum": "392", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "I hope that the new system will build on the excellence of some CHCs. That is precisely what I want to see the new clauses achieve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.392.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You support that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for explaining his proposals so carefully. Will he elucidate a little further on how they will affect CHCs in Wales? Wales is covered by new clause 10, but CHCs are to be retained in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.395.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.428.20", "colnum": "428", "heading": "SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That, following the Order [20th November 2000], Mr. Nicholas Winterton, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Barry Jones and Frank Cook be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session— [Mrs. McGuire.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.428.19"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-14", "file": "debates2001-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "5a6e560b8f46f3a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.429.6", "colnum": "429", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Line 52, at the end insert the words:— '(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'— [Mrs. McGuire.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-14a.429.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-15", "file": "debates2001-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d46f3503fdaa4fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "t was not working effectively. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the figures for gas and electricity prices, so let us consider what we have been able to do. Industrial consumers pay 4 per cent. more for gas than they did in 1997, but they pay 12 per cent. less for electricity. According to the latest figures, domestic consumers pay 14 per cent. less for electricity and 12 per cent. less for gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.445.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-15", "file": "debates2001-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d46f3503fdaa4fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": " on 1 April we shall abolish the introductory payment, equivalent to 25 per cent. of salary, that new sub-postmasters must currently make. We have also created new management posts that will concentrate on rural areas, and we are providing £2 million to pay the capital costs of taking over the running of sub-post offices if local communities wish to do that. Those are important practical measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.454.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-15", "file": "debates2001-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d46f3503fdaa4fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members: Order, order.", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "Might my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on the administrative costs of social security—in particular, the new Conservative plan to scrap the automatic £200 winter allowance for pensioners, which would be expensive, complex and confusing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-15", "file": "debates2001-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d46f3503fdaa4fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "NHS Hospital Building", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "er of beds, including intermediate care beds. We are seeing a huge reduction in the number of care beds in the community—as many as 50,000 in the current year. That will lead to more bed blocking and less ability to provide intermediate care. It will have a knock-on effect on waiting lists because of cancelled elective surgery. I ask the Secretary of State to answer eight questions. The number of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-15", "file": "debates2001-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d46f3503fdaa4fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "NHS Hospital Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsha Singh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsha Singh", "preceding_text": "I am absolutely thrilled, as the people of Bradford will be, because the hospitals in my constituency serve all of Bradford. I am delighted that, after years of health service cuts, we now have a Government who deliver on their promises. We do not need to electioneer on this subject, because my constituents know that the health service will not be safe under the Tories, whereas it is under Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-15a.476.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "vious Government introduced secure training centres, I suppose that we ought to welcome the U-turn. I also welcome the Home Secretary\"s decision to consult on a new victims\" charter. Will he be implementing the proposals that we have put forward for statutory rights for the victims of crime and if not, why not? The right hon. Gentleman\"s document says at paragraph 3.109 that victims and witnesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "House will welcome this indication of the direction in which we wish the criminal justice system to go. With regard to the right hon. and learned Gentleman\"s first point, he cannot have it both ways. At the last election and the previous one, he campaigned time and again on the Conservative Government\"s record on the economy and many other things. He cannot pick and choose the dates that suit him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Criminal Justice", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "On the right hon. and learned Gentleman\"s first point, although the standard spending assessment formula for next year does not provide for that, we have followed a different route and provision is made in the formula for Lincolnshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.594.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Foot and Mouth Disease", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "from the front line that is bearing down on the disease— [Interruption.] This Opposition have just said that they will do everything they can to help the Government to suppress the disease. If their idea of helping is to divert resources, including ministerial time, from dealing with the disease outbreak to dealing with a parliamentary debate, I am glad that they are not setting out to disrupt us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Foot and Mouth Disease", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nterruption.] This Opposition have just said that they will do everything they can to help the Government to suppress the disease. If their idea of helping is to divert resources, including ministerial time, from dealing with the disease outbreak to dealing with a parliamentary debate, I am glad that they are not setting out to disrupt us— [Interruption.] On the question whether we will close the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Defence Service (Advice and Assistance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lock", "preceding_text": " 2 provides that secondary legislation made under the powers in section 13(1) of the Access to Justice Act may also have retrospective effect, and amendment No. 3 changes the commencement date of the Bill. There is no longer any need for the Bill to commence on 2 April, and it will commence on the day on which it receives Royal Assent. The reason why the Bill needs to have retrospective effect is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Defence Service (Advice and Assistance) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Burnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Burnett", "preceding_text": "t least some of this work will be done by their salaried defender service. Along with the Conservative party, we strongly opposed, as a matter of principle, the introduction of salaried defenders. There were many good reasons of principle for doing so, not least conflict of interest. That the state should be prosecutor, defender and judge in its own cause is alien to us and to anyone in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Line of Route", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Marion Roe", "preceding_text": "pproves the First Report from the Administration Committee on the Trial Summer Re-opening of the Line of Route, HC 213. Session 2000–01. I am conscious of the fact that this is becoming a habit. For the third time in less than two years, I am asking the House to approve proposals put forward by the Administration Committee on the reopening of the line of route during the summer Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.668.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.683.5", "colnum": "683", "heading": "LIAISON COMMITTEE (SUB-COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "shall have power to appoint a sub-committee, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time. () The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before the sub-committee. () The quorum of the sub-committee shall be three.\".— [Mr. Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.683.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ed debate on Question [31 January], That the Select Committee on Science and Technology shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on science and technology or any sub-committee thereof, for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, and to communicate to any such committee its evidence or any other documents relating to matters of common interest.— [Mr. Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.684.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.684.5", "colnum": "684", "heading": "SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [23 January], That, following the Order [20th November 2000], Mr. Nicholas Winterton, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Barry Jones and Frank Cook be appointed to act a additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session.— [Mr. Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.684.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.684.8", "colnum": "684", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ", before he word \"European\" insert the words \"Environmental Audit Committee or with the\". Line 52, at the end insert the words:— (4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.\"— [Mr. Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.684.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-02-26", "file": "debates2001-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "fe1b54f00087bad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.684.12", "colnum": "684", "heading": "LANGUAGE OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That— (1) this House approves the First Report from the Procedure Committee, Session 2000–01 (HC 47); and (2) the Resolution of 5th June 1996 on the Language of Parliamentary Proceedings be amended accordingly by inserting, after the word \"Wales,\" the words \"and at Westminster in respect of Select Committees\".— [Mr. Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-26a.684.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — British-American Relations (Europe)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that President Chirac has said that the raison d'être of the European rapid reaction force is to contain the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — British-American Relations (Europe)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that President Chirac has said that the raison d'être of the European rapid reaction force is to contain the United States. [Laughter.] The Minister may laugh, but that is what President Chirac said; I shall say it in French, if the Minister likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.704.4", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — British Trade International", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Minister is not responsible for those matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.704.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Rail Passenger Services", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "tions to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food yesterday, when Madam Deputy Speaker was in the Chair, I asked for an undertaking that the right hon. Gentleman would keep the House informed while the foot and mouth disease outbreak continued. He replied, quite specifically, \"No, I will not.\" Are you prepared to deprecate that statement, Mr. Speaker, and to ask the Minister to think again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Rail Passenger Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "repetitious dilation this afternoon—then we can reach the issues that the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his colleagues wish to ensure we debate. Finally, let me deal with the ridiculous suggestion from the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham that only those of us who represent English or Welsh constituencies should be allowed to participate in Divisions on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.718.9", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Rail Passenger Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Again, that was a rather lengthy intervention. As I understand it, that Standing Committee was one of the largest ever appointed to consider a Bill. That extension was made at the request of the Opposition. We did so in order to ensure that there was a fair amount of debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.718.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.719.7", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Rail Passenger Services", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I have tried to get in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.719.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Rail Passenger Services", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "We could say also that Labour Members are allowing it to be the supine Parliament, but the fact of the matter is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garnier", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. His ability to do the arithmetic is no doubt better than mine. The point does not need repetition. The valuable service that is provided by hunts in dealing with fallen stock has been recognised for years. It is recognised across party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Mike O'Brien)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Mike O'Brien)", "preceding_text": "t of continuing that activity. We regularly criminalise certain activities. The House has criminalised all sorts of things, from burglary to whatever. Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that, in all cases when we change the law, we ought to compensate those who carry on an activity that was not previously criminal? I do not seek to equate hunting with burglary; I am saying something quite different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": " pointed out, the collection from farms of fallen stock—that is, unsaleable dead farm animals—or the collection and humane killing of injured or sick animals is an extremely important service. The Minister of State, Department of Social Security, the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), then an Agriculture Minister—and a very good one, incidentally—stated in a written answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.752.5", "colnum": "752", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ucers in particular are facing the crisis of foot and mouth disease, this House should be contemplating imposing on them yet a further charge. That makes it even more scandalous that there is not an Agriculture Minister on the Government Front Bench. I am perfectly prepared to accept that the Minister of Agriculture is engaged elsewhere—although in his case it is probably in a broadcasting studio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.752.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "preceding_text": "I do not want to encourage the debate to be any more bad-tempered than it has become.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. George Turner", "preceding_text": " more bad-tempered than it has become. [Interruption.] I am surprised that hon. Members are allowed to call each other pea-brained, but as my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) said, if one is pot-bellied one gets away with making such allegations in the House. I have voted for the principle of the Bill, but I want some of the consequences of its enactment to be considered carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Turner", "preceding_text": "No, I want to make my point. My experience as a member of the Select Committee on Agriculture, limited though it is, tells me that Conservative Members should be a little more sanguine about the BSE saga, given the consequences for many in agriculture about which they now complain and which lie at their door due to their incompetent handling of the crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Turner", "preceding_text": "ells me that Conservative Members should be a little more sanguine about the BSE saga, given the consequences for many in agriculture about which they now complain and which lie at their door due to their incompetent handling of the crisis. [Interruption.] Given the problems that my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle referred to, and the outbreak of classical swine fever, which is still relatively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend makes some extremely telling remarks", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.769.3", "colnum": "769", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is entirely right. The hon. Member for Pendle clearly does not understand the industry and, indeed, the countryside—which he purports to represent—with any great depth of knowledge or feeling for those who work there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.775.5", "colnum": "775", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paterson", "preceding_text": "Within hours, carcases begin to decompose. That is what the hon. Gentleman does not understand. The vast majority of casualties on farms are healthy, and he has not taken that point on board. They are not diseased, and the hunt comes in if an animal has an accident. It is put down swiftly and humanely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.775.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I have no problem in confirming that. While the clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had listened to what I said, he would realise that I have dealt with that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.784.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "m the legislation through. I expect that they will vote against the amendment, quite oblivious to the very real risks that would be run by those engaged in lawful hunting in Scotland if their hounds or the fox strayed across the border. I hope that the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, will not tell us that we are talking about something theoretical that is unlikely to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "rs of my family who fought for the freedom of these islands should be subjected to this outrageous attempt to criminalise them. If they pursue their perfectly legitimate activity in Scotland, they run the risk of being criminalised because of straying inadvertently across the border. My uncles did not fight in the second world war so that such a gross intrusion into their freedom could take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "ctly legitimate activity in Scotland, they run the risk of being criminalised because of straying inadvertently across the border. My uncles did not fight in the second world war so that such a gross intrusion into their freedom could take place— [Interruption.] The Minister shakes her head. I can tell her that some of us do not just recite the briefings; some of us feel strongly about the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "y will certainly not give up in another place. We expect much opposition in the House of Lords. I am fully aware of the fact that the Bill will fall before the election: it will not reach the statute book. That is a perfectly reasonable statement on which we could all agree. I say to my colleagues on the Front Bench, however, that I hope that re-introducing the Bill will be a manifesto commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.831.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Right hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I have always argued that one should have a debate in the House, but when I heard the speech by the hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Michael)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-02-27", "file": "debates2001-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f97ae0e6db088ccb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "s yard or to hunt kennels. It is tragic that such kennels will no longer exist if the Bill's provisions are implemented. You know and I know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that the Bill's opponents are trying to defend those kennels, with which the Government wish to do away. It is a terrifying prospect that the Bill will seek to turn quite ordinary, everyday people living in my constituency into criminals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-02-27a.838.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The IMF report quoted by Conservative Members overnight suggests that the five economic tests are the best way forward. They are not arbitrary tests; they are tests concerning the issues that are relevant to the United Kingdom economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1032.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady speaks with characteristic courtesy and all the fervour of a recent convert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1059.4", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": " decided that he could no longer accept the canon law on celibacy and that he wanted to lead an ordinary life, as many others throughout the Catholic Church have decided to do. That man now leads a happily married life in the south of Glasgow. There is no chance of the right hon. Lady's amendment being accepted because it does not make sense and it is harmful to those who have left the priesthood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "h (Mr. Winnick) and to a matter that we have also debated in this place: should the parliamentary oath be an impediment to serving here? I am amazed that hon. Members cannot understand that the right to be a representative in this place should come from the people alone. If the people want to put up the candlestick maker, the clock maker, the good, the bad, the ugly, the malevolent, the eccentric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "d practice in many cases—some priests are part-time. They may work in commerce or banking and fulfil their priestly duties on a part-time basis. Why should they be impeded from standing for the House of Commons? The right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald has not dealt with that black and white issue, and she cannot do so because her amendments and her deeply—I do not know—conservative view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1066.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Sir Alan. I do not want to be diverted from the main thrust of my argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the other way around.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "he established Church in a moment. I am speaking about a Church that is not established and which is not and never has been under the jurisdiction of the House. Indeed, it has been specifically as it is because it does not hold that established view, and it is unacceptable for us to purport to say what its priests should be allowed to do. I now move from the Catholic Church to the Anglican Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "rch that is not established and which is not and never has been under the jurisdiction of the House. Indeed, it has been specifically as it is because it does not hold that established view, and it is unacceptable for us to purport to say what its priests should be allowed to do. I now move from the Catholic Church to the Anglican Church. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the other way around.\"] The truth is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1084.8", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am happy to say that no pub in my constituency is called the Turk's Head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1084.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1086.5", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am not discussing the established Church; I am discussing the Catholic Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1086.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "at we should not exclude Anglican clergymen, because there seems to be no rational case for doing so. Things are not the same now: Anglican clergymen no longer have an office of profit under the Crown as they once did, and it is reasonable for us to respect that. When it comes to the bishops, no doubt we shall all say what we think. I want to say something about the whole question of independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "overnment did not present a simple Bill to exclude all the discrimination that can be applied to Her Majesty's Catholic subjects under our law. I do not think it proper that the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster is forbidden by law to walk down Victoria street in his clerical clothes. That is unacceptable, and in this day and age we should have removed the law. A short Bill would have removed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1087.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1093.5", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "n a position to bring forward such a Bill as this. When the case of David Cairns was brought to my attention, I thought that justice needed to be done, and I think that in due course the House will do justice to David Cairns. Let me explain why this issue was not dealt with in a Bill introduced earlier in the Session: we wanted to consult the Churches, and that consultation has now been completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1093.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "otland and Ireland. All were content for the restrictions to be removed. Representatives from the Roman Catholic Church pointed out that it would not affect them, because canon law would prevent serving priests from sitting in this place. The right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham referred, quite rightly, to the Church in Wales. The Church in Wales was disestablished in 1912—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-01", "file": "debates2001-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "ac32541f07de7581", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — House of Commons (Removal of Clergy Disqualification) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "as been said by others, including my right hon. Friend the shadow Home Secretary: it is deplorable that the Government have not allowed Labour Members a free vote on the Bill. It should be a matter of conscience for them, but it is assuredly a matter of conscience for us. Liberal Democrats have contributed to the proceedings of the Bill, and I think that they, too, have a free vote. Unfortunately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-01a.1109.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "hat they receive is about £20 a week, which makes a big difference to pensioners who qualify. Let me repeat—as the hon. Lady is evidently hard of understanding, if not hard of hearing—the point that I have made on many occasions. The reason many people do not qualify at the moment is that, under the present system that we inherited, the capital rules hit anybody who saves a modest amount of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " understanding, if not hard of hearing—the point that I have made on many occasions. The reason many people do not qualify at the moment is that, under the present system that we inherited, the capital rules hit anybody who saves a modest amount of money. [Interruption.] We want to ensure, through the minimum income guarantee, that from 2003 no pensioner will have to live on less than £100 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.15.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jon Owen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jon Owen Jones", "preceding_text": "At the weekend, I spoke to my brother-in-law, who is a farmer, and to other farmers about compensation. A number of people have been indirectly affected. Many of my constituents are small hoteliers. They have been drastically affected by the cancellation of the rugby match, which was entirely to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "at cannot be delivered. Withdrawal from Europe would represent an economic and political disaster for the whole United Kingdom, and for Wales in particular; we would suffer most. Conservative prejudice and intolerance would leave thousands out of work, close off our export markets and destroy our agriculture. Of course, the Tories' intolerance finds its echo in the words of Councillor Seimon Glyn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "er for Wales Bill, when Members of Parliament who represented Scottish, Northern Irish and English constituencies—including even hon. Members from constituencies in Lancashire and Dorset—could come to the House of Commons, participate in the debate and vote on an exclusively Welsh Bill. As soon as we start dividing up matters for debate, that will be the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.62.4", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I shall come on to Plaid Cymru shortly. The hon. Gentleman will acknowledge, if he is being fair, that I condemned the amount of money being spent on Portcullis House. I would have preferred to see the savings that could have been made there going into front-line services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.62.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.62.4", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "e preferred to see the savings that could have been made there going into front-line services. [Interruption.] I am sorry that Labour Members find consistency so unusual, but I can understand why they do. I shall move on from the national health service to business. Two reports have been published recently. One is from the Federation of Small Businesses, entitled \"Barriers to Growth and Survival\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.62.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.64.2", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ymru in Wales and he has not been ostracised by members of his own party. They have not booted him out and he still holds the position of Gwynedd county council's chairman of housing, so I can assume only that the very highest commands of Plaid Cymru support his membership. No doubt he will campaign hard during the election for votes for Plaid Cymru, but it will pay a heavy price throughout Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.64.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael", "preceding_text": "ints, but not by adding an extra tick box. If people want the census to ask about their national background and ethnicity in a couple of questions, rather than just one, that can be done in the next census. If so, I would want people in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to give their birth origins and their national and ethnic identity. I suspect that all of us could unite around that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.83.3", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "This is where we might fall out. The clawback was introduced in September 1997, when the House was in recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.83.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.94.4", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "support the proposals that the National Assembly for Wales is investigating. If we do not secure funding for students and investment for the future of Wales, we will be in danger of squandering the opportunities that may be provided by objective 1 status and of losing the high-tech developments to which my hon. Friend the Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy referred. I turn now to my final comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.94.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter", "preceding_text": "hought was the safest way of doing so. I have had telephone conversations with the National Farmers Union every day during the outbreak, and we have also conversed by e-mail and other means that do not lead to the spread of this ghastly disease. Getting back to the performance of the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire, it is noticeable that the Labour party has not selected a candidate for that seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.114.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That, following the Order [20th November 2000], Mr. Nicholas Winterton, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Barry Jones and Frank Cook be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session.— [Mr. Touhig.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.122.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-05", "file": "debates2001-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ddf74e865b248d07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.122.11", "colnum": "122", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "'(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'— [Mr. Touhig.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-05a.122.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.133.4", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right on both counts. Some people are trying to denigrate the march on 1 April, but I think that the Daily Record deserves nothing but praise for organising a march that will focus attention on the menace of drugs and the terrible toll—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.133.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.133.4", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "is right on both counts. Some people are trying to denigrate the march on 1 April, but I think that the Daily Record deserves nothing but praise for organising a march that will focus attention on the menace of drugs and the terrible toll— [Laughter.] Opposition Members are laughing. The menace of drugs takes a terrible toll in death, illness and crime. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.133.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Unusually, I commend the hon. Member for Paisley, North (Mrs. Adams) for her courageous work against drugs over many years. I find some of the Minister's remarks perfectly reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.134.4", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend, whom I congratulated earlier on his initiative to establish a register of serious drugs dealers. It would be too much to congratulate him again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.140.7", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "omised. The hon. Gentleman may not like to hear this, but it is the truth: it has been proven that pooling resources at courts with a number of judges and courtrooms leads to the quicker and more efficient disposal of cases, which must be in the best interests of the parties and his constituents. The new Crown court buildings will substantially increase the capacity to deal with cases in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.140.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I take seriously my governmental responsibility for the House, which is one reason why I have some anxiety about some proposals in the report to which the hon. Gentleman alluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John McFall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McFall", "preceding_text": "ildren—two thirds of whom are girls—do not attend primary school. Nearly half of all African children and a quarter of children in south and west Asia have been denied that fundamental right. Some 900 million children over the age of 15 are illiterate—that is one sixth of the world population. I taught for many years in what some people might disparagingly call a bog-standard comprehensive school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Browne", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have the opportunity of contributing to what has been described as an historic debate. Other hon. Members have pointed out that this is the first such debate for 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. Chris Mullin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. Chris Mullin)", "preceding_text": "e that. However, when one sees senior members of his party—Lady Thatcher and Lord Lamont come to mind, cheered on by The Daily Telegraph —fawning over the odious General Pinochet, there is bound to be some scepticism about how deep that commitment to good governance actually is among everyone in his party. I do not question his motives or those of most Opposition Members who referred to the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.243.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": " share of our development budget should rise massively to 30 per cent. As the hon. Gentleman will know, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development—who is not backward about coming forward—has been in the forefront of trying to reform the EC's development programme. I am glad to report that some progress has been made, although there is still a considerable way to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "ventions that would contribute to reducing suffering. For the same reason, we think that it would be wrong to try to define poverty—but these matters can be discussed in more detail later. All we would be doing is attempting to make absolute concepts that are relative, as the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford recognised. My hon. Friend the Member for Clydebank and Milngavie (Mr. Worthington)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.247.14", "colnum": "247", "heading": "International Development Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": " should have moved this important programme motion formally. It is an affront to democracy. The Bill has been presented under Standing Order No. 50. If we are to debate the motion properly, I hope that the Minister will explain how Standing Order No. 50 interacts with the programme motion. Will he say what the implications are of that for the programme motion? I should be happy to give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.247.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.247.16", "colnum": "247", "heading": "International Development Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "ut international development and supporting democracy around the world. This country invented democracy, and exported it around the world. Over many years, we have taken steps to underpin democracy throughout the rest of the world. The House has been discussing all day ways in which to support democracy elsewhere in the world. Is not it ironic that democracy is coming under threat in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.247.16"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "International Development Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": "We oppose the programme motion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] I am sure that is what I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "International Development Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Machiavelli.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "I have sat through many debates on programme motions recently and the Opposition's only saving grace lies in the sometimes brilliant tactics employed by the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth), whom I admire greatly. When I presided over the European Parliament, I dealt with Members such as Marco Pannela; but the right hon. Gentleman is far better than the Italian anarchists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "International Development Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ut it. This is an important Bill and I support almost every part of it. The right hon. Lady has had an exemplary period as Secretary of State and I want to help her on a couple of issues. Conservative Members support much of what the right hon. Lady has done and we want to help her with other matters. However, there is little discussion in this country about the issues with which she is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "International Development Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "With two minutes left, I shall necessarily be brief. It was with great sadness that I heard the Under-Secretary proposing the motion formally. He used to be a custodian of the liberty of the House, yet he moved a motion of some importance formally, did not try to defend it, and has now gone. When I first came to the House, as I reminded hon. Members in an intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.258.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.267.10", "colnum": "267", "heading": "SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [23 January], That, following the Order [20th November 2000], Mr. Nicholas Winterton, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Barry Jones and Frank Cook be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session.— [Mr Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.267.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-06", "file": "debates2001-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "d7ba12b714d1eaf6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.267.13", "colnum": "267", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES (JOIN Is MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "before the word 'European' insert the words 'Environmental Audit Committee or with the'. Line 52, at the end insert the words:— '(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'—[ Mr. Sutcliffe.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-06a.267.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that encouraging response. Is he aware that unemployment in my constituency is at its lowest for many years, and that since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "preceding_text": "f not looking after their animals properly. They are currently desperate to move pregnant ewes. Yesterday, I had to negotiate with the police the movement of sheep which had no water. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has agreed to ensure that tack ewes are returned to their farms shortly. Will the Secretary of State make every effort to ensure that such matters are resolved quickly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.282.2", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can give my hon. Friend the assurance that, with the National Assembly, we are thinking carefully about the measures that we would take in that event. As he is aware, we await the results of discussions between Corus and the trade unions on alternative proposals for the Corus plants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Undoubtedly many accountants write to Governments from time to time. However, I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that the key issue is whether the value pension funds and their stock has increased. That is the point that he will not deal with. However, as we an in a debate about parties' pension policies, I should quote the remarks that the shadow Chancellor made this weekend in Harrogate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the difficulties that have been caused by teacher shortages, particularly in maths and science subjects? Those shortages have been evident for at least 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ew deal and the Government's extra investment for schools over the next three years. That means an actual benefit for schools in Norfolk of over £30 million from the new deal for schools. The one thing that we know, unless its policy has changed in the past couple of days or so—which is always possible—is that the Conservative party is committed to scrapping the new deal. That is right, is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is absolutely right. The behaviour that the Government of Zimbabwe have exhibited towards their own citizens is, of course, disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.310.3", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hague", "preceding_text": "ntants are just unable to work out their CGT liabilities. Three years on from the Chancellor's reform we have one taper, two whole systems and hundreds of rates of tax. If the new deal had been as successful in creating work for the unemployed as the capital gains reforms have been in creating work for accountants, we would have the lowest unemployment rate in the western world. Only this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it is unfortunate that the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing? The Minister of State is obviously oblivious of something that is well known to the parliamentary spokesman for the Church Commissioners, the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr. Bell), who has made the matter clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "he parliamentary spokesman for the Church Commissioners, the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr. Bell), who has made the matter clear. [Interruption.] The Minister can chunter from a sedentary position, but the hon. Member for Middlesbrough made it clear that the European Commission did not give approval to the VAT reduction for church repairs. If he did not know that, it is about time that he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "That is very helpful. The aspirations may well go down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "re prepared to leave their children, however young, and go out to work—and the undeserving poor, such as women who choose to stay with their children at least to school age. I tell him and my other Front-Bench colleagues that the Victorian distinction between the deserving and the undeserving poor which is embedded in the tax credit system does not reflect well on a 21st-century Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Purchase", "preceding_text": " than what the hon. Gentleman has just told me. However, I would like to put the matter in context. I listened to Prime Minister's Question Time and my right hon. Friend's answers on this matter. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made exactly the right point. Opposition Members will be surprised to hear that. The cost of the abolition has been more than met by growth in pension funds. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-07", "file": "debates2001-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a5b0a416a932fed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.356.6", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kidney", "preceding_text": "roughly decent. He explained his intentions thus: I therefore conclude that it is right to give a moderate stimulus to the economy, but to spread this between monetary and fiscal measures. On both, I intend to proceed fairly cautiously. If I find that my judgment is too cautious, it is much easier to correct this later in the year than if I go too far in the other direction. Hansard then records \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-07a.356.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-08", "file": "debates2001-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ff3171861dcf6d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": " in Committee. However, it is my understanding that additional sittings were offered by the Government—and indeed, that longer sittings were offered on some occasions when the Committee was already meeting—in order to meet requests for extra time. Although the number of sittings is 15—in itself more than the number proposed originally—the time spent on the Bill amounts to about 16 sittings' worth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.434.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-08", "file": "debates2001-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ff3171861dcf6d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ns. My hon. Friend made a point about the general content of the speech of the Leader of the Opposition, and there was certainly widespread concern about it. When I read it, what struck me forcefully was the distinct impression that the entire Conservative party had been beamed down from Mars in 1997 and that everything wrong in this country is the result only of the operations of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-08", "file": "debates2001-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ff3171861dcf6d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "eans that the Government are taking a colossal risk. They are vulnerable to any downturn in the world economy, but there is more to it than that: even if there is no hiccup or downturn in world growth, they are eroding the competitiveness—the performance—of the British economy, on which all the expenditure depends. Again, that shows up in the figures. Business investment has pretty well collapsed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-08", "file": "debates2001-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ff3171861dcf6d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman made represents Conservative party thinking on the single European currency. I think that it probably does, as far as the Members sitting on the Opposition Front Bench in this debate are concerned. One can tell; we know what the reality is. These are principled people sitting opposite me, and they believe strongly that the United Kingdom should never join the single European currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.456.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-08", "file": "debates2001-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ff3171861dcf6d67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.516.9", "colnum": "516", "heading": "LIAISON COMMITTEE (SUB-COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e shall have power to appoint a sub-committee, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time. ( ) The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before the sub-committee. ( ) The quorum of the sub-committee shall be three.'.— [Mr. Betts.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-08a.516.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. May", "preceding_text": "t announced an extra £19 billion for education. We soon saw how wrong that figure was. As The Guardian said: Mr. Blunkett's claim to be spending an extra £19 billion has collapsed in empty rhetoric\". The Times reported: Mr. Brown added together increases over three years to produce his global figures of ti billion more for education … This is misleading since it represents triple counting\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought to know that his Chancellor changed the way in which the figures are quoted in the Red Book, and the actual equivalent of what he has done is an extra 10p on tax The hon. Gentleman may care to examine that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "1990s. When he chants his mantra of boom and bust—I lost count of the number of times that he and the Prime Minister uttered such drivel last week—he should remember that the last unsustainable boom was well over a decade ago. That h is not stopped the Prime Minister depicting my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and my right hon. Friend the shadow Chancellor as Mr. Boom and Mr. Bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No you did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a minute. This Government chose to make the payment of national debt central to their economic strategy. Yes, we chose to stay within tight spending limits, but that did not mean that we did not spend considerably more in the first two years of the Parliament on health and education—we did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgon", "preceding_text": "between the poorest and the richest pensioners grew to its widest since 1960. They allowed the value of the basic state pension to decline throughout their years in office: by 1997, one in three pensioners lived in poverty. They scrapped free eye tests, and cut free travel passes. They condemned more than 4 million pensioner households to fuel poverty. I can offer the Conservative party a way out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.687.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Lady said that her protest was about the fact that the Bill could not be reported and that her aim was to delay its passage. That was very explicit. She said in The Mirror that it was an official Opposition protest. She confirmed again on GMTV on Sunday that it was an official Opposition protest. The right hon. Lady deliberately flouted the House's rules to pursue her dishonourable cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.735.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.735.9", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. My understanding is that the hon. Gentleman used the term \"dishonourable cause\". He was not calling anybody dishonourable; he said that it was a dishonourable cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.735.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.736.2", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "s 703 and 704 of 'Erskine May' is that after the requests have been made, the position is reported to the House\".—[ Official Report, Standing Committee F , 8 March 2001: c. 675.] My point is that before the right hon. Lady and her hon. Friends went in, the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire knew and had prepared himself to deal with the situation in that way. It was an Opposition conspiracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "It is with regret that I note that the Leader of the House is not leading for the Government tonight. Clearly, the Minister of State, Home Office, the hon. Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Clarke), who opened for the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Antics?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " great chunks of legislation that have not been scrutinised or debated at all, how can the courts determine our will? We mth,t be very careful. However annoyed the Minister may be that his Bill has come to the surface as an example of why programming is not only a mistake but damaging to our democratic process, it would be wrong if, in a fit of pique, his antics tonight were accepted by the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry, but I am really not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman completely misrepresents the case because the actions of my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.743.4", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Lady wants to make progress, and I understand also that she finds herself in a very unfortunate position. I say to her in her role as shadow Leader of the House that many of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ching initiatives\"—in the words of the Prime Minister—to put in the pre-election shop window. We all know that if the Prime Minister keeps to his intention to hold the election on 3 May, the Bill will not complete its parliamentary stages anyway. This is a flagship Bill with no port of destination. Its cargo is fatally flawed, and now it has run into difficulties concerning procedure in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is correct. He also played an extremely good and effective role in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.750.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "In general terms, the Minister is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "d and pressed, and the Government made concessions. I make no criticism of that. My point is that the great showdown took place in connection with a Bill on which the Tory and Labour parties have one view, and we have another. It is a strange coincidence in British politics that on law and order the differences between Tories and Labour become narrower every day, almost paling into insignificance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " the motion, he or she will be denying his or her parliamentary heritage. Any Member who votes for the motion is, in fact, voting for the Executive against the legislature. Any Member who votes for the motion is voting for the emasculation of Parliament and what it stands for and must continue for stand for. Any Member who votes for the motion is voting against a free Parliament in a free country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to be able to speak in the debate, but I am rather sorry that it is taking place at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.763.6", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "The Minister made a pathetic point the last time he intervened, so I shall not give way again. He and his colleagues must begin to understand that they are not here simply because of one day on which there was a general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.763.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.764.6", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brady", "preceding_text": "use the rights of the House of Commons, the procedure has less validity than when it is agreed properly by all parties. Ministers need to understand that if they are to ride roughshod over the interests of the House of Commons and ignore the rights of Back Benchers, and particularly the Opposition parties, they will lose. I happily give way to the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.764.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "The Minister does not seem to have been taught when he was a small boy that two wrongs do not make a right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.768.6", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "merely because those on our Front Bench were involved. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Mr. McCabe) asked what the answer is. As my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire said, the Government have a large majority and ample time. They have another 15 months. My hon. Friends are talking about another two or three days. There is no need for the Government to rush into an election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.768.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "It is extraordinary to consider, having heard the hon. Member for East Yorkshire (Mr. Townend), that only a week ago Conservative Members were putting forward exactly the opposite argument. They were seeking to argue, on Standing Orders issues, that it was appropriate that the House should bind a future Parliament. However, the hon. Gentleman now seems to be arguing a different point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that such a motion has been tabled as I have not seen tomorrow's Order Paper, although I look forward to reading it. I may seek to amend the motion because I might not think that the proposed punishment is sufficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": " How can the nation be expected to work with us and the forces of law and order to improve standards in society if it is considered acceptable for an official Opposition to act in such a manner? Whatever the rights and wrongs of the programming of a Bill, I will not be drawn into the particular by the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes), because I was not on the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "eman to the point put to him by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House? The 1983 example is a very poor one for the Opposition to use. It is true that we were in \"oppositionist\" mode in that year: we refused to agree to legislation going through in a truncated form before the election, although we broadly agreed with it. That is one of the reasons why we paid such a heavy price in the polls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Lyell", "preceding_text": "That is not the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ssues in the way that has been offered by the Liberal Democrats, who have been supported by my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Opposition Front Bench. The Government motion, in effect, says, \"What we say shall he the law.\" The issue of majorities is a theme that has haunted the new Labour Government. Within four years, they have reached for the old Stalinist trick of putting on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "f majorities is a theme that has haunted the new Labour Government. Within four years, they have reached for the old Stalinist trick of putting on the Order Paper— [Interruption.] Government Members may laugh, but the Order Paper now suggests that what is not true is true. That is what the House is being asked to say. Each one of us must consider where that leaves us. What are we being reduced to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.781.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "LIAISON COMMITTEE (SUB-COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hall have power to appoint a sub-committee, which shall have power to send for persons papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time. ( ) The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before the sub-committee. ( ) The quorum of the sub-committee shall be three.'.— [Mr. Mike Hall.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.793.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-12", "file": "debates2001-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc65bcec7d36e0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.793.12", "colnum": "793", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "efore the word 'European' insert the words 'Environmental Audit Committee or with the'. Line 52, at the end insert the words:— '(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'—[ Mr. Mike Hall. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-12a.793.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-13", "file": "debates2001-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "706422145ead5d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "I am probably not the only hon. Member in the House who did not follow the hon. Gentleman's question. Perhaps there is a chance that when I read it in Hansard it might make better sense. The hon. Gentleman ended his question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-13", "file": "debates2001-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "706422145ead5d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. The only point that I understood in the question put by the hon. Gentleman was the request that the Government should spend more on the national health service. No one in the House could regard that as a serious question or a serious proposition. The official Opposition have not even committed themselves to matching the expenditure that we have provided for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-13", "file": "debates2001-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "706422145ead5d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.815.6", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rotten Government\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amess", "preceding_text": "I take all that with a pinch of salt. Surely the Secretary of State realises that, even by the standards of this deeply sinister, incompetent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.815.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-13", "file": "debates2001-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "706422145ead5d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.822.4", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Not today, but this week. I understand that the Minister has indicated that he will come this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.822.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-13", "file": "debates2001-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "706422145ead5d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "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": "million jobs. Today Britain has a minimum wage; it also has the lowest unemployment for 25 years. Rather than a million jobs being lost, a million have been created. Today's Conservatives, therefore, have been wrong on economic performance, wrong on the Bank of England's independence, wrong on ending poverty pay, and wrong on every prediction and forecast. Not even Michael Fish gets it that wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-13", "file": "debates2001-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "706422145ead5d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milburn", "preceding_text": "e NHS. So today I can announce that GPs who continue working in the NHS beyond 60 will receive a golden thank-you payment on their 65th birthday as an incentive to remain in general practice. On their 60th birthday, £10,000 will be set aside. On their retirement, they will receive the lump sum plus interest. Secondly, many family doctors have left general practice but could be persuaded to return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.830.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-13", "file": "debates2001-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "706422145ead5d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Portillo", "preceding_text": "When we announced that proposal, we said that we would relieve the burden for business elsewhere, and we have a series of proposals to do so. [ Interruption. ] Ministers crow and groan because they have never heard a straight answer before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.839.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-13", "file": "debates2001-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "706422145ead5d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ruffley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend anticipates me. Many of us are wise to that fact. I am sure that his comments are informed by what the good burghers of Buckingham tell him, because my constituents have been saying the same thing. They understand the situation. The report accuses the Chancellor of being, at worst, power mad and bonkers, as one of his new Labour colleagues described him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-13a.872.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-14", "file": "debates2001-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0de328292a16a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs (Dr. Kim Howells)", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh no you don't!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Competition and Consumer Affairs (Dr. Kim Howells)", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity to explain the regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1132.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-14", "file": "debates2001-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0de328292a16a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e shall have power to appoint a sub-committee, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time. ( ) The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before the sub-committee. ( ) The quorum of the sub-committee shall be three.'.— [Mr. Betts.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1147.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-14", "file": "debates2001-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0de328292a16a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ourned debate on Question [31 January], That the Select Committee on Science and Technology shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on science and technology or any sub-committee thereof, for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, and to communicate to any such committee its evidence or any other documents relating to matters of common interest—[ Mr. Betts. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-14", "file": "debates2001-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0de328292a16a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1148.6", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "50, before the word 'European' insert the words 'Environmental Audit Committee or with the'. Line 52, at the end insert the words:— (4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'—[ Mr. Betts. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-14", "file": "debates2001-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0de328292a16a68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Beverley Hughes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Ms Beverley Hughes)", "preceding_text": "ration should set an adequate framework to ensure that local plans responded positively to the new approach to planning for housing set out in planning policy guidance note 3. We want sufficient housing land to be provided, but the priority is to re-use previously developed land in urban areas, bringing empty homes back into use and converting existing buildings rather than using greenfield sites.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-14a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "I never know where the Liberal Democrats are coming from. The hon. Gentleman voted against the continuation of maintenance grants during the Report stage of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hon. Gentleman has received the figures in correspondence from me, but let me give the unit cost in real terms: in 2001–02, it is £4,800; in 2002–03, it will be a little more, but more or less £4,800; and it goes up to £4,817 in 2003–04. It is a real terms increase over those three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "but more or less £4,800; and it goes up to £4,817 in 2003–04. It is a real terms increase over those three years— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) makes a zoo-like noise, presumably to hide his embarrassment about quarrelling with us over the detail of our— [Interruption.] I do not know what the hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) is saying, but then I never do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": "kes a zoo-like noise, presumably to hide his embarrassment about quarrelling with us over the detail of our— [Interruption.] I do not know what the hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) is saying, but then I never do—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!\"] The hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) quarrels with us about the details of our increase; he has nothing to say about the fact that, during the Tory years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ooh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wicks", "preceding_text": " saying, but then I never do—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!\"] The hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Boswell) quarrels with us about the details of our increase; he has nothing to say about the fact that, during the Tory years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh!\"] Tory Members are saying \"Ooh\" because they are so embarrassed that, during the Tory years, the percentage declined by one third. They have nothing to say about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.6", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT", "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": "Before I answer the question, I should like to welcome the permanent secretary, Michael Bichard, to the Gallery and thank him for the enormous work that he has done at the Department for Education and Employment. Before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1169.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At length.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "ns are for proceedings in another place? Will the right hon. Lady say whether the Government intend in the coming week's business to allow time for a debate on remaining order No. 50 on the Order Paper, with which she will be familiar? It has been tabled in her name and concerns the reprimand to the Westminster Four. Conservative Members would certainly welcome the opportunity to debate the order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1187.2", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "will forgive me, Mr. Speaker, for this lengthy reply but I think that it is such an important issue for the entire House—that we should have a debate on such matters. Two things, I think, are of great importance to all hon. Members. The first and by every standard the most important is that there should not be corruption in our public life, and that if there is corruption it should be stamped out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1187.2", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "y reply but I think that it is such an important issue for the entire House—that we should have a debate on such matters. Two things, I think, are of great importance to all hon. Members. The first and by every standard the most important is that there should not be corruption in our public life, and that if there is corruption it should be stamped out—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] That has to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1187.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "have asked her on two successive occasions at business questions about contingency plans for the census and the county council elections on 3 May. I am very grateful to her for the reply that I received just as I came into the Chamber, which answers some of the questions that arise. However, since I asked those questions, the Tory tabloids have started a clamour to postpone the elections on 3 May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "Will right hon. Lady agree to have words with the Prime Minister before next Wednesday's business, to point out the massive concern in the west country, especially in Devon, about the affect of the foot and mouth epidemic and the feeling that it would be quite impossible to run a proper general election during this period?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "oyal British Legion—that, yesterday, the Prime Minister fulfilled the resolution that was passed in the previous Parliament. Logically, if we have a veterans Minister, we also need an annual, full-day debate along the lines of the debate on the Metropolitan police that takes place every October. Will she build such a debate into the parliamentary timetable after the next general election? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "w in the industry is unanimous. I am trying to arrange a short presentation on vaccination strategies for the media representatives who attend my daily press briefings so that the issues can be set out and those who report these matters are exposed to the same advice that Ministers receive. If parliamentarians would find it helpful to have such a presentation next week, I am willing to arrange it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the countryside march?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "with the others. I do not think that we shall re-establish our tourist industries and other rural businesses properly until the outbreak has been exterminated and we can demonstrate that we can maintain that position, but there is no reason why people should not visit Chippenham. Indeed, there is no reason why people should not come to London, and no reason why church services should be cancelled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1212.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-15", "file": "debates2001-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "a6d06e613273b7c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend, except I think that he meant to refer to unilateral disarmament, embraced during the cold war by the Labour party. He is absolutely right, and I shall be coming to that in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-15a.1263.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-16", "file": "debates2001-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ae71f12eb6e98ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-16a.1359.21", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "CLIMATE CHANGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-16a.1359.20"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-16", "file": "debates2001-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ae71f12eb6e98ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-16a.1360.4", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "LIAISON COMMITTEE (SUB-COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hall have power to appoint a sub-committee, which shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to report to the committee from time to time. ( ) The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before the sub-committee. ( ) The quorum of the sub-committee shall be three.'.— [Mr. Clelland.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-16a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-16", "file": "debates2001-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ae71f12eb6e98ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-16a.1360.7", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ned debate on Question [31 January] , That the Select Committee on Science and Technology shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on science and technology or any sub-committee thereof, for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, and to communicate to any such committee its evidence or any other documents relating to matters of common interest— [Mr. Clelland.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-16a.1360.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-16", "file": "debates2001-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "8ae71f12eb6e98ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-16a.1360.10", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES (JOINT MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " before the word \"European' insert the words \"Environmental Audit Committee or with the'. Line 52, at the end insert the words:— (4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'.— [Mr. Clelland.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-16a.1360.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "Given the many statements made in Washington and London about the importance of NATO and Europe working side by side, why were the French Government not informed by the Americans when they bombed Baghdad?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Spellar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Spellar)", "preceding_text": "ich will extend welfare provision to include all maritime deployments and exercises lasting two months or more. From next month, all personnel deployed on operations or on exercises lasting more than two months will receive hot shower facilities and laundry, and a comprehensive communications package, including 20 minutes of free telephone calls each week, free e-blueys and free e-mail facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Spellar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Spellar)", "preceding_text": "tes of free telephone calls each week, free e-blueys and free e-mail facilities— [Interruption.] —to enable personnel to keep in contact with their families. We will also be introducing an additional British Forces Broadcasting Services channel and NAAFI retail facilities in the Balkans, and providing additional leisure and fitness equipment in all our operational theatres for off-duty relaxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Spellar)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Armed Forces (Mr. John Spellar)", "preceding_text": "onnel to keep in contact with their families. We will also be introducing an additional British Forces Broadcasting Services channel and NAAFI retail facilities in the Balkans, and providing additional leisure and fitness equipment in all our operational theatres for off-duty relaxation. [Interruption.] In all, this welfare package will amount to an additional £60 million over the next four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Iddon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He mentioned quite a lot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Iddon", "preceding_text": "I am staggered by that answer. I do not know whether I have a supplementary question left, after that. I am pleased that my hon. Friend recognises that the welfare of our services personnel is an important component of retention. Although good housing is important, as other hon. Members have observed, does my hon. Friend agree that there are other factors, apart from those that he mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Iddon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Iddon", "preceding_text": "at there are other factors, apart from those that he mentioned— [HON. MEMBERS: \"He mentioned quite a lot.\"] He did, indeed. I refer to factors such as counselling when people run into personal difficulties, good schooling for children, and as my hon. Friend suggested, that partners are kept in contact with one another when they are separated, especially when people serve for long periods overseas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.12.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the headline?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoon", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman, who was a Minister in the last Government, is an expert on bad press. I assure the House that the limited criticism that occurred in a Portsmouth paper following my visit is not something over which I am likely to lose any sleep; but should 1 require advice on dealing with bad publicity, I shall be grateful for the hon. Gentleman's implied offer of assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Moonie", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the best example I can give of a tangible project with which we are dealing, as opposed to the fantasy to which the hon. Gentleman refers—at present, anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "Certainly. If the hon. Gentleman wants me to read them, I shall do so with pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "Certainly. If the hon. Gentleman wants me to read them, I shall do so with pleasure. [Interruption.] I have left the list in my office; what bad luck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "osts for the measures that I outlined are nil. As well as looking at where we can simplify or streamline regulations, we are also considering how to improve enforcement. Sensible enforcement—not going over the top—is a key part of good regulation. That is why the Government are working with local authorities and those responsible for enforcing central Government regulation to agree to a concordat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman simply adds to the same point. Let us consider those measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman simply adds to the same point. Let us consider those measures— [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman allows me, I will respond to his question. It is pretty straightforward. My argument is twofold. First, undesirable and unnecessary regulatory burdens have been imposed: for example, the burden of trade union recognition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansley", "preceding_text": "We consider regrettable—speeches were also made to this effect in the House of Lords—the removal of any power for Ministers to use a statutory enforcement to ensure that codes of practice are complied with, if enforcement authorities fail to abide by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "As the speech of the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire showed, there is a different agenda on the Opposition Benches nowadays. Conservative Members have adopted a very right-wing position and have moved far out of the mainstream of traditional British politics. They believe in a minimalist state. Their soul brothers in America, the Republican party, would endorse everything that they stand for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I will be hearing from the hon. Gentleman and from other Conservative Members. I want to hear their comments on the types of regulation that are very important to people in this country, such as health and safety regulation. What proposals do Conservative Members have for that? I should also very much like to hear with what they propose replacing necessary legislation. I assume—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfoyle", "preceding_text": "as have Ian Handford at the Federation of Small Businesses, and the Institute of Directors. Presumably, they have approved the initiative partly because of the Government's extensive consultation with all parties on the draft Bill. I can only assume that Conservative Members are opposing the Bill for broader political advantage. There is nothing wrong with that. I think that we all play that game—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Sylvia Heal)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Sylvia Heal)", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Norman Baker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "eral election, when I became Chairman of the Select Committee, its view and that of all my hon. Friends has been that it has not had enough business. The Committee has been disappointed about that and has tried to ensure that more proposals come before it. Indeed, we have met every Minister who has been involved, and they share our concern; they also want more proposals to go before the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redwood", "preceding_text": "on, but clearly, the runes have been consulted, the focus groups have been paid off, the polls have been plumbed, the Government have taken all sorts of factors into account, and they have discovered something that we have been telling them for four years: that the business community feels that it is massively overregulated. Much of that overregulation has taken place under the present Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "t but because the United States economy is so strong. We have the largest overseas direct investment in the United States, and vice versa. When the United States catches a cold, we sneeze, and vice versa. The economy is doing reasonably well at the moment, except in manufacturing. Unlike the United States, or even Germany, the United Kingdom has lost 300,000 jobs because of administrative burdens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.78.7", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "t the Bill made by various people. The Conservative party does not oppose the principle of deregulation. Indeed, although I cannot possibly tell, I imagine that we shall not vote against Second Reading. However, I make it clear to the hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig), the Government Whip, who is reaching for his pager to send a message to the Government Chief Whip, that I am merely speculating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.78.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "royed a business in my constituency, and I ask hon. Members on both sides of the House not to break into grins when I mention the company's name. Every time I refer to it in the House, which is not often, Members start laughing—even though this is a serious matter and several hundred jobs were lost. The village of Armitage, which is in my constituency, is famous because Mr. Shanks was based there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.83.4", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fabricant", "preceding_text": "o be proud. I make that point again because it must sink into the hon. Member for Preston (Mr. Hendrick), who, all the time that I am speaking, reads his Labour party brief. I remind him that the United States and Europe have enjoyed a very healthy economic climate and that the Government have enjoyed the good fortune of inheriting that legacy and also that of the previous Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.83.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "ndled. Yet when the hon. Member for Burnley, the Chairman of the Deregulation Committee, was challenged about some of the Government's recent proposals and suggestions for future action, and was asked whether he knew of any obstacle to prevent the passage of those measures under existing legislation, the hon. Gentleman, who is an assiduous and committed parliamentarian, almost took my breath away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "had been efficacious, it would decline to do so. Those are sensible, practical and thought-through measures from a party that is not only committed to, but immersed in, British enterprise. They are wholly alien to Labour Members, who are just not familiar with the thinking of companies, and particularly that of small companies. Before I conclude, I want to say something about the European context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.105.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.108.7", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "iving way. I do not need to repeat the point. The hon. Gentleman can resume his seat and absorb the remainder of what I have to say, on which I should be grateful if the Minister for the Cabinet Office would reflect. In two treaties, there is an over-arching power from which this country stands to suffer. I refer first to article 3b of the treaty of Maastricht, so I am making a non-partisan point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.108.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "preceding_text": "it is shown over time that enforcers are not behaving reasonably and proportionately. Clearly, such provision does not apply to the emergency situation in which agriculture and farmers currently find themselves. My hon. Friends the Members for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle), for Burnley (Mr. Pike), for Eccles (Mr. Stewart), for Dumfries (Mr. Brown) and for Milton Keynes, North-East (Mr. White) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.123.11", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The motion proposes that the Committee stage of the Bill should be completed by Thursday 29 March. It also provides for the Committee to sit twice on the first day. It further provides for the standard procedure for the Third Reading debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.123.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "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": "ch to a Common European Security and Defence Policy; and supports the Government's intention to pursue this initiative in the EU and in close co-operation with NATO. The motion stands in my name and those of my right hon. and hon. Friends. I welcome the opportunity to set out the Government's position on this important issue. I shall explain why the agreements reached at the Nice European Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.138.2", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Michael Lord)", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members must not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.142.6", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaz", "preceding_text": "I would rather hear the words used by President Bush himself than the comments contained in the document from which the hon. Gentleman has quoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.142.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "This has been a lively debate, but I shall keep my remarks brief so that other hon. Members might have a chance to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.156.5", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " different. I do not think that the President was deceived for one moment; he knew exactly what was happening and set out for the world what he had been told by the Prime Minister It was then for the world to make a comparison. The President knew exactly what would happen; he knew that the world could compare what the Prime Minister told him with the language of the Nice treaty and its appendices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-19", "file": "debates2001-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "8d8f5fa74d25633c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Regulatory Reform Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. I recognise the importance of his comments and accept that forces cannot be used twice in two separate theatres. To pretend otherwise would be ridiculous and deceitful, so I entirely accept his point. However, the new arrangements do not change that situation. NATO can have more than one crisis to deal with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-19a.159.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-20", "file": "debates2001-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "64b56af8faaf16da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "ctly simple. It was the position of the Labour candidate in those elections that he would oppose not the principle of congestion charging, but its introduction in the first four years of mayoral tenure. In practice, the legislation is absolutely simple and straightforward. The Mayor is entitled to introduce congestion charging proposals and the evidence is that they are widely supported in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.179.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-20", "file": "debates2001-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "64b56af8faaf16da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "o make representations because much regional funding is decided there. I shall write to the hon. Gentleman to say how much is spent, but a quick call to the regional chair would have established it. >The agencies are doing an excellent job and I am absolutely delighted to hear that the Opposition spokesman believes that the South East England RDA is doing a good job, as 41 of the Tory councillors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.185.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-20", "file": "debates2001-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "64b56af8faaf16da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Foot and Mouth (Rural Economy)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jack Cunningham", "cue_text": "Hon MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jack Cunningham", "preceding_text": "people should not go to them. It is important that the Government attack the foot and mouth outbreak more aggressively and urgently bring more resources to bear on the problem in Cumbria and elsewhere. As long as the outbreak continues, rural businesses—large and small—in Cumbria and elsewhere will suffer; they are already suffering very, very seriously—especially the tourist industry. May I also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.196.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-20", "file": "debates2001-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "64b56af8faaf16da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I agree with that. I am pleased that my hon. Friend's campaign to retain Lydgate school has, apparently, been so successful. I understand that the hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) visited the school, in a truly non-partisan fashion, to try to secure its future. We were all grateful for her intervention—as was the local council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.217.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-20", "file": "debates2001-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "64b56af8faaf16da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.316.18", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Select Committee on Science and Technology shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on science and technology or any sub-committee thereof, for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, and to communicate to any such committee its evidence or any other documents relating to matters of common interest.— [Mr. Betts.].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.316.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-20", "file": "debates2001-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "64b56af8faaf16da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.316.26", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "'(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'.— [Mr. Betts.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-20a.316.25"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-21", "file": "debates2001-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5c191eb24ec75d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Bruce", "preceding_text": "d to hear that my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) has announced that it is Conservative party policy to proceed with suggestions such as those made in the reports? Will he make urgent representations regarding implementation of the Senior Salaries Review Body recommendations, to ensure that Members of Parliament have proper IT that links in with the Government system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-21", "file": "debates2001-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5c191eb24ec75d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We now have in place the necessary people for the logistics. I repeat to the right hon. Gentleman-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-21", "file": "debates2001-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5c191eb24ec75d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.336.2", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s preferable to burning. In addition to that, we shall have in place within the next week sufficient rendering capacity so that we will be able to dispose of some 250,000 sheep carcases per week. That is the best way to dispose of those animals—through burial and through rendering. We have the capacity to do that now. What we need, I repeat, are the logistics teams in place. They are now in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.336.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-21", "file": "debates2001-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5c191eb24ec75d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.337.0", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "ster than the decision-making machinery of Her Majesty's Government has. On a final point, a huge spectrum of people. ranging from the Liberal Democrat leader of Devon county council to the Cumbria tourist board to Labour Members of Parliament, have raised real questions about whether county council elections in certain areas— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] From all parties. Can elections possibly proceed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.337.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-21", "file": "debates2001-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5c191eb24ec75d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course it is important for us to send that message to people very clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-21", "file": "debates2001-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5c191eb24ec75d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "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 acknowledge that this is not the time for politicians to be talking about our livelihoods, in terms of elections, when other people are seeing their livelihoods literally going down the tubes, hour by hour and day by day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-21", "file": "debates2001-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5c191eb24ec75d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Equal Pay (Audit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Coaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Coaker", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to require employers to carry out an audit of their pay structures' compliance with the provisions of the Equal Pay Act 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.343.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-21", "file": "debates2001-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "d5c191eb24ec75d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dale Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "d in Cumbria has been so unsatisfactory—I have mentioned a civil servant who has been responsible for the programme—that the National Audit Office will inevitably have to hold an inquiry. It will be as a result of that inquiry that the truth will unfold. What worries me—I will be frank—is that the Government will be blamed for deficiencies at local level that were not fully revealed to Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-21a.386.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-22", "file": "debates2001-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "21a00730d02e9d19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-22a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hain", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for congratulating me, but I remind him, that he has had an Adjournment debate in which I gave a full response. I am as happy to discuss any matters with him as I am with any other hon. Member. We have been working night and day to drive the programme forward in Wales, as elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-22a.471.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-22", "file": "debates2001-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "21a00730d02e9d19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-22a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bromley\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "ows business to plan ahead with confidence is the motive behind the CBI's warm endorsement. On the national minimum wage, the Low Pay Commission will be recommending the youth rate later in May. We expect it to report on that issue then. Many Conservative Members opposed the national minimum wage and continue to do so. The right hon. Member for Bexley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) is a good example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-22a.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-22", "file": "debates2001-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "21a00730d02e9d19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-22a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "I realise that the hon. Lady takes an interest in that matter, but I am bemused by her response following a briefing. Rural closures are 20 per cent. down on the same period last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-22a.480.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-23", "file": "debates2001-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "68b639c509a130a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-23a.654.22", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ned debate on Question [3] January], That the Select Committee on Science and Technology shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on science and technology or any sub-committee thereof, for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, and to communicate to any such committee its evidence or any other documents relating to matters of common interest— [ Mr. Tipping. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-23a.654.21"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-26", "file": "debates2001-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7083bc8dd076d0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "European Council (Stockholm)", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ast Thursday, the backlog has risen by more than 40 per cent. to 227,000--he agrees with the Government's chief scientist that slaughtering should take place within 24 hours of the disease being identified? Eleven days ago, the Government announced a precautionary cull in Cumbria. When will that cull start, and will it be extended to other areas of the outbreak, as the chief scientist recommended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-26", "file": "debates2001-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7083bc8dd076d0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "European Council (Stockholm)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "l the right hon. Gentleman clearly that the Army are not concerned about, for example, the number of slaughtermen available. They are concerned about co-ordination and the logistical, practical effort of administering the cull that needs to be carried out. On the policy of slaughter within 24 hours, the right hon. Gentleman will know that that is already our policy. The latest figures from Devon--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-26", "file": "debates2001-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7083bc8dd076d0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "European Council (Stockholm)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hat that requires is another committee is beside the point. What it actually requires is to make sure that the work that is supposed to happen on the ground is happening; we are doing everything that we possibly can in order to expedite that. It does not help when he seizes the opportunity of any particular problem that occurs in the country to get out his bandwagon and travel around the country--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-26", "file": "debates2001-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7083bc8dd076d0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": " is reflected in the Bill. The introduction of the new order will provide an important new way of delivering legal permanence and security with a new family for children who cannot live with their birth parents. We look forward to hearing the views on our provisions in the special Select Committee hearings. I realise that I have been speaking for a long time, but I am about to conclude my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-26", "file": "debates2001-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7083bc8dd076d0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.715.3", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": " 100 clauses, which is, by the Minister's own admission to the all-party parliamentary group on adoption, \"a first draft\". He also said that \"the door is still open for suggestions.\" The scramble at the Department to produce the Bill and get the Prime Minister off the hook is apparent from the Minister saying that the Government will have to table a number of amendments to correct their own draft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-26", "file": "debates2001-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7083bc8dd076d0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "I stand by the position that I have always taken: we should allow local authorities to maintain their current role when they are doing a decent job, but the process of stripping that role from authorities that consistently fail should be greatly accelerated. It should be given either to a neighbouring local authority that is doing a better job or a voluntary agency--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-26", "file": "debates2001-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7083bc8dd076d0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I can certainly do that in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-26", "file": "debates2001-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "7083bc8dd076d0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "ing. That may have been because there was some urgency about the Bill. There is no such motion on today's Order Paper--there is not the urgency. As my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) said, the Bill was not mentioned in the Queen's Speech. It has been introduced as a result of the pressure put on the Government by the private Member's Bill of my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-26a.782.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.823.2", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary is much better informed than the British public. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] He is a very wise man. Does he feel that the public may be a bit confused? Previously, the British Government went to war on behalf of Albanian self-determination in Kosovo-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "l period for livestock and carrier liability will do anything to deal with the immediate crisis or to slow down the relentless spread of foot and mouth disease across our countryside? Does the Minister agree that vaccination is the very last resort and that if the Government decide that some form of vaccination is necessary, they will, in effect, be admitting that their other policies have failed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.831.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "ts; at least that is my understanding—it is not always easy to make out exactly where they stand. When one considers their strategy, one is struck by the fact that they do not have one credible policy that would work and deliver savings. We are making progress. We have a strategy that is beginning to bear fruit, but we need to do more to meet our targets. The Bill is the next stage of our reforms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.863.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "0,000 cases of established fraud, 1,900 cases referred for prosecution and 800 successful prosecutions. That is a strike rate of 0.5 per cent., which is simply not good enough when we are trying to tackle fraud in local authorities. That is why we have said that when local authorities are clearly not up to the administration of housing benefit, that responsibility should go to the Benefits Agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct. It is important that we have effective data cleaning. My right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden initiated such a project when he was Secretary of State in 1995. It was a good example of how the problem should be tackled. Let me move on from national insurance numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willetts", "preceding_text": "There is a widespread anxiety that the powers might not be secure if they are challenged under human rights legislation. It would be a frustrating but all too typical example of the way in which the Government behave if powers that are taken with a flurry to demonstrate their effectiveness in tackling welfare fraud result only in a challenge in the courts and cannot be used as originally intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Field", "preceding_text": "om the Government Front Bench. The hon. Gentleman also began with comments about my right hon. Friend, and I hope to conclude my equally brief contribution with comments about him too. I hope also that there are those who can make a distinction between this being perhaps the last speech that we shall hear in this place from my right hon. Friend, but not the last speech that he makes in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "ect the fact that others hold it. I do not think that we have got the balance right, and the Bill moves in an important direction to strengthen the hand of taxpayers collectively to look after their hard-earned income, as against the possible infringement of certain people's individual rights, although most of that group are undertaking activities that are not in the interests of decent taxpayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "May I pick up where the right hon. Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) left off and perhaps make the Minister of State feel even older? As a child living in Great Barr, just down the road from his Perry Barr constituency, I used to read the Birmingham Evening Mail every night and see his face there; I thought that when I grew up, I wanted to be just like him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "er element in the Bill deserves comment. The \"two strikes and you're out\" proposal seems to be a severe punishment for someone guilty of a modest element of abuse of the system. He might be entitled to social security benefit, but he might have failed to report the very small sums that he has earned on the side. If he loses his benefit, he will suffer greatly. However, the more serious fraudster——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]", "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": "I shall do my best in the time available to answer as many questions as possible. I am deeply humbled by many hon. Members' comments. I can guarantee that the speech will not be my last from the Dispatch Box, although perhaps it could be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.918.4", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "r seriously. I shall not tell the House that we shall consider no amendments—I shall not say that. I shall not tell the House that we want to rush the measure through. Although the Bill has been debated in the other place, I thought that the original dates proposed for its proceedings here were a bit unreasonable, so—considering the dates on which Easter falls—I took the view that Maundy Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.918.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.935.15", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That the Select Committee on Science and Technology shall have leave to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on science and technology or any sub-committee thereof, for the purpose of deliberating or taking evidence, and to communicate to any such committee its evidence or any other documents relating to matters of common interest—, [Mr. Mike Hall.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.935.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-03-27", "file": "debates2001-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "f45845aa1d9cddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.936.7", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "`(4A) notwithstanding paragraphs (2) and (4) above, where more than two committees or sub-committees appointed under this order meet concurrently in accordance with paragraph (4)(e) above, the quorum of each such committee or sub-committee shall be two.'.— [Mr. Mike Hall.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-27a.936.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-28", "file": "debates2001-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "0273187fa273c84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.955.2", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the vets and soldiers involved in tackling this crisis are doing a tremendous job and are working extremely hard. However, in every way one looks at it at present, the crisis is getting worse. Yesterday, we had a record number of outbreaks, and three of the outbreaks in recent days have been in new areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.955.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-28", "file": "debates2001-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "0273187fa273c84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "We are entitled to ask when the right hon. Gentleman thinks that the disease will be under control— [Interruption.] We are entitled to ask, because the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food said three weeks ago that it was under control, but the chief scientist said that it was not under control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.956.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-28", "file": "debates2001-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "0273187fa273c84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The number of dead livestock obviously depends on the number of premises in which the disease is detected. What we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-28", "file": "debates2001-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "0273187fa273c84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "Last week, I met members of the Barnet senior citizens forum, who raised with me their concern about their perception of ageism in the NHS. I therefore welcome yesterday's announcement of the new NHS national service framework, which will ensure that services are provided on the basis of need, not age—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-28", "file": "debates2001-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "0273187fa273c84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "ecause if the police were to withdraw completely from such roles, it would be injurious to the relationship that I described in my previous intervention. There is a need for a balance of partnership. Finally, he may be very lucky with closed circuit television, but the Government have turned down Spalding's bid for CCTV—a disgraceful decision that provides no comfort for people in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.1027.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-28", "file": "debates2001-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "0273187fa273c84b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Lords messages", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "n. Members have not been prepared to do that. They want to use the procedures of the House for reasons that have nothing to do with the substance of any particular Bill, but because of the overall process, to make general arguments about the allegedly dictatorial Government. I am not making a point now about the Criminal Justice and Police Bill, about which there was some toing and froing earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-28a.1063.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Of course we shall put a fair question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend was a Minister in the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are your figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's figures are nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1100.5", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "hospitals throughout England and Wales, death certificates are not being completed in a proper and frank manner. Is she aware that for the past 20-odd years, although death certificates may mention pneumonia or septicaemia, there is often a cover-up of the fact that at least some contribution to death was made by MRSA. I shall attempt to pronounce that: methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1100.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1110.3", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "There is an indirect memorial, at least, to one of the suffragettes in the broken sword in St. Stephen's Hall, which had to be broken in order to remove someone who had chained herself to it. However, I take the hon. Lady's point. I am afraid that I have not the faintest idea what happened to the plaque commemorating, very properly, the election of Lady Astor, or why it was moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ided by our transatlantic partners. I regret that I must depart from the atmosphere of congenial consensus that has prevailed in debates on this subject. We hope that that close co-operation between the intelligence agencies will be secure. However, I must say—and this is the right occasion to say it—that the Government's agreement to move towards a European army may well threaten that capability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A journalist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "n defence capability. We do not believe that we have to make that choice, but others do. Recently, a French official was quoted as arguing that the British would not be able to play a leading role in the EU unless they jettisoned their special intelligence links with the US. The direct quote was: Britain must choose Europe or betray it. I have recently been told by a very senior French journalist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1156.2", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "a difference in the confidence that the House and the general public have in the Intelligence and Security Committee, as opposed to a Select Committee—although there may have been a difference for the first few years, when we were a new Committee. I think that that feeling of confidence will grow. In four or five years' time, whether there is a change or not, and I do not think that there will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "n it. We have included a deliberately short comment in our interim report on the future of the Official Secrets Acts. I will not go into the detail of that paragraph, but I genuinely believe that the Act needs to be re-examined quickly. We say in our annual report that the future of the Act should be considered by any follow-on Committee, if there is to be a general election in the next few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-29", "file": "debates2001-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "92bfaf26c1334f99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackinlay", "preceding_text": " that what we have done has been well worth while, and I do not regret it. Probably one of my proudest moments in the House was securing the continued investigation of our involvement in Sierra Leone, despite repeated attempts—both direct and, I have to say, indirect—by the executive branch of Government to close down that inquiry. One day I shall write about it, because there is more to come out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-29a.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-30", "file": "debates2001-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3d9466faf4810276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-30a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Adoption Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "s deliberations earlier this week and in future on the Government Bill, and in its deliberations today, to pay particular attention to that issue. As quite a regular at our Friday morning debates, I must say in passing that I was overwhelmed to see how full the House was this morning. I know that normally Fridays are sacrosanct for many hon. Members, who like to spend them in their constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-30a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-30", "file": "debates2001-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3d9466faf4810276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-30a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Adoption Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "into a natural family and when a child is received into an adoptive family. As the parent of four children, I echo that sentiment. I well remember taking my first child home, being presented with him on the hospital steps by the sister, and thinking, \"Well, is that it?\" There was no induction procedure, whether for three days or any other length of time. Natural parents have got to get on with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-30a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-30", "file": "debates2001-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3d9466faf4810276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-30a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Adoption Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Matins (Woking)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humfrey Matins (Woking)", "preceding_text": "Let me begin by declaring an interest. As a solicitor, I practised for some years in the field of family law and adoption, before moving on to a career in crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-30a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-03-30", "file": "debates2001-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3d9466faf4810276", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-30a.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Secret Societies (Registration of Membership) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardle", "preceding_text": "nbury and the House will reflect. Should not the other governors, the teaching staff and the parents have been told that both those gentlemen belonged to that particular society? I am not suggesting for a second that they colluded in any way; I am sure that they did not—they are both honourable and capable men. Nevertheless, they did not report the fact and most of the parents are not aware of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-03-30a.1263.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Benefit Take-up", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "s since the Government took office is exactly the same as that spent by the previous Government in their last four years. They object to the fact that because we have got to grips with their legacy, we have needed to advertise more. We did not waste money advertising in the first couple of years. We have hardly spent a penny more than the previous Government did in their last four years of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Benefit Take-up", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "tistical surveys, with the best will in the world, and without attacking the professionals, statistical surveys that have been extrapolated are exactly that—statistical surveys. They are not real people with real names and addresses. The Government went to 2.3 million real people with real names and addresses. That does not apply to the 500,000 hocus-pocus figure that the hon. Gentleman mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "gainst foot and mouth, and that one of his key criteria for deciding in favour of postponement was the feeling in local communities? Will the right hon. Gentleman also accept that the Prime Minister was wrong to say that there were no practical impediments in the way of having the local elections on 3 May? Does he realise that areas such as Devon and Cumbria, which are particularly badly affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "No wonder Labour Members do not want to hear these important questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " would be both inappropriate and premature? Does he accept that the legislation should be framed around taking the necessary powers to set a new date, because it is clear that it would not be responsible to fix the date now? Might it not, indeed, be right for local elections in some areas that have been particularly affected to be delayed longer than the one month that the legislation would allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "g? How will they bring that about, given that there will be no legislation in place by tomorrow, when the deadline expires? Will the right hon. Gentleman say something about literature printed in good faith by candidates who believed the Government's previous firm assurances that the elections would take place on 3 May? Will those candidates be compensated for their expenditure on that literature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "for the election of mayors and the commencement of new budgets in that time? Will the right hon. Gentleman admit that these are important issues which could and should have been resolved much earlier, and that the legislation should have been produced before 26 March, as we said? Will he also comment on the rolling register, and on the extension of the deadline previously set at 12 March? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "t be better to defer the elections indefinitely. We all understand that there are some on the Conservative Benches who would like to see the local elections and any general election deferred through this year and well past May 2002. However, there are significant practical reasons why it would not be sensible to delay the unitary and county council elections beyond the date in June or thereabouts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a city.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "ance or by death, control of those councils changed. The alternative is not to defer by-elections, but that would mean ending up with a situation such as that in which the Conservatives are already complicit in the city of Carlisle. The agent of the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Maclean) is now standing as a candidate there in a by-election that was called by the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"50 per cent. compensation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "due date will stay valid—unless, of course, candidates decide to withdraw them of their own volition. On compensation, I am happy to talk to the Opposition parties about whether compensation to a degree can be provided to candidates or their parties. Obviously, there will have to be a separate scheme for independents. We think that 50 per cent. is enough, but we are happy to consider any evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for the hon. Gentleman's comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for the hon. Gentleman's comments. [Interruption.] I believe that Conservative Members will regret their leadership's position, such as it is. The Conservative leadership is plainly devoid of the ability to rise to meet the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "In so far as I can judge, the Conservative approach of switch and switch again to every issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Local Elections", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The decision was very difficult; it is not a laughing matter. It is unusual in peacetime for elections to be deferred, even for a short while. The most careful consideration was thus required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Clause 31", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce George", "preceding_text": "I am not quite certain from the remarks of my adversary or sparring partner, the hon. Member for Salisbury (Mr. Key), whether he is recommending voting against clause stand part. I urge him not to call a vote not because that would waste 20 minutes when we have little time available, but because it would be awful to make the MOD police an issue of party political controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "I must remind the hon. Gentleman that all those exciting things happened under a Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.129.4", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "lly. The special Select Committee was right to say that a draft Bill should be presented to the Defence Committee; when the Defence Committee has done its work, perhaps the Bill can be passed on to a more traditional environment for consideration. My hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury is my sparring partner; I did not realise we were sparring partners until he said so and I picked up the insult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "In a moment. I shall deal with some of the offensive comments that the hon. Gentleman made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "t visit the republican prisoners. She met the so-called loyalist prisoners. He might have recognised some of them, as he shared platforms with some of those very evil people. That is the reality. It was widely recognised that her brave decision ensured that the loyalist groups remained on ceasefire. As we have said consistently, we are not involved in a perfect peace. There are major difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.151.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-04-02", "file": "debates2001-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "9f8645be1cf43979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.154.21", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-02a.154.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Parliamentary Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "ost senior and experienced Conservative Members. With regard to the hon. Lady's remarks about inappropriateness, she will know that it was this party's manifesto proposal that there should be a Select Committee on modernisation of the House and that it should be chaired by the Leader of the House. As I have pointed out to her before, it is not unprecedented for a Select Committee to be so chaired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": " graffiti is an art form, and I would accept that some graffiti is. I am well aware that people carry out university dissertations on the subject and, in secret parts of my constituency that only young people can reach, there are some brilliant examples of graffiti art. They are much admired and even photographed. Most graffiti, however, is just a messy scribble that bears as much relation to art—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We'll discuss it tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have a copy of the Elections Bill, which has just been delivered an hour late to the Vote Office. The opening paragraph relates to explanatory notes, which will be prepared by the Home Office and published \"as Bill 80—EN.\" We have been to the Vote Office, and although we shall debate the Bill shortly, no explanatory notes are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it might be helpful if when the Minister replied, he could say when authority was given for the drafting of the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "t. To us, this is a political move for political advantage. Elections are at the heart of democracy and there should be no interference, if possible, in the way in which elections are run. Part I of the Bill deals with parliamentary elections rules, about which I am supposed to table amendments. We then come to a large part about local election rules, about which I am supposed to table amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that he doubts it, but the truth is that many Members are seriously concerned about the House's procedures. They feel that the House has been abused by Labour Members over a long period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.204.4", "colnum": "204", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "Front-Bench Members and not to the hon. Gentleman, even though, as he pointed out, he is the leader of a party in Northern Ireland. I have the advantage of having a copy of that draft Bill. One of the significant changes to the Bill since last night refers, as the hon. Gentleman suspected it would, to Northern Ireland. Clause 4 contains no fewer than six changes to the text about Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary seems misinformed. My understanding is that Austria, Belgium, Belize, Finland, France, Israel, New Zealand, Norway and Spain have all entered declarations to the statute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Truman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worthington", "preceding_text": "I compliment the United States on that, and I stress that there are many Americans whose internationalism hon. Members want to encourage. However, it would be wrong to deny that we were depressed by recent comments from the United States. We must press ahead with the International Criminal Court. Who remembers who was President of the United States at the time of the Nuremberg trials?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "sses of the International Criminal Court are carried out. Last week I attended the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva on behalf of Liberation, a non-governmental organisation in this country. We heard an excellent speech by Mary Robinson, followed by one by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tragically, Mary Robinson is not seeking reappointment as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is 35\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "er Ross (Mr. Maclennan) gave his usual support to the Government and then turned to attack Conservative Members—no surprises there. However, he raised the important issue of the scrutiny of treaties in this place and the Ponsonby rules I hope that he will have the opportunity to raise that issue in Committee if he is fortunate enough to be a member. He also said that, in his 45 years in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Criminal Court Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gillan", "preceding_text": "e consultation process, during which, he says, he received 45 submissions. I remind him that the original statement on the matter was made on 20 July 1998, but that it took until 25 August last year for a Bill to appear. All that time passed before this desperately required legislation, which has to be rushed through now so that Britain will be among the first 60 countries to participate, emerged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Criminal Court Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Mike O'Brien)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Mike O'Brien)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That, for the purposes of any Act resulting from the Christmas Day (Trading) Bill, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of any increase attributable to the Act in the sums so payable under any other Act. As drafted, the Christmas Day (Trading)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-03", "file": "debates2001-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "a906bbc4d73d1101", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Criminal Court Bill [Lords] (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief. These debates serve a useful purpose—after all, Parliament was created to hold the Executive to account on money; that is what we are about. Often a worthy Bill—this is a worthy Bill—goes through because there is no great opposition to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-03a.303.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Livsey", "preceding_text": "pent eight hours negotiating with the Agriculture Minister of the National Assembly to meet representatives on that site. The lack of communication with democratically elected people is lamentable. We knew nothing about the decision. That is a disgrace. Will he ensure that, in future, people are properly informed when something of this nature occurs, and that we are not left to pick up the pieces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Manufacturing Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Walter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Walter", "preceding_text": "; 79 at Arkana in Caerphilly; 88 at General Electric in Nantgarw; and the complete closure of Takiron in Bedwas. Mr. John Spencer of Chubb Fire summed it up when he said: In light of increasing globalisation and overseas competition, the company has undertaken an in-depth study of its cost base. Farming is in crisis in Wales; tourism is in crisis; and manufacturing is disappearing before our eyes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.322.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Economy (Deeside)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanson", "preceding_text": "his willingness to approach the European Commission for help and support to re-train steel workers who may face redundancy. He will also know that, following the Labour Government's investment of more than £530 million, there are great and advancing job opportunities in British Aerospace, which I hope many of the steel workers facing potential redundancy will be able to take up in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.326.6", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are strict rules that govern the import of meat. They are set by the European Union, and we abide by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.326.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hague", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, individual cases remain, and I will write to the Prime Minister about many of them. There is, of course, a deep crisis not only in farming but in tourism and rural business, whatever efforts we make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.327.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Most allocation of time motions arise because of the Government's difficulties in getting a normal Bill through all its proceedings, owing to problems in securing the Opposition's co-operation. That is a timeless verity, and it is true regardless of which party fills the Treasury Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Let me deal with the reasons for introducing the Bill, after which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "eedings. Obviously, that was unacceptable. Discussions rapidly took place between the parties in a different atmosphere from the one that the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton has tried to generate. We agreed not that the new Bill would repeal those words but that it would provide for them to be phased in in a different way and that the original section 110 would be deemed to have taken effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.345.6", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Some people may say that there was nothing particularly wrong with the old wording. It was put to the House that we should make it clearer on whose behalf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.345.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.346.11", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "e some progress, because other hon. Members want to speak. I took representations on the new provisions that have been brought into force. I can tell the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton that letters were sent to a variety of people consulting them on the orders. A letter dated 12 December 2000 was sent to Mr. Stephen Gilbert in the Conservative party and to equivalent people in other parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.346.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.346.13", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "No, that will all be taken into account. The posters bore messages such as \"We back Jack\", \"Get Jack back\" and \"Let's back Jack\". They have always worked in the past, and I look forward to their working in the future. We have been careful never to put a time or a date on the out-slips. We have not gone quite so far as going to collect them back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.346.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.350.8", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " Democrat spokesman on Northern Ireland matters. I have also had representations from my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on the provisions as they affect Northern Ireland. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State will deal with those matters when he replies. I have explained the case for both Bills—with a bit of luck, to the satisfaction of both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.350.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "lotine motion means that the House will have very little time, if any, in which to consider the important amendments that have been tabled on a range of crucial electoral issues. Indeed, when the Government amendments are made in Committee and the House proceeds to consideration on Report, the farcical procedure that applied to the Football (Disorder) Bill in the previous Session will apply again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Member for North-West Durham (Ms Armstrong) must be calm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Member for North-West Durham (Ms Armstrong) must be calm. [Interruption.] Order. The right hon. Lady will withdraw that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and the Regions (Ms Hilary Armstrong)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Local Government and the Regions (Ms Hilary Armstrong)", "preceding_text": "I was simply saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "nd enact an enabling Bill, they could at least have published a draft Bill some two or three weeks ago, so that interested parties could have considered it and expressed their opinions and it could have been improved if necessary. The Government chose not to do that either. I am not particularly in favour of late nights, but God knows I have been in this place long enough: some would say too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "ng to the 1989 Gaming (Amendment) Bill. I hope that it will not be used again as a specious precedent for even more draconian curtailments of debate. In any event, the Election Publications Bill is unusual because clause 2 is effectively a Henry VIII clause giving the Home Secretary absolute power to amend primary legislation in the form of section 110 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Miscellaneous", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The short answer is that, since the Bills contain some common characteristics and cover some common issues, it was considered convenient to bring them together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. and learned Gentleman's second question is that the matter was under consideration, but no final decision had been made. This problem intervened, and a final decision was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More details.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is a much greater expert on Northern Ireland than I am, as are others. I defer to him on Northern Ireland matters—and on many others, which we need not go into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "s one of the Members who was genuinely uncertain about whether it was necessary to move the election date. I was not persuaded that foot and mouth was the greatest crisis that this country had experienced since the second world war and that this extraordinary action was therefore required, but at the same time I was impressed with the way in which the Prime Minister clearly felt that it was right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "ll and the proposed postponement is that I am not sure that it is the job of politicians to decide when elections should be held. It is a fairly fundamental point, and it is what we are being asked to do now. We are being asked to do so because there is a joker in the pack, which is that there has to be a general election on the day of the local elections. I say \"has to\": there is going to be one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": "t is a fairly fundamental point, and it is what we are being asked to do now. We are being asked to do so because there is a joker in the pack, which is that there has to be a general election on the day of the local elections. I say \"has to\": there is going to be one. [Interruption.] If that comes as a revelation to hon. Members, I should tell them that there will be a general election on 7 June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.422.5", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "on; we are advised in law that that is the case and we will be safe to continue to allow councillors and members of police authorities and other organisations to retain their position as councillors for the month between 3 May and 7 June, so that the election can take place. If the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) wants me to write to him and set out the details, I am happy to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I heard what the hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) said, and I will check—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacShane", "preceding_text": "d Chislehurst (Mr. Forth)—who has left the Chamber—is a great admirer of American elections, and I have had very profitable discussions with him about the American political system. In the state of Oregon, people can vote only by post. I think that, in due course, perhaps in new Labour's third or fourth term, we will be able to move to electronic voting and to cast our vote in many different ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " length. However, I have never in my life heard so much codswallop spoken in 10 minutes. The speech by the hon. Member for Rotherham would have been amusing and diverting had he not trivialised an extremely important matter. His reference to a herd of sheep summarised his notions and knowledge of the countryside. From now on, I shall think of him as the cows' shepherd—hut I will not be led by him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Election Publications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Brien", "preceding_text": " principles of the Neill report, whose implementation they wanted. There was much in that Bill that had broad support. It is all too easy for hon. Members to criticise our parliamentary draftsmen. Drafting is an art, and they are experienced, but not infallible. Hon. Members should be careful in criticising public servants who work very hard to try to ensure that they do their best for Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Election Publications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "It is astonishing that the Minister made no reference to the fact that all stages of the Bill were scheduled to be considered until any hour on Monday this week, when it could have been given proper scrutiny and attention. It is a disgrace that the Government are attempting to pass it in three quarters of an hour. The Minister was right to say that the Opposition welcome the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Election Publications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": " to the House of Commons, and nor was it the subject of detailed consultation with other parties. In an earlier debate, the Home Secretary kindly gave me a copy of a letter dated December, which was sent to other parties. It did not deal with consultation on the substance of the Bill, but was about implementation. This part of the Bill has never been subject to consultation with political parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Election Publications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "embers. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will catch your eye during the 20 minutes that remain for all stages of the Bill to be completed, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I must tell the Minister that it is a disgrace that we are having to deal with this matter. It is also a disgrace that Ministers have implied tonight that there was a lack of consultation, or an unwillingness on the part of the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Election Publications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was no filibustering here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "If the Minister is serious about taking debate in the Chamber seriously, he and his Government should allow adequate time for debate and scrutiny. The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill was not given adequate time, and the result is the mess that we are having to tidy up tonight. There was no filibustering in another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-04", "file": "debates2001-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fbb2827e9f7f904d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Election Publications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You don't disagree with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Browning", "preceding_text": "hat this is not the last time that the House will have to deal with the defects, flaws and lack of scrutiny of the original Bill, which is now an Act of Parliament. The House having been advised that it would have sufficient time to debate all stages of the Bill on Monday night, it is an absolute disgrace that we are faced with just three quarters of an hour to deal with a Bill of such importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-04a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-05", "file": "debates2001-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "30a1ebf3a0ecdf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "t now obtain. I do not think that my right hon. Friend can be accused in any way of neglecting his duty to the House or failing to make available to the House as much information as he possibly can. The notion that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister should make all the statements on foot and mouth is not well founded. My right hon. Friend is in charge of the entire Government, and remains so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-05", "file": "debates2001-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "30a1ebf3a0ecdf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware from the answer that she gave me earlier this week, which unfortunately I was unable to follow up because of traffic on the M4, that, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-05", "file": "debates2001-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "30a1ebf3a0ecdf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "May I say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-05", "file": "debates2001-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "30a1ebf3a0ecdf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.513.5", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an important point. Certainly, it is interesting to hear what is being said in the Ilford Recorder by his constituent. I fear, however, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.513.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-05", "file": "debates2001-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "30a1ebf3a0ecdf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does not work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "sly the point that has been made. I am as reluctant as any Leader of the House to be absolutely categoric about the statements that might be made, but I have taken on board the hon. Gentleman's observations. I shall draw them to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, and not least the point about the MPs' hotline. It was my understanding that arrangements had been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-05", "file": "debates2001-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "30a1ebf3a0ecdf56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.601.0", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Regulatory Reform 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": "A POW working detachment, held in a routine POW working camp, also worked in the factory area. This brought the prisoners of war into contact with slave workers from the Nazi concentration camp nearby at Auschwitz. However, the court having heard the evidence, including testimony from ex-prisoners of war, found that the British POWs were generally treated better than other workers in all respects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-05a.601.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.695.3", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "Of course, the phrase \"corpus juris\" originally comes from the work done in the reign of the Emperor Justinian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.695.3", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Roche", "preceding_text": "Of course, the phrase \"corpus juris\" originally comes from the work done in the reign of the Emperor Justinian. [Interruption.] Before the Opposition get too excited, may I say that my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane) is right—we do need to crack down on fraud in the European Union, which is why we celebrate the creation of Eurojust, and why, following an open competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "gedy now occurring. In many parts of Britain, farmers are witnessing the destruction of their life's work and the killing of animals that they spent nights and days bringing into the world, nurturing and rearing. Alongside that suffering is another rapidly growing problem: the animal welfare crisis affecting 1.5 million animals, whose owners cannot move them because of foot and mouth restrictions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I cannot give an instruction to the Highways Agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I must say that I agree with all three points made by my hon. Friend. The credibility of the House is best served when we are seen to debate, in a politically non-partisan way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "se, forced on him by the character of the Bill. It is odd to debate Finance Bills on Second Reading. I suppose that we are forced to do so by the conventions of the House, but, of course, no hon. Member on either side of the House would deny the necessity of having a Finance Bill. The debate on Second Reading is intended to be about the principle of the Bill, so I suppose that perhaps we ought to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "Dear me; I shall pass over that comment in the spirit of last year's proceedings, in which we engaged in serious economic and fiscal debate. Conservative Members intend to keep the debate at that level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "ther effects. First, it will raise the amount that it costs to extract aggregates, and hence reduce the sum that people are willing to pay for the land from which the extraction occurs, so it is a tax on land. Secondly, it will raise costs at the other end, on production for construction, so it is a tax on construction. However, the Bill does not refer to a construction tax or a land tax. Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.744.5", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "None—because we have come to the end of the three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.744.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": " is not in business. We need a scheme—again, we shall table an amendment on which I hope we can reach agreement—to allow automatically for an early provisional claim. It is the wording of the relevant Act—the Taxes Act 1988—that is causing the problem, and we hope that our amendment will solve it. That too is urgently necessary. Finally—I appreciate that the House will be longing for me to finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "uld wish to have the debate; otherwise, he would lave been deprived of 39 minutes of a rather rambling but no doubt intellectual speech. That would be to do him an injustice. The hon. Gentleman rambled from the aggregates tax eventually to savings. His treatment of savings was extremely simplistic. There is much evidence that the savings ratio decreases when people are confident about the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "will be very serious indeed. I have no interest in Air Products other than the fact that it is a constituency company. I have some separate business interests that are in the Register of Members' Interests. Given that the Finance Bill affects any company, I make that declaration for the avoidance of doubt. I have some comments on something that is close to the heart of the Paymaster General: IR35.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "preceding_text": "He also pointed out that, surprisingly, there was nothing in the Bill to deal with foot and mouth problems, but he has given clear notice of the issues on which we shall look to table amendments. Problems need to be anticipated. We should not just wait for things to happen, because the farming industry and related sectors are suffering from this terrible crisis. The right hon. Member for Llanelli—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "preceding_text": " retirement. The hon. Member for Cunningham, South (Mr. Donohoe) gave loyal support to his Government. In essence, he said that the Chancellor and the Budget were wonderful. He usefully drew attention to the problems caused by the different levels of prosperity in east and west Scotland, and sought more policing of the minimum wage legislation. My right hon. Friend the Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flight", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor would have enjoyed my hon. Friend's contribution. Many of my hon. Friend's comments were echoed by the hon. Member for Barnsley, Central (Mr. Illsley), who gave a frank and decent commentary on the Budget and expressed concern that the benefits to his constituency would be damaged by the local government settlement and the lack of health funding. Finally, the hon. Member for Selsby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.794.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "ns in general. They are wholly offensive, and they are yet more offensive when they relate to Finance Bills. I want to put before the House a number of objections, the first of which builds on a point made by my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir P. Cormack). The control of Supply is the beginning of the authority of the House of Commons. If we go back in the history of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "come to a point—my second, not my last—made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Bridgwater (Mr. King). In all Governments, the Treasury exercises a very great control. I suspect that, with the current Chancellor of the Exchequer, this Government seek to exercise yet greater control—but they do it from the shadows. They are seldom exposed to public argument; they do things in Cabinet Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.814.6", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ey do not like lengthy scrutiny because it proves their inadequacy. That is why they want the Bill to be completed after two days on the Floor of the House and out of Committee by 24 May. They know that an extended Committee stage—no matter where it takes place—exposes them to the criticism that they are unable to withstand because they are personally incompetent. I want to summarise my objection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.814.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-09", "file": "debates2001-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "09b4b0636220c549", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Committee", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind the right hon. and learned Gentleman that we are entitled to hear temperate language. I do not expect him use the word \"despise\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-09a.815.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-10", "file": "debates2001-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "8e8d77b05be44115", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-10a.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Service Framework (Older People)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong; 50,000 beds have not been lost in the care home sector. Between 7,000 and 8,000 beds have been lost in that sector over the period that he mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-10a.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-10", "file": "debates2001-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "8e8d77b05be44115", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-10a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "Well, I offer many congratulations, but I should like to tease the Government a little. That figure means that the aid programme has not reached the average that was achieved under 18 years of Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-10a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-10", "file": "debates2001-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "8e8d77b05be44115", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-10a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "ented what they thought was, a coherent and principled argument against it. However, the national minimum wage was not achieved by accident. Conservative Members reacted in precisely the same manner to the new deal and to decreasing youth unemployment. I leave it to them to decide, when the general election comes, on their own strategy for explaining those improvements in their own constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-10a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-10", "file": "debates2001-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "8e8d77b05be44115", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-10a.942.0", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "hipping Barnet (Sir S. Chapman) all made speeches that related to their constituencies. The speech of the hon. Member for Cleethorpes (Shona McIsaac) was fascinating, particularly as it included visual aids. I am reminded of the poem by my namesake about the problem with rats. It occurred to me that if the hon. Lady arranged for them to be rounded up and brought here, they might make some friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-10a.942.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-23", "file": "debates2001-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e50f194df406a90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.6.3", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I welcome what my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said about extra armed service personnel coming to Devon to add to the excellent work that they are doing from the Ministry's offices in Exeter. However, is he aware that their job is being severely hampered by the desperate shortage of disposal sites in our county—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.6.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-23", "file": "debates2001-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e50f194df406a90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.9.1", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Army Manpower", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spellar", "preceding_text": "son for the gap between trained strength and liability is that we raised the level of liability: in the strategic defence review, we considered what the post-cold war requirement was, rather than stick to the previous figures. There was a gap of 7,736 in 1992, under the previous Administration, and when we came into power the gap was 5,597. His criticism of the Army recruitment teams is misplaced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-23", "file": "debates2001-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e50f194df406a90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Rural Taskforce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "However, that is not true in some cases, and in others, businesses face the long period until Whitsun with a reduction in bookings. I entirely realise that. The question is to decide the best way of providing help. The fastest way to give businesses help is to use the existing channels, and that is why we made £120 million additional lending available through the small firms loan guarantee scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-23", "file": "debates2001-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e50f194df406a90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Rural Taskforce", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " million; matched contributions, in regard to donations from the public, of £14 million, including £5 million from the Government; £120 million under the small firms loan guarantee scheme; a £15 million package for the four hardest hit areas; and VAT and income tax deferments that the Treasury now estimates to be worth some £12 million a year. That is solid, clear, precise and valuable assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-23", "file": "debates2001-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e50f194df406a90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levitt:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levitt:", "preceding_text": "I shall say exactly which way I shall vote, but the hon. Gentleman will have to wait for that moment to arrive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-23", "file": "debates2001-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e50f194df406a90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Dr. Michael Clark)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for High Peak (Mr. Levitt) is talking about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Dr. Michael Clark)", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot debate the next group of amendments simply because the hon. Gentleman believes that we will not reach it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-23", "file": "debates2001-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "e50f194df406a90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.117.2", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my hon. Friends were persuaded by the Financial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-23a.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "To be fair, I would have to include the investments started by the previous Administration. It takes a considerable time for the effects of those to be felt. That is an answer to those who say that we are not getting an improvement in London transport: it is a long-term process. The extension of the docklands light railway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "What we are proposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Mobile Telephone Masts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raynsford", "preceding_text": "As I recall it, the Trade and Industry Committee described our proposals in its most recent report on the subject as a carefully crafted compromise. That is exactly what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.161.4", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Council Tax Benefit Subsidy (Worcestershire)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luff", "preceding_text": "That disingenuous answer from the Minister covers up the truth, as she well knows. She knows that her Government have monstrously cut the subsidy payable to Worcestershire, and that the roots of the huge increase in council tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Rail Freight", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Watts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Watts", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the development of a north-west direct freight line to Europe is crucial to the well-being of the north-west? Will he assure me that he will do all he can to promote that development, and that he will help with parliamentary time to ensure that a Bill gets through the House to make the scheme viable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — M6 Motorway", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman and his constituents feel so passionately about these matters, I am rather surprised that they were not carried further forward under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — M6 Motorway", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman and his constituents feel so passionately about these matters, I am rather surprised that they were not carried further forward under the previous Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They were.\"] I am aware that there have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.200.6", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "an it is in urban areas. According to the hon. Member for Shipley, if there is a loss to the Treasury it will be made up by my constituents. For safety's sake if for no other reason, I do not see why there should not be an extension. If the Minister does not like the suggested date of 5 April 2002, perhaps the date could be three months after 14 June 2001. That would be better for my constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "Biodiesel does not offer the same air quality benefits as road fuel gases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Clause 52", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I know that the Paymaster General has not been speaking for long, but she has not answered my point about a two-earner couple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "tion goes through unamended, or is not amended in due course, more than 90 per cent. of left-hand drive American cars imported to the UK will have to be modified. The hon. Gentleman went into some detail about the modifications required. If anything, I think he underplayed the problem of making the modifications. One of the reasons people own American cars is for their look, their aesthetic value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes his point in his usual extravagant manner—flamboyant, perhaps, or even stylish—but I do not want to be tempted down that route. I have serious points to make which are not about style or substance. I was talking about modifications. It is not as if those who are importing American cars, or buying them, were not prepared to make modifications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shows that he knows nothing about the subject, because the cars that he is talking about have regulatory approval as a class. The cars that we are talking about must go through single vehicle approval. General Motors and Ford make, to my knowledge, very few cars in that sector. We are not talking about the mass car market. We are talking about a niche market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Saltires!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "proud to be so, and British and proud to be so. That is something that some Labour Members fail to understand. I do not see why I as a Welshman ought not to have the opportunity to display the Welsh flag on my car registration plate if I so wish. Indeed, when I was in Wales a month ago I saw a Welsh flag displayed on somebody's registration plate. I have also seen Union Jacks and Scottish solents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "isk of being stopped by the police and prosecuted, and of having to pay a fine of £1,000? If the Government want to create martyrs, they are going about it the right way—they will create thousands, as people ensure that they change their registration plates to show the flags of the nations of which they are proud. I am not one of the nutters who wants to throw up whenever they see the euro symbol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Llwyd", "preceding_text": "ially told that the big problem lay in the fact that the Commission would dictate the regulation to the Government. That is not the case. It is the Government's intransigence that is causing a growing crisis. I appeal to them to reconsider, and swiftly. It is all very well for the Minister to put his hands in his pockets and look at the ceiling, but the regulations are grossly offensive to us all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.268.5", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The fact is that it is not legal for cars to travel around the country with blue strips on the left hand side of their number plates bearing the letters GB and the European symbol. They will be made legal only if this measure is enacted. That is fine, but the Government have tried to smuggle the business through the House and they have been less than open about the way in which that has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.268.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Keith Hill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Keith Hill)", "preceding_text": "hose vehicles currently display plates made for motor cycles. These are smaller in size and not intended for display on cars. They are illegal under the current regulations, and owners who display them are liable to prosecution. Enforcement of the regulations is a matter for the police who, for operational reasons, have—to my mind, quite rightly—concentrated their efforts on more serious offences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-24", "file": "debates2001-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f7e6c2b4aba45b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Road Traffic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I think that the answer is yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-24a.278.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — St. Helena", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "St. Helena is a very remote island. That is a fact with which we all have to cope. The time taken to get there is the same under this Government as it was under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Ennis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Ennis", "preceding_text": "ter know about the new millennium clinic in Montagu hospital in Mexborough? Its waiting time for hernia and other minor operations is only four to eight weeks. Will he join me in congratulating all the staff, who have recently been awarded beacon status? Does not that underline what can be achieved under a Government who are firmly committed to the future of the NHS, unlike the Conservative party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Efford", "preceding_text": " than the 250,000 figure that we said that we would achieve at the last general election. Moreover, there has been an 80 per cent. reduction in youth unemployment in my constituency. Does that not contrast with the \"On your bike\" policies of the last Government—\"On your bike\" being, of course, what the Tories are itching to say to their leader after the next election? Does it not also demonstrate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " election promising to carry on that investment in schools, hospitals, police and pensions. I shall remind them what they will fight the next election on because it was set out by the shadow Chancellor in a letter to The Times this morning, in which he repeated the fact that he will reduce the 3.3 per cent. increase in public spending, to which we are committed, to below 2 per cent. So that means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Motorola, Bathgate", "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": "rise Edinburgh and Lothian, the Employment Service, West Lothian council, the careers service, the Benefits Agency and the Scottish Trades Union Congress. The taskforce will draw up an action plan to meet the needs of the Motorola workers. Subject to the agreement of Motorola, that is likely to include an on-site jobshop, business start-up workshops and other support to assist people to find jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He should.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter that I have any information on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "umber of confirmed cases that arise daily should he on a clear downward trend. Secondly, the 24-hour report-to-slaughter target time for infected animals should be met. Thirdly, the geographical spread of the disease should be reversed. Fourthly, the movement restrictions on healthy animals should be lifted. When all four criteria have been achieved, farming can be said to have returned to normal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "owever, I am glad to say that we had a far better Easter than we had originally expected—partly thanks to some of the initiatives taken by the Government before Easter to encourage people to visit Devon and Cornwall and return to the countryside. In fact, takings in Devon were between 80 and 90 per cent. of those for the previous Easter. That is phenomenal achievement, given the terrible backdrop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.364.5", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "bria taskforce. When I visited the county, I was very impressed by its work and by the practicality and range of its proposals. I hope that there will be further such proposals. I am always very glad to see my hon. Friend at those meetings. The right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry) referred to the £12,000 rateable value threshold, but if I cannot have his attention. I will not go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.364.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "rights. To be frank, I move the motion with a little sadness. That is not, of course, because there is any deficiency in the motion, which was drafted by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell), and is therefore perfect in every detail. It is because I suspect that this is the last time that I shall have the privilege of moving a motion on behalf of my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "the fuel protests. We saw it, probably, at Diana's funeral. We saw it in the Danish referendum. One of the things that we have discovered, and of which we should be aware, as it has a profound implication for foreign affairs, is that the old idea of a singular identity springing out of the unitary nation state has gone. The last time that we heard it expressed was in Norman Tebbit' s cricket test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-25", "file": "debates2001-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "f3e87fd6b5b4962c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "It is pleasure to speak in the debate that was initiated by the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Paddy Ashdown), who made an excellent speech. Despite the differences between our political parties—sometimes reinforced by the tactics of the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-25a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-26", "file": "debates2001-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b3b0ba23804aae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.426.7", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Truancy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wills", "preceding_text": "e are now introducing measures that will make a significant impact on truancy. The best way to reduce the rate of truancy is to prevent it from happening in the first place, and that is why many of the local projects that we support through our social inclusion pupil support grant target measures to do that. We also know that the use of electronic registration can cut truancy by up to 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.426.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-26", "file": "debates2001-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b3b0ba23804aae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.461.0", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " by putting into the public domain figures that are not correct. We are trying to deal with the problem by clearing the backlog. The hon. Gentleman alleges that I have prevented him from talking to vets. I do not know how I could do that. I can stop him going into Government buildings around the country to talk to civil servants who are trying to control the disease for the benefit of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-26", "file": "debates2001-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b3b0ba23804aae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I will not encourage publicity stunts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-26", "file": "debates2001-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b3b0ba23804aae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.494.0", "colnum": "494", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": " other for pupils, competing for teachers in a very difficult job market and competing in the league tables. The head teacher I mentioned was not against the principle of the Bill—he is all in favour, in principle, of inclusion. He is simply saying that we should be careful, pause and not rush into a situation in which, in the real world, SEN children may be dumped into certain mainstream schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-26", "file": "debates2001-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b3b0ba23804aae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Harris", "preceding_text": "I will not seek the leave of the House to press that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-26", "file": "debates2001-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b3b0ba23804aae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boswell", "preceding_text": "estion that was referred to him because of convention, and it has been lodged in the Library. Even though Chris Woodhead was sometimes a controversial figure, I do not think that any Member would take exception to anything in that letter. It was very trenchant and to the point, and I will return to it in a moment. I must point out to the House that there may be a technical error in the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-26", "file": "debates2001-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "b3b0ba23804aae63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "New Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "ry over reality. I regret having had to say that, and I would not have said it, had not my experiences in Gloucestershire taught me that it is the case. It is no use Ministers saying that the Bill, and previous statements on it, are not a green light for the wholesale closure of special schools, because that is what is happening in Gloucestershire. There is a systematic closure of special schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-26a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-27", "file": "debates2001-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9370d8fb0d4d8b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-27a.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — High Hedges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "I apologise unreservedly. I had always associated the hon. Gentleman's wit, articulacy and general ability to hold the attention of the House with the fact that he had a legal training, because those are usually the main characteristics of people who have had a legal training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-27a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-27", "file": "debates2001-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9370d8fb0d4d8b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-27a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — High Hedges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "In this particular case, I am not exercising my judgment, but relying on that of experts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-27a.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-27", "file": "debates2001-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9370d8fb0d4d8b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-27a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — High Hedges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is making several points seeking elucidation from, I imagine, my hon. Friend the Member for Solihull (Mr. Taylor). Is my right hon. Friend aware that his points are not being picked up by our hon. Friend because he is not in the Chamber?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-27a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-27", "file": "debates2001-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "9370d8fb0d4d8b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-27a.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — High Hedges Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forty-one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Those of us who have taken the trouble to be here are all doing our best. It was heartening that, out of almost 660 Members of Parliament, 40 were prepared to be here to show interest in my hon. Friend's Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-27a.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "It didn't take long, did it? If in doubt, blame the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Millennium Dome", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Tourism, Film and Broadcasting (Janet Anderson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Tourism, Film and Broadcasting (Janet Anderson)", "preceding_text": "Like many of others, including the London borough of Greenwich, the Government are committed to the dome staying in Greenwich. It is an important landmark on the London skyline and has made a major contribution to the regeneration of the Greenwich peninsula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to say that I do not know that; I shall come back to the right hon. Gentleman on that point later in the debate. I am sure that he will get the chance to speak and I shall be able to intervene then. When farmers seek to diversify, they face an additional cost through the imposition of rates on a property that was previously rate free. We want to remove that barrier to diversification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ps that have already diversified will benefit from the relief. We are unable to backdate provisions sufficiently to deal with such premises, so I am afraid that they will not, unless they were set up within the past six months. If the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) was thinking of tea shops, as opposed to pubs, the answer to his question is difficult because tea shops are not essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": " of the Bill that it gives the impression that the Government are doing something for the countryside and for rural England following the foot and mouth disaster when practically nothing is being done? The bottom line is all spin and no substance. Will my hon. Friend make sure that he explains to the House what the Conservative Government will do to help rural shops and rural village post offices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple-Morris", "preceding_text": "een. Indeed, I am always clear about the origins of what I am buying. The Minister concerned has been tightening up regulations on labelling. I know that the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) is well practised, but I could not resist giving way to him. I am sorry that I hesitated to do so at first, but perhaps I was overcome by my own oratorical efforts and was anxious to complete my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ot want to extend the argument as we will have to return to it in Committee, but I question the distinction that is still made between a food store and a general store. The qualification on sole business is on the general store, not the food store. Why does the Minister's point not apply to the public house or the petrol station? The distinction is not a matter for a long debate on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms Candy Atherton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Candy Atherton", "preceding_text": " week, I hoped to participate in the rural economy debate, which should have been the parliamentary equivalent of the Radio 4 programme \"Just a Minute\", with no repetition, deviation or hesitation. Many Members wanted to take part, so that is how I thought the debate would go. Sadly, far too many Members did not follow the rules of the game and spoke for far too long, so I was unable to take part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.687.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Drew", "preceding_text": "o find money for rural regeneration—whether it be additional help for rate relief or grants—their answer is to get it by the emasculation of the regional development agencies. I say categorically that if they want a complete vote loser in my constituency, that is it. The regional development agency is pumping in £90 million to overcome the decline of one key industry in Dursley in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-04-30", "file": "debates2001-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "5abc6919211ad4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating (Former Agricultural Premises and Rural Shops) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "post offices, village shops and filling stations in rural areas, why not extend or give local authorities far greater discretion to extend rate relief to them? After all, local authorities know and should be able to decide locally which village post offices, which village shops and which village filling stations are worth supporting. The Bill gives local authorities scant discretion and will give—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-04-30a.701.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-05-01", "file": "debates2001-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "d36c54272a5eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.750.4", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You said in response to the hon. Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon) that no Minister has contacted you to make a statement on the possible merger of the Bank of Scotland and the Halifax Group plc—in which, by the way, I have a small investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-01", "file": "debates2001-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "d36c54272a5eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ll not be possible for them to make inquiries without making such records. Also, if they abuse the powers, they will be found out and punished. That could involve a prison sentence. If DSS officers were to go trawling through computer systems with no good reason, perhaps because a friend or family member had asked them to look into what someone was getting, or to find out where someone was living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-01", "file": "debates2001-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "d36c54272a5eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lait", "preceding_text": "rkey, which is applying to join the EU, has ratified only the original convention and protocol 1. Russia has signed the convention, but not protocol 6. Macedonia, Romania and Ukraine have signed the entire convention and protocols. Poland has not signed protocol 7. Czechoslovakia has signed them all, as has Hungary. Czechoslovakia is applying to join the EU and Turkey is on the list of applicants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-01", "file": "debates2001-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "d36c54272a5eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": "rmation might be abused.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee A, 9 April 2001; c.66.] Again, I suspect that hon. Members would say \"Amen\" to all of that. It is a laudable comment. However, subjective terms need clarification. What is a stable Government? What would happen if a general election in this country produced a hung Parliament with a majority of one or two and we faced another election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-01", "file": "debates2001-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "d36c54272a5eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilshire", "preceding_text": " election? [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) mutters \"Austria\", and I am grateful for that example. Is the Government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia considered to be stable in its current state? We must have tests and definitions of a stable Government; a bland assertion is not enough. What is a democratic Government? That is another subjective test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-01", "file": "debates2001-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "d36c54272a5eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webb", "preceding_text": "So far as I am aware—the Minister may correct me on this point—the spouse and children of someone in prison retain full benefit entitlement proportionate to the size of the family that remains to be supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-01", "file": "debates2001-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "d36c54272a5eddee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Motorway Construction (EU Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": " without undue cost or disruption. In addition, we have undertaken to resurface all concrete roads within the next 10 years, including those that would not otherwise be due for resurfacing, because it is now recognised that such roads give rise to much greater concern about noise. In total, we anticipate that more than 60 per cent. of the trunk road network will have been resurfaced by April 2011.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-01a.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.834.5", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marjorie Mowlam", "preceding_text": "with local service providers to turn those expressions of interest into work on the ground by local people. To help with that, we have established a bursary scheme, which will create basic training for newly recruited workers. I hope that the follow through will begin soon, but I shall certainly watch the Doncaster situation to ensure that the money is matched by an adequate number of counsellors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blizzard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blizzard", "preceding_text": "tive. It will really help the fight against the menace of drugs in my part of the country. We have had substantial funds for treatment purposes, but the problem is recruiting people to be trained to administer treatment. Will my right hon. Friend look into recruitment? Treatment is crucial to getting people off drugs, getting crime down, and preventing our streets from being littered with needles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.837.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Engagements", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " took the decision to have a new national stadium. As we are talking about reputations and what works and does not work, I treated the House a few months ago to the views of Mr. Nigel Hastilow, and today I wish to bring a new figure before the House—the parliamentary candidate from Bridgwater, Mr. Liddell-Grainger, whose local Conservatives have put out a leaflet that reads What we have to do is\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Regulatory Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " the past. By contrast, I am a radical who looks to the future. My aim is to establish the fact that the Standing Order contains an explicit provision that almost invites the sub-Committee to travel. I have never known hon. Members to be reticent or hesitant about accepting an invitation to travel. It would be a revelation to come across one that was, but we can examine the matter of travel later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Regulatory Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "I have been looking back because I was told—I hope reliably—that the Committee had dealt with one measure over the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Regulatory Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stringer", "preceding_text": " and, like the ability and right of the Committee to force hon. Members to attend, is a matter for the House. When the House has appointed Members to this and other Select Committees, it has done so for a full parliamentary Session. I cannot remember the exact words used, but they are to the effect of \"until the House otherwise decides\". So the House reserves the right to remove Committee members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Working Group on Provision for Former Members", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "'t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.\" However, in any battle, there will be casualties. Boundary changes can result in even worse problems. There may be a long, drawn-out, horrendous process of three local MPs chasing two seats; that can be worse and more stressful than an election. I am sorry to go on, but I have a lot to say. If the House does not mind, I shall keep going until 10 o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Working Group on Provision for Former Members", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "I should like to know, if possible, whether the House wishes to conclude the debate by 7 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-02", "file": "debates2001-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "5ca5fa0f68d95996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.910.2", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Working Group on Provision for Former Members", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Mackinlay", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-02a.910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Chester Street Holdings", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "he launches a new DTI inquiry, will she reveal the information that her Department already holds on the connection between the late Robert Maxwell, the business dealings of the hon. Member for Coventry, North-West (Mr. Robinson), and the funding of the Labour party? Will she confirm that that report was carried out two years ago by her Department, but it remains a cover-up because it had not been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Euro", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Byers", "preceding_text": "I do not know the source for the hon. Gentleman's view that three quarters of British businesses are opposed, but certainly the CBI and British Chambers of Commerce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Euro", "cue_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend aware of the particular pressures of our being outside the single currency for foreign companies making investment decisions in the UK? He is aware that the US-owned company British Timkin has closed in Northampton, with the loss of 950 jobs. People in Northampton appreciated the prompt response of the Government in setting up a taskforce. I wonder if my right hon. Friend could—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Miners (Compensation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "There is a growing understanding in mining communities of the work being done and the scale of the problem. Let us not forget that week by week more and more miners are diagnosed with the condition, so are added to the books and the numbers that have to be dealt with. Many of us remember when the basis of a claim had to be made on a post mortem. Those hypocrites on the other side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Ballistic Missile Defence", "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": "When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister met President Bush at Camp David, he stressed the importance of taking forward proposals for missile defence through close consultation with allies and through dialogue with Russia. On Tuesday, President Bush made a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Ballistic Missile Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "t, although we do not yet know whether the system will be sea-based or land-based, whether it will attempt to hit an incoming missile in the boost phase or in the re-entry phase, or whether it will be done with or without agreement, they know the answer that they would give. That is a betrayal of the national interest and of any influence that one may hope to have on the proposal. Yes, I do think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Ballistic Missile Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I say to my right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Ballistic Missile Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I say to my right hon. and learned Friend— [Interruption.] I extend the hand of friendship to my right hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.983.5", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Ballistic Missile Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "s remain to be taken, and it is important to consult on them. I am confident that all our colleagues in Europe will give the same advice: it is important to proceed through dialogue and agreement, not only with us but with Russia. I am glad that the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell) gives me the chance to put the record straight about what was said at 4 pm yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo (South Suffolk)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Yeo (South Suffolk)", "preceding_text": "? Will the Minister confirm that help will continue to be given to farmers whose premises now require disinfection? It is now clear that the disease reached its present horrific scale because of the Government's failure to take the prompt action suggested by the Conservative party and recommended by the report to the Northumberland inquiry and the report of western command after the 1967 outbreak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Let me repeat that it is a mistake to milk a serious disease outbreak for party political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall write to the hon. Gentleman to ensure that he has a factual answer to the individual case, but the most likely explanation is that the animals tested negative and were taken out as dangerous contacts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "International Development White Paper", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short) I", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short) I", "preceding_text": "elopment, which has for many years been regarded as a residual political issue. We had neither a Department nor a Select Committee to address it. I tell the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells) that I hope that we do not have too many more international development events in this Parliament because I have already paid so many tributes to him that any more from me might embarrass him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "International Development White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on, go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "f our constituents have already sent us a clear signal: they want our country to be at the forefront in the attack on global poverty. I certainly agree that, at present, the House does not do justice to the seriousness of that subject. At this point in my speech, I had intended to make some sneaky and sneering party political points about the absence of debate, but I have decided not to make them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "International Development White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "e a wedge into that growing integration. The onus is on us consistently to make the case for the free trade economic growth model and not to allow ourselves to be distracted. I congratulate the Secretary of State as I believe that she has done that; she has been brave in some of her speeches. I encourage her to continue doing that for the next three or four weeks while she remains in her position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "International Development White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Streeter", "preceding_text": " colleagues who are retiring at the general election. First, my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham and Mid-Kent (Mr. Rowe) has been a champion of many causes throughout the developing world. Of course, I pay tribute also to my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Wells). I think that this is the fifth such tribute that has been paid to him. He has retired several times already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-03", "file": "debates2001-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "919967f16526d145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "International Development White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mullin", "preceding_text": "That may be so. I am sorry that I do not have time to reply to all the points made in the debate. During the few minutes that remain, I should like to make one or two points of my own. I am happy to repeat to the House what a good fellow the hon. Gentleman is and how useful his contributions have been over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-03a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.1.9", "colnum": "1", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More, more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "employment in my constituency has been cut by 40 per cent. since the general election? Is, she aware that youth unemployment has been cut by more than 70 per cent? Is she able to give answers to those very difficult questions from the Dispatch Box today? While much has been done, does my right hon. Friend agree that there is still much to do? Does she accept that Pollok requires its own jobcentre?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.1.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Just for once, I find myself in agreement with the hon. Member for Glasgow, Pollok (Mr. Davidson), who said that it is time that we had a general election. So it is—so that we can have a change of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "Just for once, I find myself in agreement with the hon. Member for Glasgow, Pollok (Mr. Davidson), who said that it is time that we had a general election. So it is—so that we can have a change of Government. [Interruption.] As people in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom know perfectly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Security Industry Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "That is a veritable masterpiece, even by the high standards that the hon. Gentleman has set over a long period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Security Industry Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ry to opt out of giving their personal details so that the consumer, who might have a complaint about or an interest in the registration, is unable to track them down and obtain the necessary information. As a postscript, I want to refer to something that was raised in Committee. I do not know how many Charles Clarkes there are in England or how many Nick Hawkinses there are in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Security Industry Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "First, may I congratulate Millwall on its promotion to the first division? I assure the team of a very warm welcome when they come to Carrow road. Incidentally, there are more Clarkes in this Parliament than any other name. We are divided only by the presence or absence of the letter \"e\". The superior clan, such as me, have an \"e\" and the less distinguished members of the family do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Security Industry Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was not proposing to dilate upon the point; I thought that I might get away with the occasional animadversion to them, but you have told me, with your formidable shake of the head, that I cannot, and therefore I will not try. Nevertheless, it would be helpful to have some guidance on the point I raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.72.6", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My anticipation is that it will certainly include tomorrow's business. It is not yet certain whether it will include business for later in the week, because there will—as I have said—be a further business statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.72.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.72.6", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "My anticipation is that it will certainly include tomorrow's business. It is not yet certain whether it will include business for later in the week, because there will—as I have said—be a further business statement. [Interruption.] I suggest that Conservative Members bear in mind the fact that these are matters for negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.72.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-08", "file": "debates2001-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "f75fc58302e72f52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.76.4", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Security Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Ballard", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment No. 10, in page 24, line 6, at end insert— '(1A) Any such report shall include details on the progress of implementing this Act and all new secondary legislation and guidance passed under this Act.'. Schedule 1 deals with the setting up of the authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-08a.76.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IREIAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ingram", "preceding_text": "n place with the RUC and other law-enforcement agencies will tackle that with great vigour, but they cannot do it on their own. As my hon. Friend has said, they need the support of the wider community. The best approach is when everyone joins the police service and the law-enforcement agencies, not only in tackling organised crime but in helping to bring in normalised policing in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IREIAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reid", "preceding_text": "a sincere thank you on behalf of the House and the people of Northern Ireland to the right hon. Member for Strangford (Mr. Taylor) and the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Mr. Maginnis), who will leave us, at least in this forum. They have made a major contribution to the business of the House to the benefit of the people they represent, as well as all of the people of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.105.6", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Desmond Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Desmond Turner", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that even in my south-coast city of Brighton and Hove there are still thousands of people in social exclusion, still suffering from the after effects of 18 years of Tory rule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.105.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Rowe", "preceding_text": "This is my last ever Prime Minister's question; indeed, it is the first time that my name has appeared in this part of the Order Paper since February 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ince I became a Member of the House and I remember full well the impact that it made on me in those early days. In fact, I had been a Member only a few months when I was invited to become a Whip and a member of the Conservative Opposition. As a result, I spent my first 25 years here on the Front Bench, either in government or in opposition. After that, I spent the next 25 years—on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "d to a serious and worrying decline in the public perception of Members of Parliament. I hope that the new intake and existing Members will take note of the need to set an example in those spheres. I also hope that when the conduct of one or two Members falls below the required standards, the media will not try and tar all Members with the same brush. Perhaps I may finally say a word about Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.115.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": " to be dissolved, it is not possible for more time to be allowed. After all, these are serious motions and Bills. For the life of me, I cannot understand why the House was given so little warning, and an impossible burden put on the Opposition. Most of the Bills that we will discuss in the next few days are popular and perfectly sensible, and the Opposition do not want to oppose them on principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.140.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "The Minister makes my point for me; the children's tax credit does not benefit married people, either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ottaway", "preceding_text": "We gave the married couples allowance, which was a universal benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Johnson", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that is exactly why I said that calling it a reintroduction of the married couples allowance was a very spun description. The hon. Gentleman accepts that it is a targeted measure and that it does not help many who are married, or, indeed, many who have children. As I said, eight out of 10 married couples and eight out of 10 families with children will gain nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.182.2", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept that Opposition Members were not brought up, as I was, to believe that we are all responsible for our past as well as for our present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-09", "file": "debates2001-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "31105b431d36a6f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Letwin", "preceding_text": "n various estimates, and I do not know how reliable they are. I am inclined to think that 10p to 20p a tonne is a reasonable estimate of additional administrative costs. If I take the lower end of that scale, at about 10p, that takes us up to about £2.50 a tonne—£1.80 plus the uplift of 80p for the primary products, plus the 10p. Taxes are collected by Customs and Excise with unvarying efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-09a.190.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "First, I thank my hon. Friend for his distinguished service and contribution to the House--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "ll protect patients and be fairer to GPs by improving the regulation of GPs and other primary care professionals. It will extend prescribing rights. It will strengthen joint working between the NHS and social services by allowing care trusts to be established. It will protect the essential work of cancer registries and other vital parts of the NHS by protecting the information flows that it needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "ofessionals. It will extend prescribing rights. It will strengthen joint working between the NHS and social services by allowing care trusts to be established. It will protect the essential work of cancer registries and other vital parts of the NHS by protecting the information flows that it needs. [Interruption.] As we approach the closing stages of the Bill none of those must be put in jeopardy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "mpaign strongly after a slow start, was based on what my hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury did and also on the actions of the Worthing district community health council. It wrote to the association asking what action it would take. Then we discovered that what the Government assumed to be a done deal across the country was not one, and that community health councils had been objecting strongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "field, that would make sense. I have in my hand a letter from one of my constituents, who is 71. His family doctor referred him to a specialist clinic. The letter he got back said: \"You have been referred to . . . the Pain Management Unit at St. Thomas's Hospital. We are writing to confirm that you are now on our waiting list, and we hope to be able to offer you an appointment in 15 months' time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.279.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "my speech. As this may be my hon. Friend's last contribution in the House, I feel it appropriate to pay tribute to him for his work on the Health Committee, and in representing his constituents in Morley and Rothwell and in local government over many years. He is still widely respected for his work as a member of West Yorkshire county council. I am sure that we all wish him well in his retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.281.7", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Care Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "We want something that is genuinely independent, and we want it--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.281.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "International Criminal Court Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, he is not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "n election is coming--perhaps they have not heard about that--so if the Bill is to become law, it has to go through today. The matter is as simple as that: therefore, there is to be a programme motion. I am one of the Labour Back Benchers who has occasionally been forced to raise differences of opinion with Front-Bench Members-- my Whip, the hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. McNulty) is laughing--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "International Criminal Court Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "effacing modesty, they are craven lickspittles--but far be it from me to use such appalling jargon. The Government have been able to do whatever they have wanted because of their huge majority. The electorate ought to have regard to that, as should Labour Members. None of us knows the result of the election. Many think that they know, but no Member in this Chamber does know. There will be a time--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "when the matter came before the court, her claim was overruled and the judge said that the constitution of our country could not be changed by a side wind. As we were not able to extend the franchise to ladies through that adventurous episode in the Scottish courts, I suspect that it would be unlikely that we will be able to change the constitution on treaty making by assenting to the new clause--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "Two points arise from those comments. First, it is extremely patronising of the Foreign Secretary to speak in that way about the concerns expressed by the Chief of the Defence Staff--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "It is watertight in terms of protection for our armed forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.334.4", "colnum": "334", "heading": "International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "cts the Conservative party position on the euro. The Opposition claim that they are doing something for a limited period, but only because they know that some of their colleagues would disagree if they stated that an opt-out was indefinite. They therefore adopt a compromise position of claiming that their proposal would operate for a limited period--seven years in the case that we are considering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.334.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "I am happy to give way again if the right hon. Gentleman wishes to respond. He does not wish to do that. I shall draw attention to another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.335.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-10", "file": "debates2001-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "b680429e50bf57b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "That is a most telling point and a powerful reason why the House should accept the new clause. I think that I heard the Foreign Secretary on \"Today\" earlier this week or last week say that the United States was our closest ally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-10a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-05-11", "file": "debates2001-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "994155f0fa7d1645", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-11a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Armed Forces Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "I have already said that I was not privy to the negotiations in the other place, which is independent of this House. That is what the Government have never managed to understand. They do not realise that the House of Lords is independent; the Conservative party in the Lords does not take instructions from the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-05-11a.379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-13", "file": "debates2001-06-13.xml", "sha256": "cb9f78045371276c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-13.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "gratulating you on your accession as Father of the House. Given your commitment to the House and your knowledge of how to use it effectively, it gives all of us pleasure to see you supervising our proceedings today. I, too, wish you a full and speedy recovery. I also hope that you will continue to be as irreverent to those on your Front Bench as your predecessor as Father of the House was to mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-13.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-13", "file": "debates2001-06-13.xml", "sha256": "cb9f78045371276c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-13.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "ction was contested, I suspect that he did not experience the aggravation that the rest of us suffered in getting here. I mention in passing that we in North-West Hampshire saw a new form of co-operation between the other two parties: the Labour party ran a low-key campaign to let the Liberal Democrats have a clear shot at me; and the Liberal Democrats ran a low-key campaign to give Labour a shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-13.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-13", "file": "debates2001-06-13.xml", "sha256": "cb9f78045371276c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-13.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "understand why I was unable to propose the right hon. Member for Springburn last time, but I have no hesitation in proposing him today. Question put and agreed to. Resolved, That Mr. Michael J. Martin do take the Chair of this House as Speaker. Whereupon Mr. Tam Dalyell left the Chair, and Mr. Michael J. Martin was taken out of his place and conducted to the Chair by Sir George Young and Ann Keen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-13.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "thern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. It is a pleasure and a privilege to be asked to move the motion today. When the Chief Whip first contacted to me, I was a little surprised, and I reacted with a proper degree of caution. As comrades and colleagues know--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "it his management of the economy?\" She said, \"No, I am happy with that.\" I said, \"Is it his stance on the euro?\" \"No, I am happy with that,\" she said. \"Is it the fact that he is a Scot?\", I said rather nervously. She said, \"No, I can just about cope with that.\" So I asked why she could not vote for us, and she answered, \"I cannot bring myself to vote for a man who bought his wife cheap champagne.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "d economy and an excellent set of public services--I strongly applaud everything that we said on the stump and on television about that balance--there is also no reason for not having a good, vigorous, re-energised Parliament that holds the Executive to account but at the same time allows the Government to deliver on their vision and on their manifesto commitments. I have kept the House too long--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": " a fracas with another child. Miss Vaisey, my headmistress, commanded me to go to her office. I remember that long, nervous walk, because I had been told by some of the older boys of the slipper in her office that she often had occasion to use. She told me to take my coat off, and said that she would be back in 10 minutes. Nervous and very scared, I thought that she said, \"Take your clothes off\"--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "shed me uphill, improving my prospects and self-belief. I value those teachers because, academically, I never found things particularly easy. Right through school, I was in the second to bottom teaching set, and my mock exams predicted just two GCSEs. My mother dug out my old school report recently, and my year 11 report says: \"Your son is a model pupil. Unfortunately, he's not a working model.\"--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": ". Speaker? I was in a surgery the other day, when an old Jamaican lady came up to me and told me a story about travelling on a train in Jamaica. The train was moving rather slowly, and an American passenger became increasingly agitated. He stormed down the aisle of the train and asked the driver, \"Can't you go any faster?\" The driver replied, \"I can go faster, but I've got to stay with the train.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is true, and I shall come later to how we recruit and retain people in the public services, but one point that I must deal with is the idea that no progress was made in those areas in our first term in office. In education, for example, some 17,000 schools were modernised. Partly as a result of the new deal money, which the Liberal Democrats opposed--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should have the decency and dignity to accept that on this issue his party has lost the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.60.4", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "he Kyoto protocol; he should think again. This is one issue where our country must be prepared to be a candid friend where the United States is concerned. The US policy is short-sighted, and self- defeating for humanity. We must give the matter priority. There are other items that I might discuss but, given the number of Members who want to speak, I do not want to overstay my welcome in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.60.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "t under Jeremy Thorpe in February 1974. The only reason that his party has more seats now than the number achieved by Jeremy Thorpe with a higher proportion of the vote is the voting system, which it derides and very much dislikes, together with the unrequited tactical votes bestowed upon it by Labour voters who, for reasons that escape me, dislike it less than they dislike the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "d the Executive to account, whether we are Opposition Members or Government Back Benchers. Many of the Labour Members of Parliament elected or re-elected to this Parliament will not sit on the Treasury Bench, but they all have a duty, with Opposition Members, to hold the Government to account--to remind the Government of what their electorates want and to tell the Government why they are failing--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is what happened to you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "to understand the problem that affects his party, mine and the others represented in Parliament. The audience is walking away in droves. During the general election campaign, many people in Labour constituencies as well as Conservative ones did not want to come to the door and talk at all if they thought a canvasser was outside. They stayed indoors because the television soap was more interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "nd we have all the answers on many public policy issues nowadays. Indeed, I suspect that we may agree on more such issues than we disagree on. The right hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) , the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made an interesting speech about the politics of Northern Ireland, and I suspect that, by and large, very few hon. Members disagreed with his remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-20", "file": "debates2001-06-20.xml", "sha256": "af552b3c77f3feaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.120.0", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "y new colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Laws) on his very good maiden speech. He will undoubtedly be a useful Member. His speech was relatively short--the shortest of the debate so far--and that might be one reason why it was particularly good in comparison with those of Members who have been in the House longer, including myself, who have a tendency to ramble on at some length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-20.120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Business Question", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "In a spirit of trying to build what consensus I can from the hon. Lady's questions--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.154.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Business Question", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Dr. Spink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.162.5", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Business Question", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I fully understand that foot and mouth has had an impact not only on the agriculture industry, but on the wider rural economy, especially tourism and the leisure industry. Those matters are entirely relevant to the statement of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which follows. After all, they are matters that the Government will consider carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman also mentioned the need for a new policy, criticised the Government for saying that we were on the home straight, and made his usual call for a full public inquiry. There is no point in his continuing to pretend that the Government are not committed to having an inquiry when the outbreak is over. We have repeatedly made it plain that we have every intention of having an inquiry--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "mous pressures on the time of Ministers when a new Department is set up. I know that he and the whole House will want Ministers to give top priority to dealing with the practical day-to-day issues, which may help us in bringing the epidemic to an end. I regret that he should repeat what has occasionally been heard from Opposition Members about the bad handling of the outbreak. I remind them that--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "cal day-to-day issues, which may help us in bringing the epidemic to an end. I regret that he should repeat what has occasionally been heard from Opposition Members about the bad handling of the outbreak. I remind them that-- [Interruption.] It is in the nature of things that no one is infallible, except possibly the Pope when he is speaking ex cathedra, but not even he is infallible all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Foot and Mouth", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's final point is valid and we shall certainly bear it in mind. I am not aware of the specific distinctions that he makes in respect of patterns in Wales. The nature of his concern was not wholly clear to me--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "people's life chances, and they make a real difference to the quality of life of individuals, communities and the nation. I am conscious of the fact that we are all users of public services, but many people work in that sector and serve us well. I want to put on the record my thanks to the many hundreds of thousands of people who spend their working lives in public service and do an excellent job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I will make a little more freedom--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I will make a little more freedom-- [Laughter.] I mean, progress. That shows I genuinely believe in freedom. We will support freedom for schools, but we will not hesitate to point out where the Government circumscribe that freedom by red tape and bureaucracy. Two weeks ago the electorate gave Labour the benefit of the doubt--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hughes", "preceding_text": "ears of the Tories, constituencies such as Doncaster, North had suffered more than most. The Tories said then that unemployment was a price worth paying. The problem was that it was not the Tories or their supporters who did the paying but people in constituencies such as mine, where thousands were thrown on to the scrap heap and left to rot on state handouts with little future and even less hope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "at matter to them, but then fail to deliver, they switch off and say that the process is incapable of responding to their individual needs. That represents a major challenge for us as democrats. We must address the low turnout at the general election. As a member of the last Conservative Administration, it is important to put on record that the Conservative party was never against public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-21", "file": "debates2001-06-21.xml", "sha256": "7f1094d7175806cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jack", "preceding_text": " year or the year after, but over the lifetime of this Parliament--to introduce 10,000 more teachers. The Library tells me that there are 204 education authorities. Over five years that represents on average just 10 extra teachers per authority. To apply the same logic to the 20,000 classroom assistants who are required, that works out at just 20 extra classroom assistants per year, per authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-21.257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "First, the words that I used were \"properly integrated with NATO\", which is different. I chose my words with care--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "at its work is always onerous and demanding, and sometimes dangerous. The diplomatic service is a Rolls-Royce service, but Rolls-Royces need good drivers. I do not want to disrupt the even tenor of today's debate by making remarks about the Foreign Secretary's predecessor, but it is fair to say that Britain's standing in the world was not enhanced by his predecessor's conduct of this crucial role.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "e of the Nice treaty, the political elites should not casually brush it aside as if it does not matter. It is very important that public opinion and public support for the European Union should remain high, and it is important that Britain should be actively engaged in the European Union. It is alarming that there is evidence of some growth in antagonism in this country towards the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been in any middle eastern capitals in recent times. If he had been, he would have both seen and heard the extent to which the policy of the combat air patrols is regarded with distaste and disfavour by Governments in all the middle eastern capitals--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "No, the answer is not yes. The question cannot be put in the isolationism that the hon. Gentleman finds so convenient. What is necessary is to consider--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "s speeches in the House was something to behold. During the Maastricht treaty debates, while sitting on the Government Benches, I heard him make a 10-minute speech. After he had finished, I thought that I might as well pack it in because there was no way in which anyone could compete with both the power of his oratory and the way in which he covered the key subjects, made us laugh and made us cry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "uency of Kirkcaldy is close by. However, the one person whose constituency will really benefit just happens to be the Chancellor himself. Why could not the Government have left the announcement for the day after the election? It is an example of the Government's use of pork barrel politics. No wonder the public are fed up of politicians when the cynicism of the Government reaches such new heights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It will not surprise the hon. Gentleman to know that I do not agree with that at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "en of our armed forces and their civilian colleagues. To see them in action--planning complex operations overseas in places such as Sierra Leone, helping to tackle flooding and foot and mouth disease at home--is a lesson in how to get things done efficiently, effectively and successfully. I know that the whole House will agree that they are, man for man and woman for woman, the best in the world--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-22", "file": "debates2001-06-22.xml", "sha256": "83521de1f795485f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "at magnificent effort with the support that they have received from the Government. Indeed, as the hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green mentioned it, I remind the House that, thanks to the prudence and the efforts of the Chancellor, the Government have provided the first sustained real-terms increase in the defence budget in years--£1.25 billion of new money over and above inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-22.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. I hope that the whole House now agrees not only that regional development agencies are an essential element for achieving balanced regional growth, but that regional policy itself, equipping people and areas to cope with change, will have to be enhanced rather than swept away if we are to achieve high levels of growth in employment in every region of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Of course, it is as a result of the working families tax credit, the minimum income guarantee for pensioners, raising child benefit and the children's tax credit that low-income families are finding that their income position is being raised. If my hon. Friend talks to people in her--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": " which are in the register. I congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the election result, which means that he can continue in his office. I thought that his performance this afternoon was curiously edgy, nervous and bombastic--an out-of-date, old-fashioned sort of speech. I remind him that his party did win the election. It is over--he does not have to go over all the old arguments again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "first Parliament, Britain's growth rate was lower and our inflation was higher than those of our competitors. That is the precise reverse of the position in the Parliament up to 1997. Inflation has remained low and stable, as it was when the Government came to office, although the latest figures show that it has risen significantly. The Chancellor was right to make the Bank of England independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "t is true, as my hon. Friend the Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) said, that as a consequence of the neglect of the bureaucratic burden, Britain has slipped down the competitiveness league table, from ninth position to 19th. The Chancellor is fond of saying that Britain needs to learn from America and to become more deregulated, but Americans have dubbed the Prime Minister \"red-tape Tony\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "Well, I shall come to the reason for that in a moment. The reason is that--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "Well, I shall come to the reason for that in a moment. The reason is that-- [Interruption.] I am giving the House a preview of the bit that I shall come to. As the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) said, the point is that this Government have made the poorest people in society poorer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "y worry is that, during that short four-year period, when global conditions ran in their favour, they developed a sense of invulnerability, which is the enemy of prudence. They eroded Britain's competitiveness and committed us to levels of public spending that will erode it further. They are indifferent to the balance of payments problem and unconcerned about bureaucracy growing like a leylandii--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.424.5", "colnum": "424", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": " willing to show the public sector comparator that the use of private finance is a benefit. Indeed, they distort the position on the \"Today\" programme and elsewhere by pretending that they are making available new money, rather than spending Government money in a different way that can be judged only on the basis of whether it delivers better services. There is one final point that I want to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.424.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Trickett", "preceding_text": "he role of shareholders must play a part. The accountability of employees, the board of directors and everyone in the private sector will thus be blurred, once again raising the question of fragmentation versus coherence. I have already mentioned my doubts about the competence of the private sector, particularly in the construction industry, which I know very well, so I will not repeat the points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "h Staffordshire hospital, Stoke-on-Trent; they also include the community hospitals that are found in all our constituencies. I also fought on the subject of education. People out there feel that there is no difference between Labour and the Conservatives--that both parties are heading in the same direction. Today, Alastair Campbell had to announce that there is no great fight between the people--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "oing well, although other speakers have pointed out that we must show great caution about that country, which is already beginning to slow up--and Europe is doing badly, the last thing we want is lower interest rates, which would simply fuel inflation. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is right to say time and again that if we reach synchronicity with continental Europe, that must be sustained. It--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "enter into the debate on public services with gusto. We agree that, as a country, we must be far more creative--this applies right across the political spectrum--about how to mobilise the means to supply the health, education and other requirements of the population. We shall tackle that subject with the same vigour with which we tackled the industrial and economic problems of the 1980s and 1990s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-25", "file": "debates2001-06-25.xml", "sha256": "dc794a6dd6b5e3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "The Economy, Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "ices with gusto. We agree that, as a country, we must be far more creative--this applies right across the political spectrum--about how to mobilise the means to supply the health, education and other requirements of the population. We shall tackle that subject with the same vigour with which we tackled the industrial and economic problems of the 1980s and 1990s. [Interruption.] Let us not forget--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-25.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for primary care trusts to decide--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "e did not even talk about it during the campaign. On one further minor point, I hope that he manages to retain his position when there is a Conservative Front- Bench reshuffle, because that would benefit the whole House and certainly the Government. Some of my hon. Friends have been dismayed that he has not thrown his hat into the Conservative leadership contest, but I have some words of comfort--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "Much of what the hon. Gentleman has told the House is myth. We should look at the detail. Does he agree that the detail is what is important? Was not it a Labour Government who introduced a ban on liquid condensate? On a range of issues, the Labour Government have--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "I am sure that it will be a comfort to the Government Whips to tick off another box to show that one of the questions that they planted has been asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "m I have great respect as Chairman of the Transport Sub-Committee. No, I am not saying that. She will be well aware that Railtrack has assets that have no direct connection with the railways, such as buildings in the centre of major cities and so on. I am referring to those properties and their management, as distinct from the properties and activities that directly relate to running the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Richard Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Taylor", "preceding_text": "nt--but if that is a sample of the speeches that we shall get from the hon. Gentleman, I look forward to more. I address the House as, I believe, the oldest new boy. I have had the ultimate compliment for the older generation in that the Fees Office, before it would pay me, demanded to see my birth certificate. I come with an overwhelming mandate from the people with whom I have lived and worked--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) . He gave a kind, generous speech in tribute to his predecessor and will clearly bring a gentle and reasoned voice to our debates. I spent many childhood holidays at Cromer zoo in his constituency and I wish him well in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.567.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ile. Her self-deprecating humour belied the seriousness of purpose with which she approached the subject of adoption. We look forward to hearing more from her. The hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) also made a maiden speech, as did the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Dr. Taylor) , who brings to the House an authentic voice that is a challenge to us tired old clapped-out professional politicians--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ment themselves put in place to carry out the function of running the underground? What will the Government do about the rising level of strikes, not just on the underground, but on public transport as a whole? Will the Minister take a tougher line with the militants than his RMT-sponsored forebears? We do not shrink from congratulating the Government on their fresh majority. I congratulate them--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "afety, to deal with problems of graffiti-ridden and somewhat smelly underpasses, and to make sure that pedestrians and cars are not in conflict. That will be good for vehicle users and for pedestrians. By creating the right conditions for walking, we encourage people to adopt a healthier life style. We must use available planning powers and encourage highway authorities to take advantage of them--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "addition to the boost in capital spending, we are investing £239 million over the next three years in rural transport services--an increase of 54 per cent. on 1998 to 2001. Schemes that we introduced in 1998 to support rural bus services have proved a success. The bus subsidy grant has supported more than 1,800 new or improved routes in England carrying 16 million passenger journeys a year--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "We have taken the hon. Lady's point about the A1(M).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Rural Communities and Transport", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "We have taken the hon. Lady's point about the A1(M). [Interruption.] We recognise the role that business, particularly the construction industry, will have in ensuring delivery of an integrated transport system. One of the big opportunities that the plan presents to the construction industry and other industries is the opportunity of jobs. With that comes the challenge of addressing--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "SPEED LIMITS", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "rose--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.613.4", "colnum": "613", "heading": "SPEED LIMITS", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the House--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.613.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-26", "file": "debates2001-06-26.xml", "sha256": "8b9aedf29a5df45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.613.6", "colnum": "613", "heading": "SPEED LIMITS", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "higher speed were used inappropriately, the balance of argument would not be nearly as strong. The Government paper said: \"speed policy involves difficult decisions on trade-offs\". However, the advantages of targeted increases in speed limits as a trade-off were given no consideration. As a youth in the days before general speed limits I must confess to having been a rocker on a fast motor cycle--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-26.613.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "In the election, the people of Croydon and Britain had a choice--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "onsibility, but I repeat that it is only if we are prepared to make the investment in the national health service and the changes necessary that we will deliver the health service that we want. The hon. Lady shakes her head, but unless we manage to get the extra money going into the national health service that we are committed to putting in and that she and her party are committed to taking out--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.637.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give him a job.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "e sectors. If people's peers were my right hon. Friend's idea, it was not his best one--it was certainly never specifically voted for by the House of Commons. Will he ensure, first, that the name does not go forward to Buckingham palace because of the irregularity; and, secondly, will he rethink the nonsense of people's peers and press ahead with making the second Chamber of Parliament democratic?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " not consolidated it at all--which is more than the Conservative party did in 18 years in government. Finally, I have to disagree with my hon. Friend on the last part of his question, and I urge right hon. and hon. Members to think about it carefully. I do not believe that it would be sensible for the Commons to legislate so that the House of Lords became, in effect, a rival Chamber to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.638.3", "colnum": "638", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "shortfall there may be from the health authority's target, it will have received a great additional sum of money as a result of the extra investment that we put in. Without getting too much of a sense of deja vu about Prime Minister's questions before the election, the fact is that he and every other member of the Conservative party stood on a platform of cuts in investment in our public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I would not have said so for a moment. I was going to say that the speech may have been her swan song, but a different bird springs to mind. I was in Egypt a little while ago with friends on holiday. It was late afternoon and the sun was balmy--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I did not know that the right hon. Lady had such a mischievous sense of humour. However, my friends told me that she is a damn good author. \"The Clematis Tree\"--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ls, which was mentioned by the right hon. Lady. The Labour manifesto said that in excess of 30,000 people who had not justified their claim would be removed by 2003-04, which is about 2,500 people a month. We have decided that that target must be met by early next year, which enables us to have a commitment to reach and exceed the 30,000 removals by 2003. There has been no fiddling of the system--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " There was a clear reason why the issue arose in the spring. When people claim asylum as head of the family, it is their claim that is reviewed to discover whether the alleged persecution is well founded. If the claim is agreed, the dependants that they have brought with them are treated in the same way. If it is refused, they and those who entered with them are removed, which makes them removals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "yesterday a massive speeding up of that system, and a great improvement in our ability to deal with people from the point at which they enter this country. There is still a growing backlog of appeals, partly because of the speed with which existing claims are being dealt with. Of course, there is a reduced number of applications now--14 per cent. down on the previous figures. That is very welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "y Prime Minister. The issue of whether it is possible to have accountable public services touches at the heart of what is going on in the House. We had almost a pantomime today. It was almost a surreal experience. The Prime Minister accused the Leader of the Opposition of planning the privatisation of the health service. We all know that the Prime Minister is planning to privatise key areas of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ried about our majority. What worried me was that 17 per cent. of the households in my constituency had not a single registered voter, which either says something about the collection of details by the local authority and the returning officer or it means that an awful number of people in my constituency are not entitled to vote, although many of them manage to make their way to my advice surgery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "at way, and I respect their integrity, but that is just one aspect of an arrogant attitude to power that goes much further in snubbing convention and tradition. The Parliament Acts were improperly invoked during the previous Parliament, yet barely a murmur was raised against that. Even the Chancellor, in his petty way, continues to refuse to wear the appropriate dress for his Mansion House speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.714.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that, when I fought the 1992 election--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.734.10", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "nks. I should like to refer to some of the other changes that we face in this Chamber and elsewhere. The Gracious Speech states that the Government intend to introduce legislation to implement the second phase of what they describe as House of Lords reform, following consultation. I have to tell the Leader of the House, who is new to his post and so may not be fully up to speed with such matters--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.734.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "e. I would not wish to discourage him from the challenging process of reinventing himself as a social Liberal, but I am not sure that I did not prefer him as his former robust and brutal self. On Monday, the hon. Gentleman made a memorable appeal for more women Tory Members of Parliament. If he really wants more women to come forward as MPs, there are two steps that he and his colleagues can take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-27", "file": "debates2001-06-27.xml", "sha256": "03727f207d8be219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.738.4", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Home Affairs and Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "If women in this place are to be taken as professional and serious in the job of Member of Parliament, why are the Government not proposing that, for example, women serving as officers in the armed forces, women barristers and others also work nine to five so that they can get home to cook the fish fingers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-27.738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Derek Foster", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Foster", "preceding_text": "I welcome my right hon. Friend and her colleagues to their new positions and welcome the new Department, but I also pay tribute to their predecessors, who did a superb job in the most difficult circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "tles of all my colleagues in the Agriculture Council, but the right hon. Gentleman will find that Ministers there have a range of different responsibilities; they are not all simply Agriculture Ministers. As for the attitude of the farming community, it has already expressed the view that it is pleased to see the farming industry's place in the food chain recognised in the title of my Department--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Julie Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am sure my right hon. Friend knows how pleased many Members are that the Queen's Speech includes reference to a Bill to promote women's representation in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is well aware that the census is still being examined--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ons and address the issues then, but, as the matter stands, let us be absolutely clear that the time available is inadequate; that this motion does not give us the opportunity to discuss the matter sufficiently; and that we ought to stand back and put our view to the Leader of the House. Remember, he holds a unique post in which he tries to hold the balance between the interests of the House and--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ittee, which reasonably justified it on the basis that it would \"allow Members to debate business after 10 pm without requiring other Members who did not wish to take part in the debate to remain in the building late at night waiting for a division which might in the event not take place.\" The experiment on deferred Divisions has already shown one clear result: many more Members are able to vote--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "the deferred Division, those five Members were able to express their view and the Members who opposed them could also all take part in the vote, when many of them would not have been able to do so had it not been for that arrangement. It is very difficult not to reach an interim conclusion that deferred Divisions have suited the interests of hon. Members and enabled many more of them to take part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.821.3", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Let me finish the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.823.6", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "I urge some caution in the course of action that my right hon. Friend proposes. I can recall several occasions in the previous Parliament when agreement on an unofficial timetable for a Bill was reached through the usual channels. However, it seems that Opposition Whips were not able to control Opposition Back Benchers--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.823.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "oing through everything that I said when we dealt with deferred Divisions and programme motions in November, as that is on the record, I shall reiterate my key objections to them. First, deferred Divisions divorce the debate from the vote. It is critical that the vote follows the debate. The ballot paper that can be handed in between 3.30 pm and 5 pm could be filled in by any third party anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "ve developed over many years. They may think that the procedures are old-fashioned and anachronistic, but Members have always been able to go through the Lobby following the debate unencumbered by the influence of any external third party. I am talking about the sort of third-party influence that was seen in the 19th century--that is going back a bit--which affected the way in which Members voted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "y emotive issues that attract especially active lobby groups or constituency activists who want to influence the way in which that Member of Parliament votes. It is quite possible that the day will dawn when the public, having finally realised the way in which our voting system has been changed, will demand to see the hon. Lady fill in her ballot paper, and might even stand over while she does it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": "I have considerable sympathy with the hon. Gentleman, who is right to link the problem to that period and to the essays and contributions to the history of the House of the former Clerk of the House, Sir Edward Fellowes. We have got to find a third and better way--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "te Members' Bills is on or about 19 July . In that sense, nothing new has been proposed, but there is a departure in the motion. I am rather disappointed but, frankly, unsurprised that nobody from the Government Front Bench has sought to catch your eye, Madam Deputy Speaker, to explain to the House why that change has been made. I do not want to read anything sinister or conspiratorial into that--", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.890.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-06-28", "file": "debates2001-06-28.xml", "sha256": "a03f788ce8279b40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.891.5", "colnum": "891", "heading": "WELSH GRAND COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, notwithstanding paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 102 (Welsh Grand Committee (composition and business)) , in respect of its meeting on Tuesday 3rd July, the Welsh Grand Committee shall consist of all Members representing Welsh constituencies, together with Mr. Nigel Evans and Mr. Robert Walter.-- [Mr. Heppell.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-06-28.891.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-02", "file": "debates2001-07-02.xml", "sha256": "c6851205c6a11321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-02.2.3", "colnum": "2", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "In the run-up to the 1997 general election, the Labour party promised thousands more officers on the beat, but, as we have just heard from the Secretary of State, the reality is that the number has fallen by 1,639 while it has been in office and resignations have increased. Resignations are running at 81 per cent. across the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-02.2.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-02", "file": "debates2001-07-02.xml", "sha256": "c6851205c6a11321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-02.51.0", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness Bill", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": " use pretending that that can be achieved and that affordable housing for all can be provided unless there are careful partnerships, and careful understanding by those who decide where people will live. There must be genuine consideration of who the neighbours are. We have heard much about neighbours from hell. Every hon. Member could cite a constituency case involving a neighbour from hell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-02.51.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-02", "file": "debates2001-07-02.xml", "sha256": "c6851205c6a11321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-02.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "ed by a Liberal Member of Parliament under a Labour Government, but they were shamefully eroded by the Conservatives' Housing Act 1996. I wonder whether it was lingering shame about the 1996 Act, the results of the general election, or Wandsworth council's track record on dealing with homelessness that made the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) so uncharacteristically sour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-02.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-02", "file": "debates2001-07-02.xml", "sha256": "c6851205c6a11321", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-02.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "TEACHING VACANCIES (ADVERTISING)", "cue_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "preceding_text": "A couple of months ago, I read in bold print on the front page of The Times Educational Supplement that more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-02.116.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-03", "file": "debates2001-07-03.xml", "sha256": "97b3da3b8d64dc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-03", "file": "debates2001-07-03.xml", "sha256": "97b3da3b8d64dc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "Mr. Mayor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-03", "file": "debates2001-07-03.xml", "sha256": "97b3da3b8d64dc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "financing decisions of that Council. I commend it to the House and I hope that Conservative Members as well as Labour Members will support it. It will be something of a test of Conservative Members' readiness to listen to the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) and to engage sensibly with the serious realities of Europe. We will all be interested to see how they get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-03", "file": "debates2001-07-03.xml", "sha256": "97b3da3b8d64dc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "d to engage sensibly with the serious realities of Europe. We will all be interested to see how they get on— [Interruption.] I think that the hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison) is giving us a taste of how they will get on. High though my regard is for him, I am disappointed that, yet again, I am denied the opportunity to debate with the hon. Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-03", "file": "debates2001-07-03.xml", "sha256": "97b3da3b8d64dc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": " the impact that it would have on the rebate. For the time being, however, the outcome is entirely welcome. Before considering the detail of the debate it is worth looking at the fundamental question of why we are members of the European Union. Is it—as the hon. Member for Hertsmere seemed to suggest from time to time—to try to make a small profit and reduce our net contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-03", "file": "debates2001-07-03.xml", "sha256": "97b3da3b8d64dc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ommission working on such proposals or in member states discussing them because the British Government will veto them? I shall be happy to give way to the Chief Secretary if he will confirm that we will never accept such a VAT system. Once again, he stays in his place, so it is clear that there is another item on the Government's secret stealth agenda to transfer VAT to Brussels as a European tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-03", "file": "debates2001-07-03.xml", "sha256": "97b3da3b8d64dc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "r for Bexleyheath and Crayford (Mr. Beard) , who has some vision about Europe. The hon. Gentleman gave us a lesson on the \"Nick Clegg MEP budget process\", which he seemed to think a valuable contribution. That reminds me of why the Liberal Democrats have 52 Members of Parliament, compared with the Scottish Labour group's 55 Members. That is more than the whole Liberal Democrat parliamentary party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-03", "file": "debates2001-07-03.xml", "sha256": "97b3da3b8d64dc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "In particular, he argued that it was sensible to have more GNP-based finance than VAT-based finance. However, I question his assertion that the CAP has been brought under adequate control. I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) on his equally good maiden speech. He made an excellent and elegant contribution, which demonstrated a gracious handling of his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-03.223.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be further considered on Wednesday 11 July .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the Private Bill Office shall lay the bill on the Table of the House; That in the present session of Parliament the bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it had passed in the last Parliament, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "tate for International Development explained earlier, we are doing so much to combat AIDS in the developing world. We are also pushing forward the Kyoto protocol and we have considerably increased the amount of aid that we give the developing nations. I am afraid that I do not agree that the Americans are wrong to identify weapons of mass destruction as a genuine threat. They are a genuine threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "S in the developing world. We are also pushing forward the Kyoto protocol and we have considerably increased the amount of aid that we give the developing nations. I am afraid that I do not agree that the Americans are wrong to identify weapons of mass destruction as a genuine threat. They are a genuine threat. [Interruption.] We need to be prepared to look at all systems that are necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can. There are plenty of issues on which the Commission and the Council hold back, leaving matters to member states. We are Europeans and a huge amount of our trade depends on our membership of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e total number of member states was nine, all I can say is that of course we would have had a larger proportion of any qualified majority voting that happened then or shortly afterwards. There are now 15 member states; in future there will be 25, and eventually, if Turkey joins, there will be 28. My point, which is incontrovertible, is that Nice gives us a relative increase in our voting strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "No, I will not, because I am coming to the end of my observations. Conservative Members, too, have played their part. Their wish to deny Europe the benefits of Nice—and hence enlargement—was the main plank of their election manifesto. It was they, not the Government, who said that they wanted the general election to be a referendum on Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " from the Opposition, that we should not quibble with the results of democratic votes. The only thing that I heard from the Conservative party throughout the campaign was that the election was a referendum on Europe. As I drew to the attention of the House during debate on the Loyal Address, that has now become non-history, as the whole Conservative manifesto has been wiped off the internet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "can have an end to the nonsense that the Nice treaty is necessary. The previous Foreign Secretary made the same point, although he did not know it, in the aftermath of the Amsterdam treaty, when he announced proudly to the House that now that the Amsterdam treaty had been agreed, all the obstacles to enlargement were out of the way. Suddenly we find that there is another obstacle: the Nice treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.278.4", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "to do is to extend the areas in which the majority can ride roughshod over the wishes of a minority. That is a recipe for discord, not harmony. It is a recipe for division, not unity. The view from outside the European Union beltway is revealing. The Foreign Secretary referred to the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic; I shall quote the Speaker of the Czech Parliament, Mr. Václav Klaus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "nd disconnection and the demographic challenges of enlargement and of a globally competitive marketplace. Just as we were right about Nice, by contrast with a Government whose thinking is now frozen in time, we are now looking to the future. Our view is of a modern, outward-looking and democratically supported EU which Britain can help to shape. By contrast, at Nice, yet another opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ord, South (Mike Gapes) made extremely interesting speeches, too. We heard excellent maiden speeches to which I want to pay fulsome tribute. The hon. Member for Guildford (Sue Doughty) made her constituency sound almost as attractive as Neath. I very much welcomed her victory when I saw it come up on the television screen on the night, although Nick St. Aubyn was a very valued Member of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Spinning jenny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "or Leigh (Andy Burnham) made an eloquent maiden speech, especially about the industrial tradition which is at the root of his constituency and from which his predecessor, Lawrence Cunliffe, sprang. He was a valued Member and is much missed on the Labour Benches. My hon. Friend the Member for Leigh has a dispute with my boss, the Foreign Secretary, about where the spinning ferry was invented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-04", "file": "debates2001-07-04.xml", "sha256": "daf89535f2a9f57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Neath?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Union. That will continue to happen through enlargement. If the Tories got their way on blocking the Nice treaty, we would insult our friends and allies, including the Cypriots, Maltese, Czechs, Lithuanians, Poles and others, many of whom my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I have been meeting in recent weeks and days. They desperately hope to join and want us to sign up to Neath—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-04.357.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.385.5", "colnum": "385", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "preceding_text": "How will the Learning and Skills Council increase participation in post-16 education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "se I was a resident in Islington in the late 1980s when she was presiding over that shambles of a council. Indeed, it led to a legacy in education that resulted in none other than the Prime Minister ensuring that his own children no longer went to Islington schools—but I shall move to a serious point. We shall discuss in the House this afternoon the whole issue in relation to our allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.409.6", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "More frequently, we are accused of using our record majority in a way that is inconsistent with parliamentary democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.409.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Members' Allowances, Insurance &c.", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "This is a matter for the House to decide, and the House's decision will be one that I personally would take as binding on me as Leader of the House. I would not argue with that judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Members' Allowances, Insurance &c.", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "This is a matter for the House to decide, and the House's decision will be one that I personally would take as binding on me as Leader of the House. I would not argue with that judgment. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Members' Allowances, Insurance &c.", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "owever, it will be at the disposal of the individual Member until the end of any general election. I stress that it is part of the provision that it should be used only for parliamentary functions, not party political purposes. While it may be right that a Member's staff should continue to deal with constituency correspondence during an election, equipment should not be used for election purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Members' Allowances, Insurance &c.", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "House authorities have anticipated the passage of this motion in relation to procurement and have already entered into a contract with Compaq. The Leader of the House knows that I have in my constituency a major computer manufacturer, evesham.com, which makes the Vale range of computers. It was excluded from bidding for the contract. Indeed, I think that all other manufacturers were also excluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Members' Allowances, Insurance &c.", "cue_speaker": "Ernie Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ernie Ross", "preceding_text": "ld do and increase the salaries of our staff each year, we must then increase their pensions as well—and the pension company, whichever it is, rips off the public purse by taking a percentage of the increase as a service charge. The sooner our staff are on a proper superannuation scheme, the better. I do not want to labour the point, as I think it important for us to reach 4 pm very quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.451.5", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Members' Allowances, Insurance &c.", "cue_speaker": "John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "Of course, one accepts that that is true, but we are comparing the parliamentary career with the situation of people outside. If someone in employment as an accountant or a lawyer—a large proportion of Members are lawyers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.461.4", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Members' Allowances, Insurance &c.", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "and Shepherd's Bush, we take no view. It is for the House to decide and for Members to judge in the light of their experience. I have already told my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Betts) that I am willing to put the additional cost to the SSRB and to invite them to respond urgently. I am pleased that he regards that as a tempting offer; I hope that I can tempt him further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.461.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "As I understand the motion, there is nothing to prevent those two Select Committees, should they choose to do so, from examining some work together. I look forward very much to working with the hon. Gentleman on some of these issues. I hope that he will return to the Modernisation Committee in which he played a distinguished and very creative role in the previous Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "ments. I apologise for the length of one and the brevity of the other. The complexity of our Standing Orders means that it is hard to express one's intention in plain words. The intention is that the smaller variety of Select Committee should be increased in size so as to have two representatives from third and minority parties. The purpose is not to seek a benefit for the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.489.5", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "It is always as well to do the sums before making such an intervention. In fact, a higher proportion of Liberal Democrat Members than Conservatives is now present in the Chamber. I am not sure that the argument is won entirely on statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.489.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-05", "file": "debates2001-07-05.xml", "sha256": "cca75d579506ac80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "DEREGULATION AND REGULATORY REFORM COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "n made, That Mr. Russell Brown, Mr. David Chaytor, Brian Cotter, John Cryer, Mr. Jeffrey M. Donaldson, Mr. Paul Goodman, Andy King, Dr. Ashok Kumar, Mr. Andrew Love, John McDonnell, Mr. Denis Murphy, Dr. Doug Naysmith, Mr. Peter Pike, Mr. Andrew Rosindell, Mr. Anthony Steen, Ian Stewart and Brian White be members of the Select Committee on Deregulation and Regulatory Reform.—[ Mr. Heppell. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-05.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-09", "file": "debates2001-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5aa1b3946aa33b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is simply not telling the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-09", "file": "debates2001-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5aa1b3946aa33b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "That is not quite the Government's position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-09", "file": "debates2001-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5aa1b3946aa33b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman back to the House—although he could possibly have spent the interim period reading about the arrangements for the European Union and NATO more carefully. Had he done so, he would have identified the fact that operational planning will be a matter for NATO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.534.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-09", "file": "debates2001-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5aa1b3946aa33b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed tomorrow. —[Mr. Caplin.]", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 28 June ], That Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 26th October, 2nd, 23rd and 30th November 2001, 11th, 18th and 25th January, 15th March, 12th and 19th April, 10th May, 21st June and 19th July 2002.— [Mr. Caplin.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.633.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-09", "file": "debates2001-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5aa1b3946aa33b2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "DEREGULATION AND REGULATORY REFORM COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ion made, That Mr. Russell Brown, Mr. David Chaytor, Brian Cotter, John Cryer, Mr. Jeffrey M. Donaldson, Mr. Paul Goodman, Andy King, Dr. Ashok Kumar, Mr. Andrew Love, John McDonnell, Mr. Denis Murphy, Dr. Doug Naysmith, Mr. Peter Pike, Mr. Andrew Rosindell, Mr. Anthony Steen, Ian Stewart and Brian White be members of the Select Committee on Deregulation and Regulatory Reform. —[Mr. Caplin.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-09.633.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.646.6", "colnum": "646", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I made it perfectly clear during last week's debate on the European Communities (Amendment) Bill that the Irish people's decision in the referendum meant what it said—that they had rejected membership of the Nice treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.646.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.646.6", "colnum": "646", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "it perfectly clear during last week's debate on the European Communities (Amendment) Bill that the Irish people's decision in the referendum meant what it said—that they had rejected membership of the Nice treaty. [Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] I cannot remember whether the right hon. Gentleman was in the Government at the time, as he was in and out so often; but in 1992, when he may have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.646.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "It is not about delaying the Bill; it is about the principle of the thing. At the General Affairs Council in mid-June, we agreed that we would stick to the text of the Nice treaty, while providing Ireland—if we could—with some accommodation in respect of its worries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.647.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What benefits?", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "upport EU enlargement do not take lightly the Irish voters' rejection of the Nice treaty? Does he agree that one of the main issues is that the EU as an institution must be much more democratically accountable? Is it not important that we engage with Europe, as we will lose massive economic benefits in manufacturing in each of our constituencies if we do not ensure that EU enlargement takes place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "d his so badly, but no one could say that it did not have any impact. I assume that since the election, he has not spoken to everyone who voted to find out whether it had any impact on them. As everyone knows, the reality is that he would not put statements into newspapers in Northern Ireland in the run-up to elections if he did not believe that they had some influence on the people who read them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nor does the SDLP.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "Indeed, but the hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) has made a big error. The SDLP was arguing not that proportional representation would be for its benefit but that it would be for the benefit of the people of Northern Ireland. The real problem for the hon. Gentleman is that, much though he represents his party, he does not represent the whole of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Over 60.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "s what we should do, and it is what we will do. That is why we shall take advantage of the fact that other people can use forms of identification, such as the driving licence with a photograph and passports, that cannot easily be forged. The hon. Member for Belfast, East suggested using the travelcards that, I understand, will shortly be issued to all people in Northern Ireland over the age of 65.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.736.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 11 July , pursuant to Order [ 28 June 2001 ].", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.765.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.765.7", "colnum": "765", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "With permission, I shall put together motions 6 to 12.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.765.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.766.8", "colnum": "766", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 11 July , pursuant to Order [ 28 June 2001 ].", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118(6) (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) , That the draft Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001, which was laid before this House on 26th June, be approved.— [Mr. Caplin.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.766.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.766.11", "colnum": "766", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 11 July , pursuant to Order [ 28 June 2001 ].", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118(6) (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) , That the draft Life Sentences (Northern Ireland Consequential Amendments) Order 2001, which was laid before this House on 26th June, be approved.— [Mr. Caplin.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.766.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-10", "file": "debates2001-07-10.xml", "sha256": "fc625273086c8916", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed tomorrow.—[Mr. Caplin.]", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 28 June ], That Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 26th October, 2nd, 23rd and 30th November 2001, 11th, 18th and 25th January, 15th March, 12th and 19th April, 10th May, 21st June and 19th July 2002.— [Mr. Caplin.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-10.767.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.775.6", "colnum": "775", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be further considered on Wednesday 18 July .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Private Bill Office shall lay the Bill on the Table of the House; That in the present session of Parliament the Bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it had passed in the last Parliament, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages.— [ The Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.775.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": " he also aware that patients are being ripped off by the consortium, with extortionate charges being made for television and telephone usage, and that they even have to hire vases for flowers? Unbelievably, many patients suffer the indignity of having to walk from their ward to the theatre for their operation, because the private consortium charges £30 for a portering service. Is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "n his new role? Will he join me in congratulating all who work in or raise funds for hospices, particularly the children's hospice movement? There are 24 children's hospices in this country and they get an average of about 5 per cent. Government funding, but the children's hospice, Littlehaven, in Castle Point, receives only 2 per cent. Government funding. I make no political point in this at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.786.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.787.3", "colnum": "787", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "when I try to raise the issues of falling police numbers, low police morale and poor detection rates in Sussex in the House, I am fobbed off by Ministers with the assertion that it is a matter not for them, but for the chief constable, yet only a few days ago his right hon. Friend the Home Secretary took it upon himself, in effect, to sack the chief constable of Sussex by means of a press release?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "n persuaded by that argument. Anyone who has faced 50 minutes of cross-examination by the late Mr. George Carman QC realises that delay does not necessarily equal scrutiny, and that a point of any substance can be made succinctly, effectively and in a short time. I am convinced that the official Opposition are anxious not to scrutinise the Bill but to ensure that it never reaches the statute book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "utes of cross-examination by the late Mr. George Carman QC realises that delay does not necessarily equal scrutiny, and that a point of any substance can be made succinctly, effectively and in a short time. I am convinced that the official Opposition are anxious not to scrutinise the Bill but to ensure that it never reaches the statute book. [Interruption.] That is a perfectly legitimate position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "It is a crying shame, and no great tribute to the Minister for Europe that he should come to the House this afternoon to commend to it quite the most draconian truncation of debate on an important constitutional measure that we have seen for some considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "y meaningful sense. That is not a matter about which people should joke or skit. It is of the first importance. I want to say to the Minister for Europe, with whom it is always a pleasure to joust in the House, that it is especially insulting that the Government have proposed to proceed with such a severe circumscription on the time for debate in the light of the decision of the people of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Gentleman for not responding to that point. I will happily do as he asks. I will be interested in the extra overtime required from the Foreign Office to deal with his points. He may want to table a parliamentary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — 1st Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "mber for West Suffolk said that the Government did a bad job in Nice, but did not go on to explain the logic by which, on a case-by-case basis, the extension of QMV was a bad thing. If there is an ideological principle I have yet to hear it. If the case is based simply on dogma, perhaps nothing has changed in that wing of the Conservative party, as represented by Mrs. Thatcher all those years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "mbers of Parliament. I have a letter written in 1995 from yet another contender for the Conservative party leadership, in which he set out his reply to me with respect to the questions that are before us under the Nice treaty. It shows the evolution of the thought processes and policy making en route to the present debate. The letter went, \"Thank you for your letter\" I am paraphrasing a little bit", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I was brought up at school only 15 miles from Preston, so perhaps I should remember that from now on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "or through article 5, the US and NATO—the EU is capable of producing no such defence capacity. By the way, it is also well understood that, time and again, the British forces are regarded as the linchpin to enable the delivery of a European capacity. So we are in deep territory. I know that the Minister is extremely intelligent and well versed in such matters—at least, he soon will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.889.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.890.9", "colnum": "890", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 28 June ], That Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 26th October, 2nd, 23rd and 30th November 2001, 11th, 18th and 25th January, 15th March, 12th and 19th April, 10th May, 21st June and 19th July 2002.—[ Mr. Caplin. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.890.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "DEREGULATION AND REGULATORY REFORM CTTEE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr. Russell Brown, Mr. David Chaytor, Brian Cotter, John Cryer, Mr. Jeffrey M. Donaldson, Mr. Paul Goodman, Andy King, Dr. Ashok Kumar, Mr. Andrew Love, John McDonnell, Mr. Denis Murphy, Dr. Doug Naysmith, Mr. Peter Pike, Mr. Andrew Rosindell, Mr. Anthony Steen, Ian Stewart and Brian White be members of the Select Committee on Deregulation and Regulatory Reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.890.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-11", "file": "debates2001-07-11.xml", "sha256": "95d0ac7118c8559b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "White Waltham Airfield", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "t the use of the site at night. The local planning authority has powers to take enforcement action if the terms of the planning permission are breached. If a local authority's purpose cannot be achieved through a planning condition, it may seek to enter into a planning obligation under section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to restrict or regulate the development or use of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-11.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "We certainly intend to take Lord Haskins' suggestions seriously. I note that Francis Maude, when he was a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "We certainly intend to take Lord Haskins' suggestions seriously. I note that Francis Maude, when he was a Minister—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] Is he still in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "I, too, welcome the hon. Gentleman to his position as Minister. It gives me especial pleasure, as I think that I top him by about a quarter of an inch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.919.4", "colnum": "919", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A brain what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "urial education for science and engineering students. A £15 million fund is available for a further round of the university challenge to enable good universities to access seed funds, which will assist in the transformation of good research into good business. In addition, we are doing more to make sure that scientists will be rewarded. We are working to produce a brain gain in the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.919.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I look forward with the keenest of interest to our debate on Monday. I am happy to give the hon. Lady the assurance that she seeks. On the Labour Benches, the vote on who should be a member of a Select Committee will be a free vote. This is a House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "e on who should be a member of a Select Committee will be a free vote. This is a House of Commons— [Interruption.] If the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) will let me finish my sentence, I think that I shall be able to satisfy him. This is a matter for the House and it is right that the House should decide who should be members of the Select Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for being so effective after my intervention yesterday afternoon when he was carrying out his caretaker role. I asked for an early decision on the Hastings bypass, and it was made at about 12.30 pm today. Unfortunately, it was the wrong decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " example of the Government's commitment to open scrutiny. I note also that my hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) is again on the Select Committee on Health—he was robust and vigorous in his scrutiny in that Committee in the last Parliament—and that my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin) has been appointed to the Select Committee on Home Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.942.6", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend helpfully makes it clear that there is more than one view on this matter, and I am grateful for that observation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.942.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that I see the way forward as reverting to a vote on the document from the last Parliament, as the Liaison Committee itself may well have a different composition in this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Post-16 Education", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "that all AS-level results will be published on 16 August . But we need to go further, as the question is not simply about how many exam papers the students should sit at one go, which is what the Government have addressed so far. The real question is whether the interim exam is needed or whether it is an exam too far. For a long time, I have been a strong advocate of the gold standard of A-levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.960.4", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Post-16 Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "of my remarks hit home on the Conservative Benches, they were not directed at the hon. Gentleman, whose record as a speaker on behalf of further education is impeccable. It is a great pity that the Conservatives did not consult him when they were writing their manifesto. May I finish my explanation? The manifesto does not mention the 250,000 college lecturers and the 200,000 support staff, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.960.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Post-16 Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ostensibly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "That is an insulting intervention from such an ostensibly intelligent Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Post-16 Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "That is an insulting intervention from such an ostensibly intelligent Member—[Hon. Members: \"Ostensibly?\"] I use my words advisedly. Nothing has been said during this debate from any Bench that suggests that we want to undermine academic excellence. That is not the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Post-16 Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "said during this debate from any Bench that suggests that we want to undermine academic excellence. That is not the case— [Interruption.] It is certainly not what we want. If the hon. Gentleman is saying that the baccalaureate is used in some countries, in some areas or in the private sector as a route to academic excellence and broadening, I should like to explore that in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.966.5", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Post-16 Education", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "We could spend all afternoon trading statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.966.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "The Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "over planning policy? Is it not extraordinary that something described as a Department for the Environment is not responsible for planning? Does the right hon. Lady understand that the decision in last year's rural White Paper to remove protection for the best and most versatile farmland reinforced the fear that the Government do not regard the survival of farming as important to Britain's future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "The Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ral Democrats' insistence—for two years. In the past two weeks, my Liberal Democrat colleague, Scotland's Minister for Rural Development, Mr. Ross Finnie, has produced a useful forward strategy for Scottish agriculture that contains some valuable pointers. Particularly welcome is the rebalancing of £70 million in recognition of the fact that farmers need to diversify their income base.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-12", "file": "debates2001-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a554b4be5f5669a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "The Countryside", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "onment, Food and Rural Affairs was hardly churlish to criticise the opening speech of the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo) , given that it was a rather pathetic attempt to promote the old myth that the Conservative party is interested in the countryside. I must point out that it is Labour that has a practical and positive engagement with the needs of rural communities and the rural economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-12.1030.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-13", "file": "debates2001-07-13.xml", "sha256": "53bb8868532095ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-13.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Small Firms", "cue_speaker": "Brian Cotter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Cotter", "preceding_text": "pecially as there are fears that the manufacturing industry is in the doldrums. I look forward to hearing more from him. I declare an interest as managing director of a small manufacturing company. I should be running my business this morning, but I am attending the debate because I keenly anticipate the Under-Secretary making some interesting comments. I hope that my presence will be worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-13.1061.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-13", "file": "debates2001-07-13.xml", "sha256": "53bb8868532095ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-13.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Small Firms", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ping that the news is good. The Small Business Council report was produced yesterday, and I forgive the hon. Gentleman for his selective reading of it. He failed to mention the effect of the Small Business Service in lobbying in Whitehall to make sure that the proposals in the Green Paper for a supplementary business rate were defeated. That shows just how effective David Irwin and his people are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-13.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-13", "file": "debates2001-07-13.xml", "sha256": "53bb8868532095ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-13.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Small Firms", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "nment introduced some 3,000 statutory instruments, not three or 300, even in their last full year of government and after almost a decade after their attempts at deregulation. I was concerned by the example that he gave as a case of ineffective and burdensome bureaucracy and of regulation that he claimed was not welcomed by small businesses. That example was the statutory late payment regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-13.1094.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Select Committees — Accommodation and Works", "cue_speaker": "John McWilliam", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John McWilliam", "preceding_text": "No. I should make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.36.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Select Committees — Accommodation and Works", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is there.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that there are 26 Select Committees to appoint. I might have misread the Order Paper, but there does not appear to be a Select Committee on Northern Ireland Affairs. Will he explain why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Select Committees — Accommodation and Works", "cue_speaker": "John McWilliam", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is motion 30.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John McWilliam", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for North-West Cambridgeshire (Sir B. Mawhinney) is quite right—it is not there. He has asked a very sensible question and I shall find out the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Select Committees — Accommodation and Works", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "r integrity and independence is second to none, to serve the House as a member of a Select Committee is appalling. Frankly, that made me almost as angry as the exclusion of the two former Chairmen. What would Members say if we proposed that the Crown Prosecution Service not only select the judges, but appoint the juries? They would laugh such a scheme to scorn, yet in effect, the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Select Committees — Accommodation and Works", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " Select Committee on which he really wants to serve. We should have a transparent system with a proper Selection Committee and proper applications. Members of House should know who has applied, and people should be selected to serve on Committees to which they can bring proper expertise, a true interest and true diligence. The attendance record of Select Committees is not always what it should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Select Committees — Accommodation and Works", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "h they can bring proper expertise, a true interest and true diligence. The attendance record of Select Committees is not always what it should be. [Interruption.] Some hon. Members are nodding vigorously. It is important that those who are given this duty should discharge it properly, because they are acting on behalf of us all. I shall finish where I began. The Leader of the House has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "er Unionists have no fear of Assembly elections, I remind the Government that if there continues to be no movement on the arms issues, the D-word—decommissioning—will be the major factor in any election campaign. That is bound to polarise the two communities, as it did in the recent general election. If we head into elections in the autumn—as I say, we have no fear of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "e that the Minister holds out the hope of the current round of negotiations, which is now complete. We are told that the two Governments are to go away and draw up a paper that will, according to the press—I shall be interested to hear the Minister confirm or deny this—be provided to pro-agreement parties. It would appear that the Government, indulging their fascist inclinations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.97.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 18 July , pursuant to Order [ 28 June 2001 ].", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.127.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-16", "file": "debates2001-07-16.xml", "sha256": "3e915392703a04f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.127.4", "colnum": "127", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed tomorrow. —[ Jim Fitzpatrick .]", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 28 June ], That Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 26th October, 2nd, 23rd and 30th November 2001, 11th, 18th and 25th January, 15th March, 12th and 19th April, 10th May, 21st June and 19th July 2002.—[ Jim Fitzpatrick .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-16.127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.135.8", "colnum": "135", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "verything except one point: I am only the Minister of State, not yet the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State and I have been very active in promoting the fact that Scotland is open for business. My right hon. Friend went to the Trossachs, Loch Lomond and Ben Nevis very soon after the crisis began, to illustrate the fact that they were open. I went to Stirling castle and Stirling jail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.135.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.135.8", "colnum": "135", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": " of State and I have been very active in promoting the fact that Scotland is open for business. My right hon. Friend went to the Trossachs, Loch Lomond and Ben Nevis very soon after the crisis began, to illustrate the fact that they were open. I went to Stirling castle and Stirling jail— [Interruption.] The old jail. I went to Culzean country park, and spoke to journalists in Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.135.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "tem and the voters, the people who matter, are being subsumed—it is enough to cause anyone sleepless nights. If the Government are going to say that they are going into a federal system, get on with it and say it. All the halfway-house proceeding by stealth is creating more and more uncertainty. For heaven's sake, let the Government come out of the closet and say, \"We want a federal Europe.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "are constrained by sceptical electorates—those of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom, not to mention all the others who are fed up with being driven by their elites and blackmailed into accepting money in return for the subordination of their democratic arrangements—will rue the day when the truth finally emerges. One could say much more on the subject, but I shall conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "its objective to be extending European integration, not bringing it to an end. I move to a question that I regard as of great importance: the weakening of the small countries' negotiating position. There is something pretty disgusting about the manner in which people pontificate about this European Union as if it benefits everybody in equal measure. Let us cut the cackle and get down to the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.240.6", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "No, I think that I am right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.240.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.262.5", "colnum": "262", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 18 July , pursuant to Order [ 28 June 2001 ]. Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118(6) (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) ,", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.262.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.262.12", "colnum": "262", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 28 June ], That Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 26th October, 2nd, 23rd and 30th November 2001, 11th, 18th and 25th January, 15th March, 12th and 19th April, 10th May, 21st June and 19th July 2002.—[ Jim Fitzpatrick ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.262.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-17", "file": "debates2001-07-17.xml", "sha256": "14f1f4fba595c080", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.262.14", "colnum": "262", "heading": "PETITION — Northern General Hospital, Sheffield", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "I wish to present to the House a petition from 62,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-17.262.14"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Wednesday 17 October .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ill Office shall lay the bill on the Table of the House; That in the present session of Parliament the bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it had passed in the last Parliament, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages.—[ The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.277.7", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": " view of that breach of the ceasefire and the revelations that the IRA at the highest level was involved in importing arms, will the right hon. Gentleman tell us why he continues to negotiate the future of Northern Ireland with IRA-Sinn Fein, which are in clear breach of their ceasefire, and exclude representatives of the Democratic Unionist party, which has more votes and more seats in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.277.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.280.4", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ss that I never thought the right hon. Gentleman was that keen on our annual reports when we did publish them—but what we do, of course, is publish all the results of the things we have done during the year, and the things we have not done, as well. Those are the things about which the right hon. Gentleman has asked me in the more than 1,000 questions that he has asked from the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "\"Where is it?\" is indeed the question. As the Prime Minister has abandoned the annual report as a way of holding the Government to account, what about the traditional way of holding the Government to account? What about Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Well, for the whole Government to resign immediately would be a rather extreme step to take over AS-levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.281.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More ballots.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Sir Michael Spicer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.288.4", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Boom and Bust.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "management of the economy by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, our public finances are in a very healthy state. Therefore, unlike the Conservatives, who want to cut investment we can put money into schools, hospitals, transport and the police. The other reason that we have managed to run the economy successfully is that we have avoided the age-old Conservative problem of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "fect in\" and insert \"be incorporated in the domestic law\". There is a nice distinction there, but I do not want to press it too much, because I know that my hon. Friend the Member for West Suffolk and his colleagues took the right approach—or at any rate had the right intention. There is a bigger problem. When the treaty goes through by way of incorporation in domestic law, it follows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I will only say that the Tory MEPs managed to ambush the project, but the triumph did not last long: it was all over the next day following a procedural motion. The proposal raises some important questions. As I have said, the British Conservative party clearly does not qualify under the arrangements proposed in the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "European Communities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " to do as we like about foreign policy. We pool our sovereignty through our membership of NATO. We thus give up our right to do as we like to defend our country. However, we gain in strength and influence by pooling sovereignty. My right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead said that he believed that enlargement could proceed without the Nice treaty. I suppose that that is theoretically possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.379.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-18", "file": "debates2001-07-18.xml", "sha256": "151d22ea3323ba2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 28 June ], That Private Members' Bills shall have precedence over Government business on 26th October, 2nd, 23rd and 30th November 2001, 11th, 18th and 25th January, 15th March, 12th and 19th April, 10th May, 21st June and 19th July 2002.—[ Jim Fitzpatrick.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-18.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Given the record of Conservative Members, I do not think that Dr. Faustus would have got through the first round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman speaks for himself and says that he does not attach importance to poverty reduction, the world trade round or tackling the AIDS epidemic in Africa, with which my right hon. Friend will be dealing on Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.436.4", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He wants more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I stress to the right hon. Gentleman that there is no point in the House asking for proposals and then objecting to the Committee that is plainly the logical body to introduce them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.436.6", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister did not hide behind the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.436.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Bowman Contract", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "l the House, precisely and unambiguously, the in-service date for the system? In what respects have the specifications, which CDC will be working to, been altered from those to which the Archer consortium was asked to work? In other words, to what extent have the specifications been set back in the past year? How much public money will the Government have to write off because of the Archer fiasco?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Bowman Contract", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "need reminding about the collapse of the competition in 1996 and the decision in March 1997—we all know when the general election was held that year—to pursue a single source procurement with Archer Communications Systems Ltd. All those are matters of fact, and I find it astonishing that the hon. Gentleman should choose to comment on them when he lives in a very large greenhouse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "We save the very best for these debates. I should clarify that my comments were about the right hon. Gentleman's personality not his sartorial elegance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept that. The Chief Constable of Northern Ireland himself said that the vast bulk of the Patten recommendations were about \"good and effective policing.\" The Government and the police are keen to move forward to introduce such modern effective policing in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "es, it has not been possible to establish the Policing Board, which we regret. I have warm words for the full-time reserve. The hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson) referred to morale in policing, yet he then came out with the unfounded and inaccurate comment that the full-time reserve will be wiped out. The position is as I set it out yesterday. It will be phased out, but only when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.504.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the business motion. The Question is as on the Order paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.505.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the motion on deferred Divisions. The Question is as on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.506.3", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "oking around the Chamber, I see colleagues smiling and anticipating their buckets and spades. So what is the rush? Why do the Government feel it necessary yet again to impose an arbitrary time limit of 90 minutes on an important debate? I judge from the number of hon. Members present that there is going to be quite a lot to be said in that 90 minutes, so I have no intention of detaining the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "That is true. When the hon. Gentleman is a member of the Government, as I am sure he will be shortly when his talents are recognised by the Prime Minister, he knows that he will have to face the same dilemma—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-19", "file": "debates2001-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7ba09cc3da421f8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "e world, of the universe, of the House of Commons and of my role has changed since 1992. That may come as a revelation to the hon. Gentleman—I know that he is a bit slower on the uptake than most of us. However, I remind him that as I have had the privilege and the pleasure of four years in opposition, of which I have enjoyed every minute, and that as I propose to continue enjoying it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-19.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-20", "file": "debates2001-07-20.xml", "sha256": "1dcb321d4f1b64e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "nt psychiatrist who is looking for a job elsewhere. There is an absolute crisis. Last night, I asked one of the graduate teachers, who is 27, what he did before going on the programme. He was a paramedic, so I asked why he had left the job. He said, \"Because the pay was absolutely appalling.\" According to him, paramedics start on one level and 25 years later, apparently, they receive the same pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-20", "file": "debates2001-07-20.xml", "sha256": "1dcb321d4f1b64e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "en completely diminished. There is a great cry for modernisation, but modernisation has not encouraged people to come out and vote. What happened with the Select Committees is an absolute disgrace and if the stories in the newspapers about my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) not being approved as Chairman of the International Development Committee because he is a Catholic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-20", "file": "debates2001-07-20.xml", "sha256": "1dcb321d4f1b64e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More experienced Members\"", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "simple faith in our ability to change people's behaviour, but it is nothing more than a simple faith in democracy, which is another way of saying a simple faith in people. We all know that politics does make a difference. We must convince our younger constituents of that. I am convinced that we can do so if we try harder. I would not like older Members—for want of a more gentle phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-20", "file": "debates2001-07-20.xml", "sha256": "1dcb321d4f1b64e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Linda Perham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Perham", "preceding_text": "n succeed. As the planning inspector is now preparing his report for the Secretary of State, I want to draw the attention of the House to the strong feelings among my constituents about the proposed development. The other matter that I want to raise in my contribution has already been referred to by the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) , who is unfortunately no longer in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-20", "file": "debates2001-07-20.xml", "sha256": "1dcb321d4f1b64e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "d of those born 65 years earlier were still alive. Today, the amount is three quarters, and by the middle of the century 90 per cent. will still be alive. Demography shows that we have a problem in future. I do not want to go on for too long because several hon. Members wish to speak, but the next date in the history lesson is 5 July 1948 , when a Labour Government introduced the Beveridge report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-20", "file": "debates2001-07-20.xml", "sha256": "1dcb321d4f1b64e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "t. Those of us who are fortunate enough to live in the great British countryside—or even to represent God's own county, Devon—think that we live in beautiful a place. Today, however, through the eyes of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington we have been able to see beauty in concrete, interchanges and flyovers. There was a touch of the Betjeman about him when he was speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-20", "file": "debates2001-07-20.xml", "sha256": "1dcb321d4f1b64e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " own side for the House to have an opportunity to consider matters relating to the tube in more detail. My hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) spoke about teacher shortages, to the point at which he believes that part-time education will become a reality in his constituency unless something is done urgently. He gave us notice that he would have to disappear early, as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-07-20", "file": "debates2001-07-20.xml", "sha256": "1dcb321d4f1b64e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "generations, and for them all to have an input. But I am a bit fed up with people dismissing those in the grey power group. We are in the prime of our lives. Britain cannot afford to be without us. We have a lot to contribute both in the House and among our constituents. The hon. Gentleman did the nation a great service today by speaking up for grey power. I notice that he is not yet grey himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-07-20.587.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-09-14", "file": "debates2001-09-14.xml", "sha256": "dd97ddbeb18ce9ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-09-14.614.4", "colnum": "614", "heading": "International Terrorism and Attacks in the USA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that there is a world of difference between standing shoulder to shoulder with the American people in their fight for justice and hanging on to the coat tails of an American President whose first act when firefighters stood 10 ft tall in the rubble of the World Trade Centre was to scurry off to his bunker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-09-14.614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-09-14", "file": "debates2001-09-14.xml", "sha256": "dd97ddbeb18ce9ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-09-14.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "e is a failure to consult adequately on general policy. The chances of a solution would be weakened if one stepped outside a reasonably international solution. In a related and final reflection, there will, of course, be some form of military response which, I trust, will not be an invasion of Pakistan; we know its topography and the history of this country's involvement in the 19th century—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-09-14.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-04", "file": "debates2001-10-04.xml", "sha256": "b12231749701856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-04.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Coalition against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Will the President, I mean the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-04.685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-04", "file": "debates2001-10-04.xml", "sha256": "b12231749701856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-04.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I have a feeling that my right hon. Friend has been waiting for some time to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-04.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-04", "file": "debates2001-10-04.xml", "sha256": "b12231749701856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-04.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I have a feeling that my right hon. Friend has been waiting for some time to say that. [ Laughter. ] Which dish is it that is best served cold?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-04.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-04", "file": "debates2001-10-04.xml", "sha256": "b12231749701856e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-04.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "e world as nations respond to the obligations of the UN Security Council resolution 1373, taking the necessary measures to suppress the financing of terrorists and denying them a safe haven from which to operate. We recognise the powerful points made by my hon. Friend the Member for Clydebank and Milngavie (Tony Worthington) and my right hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, East (Donald Anderson) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-04.808.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-08", "file": "debates2001-10-08.xml", "sha256": "b8d452a23b09b150", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-08.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Coalition against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "In my right hon. Friend's excellent speech last week at the Labour party conference he referred to the inalienable US citizens' rights enshrined in the US constitution. When will British citizens be given a written constitution so that Parliament, not a Prime Minister, authorises a declaration of war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-08.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-08", "file": "debates2001-10-08.xml", "sha256": "b8d452a23b09b150", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-08.825.5", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Coalition against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "preceding_text": "een and will be crucial in the fight against international terrorism? Does he agree that it has perhaps not been sufficiently appreciated in the west that there have been more Russian lives lost as a result of extremist terrorism than there were British lives lost in New York a few weeks ago? Does not this provide a real opportunity for a better alliance and future with our Russian comrades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-08.825.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-08", "file": "debates2001-10-08.xml", "sha256": "b8d452a23b09b150", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-08.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. There is growing disquiet that for the third time Parliament has been recalled yet hon. Members have been denied a vote on this war. Can you confirm to me that there will be no vote? Is it in order for hon. Members to vote on an Adjournment debate if similar occasions arise, when we are denied a substantive motion by the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-08.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-08", "file": "debates2001-10-08.xml", "sha256": "b8d452a23b09b150", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-08.834.4", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Coalition against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "h I must say that, short of sleep last night, I did watch the programme and I thought that it was a very interesting contribution to the debate. Neither the United States nor any of her partners wanted to take military action. The United States sought a peaceful solution. We gave it our full support in its tireless diplomatic efforts. The Taliban had every chance to avoid what happened last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-08.834.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.918.4", "colnum": "918", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "Following a request by my hon. Friend and his local council leader, I have agreed to go to his constituency on 8 November to discuss the pensions strategy and our wider plans for older people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.918.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Anti-terrorism Measures", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It needs a serious answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "That was very entertaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which market?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "these proposals with the industry's key players. We are clear that it is important for the new structure to provide strong strategic leadership; a cut in the burden of day-to-day interference; an end to the self-defeating system of penalties and compensation; clearer accountability; and an end to perverse incentives. The new company that we shall propose would be able to raise funds in the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Everyone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": " billion. That is just half of what is due from the Government's plan. Where is the £34 billion of private investment to come from? The best we can hope for is a 12-month delay in investment in such vital services as the west coast and east coast main lines, Thameslink 2000 and the train protection system. For 12 months, nothing much will happen—and who will trust the Government again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "hy did the right hon. Gentleman not mention this on \"Breakfast with Frost\"? Was it because he forgot? Let us consider the plight of the ordinary investor. If the right hon. Gentleman had seen today's edition of The Sun , he would have read about a 33-year-old signalman from Middlesbrough who had worked for Railtrack and British Rail since leaving school at 17. He owns 6,870 Railtrack shares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.962.5", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "What is very instructive is how some of the main architects of the crisis that was Railtrack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.962.5", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "What is very instructive is how some of the main architects of the crisis that was Railtrack—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] I shall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should probably be aware that passenger numbers are up not because of privatisation but because of the strength of the economy and the fact that more people are in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-15", "file": "debates2001-10-15.xml", "sha256": "de596e69c42fe129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "to many of his right hon. and hon. Friends. I am happy to begin on a note of common ground with the right hon. Gentleman and say that we will have repeated debates on the issue of terrorism. The issue will be very much before the nation and before the House. Whenever appropriate, we will return to it in debates. I would expect many right hon. and hon. Members to welcome the debate on Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-15.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-16", "file": "debates2001-10-16.xml", "sha256": "ecbb83ad1fcfc6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-16.1044.4", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "No, the Conservative party did. Under the Conservative Government, 60,000 beds were lost in the NHS, and the hon. Gentleman is quite wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-16.1044.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ill Office shall lay the bill on the Table of the House; That in the present session of Parliament the bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it had passed in the last Parliament, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages.— [The Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1166.8", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "If that is the case, why does the same British Medical Association survey show that nine out of 10 GPs believe that the Prime Minister's reforms are unachievable, and two thirds think that his plans will do nothing to improve care for patients? It is not only the doctors. A constituent of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1166.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ords? His Health Secretary goes around telling everybody that the NHS will remain a state monopoly as long as Labour is in power. Labour Members are all nodding because they enjoy that. A senior Cabinet Minister is sent to tell the unions that their working practices will not change, no matter what. Is it not clear that when it comes to pleas for more time, with Labour it will be more wasted time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1172.4", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I have the advantage over the hon. Lady, as I have spoken to Ministers in those countries, not simply officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ned off 19 chapters. Cyprus is in a similar position. In the next year or so, we must redouble our efforts to make sure that the other candidates can come in, particularly those that are likely to be in the first wave. We are determined to play our part to ensure that enlargement happens on time, from 1 January 2004 . Getting the Bill through the House tonight is an important part of that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1174.7", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " batch that do so. The more countries that ratify it, the more progress can be made in securing the enlargement that we, at least, want. On the Irish decision, my hon. Friend made an important point to which I want to respond fully. Consultations have taken place between the European Union leadership, including Britain, and the Irish Government. They have asked for time to consider their position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1174.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Exactly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The answer, for the record, is that common agricultural policy reform is not necessary for enlargement. It is not necessary: it is desirable. It is not technically necessary, however. In any case, the treaty does not deal with common agricultural policy reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1201.3", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that I was an hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "f toasters in the UK, and we would have to produce a better toaster. That is my rather basic understanding of the free market, but that was not the route taken by the European Community. It took the route of harmonisation in every blessed product and service, and now it is trying to integrate harmonisation into everything else that we do. I had every hope of the single market and free trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1240.7", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "day. At that time, however, the right hon. Gentleman seemed to oppose any change. Even if that treaty had been changed, as the shadow Foreign Secretary suggested we might change this treaty in some a-la-carte way to make it acceptable, it would not have been improved in his view—this is obscure, I fear. He also said that a bite from a Rottweiller hurts just as much as a bite from a Pekinese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1240.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1247.2", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, he has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": " want the Minister to address that concern and would welcome an intervention by Labour MPs who represent Scottish or Welsh constituencies. I see that the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. Luke) has just left the Chamber. I think that he hopes to speak and I will welcome his contribution. Unfortunately, the sole Conservative Member who represents a Scottish constituency has not attended the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1247.2", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "urgh who do. It is useful to raise the problematic issues that arose when the Nice treaty was negotiated because it allows hon. Members from outside Scotland and Wales to be aware of the difficulty that we face because of the lack of representation in the UK. When the treaty was negotiated, Scottish Executive Ministers had attended only 9 per cent. of the meetings held by the Council of Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Quite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": " deploy our defences and take foreign policy decisions. We could not offer to the United States the level of unqualified diplomatic and military support that we have done in recent weeks if we had to take decisions about our foreign policy and our defence by committee across Europe. I have always counted myself a firm pro-European, but in the past 10 or 15 years Europe has moved on, rather than I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-17", "file": "debates2001-10-17.xml", "sha256": "f945efe197df972d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [4th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "No such vote was called for by my hon. Friend at the Committee stage, as I think hon. Members will agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-17.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "osition Front-Bench team to their new responsibilities, which I should have done previously. I apologise to them. I fear that the hon. Gentleman is mistaken in thinking that this procedure is innovative—it has been adopted before. I also say to him and the House that, had there been a question on the Order Paper to which I could have attached the announcement, I would certainly have done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1303.0", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome the report, which has come not a moment too soon. I am aware that it concentrates on Cumbria, but many other parts of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"One was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "Many Members on both sides of the House think that such a debate is long overdue. Will the Leader of the House examine the allocation of time for questions to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs? In the Question Time that we have just completed, it took us more than half an hour to reach a question on farming and agriculture and, indeed, no fishing questions were reached at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to devise the Opposition motion, nor do I imagine it would be welcome were I to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1319.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1321.5", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "of the Auld report since its stated publication date, but that it should be widely available from today? Given that the report proposes root-and-branch reforms to our criminal court system, the Government have rightly announced a period of public consultation until the end of next January. Can my right hon. Friend find time during the consultation period for this Chamber to debate those proposals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "tion. If she is not happy about it and finds it uncongenial, she knows the options that are open to her. On Second Reading, the Economic Secretary said: \"we achieved the most radical reform of the common agricultural policy since its inception\".—[ Official Report , 3 July 2001; Vol. 371, c. 228 .] In that respect, she was echoing what the Chief Secretary had said earlier in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " Committee, it was a bad deal. In case the Paymaster General thinks that I am inventing that, she can of course refer to the relevant report, of 29 June 1999 , at paragraph 6. I feel sure that when, at some point, she leaves the Chamber—I am not encouraging her to do so—it will be because she is going to hotfoot it to the Library to obtain a copy of the report and refer to paragraph 6.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "d politely, to address my remarks to the Economic Secretary. Before I go any further I shall say something to the Economic Secretary that I probably should have said at the outset; I have certainly said it to her outside the House. I have always regarded her as possessing a rare combination of intellectual ferocity and personal charm, so I feel flattered to be opposing her across the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "d so was the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff) , the Conservative Whip. We argued that this day's debate was not necessary, but the Government persisted in vehemently arguing that it was necessary. In the end, there was a vote in the Committee. In preparing for the debate, I thought that the Conservative spokesman would keep his or her comments short. Perhaps that was wishful thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Ministerial Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "only two Members of the House of Lords, and £117,000, by the Minister's standards, may not be much—perhaps a couple of hours' pay on the new rates that might come in with comparability. It pales into insignificance compared with the £500,000 paid by the Government to Her Majesty's Opposition in this place. It is certainly a modest figure compared with the amounts being paid here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-18", "file": "debates2001-10-18.xml", "sha256": "820b36865163f33a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1351.0", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Ministerial Salaries", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "advised that the terminology that suggests that a lesser amount might be paid is because a Minister may decide not to draw the salary, or not to draw the full salary. There is no suggestion that the Government would award a salary increase to Ministers but deprive the Opposition spokespeople of either all or part of the salary increase. If the order is agreed today, it will apply across the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-18.1351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-19", "file": "debates2001-10-19.xml", "sha256": "f1f747c74f146b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-19.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Clean Fuels", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "ely by a fuel cell. The technology is there; the question is how to translate it into an economically viable unit for production purposes. That raises some important points for Governments, and for Oppositions. It is important for the vehicle industry that we look a long way into the future—and in the far, far distant future, there may be a time when the Opposition become a Government again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-19.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "We are on course for a record, highest-ever number of police officers in England and Wales, and Essex, like other forces, is benefiting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "We are on course for a record, highest-ever number of police officers in England and Wales, and Essex, like other forces, is benefiting—[Hon. Members: \"When?\"] In the lifetime of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "BSE in Sheep (Research)", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "e information suggesting that the sample sent to the DNA lab was indeed thought to be representative of the brain pool—but we still do not know this for certain. We will not know the full facts until the audit team has reported. Let me emphasise that at that stage the only question was not whether we should make this public, but how and when. It was already clear that the SEAC meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "BSE in Sheep (Research)", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " to be representative of the brain pool—but we still do not know this for certain. We will not know the full facts until the audit team has reported. Let me emphasise that at that stage the only question was not whether we should make this public, but how and when. It was already clear that the SEAC meeting— [Laughter.] This is a serious issue, of grave concern for public health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "BSE in Sheep (Research)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "f so, when were they advised? If they did not know, why not? Will the right hon. Lady confirm that scientists told her Department early last summer that the material they were testing for BSE appeared to contain traces of bovine remains? If that is so, why did it take her two further months before she ordered DNA checks to be made? If Ministers were unsure of the validity of the experiments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "BSE in Sheep (Research)", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "were not altogether surprised that there was not much follow-up because inconclusive experiments are not usually very interesting to the press. What then happened—about two days later—was that the Opposition decided to pretend that this was in some way an attempt to conceal the facts. It was the Opposition who blew this up out of all proportion, as a supposed Government cover-up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "BSE in Sheep (Research)", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "e us clear and conclusive answers: all we are ever going to have are experimental results that narrow down the range of uncertainty bit by bit. The hon. Gentleman has done neither sheep farmers nor the British public any service whatever by his disgraceful attempt to pretend that this is anything other than—yes—a series of grave errors that cause grave concern, but I see nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "BSE in Sheep (Research)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Cunningham", "preceding_text": "or the Department and the Government? If it is the case that there was a failure to provide the proper tissues for research, we need to know that similar failures have not occurred in other research carried out in the IAH or other institutions. So will my right hon. Friend ensure that all the work that is going on in this important, sensitive and difficult area is properly and independently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "BSE in Sheep (Research)", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " have been working on material from cattle all the time. What has happened is not clear; the purpose of the independent scientific audit is to find out. The hon. Gentleman claims that \"cow\" does not appear in the press release, but \"cattle\" does. The press release states that the \"cross-checking research\" was \"to guard against the possibility of material being contaminated by cattle brains\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-22", "file": "debates2001-10-22.xml", "sha256": "6688f7ee5b3d9797", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "ABANDONED VEHICLES", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Chatham and Aylesford\".", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "em will be used to supplement the police and other enforcement agencies in detecting and deterring VED evasion. A number of pilot schemes are being run to counteract the problem of unlicensed and abandoned vehicles. We look to the success of those pilot schemes in order to roll out similar schemes nationally. The first began in Kent, as my hon. Friend said—I cannot remember his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-22.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.127.7", "colnum": "127", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "he success of devolution through the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly. A number of powers have been devolved to regional level because we have had an active regional policy in England since 1997. The difficulty and the real problem that we must now face is that decisions are being taken regionally with no democratic accountability. There is a democratic deficit in the regions of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.127.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I stand by the 2001 Labour party manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.131.4", "colnum": "131", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "First, I extend a warm welcome to the hon. Gentleman as he takes up his new responsibilities. I hope that it will not be too out of order for me to express the view that many Members on both sides of the House regret that he could not stick to his original portfolio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.139.4", "colnum": "139", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "We have taken our approach from the Stewart report, which was published on 11 May 2000 . It concluded that \"the balance of evidence indicates that there is no general risk to the health of people living near to base stations on the basis that exposures are expected to be small fractions of the guidelines.\" The report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.139.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.149.9", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ooh.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Southworth", "preceding_text": "This is just exploitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.149.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ear up some of the confusion that surrounds all those events. He has something of a record when it comes to press officers. In 1997, when he was a Minister at the then Department for Education and Employment, the press officer Jonathan Haslam resigned, reportedly after a row with the right hon. Gentleman, who had asked him to issue a press release criticising the record of the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The point is that the publication was planned the week before. The allegation made from the Dispatch Box by the hon. Member for Maidenhead is that we somehow altered the programme because of the events of 11 September . I am trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.159.9", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, but he is being very selective about which allegations he wishes to rebut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.159.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "intment of a director of communications is not made by the Secretary of State. It would be improper for me to try to influence that decision. The hon. Gentleman is showing his ignorance of how the civil service works. The appointment is made by an independent body and, as Opposition Members who have been in government will know, not by the Secretary of State. That is the truth of the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.163.5", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The record will show that I have given way on numerous occasions. I want to address the issues that Conservative Members do not want to address: why we took action against Railtrack and what we are doing with our 10-year transport plan, and for regeneration of our communities, for housing, for our regions and for local government. I shall address those issues in the time that is available to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I will give way later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Eric Varley was contemplating bringing Bernard Ingham from the Department of Energy to the Department of Industry. I did my best to persuade him not to, because I remembered Bernard Ingham's career on the Yorkshire Evening Post and the Leeds Weekly Citizen . I advise the hon. Gentleman that I am coming to one of his constituents—namely, Sir Edward Heath. We are bringing ourselves up to date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "hat would have remained the position but for a curious twist. Mr. Tom Bower, an investigative journalist, discovered the material on which inspectors and officials from the Department of Trade and Industry had worked in 1999 and publicised it in a book called \"The Paymaster\". It was only because of that that Mrs. Filkin, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, could reopen her inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.180.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "d discipline were important. The old trade union adage \"Unity is Strength\" was not merely a slogan; it was an essential requirement for us to be electable as a Government. By 1997, the Labour party was united, had a clear message and was—indeed, is—ready for Government. Some people may not agree with the Labour Government. Indeed, some of my constituents did not even vote for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.193.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "ate the issues that really matter to them. On Opposition days like this one, they would be disappointed. I see myself as the servant of Mitcham and Morden, and the majority of the work that I do as its Member of Parliament is devoted to helping the people who come to see me or write to me. I appreciate that that is my choice and I do not imagine myself as having a great parliamentary career—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.204.3", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "the introduction of advisers on such a scale have meant the erosion of the traditional check of an impartial civil service on Ministers' overweening power in a system that amounts to elective dictatorship in some people's opinion. The civil service can no longer act as a check. Cabinet government and Cabinet Committee government is dead. The Thatcher era was run on the basis of Cabinet Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the House for long, as I wish to say only a few words. I am a quiet, shy, retiring sort. I think that the key issue in all this is public perception and public trust. I want to make it absolutely clear that I support the Government's amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "With respect, tonight the Prime Minister has a pretty good excuse. I hope that this will be an historic night on which the IRA starts to decommission its weapons and, perhaps, lasting peace is brought to Northern Ireland. On the wider point, I totally agree. The Prime Minister does not vote very often and is not seen here very often, which is a great worry for parliamentary democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "ut this is a special extra point. My non-point, intermezzo point, is to offer the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Mr. Barker) the opportunity to retract the erroneous and unpleasant allegation he made about a special adviser who attempted to have the House of Lords Hansard corrected. In fact, it was a civil servant, so I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will want to take this opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The point, the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "ty of spin. It was the same general election in which we fought on what my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) notably called the longest suicide note in history. That reminds me of a letter in The Times a couple of weeks ago wondering whether the Conservatives' recent three-month leadership contest might not be the longest suicide vote in history. The point is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "ot fools, bamboozled by spin, as the Tories seem to be. The people, like the Labour Government, are obsessed with substance. Conservative Members will start bellowing and complaining if I talk about the substance—the millions of jobs that we have created, the lowest interest rates, inflation and unemployment for generations, and the new schools and hospitals being built all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "ake life miserable for residents. Money for bypasses or simply better roads that drivers would prefer is not available, despite the increase in transport budgets. The traffic problem in Hereford city is a national joke. The Liberal Democrat-controlled council is responsible for the appalling traffic jams. Without better roads, the pollution will be as bad in that beautiful city as it is in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.234.5", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "at monopolistic companies gamble with people's lives. However, it is extraordinary that the same model is to be used for the underground, and I think that some scrutiny should be given to the cavalier way in which Bob Kiley has been treated. I am curious about the appointment of Richard Bowker, who was formerly with Virgin Trains and is now to head Son of Railtrack, or whatever it is to be called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "By any standards, this has been an excellent debate. Front-Bench speakers on both sides of the House have been challenged and there have been some brave non-partisan speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "ld have any special advisers. Special advisers have served in Administrations formed by the past six Prime Ministers—three Labour and three Conservative—and they can perform a valuable and worthwhile role. That is something that the House might expect me to say because, in common with a number of Members on both sides of the House, I was a special adviser, as was the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": " that he has satisfied those who are calling for answers. I have to tell him that he has not. We have yet to hear a proper answer to the report that his special adviser swore at and lied to a journalist from The Sunday Times on 6 October , a point made powerfully by my hon. Friend the Member for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton. We have yet to be told that there will be a proper investigation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": " error—he has assumed that he is the only hon. Member in the Chamber who has a photocopy of The Sunday Times article. In fact, Jo Moore refused to answer any questions about Railtrack, so the journalist said: \"I will tell you that we are running a story tomorrow that will say Railtrack is bankrupt\". Is that untrue, or do the Government now contend that Railtrack was trading perfectly safely?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "nquiry into the reports that Jo Moore sought to involve Mr. Alun Evans in a dirty-tricks campaign against the London transport commissioner, Bob Kiley. We have certainly not had any response to the revelation made by the Chairman of the Public Administration Committee—a Labour Member, so I should have thought that Labour Members would like to listen to what one of their own has to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "d been published and we had decided to open up discussions on Railtrack, it was clear that an announcement would be made on Monday morning. Press leaks precipitated that and did not serve Ministers' interests because their weekends were thoroughly disrupted. It is improper to make such suggestions about the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence. Having served in the Ministry of Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.243.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "I have been goaded now. Does the Minister not realise the depths of despair felt by the public because the Government cannot understand that this special adviser should go and that, for the sake of parliamentary democracy, we should surely understand what is right and what is wrong? For goodness' sake, do the decent thing and make her go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-23", "file": "debates2001-10-23.xml", "sha256": "7774a5284f6a67dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.244.4", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Ministerial Conduct (DTLR)", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "I notice which side of the Chamber is cheering. For an hon. Member who experienced such support from the Labour party when he was jumping in and out of deciding whether he was going to be a candidate at the general election to demand that someone should be peremptorily sacked is, frankly, unbecoming. The debate this evening has demonstrated the sheer lack of ideas of the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-23.244.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-24", "file": "debates2001-10-24.xml", "sha256": "66e5889f0acc958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "he Private Bill Office shall lay the bill on the Table of the House; That in the present session of Parliament the bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it has passed in the last Parliament, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages.— [ The Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-24", "file": "debates2001-10-24.xml", "sha256": "66e5889f0acc958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " British people, who cannot understand why terrorists are able to hide in this country when they would not be able to do so in, for example, France. Sadly, the Home Secretary's proposals so far will not allow those who threaten our national security to be deported any quicker. Is it not true that simply locking such people up indefinitely cannot be a substitute for deporting them from our country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-24", "file": "debates2001-10-24.xml", "sha256": "66e5889f0acc958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Afghanistan (Humanitarian Situation)", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "per contained no questions on Afghanistan for International Development questions—today's were tabled in July—made the need for the statement all the more urgent. We have had four debates on the crisis, but only one has been responded to in terms of international development. That has limited our opportunity to question the Government's policy on the humanitarian aspects of the crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-24", "file": "debates2001-10-24.xml", "sha256": "66e5889f0acc958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, or the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-24", "file": "debates2001-10-24.xml", "sha256": "66e5889f0acc958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Relationships (Civil Registration)", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I oppose this ten-minute Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-24", "file": "debates2001-10-24.xml", "sha256": "66e5889f0acc958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.333.4", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will wait until I have got a little way into my speech, I will deal with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.333.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-24", "file": "debates2001-10-24.xml", "sha256": "66e5889f0acc958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "to ask whether selection procedures in political parties are currently ensuring that women who would make excellent Members of Parliament are overlooked simply because they are women or because the procedure operates against them. The Labour party's use of all-women shortlists in 1997 led to a dramatic increase in the number of women in the House, although it was challenged in the European courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-24", "file": "debates2001-10-24.xml", "sha256": "66e5889f0acc958b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "preceding_text": "d that such recourse simply does not exist in the political sphere? Although hon. Members are subject to sex discrimination legislation that is supposed to protect us, we do not receive any of its benefits. If we want to rectify the democratic deficit and low election turnouts, we have to pay attention to women such as one of my constituents, who never became involved in politics until 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-24.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.403.6", "colnum": "403", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.403.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gregory Barker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend has evidence of sabotage by the Whips, I shall be very pleased if he shares it with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend has evidence of sabotage by the Whips, I shall be very pleased if he shares it with me. [Laughter.] I honestly do not see what is hilarious about that. If my hon. Friend has evidence for a serious allegation I will, of course, pursue it. I do not see anything particularly hilarious in the Leader of the House wishing to pursue such a serious allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I put it to my hon. Friend that there is no provision for the commissioner, as he suggests, to be reappointed—I think I use his words advisedly—\"as a matter of course\". Ms Filkin was appointed on a fixed-term contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way on this point. Given the Conservative party's new-found concern about increasing participation in higher education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "What the Liberal Democrats are arguing for now is not what they were arguing for on 7 June . If the hon. Gentleman gives me a revised version of the costed proposals, I may reconsider my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "ation. I make a plea for the extension of the definition of student financial support away from HE to include FE. I also ask for some special consideration for students attending London universities and colleges. Normally, I am wholly opposed to any enhancement of educational investment in London as, by and large, it is at the expense of poorer, northern, metropolitan districts such as mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "tions of the money that they needed to retain their global status. The Liberal Democrats, on the other hand, do not have a clue. The infinite elasticity of their 1p on tax is the stuff that dreams are made of. For example, they have responded to every plea on higher education. They would abolish fees, restore grants for poor students, and open access to benefits for students in the holidays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the Social Security (Jobcentre Plus Interviews) Regulations 2001 (S.I., 2001, No. 3210) dated 21st September 2001, a copy of which was laid before this House on 26th September, be annulled. The motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "ain injury at work that means they are no longer able to do the job they have always done. They may then go on incapacity benefit. To try to get those people into some other form of work is wholly laudable. If that is what the Government are trying to do, they will have my total support, but there is an element of, \"Come for the interview on the day we say, regardless of your level of disability.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "e trying to do, they will have my total support, but there is an element of, \"Come for the interview on the day we say, regardless of your level of disability.\" [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I wait to be reassured. It is now three years down the track and I am still not reassured. the disability organisations are not reassured and Lord Ashley of Stoke is not reassured. We are waiting for that reassurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " but there is an element of, \"Come for the interview on the day we say, regardless of your level of disability.\" [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I wait to be reassured. It is now three years down the track and I am still not reassured. the disability organisations are not reassured and Lord Ashley of Stoke is not reassured. We are waiting for that reassurance. [Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"] I will in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "Regardless of how those people contacted the service in the first place, some quite intelligent people are affected by communications disorders. They cannot pick up the phone and make contact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "The article says that Joe Korner of the Royal National Institute for the Blind was worried that the Secretary of State was proposing MOT checks for the disabled. All the subsequent press coverage—and the Government have some influence on what is written about their policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "uickly and accurately and to be aware of the potential risks to the customer when legitimately withdrawing or sanctioning benefit from a person known to have a mental health problem.\" Why has not any of this been laid before the House for us to see? The Government are telling their own officials that, potentially, they will have real problems when they deal with people with mental health problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-25", "file": "debates2001-10-25.xml", "sha256": "8cc154480cd9faae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I should like to make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-25.493.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-26", "file": "debates2001-10-26.xml", "sha256": "7bb1924a53b35935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-26.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Marine Wildlife Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "preceding_text": "terest and importance to my constituency. I am sure that the Bill's promoter and, indeed, the Minister will be welcomed if they visit my constituency to find out more about why many people now regard Plymouth as the United Kingdom and European centre for marine science and technology. The hon. Member for Uxbridge is to be congratulated on his choice of Bill. I am sorry not to see him in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-26.544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-26", "file": "debates2001-10-26.xml", "sha256": "7bb1924a53b35935", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-26.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Armed Forces (Deployment)", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "mpo rising and falling as needs demand. There are no plans to put large-scale troops on the ground at the present time. That is a military judgment. Obviously, that is in line with any political objectives we may also have, but these matters have to be carefully balanced. The hon. Gentleman asked about HMS Ocean. That ship is coming back for refit, which is why it has not been retained in theatre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-26.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-29", "file": "debates2001-10-29.xml", "sha256": "03a3d6004e1d8010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Asylum, Migration and Citizenship", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " adjudication service by 50 per cent., from the current 4,000 to 6,000 cases a month. From next month, the capacity will increase to 4,500, and by next November to 6,000. Where a claim to asylum is granted we will improve the integration procedures. Where an appeal has failed, my intention is to streamline the process for removal. Those who have no right to stay must leave the country immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-29", "file": "debates2001-10-29.xml", "sha256": "03a3d6004e1d8010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Asylum, Migration and Citizenship", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "re an appeal has failed, my intention is to streamline the process for removal. Those who have no right to stay must leave the country immediately. [Interruption.] We currently have 1,900 detention places, which we will have increased to 2,800 by the spring of next year. I intend that we should expand the capacity by a further 40 per cent. to 4,000 places. Those will become secure removal centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-29", "file": "debates2001-10-29.xml", "sha256": "03a3d6004e1d8010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Asylum, Migration and Citizenship", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "terruption.] We currently have 1,900 detention places, which we will have increased to 2,800 by the spring of next year. I intend that we should expand the capacity by a further 40 per cent. to 4,000 places. Those will become secure removal centres. [Interruption.] Asylum seekers will no longer be held in mainstream prison places; I can confirm that from January next year that practice will cease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.627.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-29", "file": "debates2001-10-29.xml", "sha256": "03a3d6004e1d8010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Asylum, Migration and Citizenship", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Or be removed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will hon. Members please give the Home Secretary an opportunity to make his statement. This is an important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-29", "file": "debates2001-10-29.xml", "sha256": "03a3d6004e1d8010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes to serve on the Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-29", "file": "debates2001-10-29.xml", "sha256": "03a3d6004e1d8010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.669.3", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": ". I say to those on the Conservative Front Bench that we do not have an absolute right to subject our fathers to DNA testing to see whether they really are our fathers. Research evidence from anonymous testing suggests that the proportion of children who are not their father's child is well into double figures in urban areas. We do not have such a right and I do not believe that we should have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-29", "file": "debates2001-10-29.xml", "sha256": "03a3d6004e1d8010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "preceding_text": "ade. The Bill should be viewed not in isolation, but in conjunction with measures such as the Care Standards Act 2000, the Protection of Children Act 1999, the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000 and the establishment of a children's commissioner in Wales, all of which build on the Children Act 1989. That is one of the few progressive achievements of the ghastly 18 years that we suffered before 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-29.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " not seen. We are dealing with a process that can be triggered by a minor summary offence that leads to an individual being reported to a Crown court by a prosecutor for an investigation into the possibility of confiscation. The court has to decide whether that person has engaged in a criminal lifestyle, which is defined without limit by the Secretary of State in regulations that we have not seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "s true that there is provision for compensation if, at the end of the process, the effort by the public prosecutor fails. However, when I asked the Minister about the serious default provisions, it became clear that he was not aware that compensation can be obtained only if the persons or authorities pursuing the matter have engaged in a serious default. They do not need merely to have gone wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I have already tried to make the distinction between evidential assumptions and probity assumptions. I do not know why we are labouring the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "rough the civil courts. It is the agency's sole duty to find this money. If I remember the figure correctly, the agency is being given £45 million a year by the Minister to pursue it. That should be sufficient for about 300 executives, assuming two thirds of the payments of the agency are on salaries and that the salary cost of an executive and associated staff is about £100,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. If that is the case, I made a mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.776.5", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Why then could not the clause be more tightly drafted? Why not incorporate references to those sorts of things? United Kingdom legislation is riddled with clauses about reasonableness, so why is it not here in this instance? Part 5 of the Bill involves a series of issues, as does part 2, but this is probably more serious, and we need to consider them in detail in Committee. I am not arguing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "ry procedures. On the question of law and lawyers, may I mention judges? We are perhaps giving them too much discretion at several points in the Bill. They are unlikely to be as unsympathetic to the prosperous as we would wish them to be. They are frequently harsh on the little men and women but let off the prosperous. It is inappropriate for me to give examples in case they sue me when I get out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.799.2", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": " in the future, will be a timely reminder to the Home Office that we live in a parliamentary democracy. I may be one of only 166 Members of the official Opposition, but I am certain that the people of Cities of London and Westminster sent me to this place to stand up for the ancient freedoms of the people of this country and to hold this increasingly illiberal and intolerant Government to account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Manchester.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": " be available in Scotland to enable the Bill to proceed. That may ultimately be a matter for the Scottish Executive, but I ask Ministers to raise the matter with the Treasury to ensure that the proposal does not fall foul of the problems of underfunding. This is not a matter that should be taken lightly. The hon. Member for Wirral, West (Stephen Hesford) talked about drug traffickers in Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "n to the CPS because it was thought that there was a conflict if a body both investigated and prosecuted. My third concern relates to the confiscation orders set out in part 2. My hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset made this point clearly. The judge of a good speech is how many notes get passed from the box to the Minister, and a veritable relay went on at that stage. Notes passed like batons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to be called to speak, as I acknowledge that I have not been in the Chamber for the entire debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "l, there are some obstacles and difficulties, which were eloquently outlined by my hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) , the shadow Home Secretary. I should tell the Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, the hon. Member for Coventry, North-East (Mr. Ainsworth) , that my hon. Friend is a very clever man and he would be well advised to listen to the points that he raises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-30", "file": "debates2001-10-30.xml", "sha256": "2aaee4f87f3dd942", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "s who attempt to hide them and put them beyond the reach of the authorities. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Central Fife who, in his maiden speech, supported the Bill, as did several other hon. Members. As a Home Office Minister, I became responsible for the legislation in June this year. Since then, we have examined all the measures in detail, and listened and responded to all those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-30.846.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Bill Office shall lay the bill on the Table of the House; That in the present session of Parliament the bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it has passed in the last Parliament, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages.— [The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am genuinely seeking information and help from the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More than doubled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that there are 81 special advisers in comparison to 3,500 senior civil servants. Indeed, I can confirm that the number of special advisers has increased from 38—the number in post when we first came to office. That means that the number of advisers has almost doubled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I must say, as someone who was involved with Railtrack, but without going into individual policies, that rail privatisation was quite disastrous; to be fair, that was admitted by Conservative Front Benchers at the time. Railtrack went into administration because it had insufficient resources, not because the Government were not giving it any more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The whole House will agree with what my hon. Friend says. Many of us are receiving complaints about the many empty cars that are left in the streets. It is, indeed, a considerable problem. The statement made today by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions gives local authorities powers to remove vehicles more quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " not mind DEFRA officials bringing them the money and support that we give to the rural industry. That did not come with the Army. Both the Army and DEFRA have contributed to dealing with the difficulties in rural areas. The White Paper that we produced on rural communities is also a major contribution to improving the quality of life there. To be frank, I am not sure whether this is the last day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would not want to mislead the House, but I am not aware of any evidence that the leader of the Labour party or the then shadow Chancellor ever received money from Robert Maxwell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": "of allegations were dismissed. Once again, the conclusion that the Committee reached four years ago—I was a Committee member then—did not depend on the receipt of the money. The expectation of receiving it was sufficient to merit a declaration. My next point is brief and I make it for the sake of accuracy. Several times, the right hon. Gentleman mentioned a £300,000 cheque—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.897.2", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "In fairness, the right hon. Gentleman does my hon. Friend the Member for High Peak (Mr. Levitt) a grave injustice by saying that he is on the payroll. He is a Parliamentary Private Secretary. PPSs are not paid. He is an ordinary Back Bencher, like any other Back Bencher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.897.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "ntleman was first elected to the House in 1964. That is 27 years ago. He is a distinguished and experienced Member of the House, and he knows that anyone who was a PPS in any of those years was said to be on the payroll when it came to votes and speaking in the House. The right hon. Gentleman knows that full well. He is trying to muddy the water, which is a pity. I should have thought more of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": " full well. He is trying to muddy the water, which is a pity. I should have thought more of him. [Interruption.] The Leader of the House says that I am muddying the water. I will tell him who was muddying the water a moment ago. He was colluding with the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) to try to muddy the water by questioning the integrity of my right hon. Friend the Member for Wells—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Election Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "orthern Ireland who support the change. We will all have to work together towards that objective. If any party decides to spoil the process, that will be a consideration, but it will not deflect me from the decision that I intend to make, if it is appropriate. The decision will be made in the circumstances, and it will not help the process if we impose an unrealistic timetable at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Election Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "McGrady) said, gave a strong indication in Committee that he saw the sense of what is now being proposed in new clause 2. We know that the Minister is passionate, as we all are, about getting rid of electoral fraud in Northern Ireland. I also know that he, with his commitment to cross- community relations, will accept a good thing when he sees it, even if it originates from the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Election Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "-sense proposal that is recommended by Northern Ireland parties on a cross-community basis, as well as by the Conservative party and the Liberal Democrats. Despite a long debate in Committee, the Minister failed to convince anyone—apart perhaps from himself and some of the loyalists in his party—that the argument against the inclusion of national insurance numbers was reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-10-31", "file": "debates2001-10-31.xml", "sha256": "f9407096bc522901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Election Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. The Bill has remained largely unchanged since its introduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-10-31.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.995.3", "colnum": "995", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is upstairs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "I do not like to organise my diary on the hoof, but I could perhaps combine that invitation with my meeting with the Rolls-Royce taskforce and visit what I am told is an excellent exhibition in Amber Valley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.995.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend gave a robust and effective response. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman has come back for more, but let me give it to him. Competitive rankings are by their nature very volatile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": "on authorities in July, and published last month, on minimum aircraft seating standards? It is the first independent scientific report that states that seats in aircraft are too small for at least a quarter of the population, and that they are dangerous. The report recommends that seat spacing be increased immediately by at least 2.2 in. I recognise the problems facing the aviation industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has said that cluster bombs are not land mines, but they are in effect airborne land mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "reated with considerable scepticism. They have been completely unreliable in the past and there is no reason to believe what the Taliban are saying today. We do not take lightly the decision to deploy forces. No Government would want to put United Kingdom military personnel in harm's way. But we must not forget why we are engaged in this campaign. We must not forget what happened on 11 September .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Pathetic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "That is a softer line than the one the Prime Minister took in his speech on Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1030.6", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Yes, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1030.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "Like the right hon. Member for Walsall, South (Mr. George) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "gain, he was inaccurate. I level the same accusation at the hon. Member for Hackney, North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott) . We must make sure that we understand the use of cluster bombs. They are directed at airfields, area targets and specific targets such as armoured vehicles. They are not land mines and they are not designed to attack personnel. Also, the term \"carpet bombing\" is not accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1081.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1100.2", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1100.7", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "nd humanitarian supplies will become easier in those areas—it will be areas rather than routes. It is difficult to negotiate with the Taliban to get any co-operation to bring in food. However, all such instruments will be tried. As I said, my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South misled the country about my views without even talking to me, so I have no intention of giving way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1100.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1100.7", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Coalition Against International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "on to bring in food. However, all such instruments will be tried. As I said, my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South misled the country about my views without even talking to me, so I have no intention of giving way to him. [Interruption.] It is important that the talk of a war against terrorism be tempered by our explanations to the British people of our strategy to deal with this crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1100.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-01", "file": "debates2001-11-01.xml", "sha256": "d0fd7b74249be464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "COTSWOLD CANALS", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "I assure my hon. Friend that I should be only too pleased to update my noble Friend Lord Whitty, who has responsibility for inland waterways in DEFRA, but I also assure him that I found the scheme so interesting that, if I can take the opportunity to visit his constituency, I shall be only too delighted to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-01.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Do you not agree that it is a gross discourtesy to hon. Members when a Bill is withdrawn at such a late stage? I certainly spent some time yesterday afternoon preparing a speech for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1121.4", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "point. My hon. Friend was quite keen to ensure that we do not become bogged down in clotted cream or shepherd's pie, as it were. He reminds me that I should have said that the remarks of the hon. Member for Brent, North (Mr. Gardiner) came close to protectionism and the desire to ban imports. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention because it has taken a couple of pages off my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "e is already a link between everything in my hon. Friend's Bill, the animal welfare standards and the food safety regime: computer programmes can help to identify a product on the supermarket shelf—however it has been treated and presented—back to the field, the animal or the farm whence it came. For instance, Swedishtasty.com will explain exactly where a piece of beef came from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1125.5", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my hon. Friend. I had heard that he was a great devotee of the website Swedishtasty.com—I was delighted to discover that it was about meatballs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1128.4", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "No, I said clam. It occurred some years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1128.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention. Perhaps we will all benefit when even fewer Liberal Democrats are able to take their seats. The Bill is crucial because it gives the wherewithal for shoppers to support the farmer if they so wish. No one has to buy British, but at least the consumer would be supported by the strength of the law. Information is helpful, not destructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "ld be able to improve welfare conditions with their purchasing power and that \"Farmers can't be expected to continue to invest in improving conditions if the public won't support them at point of purchase.\" Many Labour Members signed a recent early-day motion on fox hunting because they wrongly think it is cruel, yet this Bill will do more to prevent animal cruelty on an international basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1145.0", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "hether it concerns origin or nutritional value. Hon. Members have already mentioned the issue of food allergies, and that information, too, is vital. Despite the lifestyle that we lead as hon. Members, which seems to necessitate snatching food as we can, there are many very good recipes that we could make using natural ingredients. I could share some of those recipes with hon. Members later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1150.2", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "My eyesight is not good enough to see which document the hon. Lady is holding, but the Library has brought out a good briefing paper that goes into that in great detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "salt in their tarte au citron comes from. They do not want someone in an obscure bureaucratic office to analyse whether the lemon tart is made according to Jamie Oliver's recipe, which requires 18 lemons, constituting 25 per cent. by weight of the tart, or to that of the two fat ladies—who are now singular—which involves only eight lemons, constituting less than 25 per cent. by weight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1155.3", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " of the food that they buy. At least one other hon. Member in the Chamber will have been delighted to notice that in recent years there has been a resurgence of Welsh produce across the whole country. Indeed, on a recent visit to Madrid, I was delighted to see products on which a little red dragon showed that kettle chips, lamb or other produce were from Wales, and that they were marketed as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1156.7", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am talking about clause 2(1)(b) which refers to \"where the food has more than one ingredient, particulars of the country or countries of origin of each major ingredient.\" I do not want to bore hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1156.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1158.6", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I hardly think that I would get confused by a change in numbering from the low 20s to the upper 200s, but the hon. Gentleman has undermined his case. I reiterate: the Commission acts according to precedent and it has created a clear precedent with British beef, French pork and German poultry. I am confident that the measure can get through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The point is that the article is not just on imports, but on trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " will probably say that the legislation should not be introduced because it is unfair and disadvantages countries other than Britain. I am sure that later we will hear about important advances that the Government want to make in food labelling across the whole of Europe. I know that the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar will deny this, but underlying the Bill is an anti-European sentiment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "each ingredient came from—but of course we must recognise that that could be burdensome, given that food is often sourced from different countries. That was a long answer to the hon. Lady's intervention. I thought that the Minister was intending to say something about it, too—but perhaps he feels that I have covered the ground sufficiently, and it does not need any further explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-02", "file": "debates2001-11-02.xml", "sha256": "de4a270c10076adb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Food Labelling Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "have only just become aware of this—that in 1985 the UK lost an origin labelling case under article 28. In a moment, I shall say a few words about the so-called Italian pasta case which is directly relevant to the legality of his proposals. We know from the jurisprudence from the European Court that labelling as proposed in the Bill is equivalent to a quantitative restriction on trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-02.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-05", "file": "debates2001-11-05.xml", "sha256": "95efe13fb01d6c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.8.4", "colnum": "8", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "s for England and Wales and as the premier stadium in the British Isles? When my right hon. Friend searches for an alternative to Wembley and Picketts Lock, will he examine the claims of Birmingham, Coventry and every other town in the midlands and in the rest of the United Kingdom? I hope that the process will not be rushed. It should be measured and leisurely because the millennium stable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.8.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-05", "file": "debates2001-11-05.xml", "sha256": "95efe13fb01d6c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "hat are available now, and a lottery for that area will start in the next few days. Some 12,000 people have already volunteered, and people are volunteering at the rate of 200 a week. There is a real appetite for the games' success and I have no doubt that Manchester and the north-west will ensure that, contrary to what the hon. Member for South Suffolk(Mr. Yeo) , the shadow spokesman, said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-05", "file": "debates2001-11-05.xml", "sha256": "95efe13fb01d6c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "ver the option was. The meeting was set up for 4.45 pm on the Friday, because whatever decision I took—and we did not know when it was arranged—would have been market-sensitive and had to be communicated. In relation to the involvement of the Treasury and the Prime Minister, the decision was taken in the normal way. It was a Government decision which I took on behalf of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-05", "file": "debates2001-11-05.xml", "sha256": "95efe13fb01d6c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "I cannot because they are behind me, but I know that there are far more Conservative Members present than Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-05", "file": "debates2001-11-05.xml", "sha256": "95efe13fb01d6c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-05.54.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Lady to her new responsibilities. It is a very long time since we heard a Scottish voice from the Opposition Dispatch Box at Scottish questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.93.4", "colnum": "93", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "known that she was one of my prospective constituents in 1984, I would have made a point of knocking on her door. I am sure that I would have converted her. It is interesting to note that this is the first time, I think, that two women have represented Scotland at the Dispatch Box. The fact that two Strathclyders are facing each other is also unique. Scottish education was good, even in the 1960s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.93.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.96.4", "colnum": "96", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has already visited Dundee, but I should like to take up his kind invitation. I want to go up there to say what the Government are doing for pensioners: the minimum income guarantee, the winter fuel allowance and the pension increase, which this year is higher than inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.96.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.96.6", "colnum": "96", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman, because it would have been nice to have a shadow Secretary of State who represents a Scottish constituency and who can speak from personal experience that is current, rather than from the 1960s? The Government have committed £7 million to help Dumfries and Galloway, because of foot and mouth disease. We have made a pledge that no rural post office will close unnecessarily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.96.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.110.6", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "It is not about the same matter. Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, I spent a quarter of an hour and more talking to one of my constituents, a Mr. Evans of Broughton Astley. He expressed in strong terms his feelings and those of, I understand, a quarter of a million or so other people who had invested small amounts in Railtrack. They wanted to hear answers from the Minister yesterday, and did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.110.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.119.3", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "e working extremely hard to solve the problem. That is why there was only a minor crisis in the summer. He will also find that teachers who are not qualified to teach a particular subject are increasingly being put in front of classes. That is how schools are trying to get around the crisis, and it is not ideal. The hon. Gentleman invites us to celebrate what is going on, but the NUT survey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.120.3", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "There is a problem in the length of time that it takes to hear cases against teachers, so many of whom are acquitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.120.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ask the Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Ward", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman believes that parents should have the right to choose the school, why did he support the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) when he said that he believed the Conservative party would free schools so that they could select between 20 and 40 per cent. of their pupils? Surely that is hypocritical if the hon. Gentleman believes that parents should have the choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "Of course I accept that individual schools had learning support units, but there was not a planned programme called \"Learning support units\"; that was initiated by the present Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "I have spoken for far longer than I should have done, and I want to let other hon. Members in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for highlighting one of the problems that her Government have not dealt with. Schools in my constituency happen to be in North Yorkshire, one of the 40 worst-funded authorities in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that I am rather busy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman asked that question. He will know from the note that has been placed in the Library that that will not take place until 2002-03. We are not even there yet. It is hard to pay bills from something that one might be promised in two years' time. The Chancellor also tells us that we have a war to pay for, but I shall not go into that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": " a 'dim view'. Oh, I am frightened!\"— he has, of course, nothing to be afraid of: if we met in a dark alley, he is a good deal taller than me and I know who would come off the worse— \"Perhaps 'dim' is the best description I have over most of your comments to date on this matter. Mike F.\" I did not take kindly to being described as \"dim\". I always thought that I was quick on the uptake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": "s grass is often suggested to be greener. I make one or two comments about some of the things that are going on in education that complement what goes on in schools. I am not quite getting bored with, and I never will get bored with, being invited to open Learn Direct centres. I have opened several in my constituency. I look forward to opening more—I do not get bored with them at all really.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "y of State of having lit the fuse of a ticking time bomb on teacher numbers, which proved his ability to mix metaphors just as well as the Liberal Democrats mix messages, which they are in the habit of doing. I am sure that the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) , the Chairman of the Education and Skills Committee, will shortly return to his place. He is doubtless rushing here as I speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Education and Lifelong Learning", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The area cost adjustment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": "No, I do not mean that. The allowance goes towards salaries, which covers public service workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-06", "file": "debates2001-11-06.xml", "sha256": "7284d645554d452e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "CLEANSING SERVICES GROUP (SANDHURST)", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": ". I presented a petition to Parliament with 2,100 signatures, calling for the site to be closed. The effectiveness of the agencies is a wider matter. To summarise, the site should be closed and a full independent public inquiry should be announced. At the time of the incident, all six Gloucestershire MPs representing three political parties called for such an inquiry. Two of them are here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-06.216.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Thursday 15 November at Four o'clock.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the Private Bill Office shall lay the bill on the Table of the House; That in the present session of Parliament the bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it has passed in the last Parliament, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages.—[ The Chairman of Ways and Means. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.230.7", "colnum": "230", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It is amazing that the Prime Minister can go on expressing full confidence in a man whose judgment is so bad that it led him to keep Jo Moore while dumping his respected director of information. That same man was attacked only yesterday by the chairman of Railtrack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.230.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.230.7", "colnum": "230", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "sing full confidence in a man whose judgment is so bad that it led him to keep Jo Moore while dumping his respected director of information. That same man was attacked only yesterday by the chairman of Railtrack—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] They do not want to listen to this, but the truth is that this same man was attacked yesterday by the chairman of Railtrack, who said that the Minister's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.230.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, I certainly do stand by what the Secretary of State said. Secondly, the shareholders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is not the issue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "company was in effect bust. That is clear. It wanted more and more money; indeed, it wanted effectively an open-ended guarantee of extra taxpayers' money. The shareholders want not sympathy from the right hon. Gentleman but money from the Government. That is perfectly acceptable. As I understand it, the Conservative party's position is that it backs the shareholders' claim for £3.60 a share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I cannot comment—indeed, I do not want to comment—on the Liberal council in the hon. Gentleman's area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "As one of the very few Members left in the House who voted for the Bill on the renunciation of peerages that enabled Tony Benn, Alec Douglas-Home and Quintin Hogg to return to this Chamber, and who subsequently voted for the introduction of life peers, I regard the constitutional proposals as wholly unsatisfactory. They do not go nearly far enough down the democratic path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "WTO Ministerial Conference", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Barnes tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend rightly says, James Tobin seems to be rather sceptical about his idea, so we may have to rename the Tobin tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Development Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Battle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Battle", "preceding_text": "lementation, whether in EU or UN organisations. Clause 6(3) deals with shareholder power, and I was grateful for my right hon. Friend's illumination of what that new power might entail. It is an imaginative instrument. Opposition Members referred to the Commonwealth Development Corporation, and I, too, am worried that it has become a venture capital organisation that has lost its focus on poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-07", "file": "debates2001-11-07.xml", "sha256": "1fc2f401d42b5e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "EQUAL VALUE PAY CLAIMS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ch advisers or agents. However, the point at which fateful actions were taken—or, more likely, not taken—will usually have been many years ago. The case that has been put to the Government by several of my hon. Friends recognises those facts. The suggestion has been made that the Government, standing behind the British Coal Corporation, should make some form of ex gratia payment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-07.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman thinks that giving Railtrack a blank cheque was the right thing to do, he does not have the support or the confidence of the people of this country. As I have said, these are questions properly for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": ". and learned Gentleman thinks that giving Railtrack a blank cheque was the right thing to do, he does not have the support or the confidence of the people of this country. As I have said, these are questions properly for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions. [Interruption.] He has answered them on the basis of the decision that he took—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his comment, but I would argue that the original justification for the Fontainebleau decision still stands. That justification is that the rebate compensated the UK for its relatively low level of EC receipts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 12 November —Second Reading of the Animal Health Bill. Tuesday 13 November —Opposition Day [5th Allotted Day]. Until about 7 o'clock there will be a debate on an Opposition motion entitled \"The Discrepancies in the Accounts of the Secretary of State's Handling of the Decisions Relating to Railtrack\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Before I respond to the right hon. Gentleman's questions, it may be convenient to the House if I announce business in Westminster Hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "on: Issues and Innovations\". Thursday 6 December —Debate on the report from the Foreign Affairs Committee on Government policy towards the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia following the fall of Milosevic. As the right hon. Gentleman said, we have now announced that the pre-Budget report will be presented to the House on 27 November . That is broadly in line with the experience of recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " of Milosevic. As the right hon. Gentleman said, we have now announced that the pre-Budget report will be presented to the House on 27 November . That is broadly in line with the experience of recent years. [Interruption.] I must tell the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for West Derbyshire (Mr. McLoughlin) that that happens to be true. The statement is normally presented in late November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend's commitment to reforming and modernising our democratic institutions is well known, well respected and most welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.370.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "te for Transport, Local Government and the Regions has misled the House. He will be in the House next Tuesday when he will robustly deny any such allegation, and he will have the full support and confidence of Labour Members in doing so. Next week's debate arises only because the previous Conservative Government carried through a privatisation of the railway industry that has totally failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "It would be an extraordinary proposition that the Lord Chancellor and the Leader of the House of Lords should not be involved in the preparation of the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "cho his wish that we build the broadest possible consensus—a consensus not only behind the urgent need to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, but to make it clear that this is not a conflict between the west and Islam but between both of us against terrorism. With that in mind, it is a matter of regret that the Conservative party has not signed the pledge that has been signed by other parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Worthington", "preceding_text": "ce is changed, it would automatically be incorporated into British law. If, with our consent, the EU thought that other grounds existed to make it necessary to forbid the sale of arms or other services, we would not need to introduce primary legislation in the House. Amendment No. 34 would simply ensure that sustainable development is covered by the Bill. The Minister owes us an explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "at was a first, and I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his sheer audacity. However, the hon. Gentleman hit a nail on the head when he talked about unreasonable instructions and interventions. The point is that technical and minor provisions in the Bill matter most. There have been some brave words spoken on both sides, but those brave words might lead to lawyers' paradises if we are not careful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-08", "file": "debates2001-11-08.xml", "sha256": "5200b6c711440a57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "In speaking primarily to new clause 7 and the issue of revocation, I do so in the spirit of my speech on Second Reading. I warmly welcome the Bill. Together with other Government measures taken over the past four years, we now have a policy on arms exports and an attitude to controlling exports that did not exist previously. That contrasts sharply with the regime prior to May 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-08.426.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-09", "file": "debates2001-11-09.xml", "sha256": "f2ed8d42a9fb7dd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-09.483.5", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell us more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It would be helpful to the House if this debate could be confined to the broad issues, rather than entering into areas to which all hon. Members are not privy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-09.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-09", "file": "debates2001-11-09.xml", "sha256": "f2ed8d42a9fb7dd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-09.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "he motives that he ascribes to them. May I ask the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins) two direct questions about Conservative party policy? First, do the Conservatives believe that any drugs should be reclassified as recommended by Runciman—yes or no—and if the answer is yes, which ones? Secondly, do they believe that it should be criminal to possess cannabis for one's own use?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-09.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-09", "file": "debates2001-11-09.xml", "sha256": "f2ed8d42a9fb7dd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-09.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Jon Owen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Owen Jones", "preceding_text": "alising drugs. He tried to hide behind that false test. My hon. Friend the Member for Newport, West (Paul Flynn) dealt with that well by citing evidence on the effects of drugs. My hon. Friend the Minister used another test. He asked whether legalising cannabis would increase its use. It is possible that legalisation would increase use, but is that the only test of whether a law should be changed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-09.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-12", "file": "debates2001-11-12.xml", "sha256": "bf7891bed77ed039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Since the hon. Gentleman raised that, perhaps I should make the position clear concerning the number of assaults. The figure of 5,000 that he quoted includes verbal assaults, in which someone perhaps uses words that we would not use in the House; that can sometimes happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-12", "file": "debates2001-11-12.xml", "sha256": "bf7891bed77ed039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.557.3", "colnum": "557", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ore to match job vacancies with the people available. In the past, we did not do enough to match individuals with the vacancies, and back that up with the required skills and training. Sometimes people could have returned to work if they were given the right skills and training. My hon. Friend is right to highlight the problem that many employers lay off people over 50 who have a lot more to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-12", "file": "debates2001-11-12.xml", "sha256": "bf7891bed77ed039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "Let me ask the Minister another question. He is saying that 5.5 million pensioners will benefit, but he has been warned by Help the Aged that pension credit is far too complex. Why will not Ministers learn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-12", "file": "debates2001-11-12.xml", "sha256": "bf7891bed77ed039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "y get us into difficulties in future. That is why I am uneasy. The Bill goes much too far in giving Ministers additional powers, and I am not happy about that. Indeed, the idea that Ministers can order slaughter whether or not animals have been exposed to foot and mouth disease is one that I find wholly unacceptable. I hope that my hon. Friend is getting the idea that I am not a happy bunny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-12", "file": "debates2001-11-12.xml", "sha256": "bf7891bed77ed039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"3 km\".", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "rs can order slaughter whether or not animals have been exposed to foot and mouth disease is one that I find wholly unacceptable. I hope that my hon. Friend is getting the idea that I am not a happy bunny— [Laughter.] If I were, I should probably be slaughtered by some of his officials in the next outbreak. During the current outbreak, the policy was to cull contiguously for up to 3 m—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-12", "file": "debates2001-11-12.xml", "sha256": "bf7891bed77ed039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "rmer. It is designed to subordinate the farmer to the Minister and his inspectors. It will put the farmer in a position of dependency, yet Professor Mark Woolhouse told Members of Parliament that if the Government had simply imposed a ban on livestock movement 72 hours earlier than they did, the spread of the disease would have been halved. The Countryside Alliance criticised the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-12", "file": "debates2001-11-12.xml", "sha256": "bf7891bed77ed039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "As far as that is concerned, the Government have elevated many millionaires to the upper House. If they had the same work ethic as farmers, they would turn up in the other place a little more often. One millionaire who advises the Government has attended the other place only four times since he took his seat. What a record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-12", "file": "debates2001-11-12.xml", "sha256": "bf7891bed77ed039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Baa.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "hat we will be sensitive about that. He asked whether such animals could be vaccinated, and of course we can consider that. The hon. Member for South-East Cornwall (Mr. Breed) asked about not ruling out any particular option. Again, I am happy to give him an assurance on that. He also spoke about a scrapie timetable. That is an important point. We have had discussions with the sheep organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-12.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "rising, not falling, and that the number of nurses is rising, not falling. With regard to the relationship of the NHS plan to the manifesto, the hon. Gentleman might have noticed that the general election came after the NHS plan was published. The NHS plan was based on a baseline of 1999 figures up to 2004. The manifesto, on which we fought the election, was based on a baseline of 2000 up to 2005.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "l election came after the NHS plan was published. The NHS plan was based on a baseline of 1999 figures up to 2004. The manifesto, on which we fought the election, was based on a baseline of 2000 up to 2005. [Interruption.] There is no particular revelation there. I know that the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) is from Essex, but even for a man from Essex he is getting terribly excited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "s based on a baseline of 1999 figures up to 2004. The manifesto, on which we fought the election, was based on a baseline of 2000 up to 2005. [Interruption.] There is no particular revelation there. I know that the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) is from Essex, but even for a man from Essex he is getting terribly excited. [Interruption.] I am assured that men from Essex do get excited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.713.3", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": ". I asked each Department on how many occasions Ministers had made a declaration of interest according to the ministerial code of conduct. Each Department, with the honourable exception of the Department for International Development, stated that they were hiding behind exemption 2 of the code of practice on access to Government information. I asked the ombudsman whether that was reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman would like to examine the record of rail safety under public sector ownership and following privatisation, he will find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.717.5", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "is intentions regarding the Rail Regulator. Will the Rail Regulator retain his independence, or will the threatened legislation go ahead? As I have said, that question has implications for more than the railways. The former gas regulator, Clare Spottiswoode, said this morning that \"the way things are going it's quite difficult to know what might happen because if Stephen Byers did threaten\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.717.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "No. I want to make some progress. There is no doubt that in the summer the Government had already decided on other plans for Railtrack. Let me take hon. Members back to June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.720.6", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Shareholders are entitled to compensation based on the value of the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.720.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "No, I am not going to give way any more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "r, said this morning when talking about Government intervention in Railtrack that \"that would increase the cost of raising capital in the markets. And, of course, if the cost of raising finance for Governments goes up, then that affects all of us through increased taxes.\" The right hon. Gentleman's plan means that small shareholders, like Edith Knowles, aged 81, will lose their life savings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I have to say that the question of the printer's mark of 28 September —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I have to say that the question of the printer's mark of 28 September — [Interruption.] That is the issue that the hon. Lady raised. I have already explained that the nature of government is such that there is advice that Ministers receive, and decisions were taken on Friday 5 October . That is the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.727.7", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Secretary of State is not giving way, and when I rise, I expect hon. Members to be seated. Could we have some order in the House? The Secretary of State is entitled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.727.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "objective was achieved. That was communicated to the regulator in response to a point that he raised with me. I made a factually accurate statement that I had the necessary authority to introduce legislation if need be. It would, of course, have been for both Houses of Parliament to consider the merits of such legislation. There were no threats. Just imagine the outcry there would have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "so much for keeping it secret. It was placed in the Library on 23 October —a big secret. More important, on 2 November , the shadow Minister for Transport, the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) , received a parliamentary reply from my right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport drawing his attention to the fact that the papers had been placed in the House of Commons Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.731.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.731.2", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who is the beauty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "w Minister for Transport, the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) , received a parliamentary reply from my right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport drawing his attention to the fact that the papers had been placed in the House of Commons Library. [Interruption.] No, it was not after the event. Clearly, there was a breakdown of communication between the beauty and the beast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.731.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The record will show that I have previously given way to the hon. Member for Maidenhead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.734.4", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": " to put the interests of long-suffering rail passengers first. They know that Railtrack has been at the heart of the problems experienced by the industry—a company that failed to offer an adequate service, and then came asking for yet more taxpayers' money. The Tories, in this debate and previously, have backed the interests of a quarter of a million shareholders against the interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.734.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hall", "preceding_text": "ernment that it was facing severe financial difficulties. That is the straightforward answer. It would have been stupid not to include in the 10-year plan the company that owned the track. I beat the Conservative candidate in Warrington, South by only 191 votes in 1992. The hon. Gentleman fought the seat in 1997 and lost to my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington, South (Helen Southworth) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Maidenhead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "rs his own opinion, and he gives their officials his own opinion. That was all wrong for new Labour, and the best public servant it had was sacked. He was replaced by other public servants who were also difficult. Tom Winsor, the Rail Regulator, is now at odds with the Government over his account of what happened. That is a matter of pure semantics, as my hon. Friend the Member for Maidstone said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ogrammes. The Government anticipated large sums of private money for other transport systems, health, educational establishments, prisons and a wide range of other public facilities. There is no doubt, given the City's current mood, that the price has just gone up. Some very smooth talking, and the removal of the Secretary of State, will be required to reassure people and put the price down again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "Mr. Redwood), and my hon. Friend the Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) . We are grateful to her for all her hard work on the Select Committee, and especially for exposing the truth about these matters. It is a cause of regret to the Opposition that the Secretary of State has not seen fit to be in the Chamber much today, and in particular that he is not here for the winding-up speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "e, and especially for exposing the truth about these matters. It is a cause of regret to the Opposition that the Secretary of State has not seen fit to be in the Chamber much today, and in particular that he is not here for the winding-up speeches— [Interruption.] Ah, here he is! I am glad that he has made it; we can all be late. I have felt a little sorry for the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "basically Steven, do whatever you like. If you want to give it billions of pounds, we are right behind you\"? I do not believe for one moment that the Treasury said that. The right hon. Gentleman should understand that, sooner or later, we will find out the date and that from that point on he will have been guilty of creating a false market in shares. Sooner or later, that date will come out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "head (Mrs. May) to ask whether she believed that Railtrack had made a sufficient contribution to rail safety and the reliability of services in return for the money it received from the Government, she said that rail safety had improved since privatisation. The Library has provided me with figures showing that the number of fatalities grew from eight in the year prior to privatisation to 43—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's point is well made. We were pleased to hear my hon. Friend the Member for Weaver Vale (Mr. Hall) gaining his voice, and I was pleased to hear my neighbouring colleague, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden) , putting the record straight on Railtrack and BMW.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that the right hon. and learned Gentleman raised the west coast main line, a project which Railtrack originally budgeted at £2.3 billion. It is now an estimated £7 billion and rising. Railtrack's total failure to control its costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ing nothing whatever to encourage more funded pension provision? In an attempt to persuade the Minister for Pensions in particular of the power of our arguments, I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the notification that came across my desk of a conference which took place last week entitled \"China's Pension System: Crisis and Challenge\", on how China should move towards more funded pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "nsioners who live abroad and give free television licences to pensioners without televisions. That appears to be the sum total of the Conservatives' present policy. The hon. Gentleman also referred to his second policy—it too encountered some difficulty during the election campaign—to scrap the basic state pension and encourage young people to opt out of it into a funded pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ow turn to the policies that we have put in place and to the long-term reforms that are designed to ensure that we encourage additional saving by people who can afford it—people on moderate and higher earnings, who, as I have said before, should be encouraged to save for their retirement. We have a twin-track approach. We believe that those on lower incomes are better off in state provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "hat, subsequent to that Green Paper, his pensions Minister, now Lord Rooker, told this House in July 2000 that the target group was not the same as the market for stakeholder pensions; they were separate entities. He said: \"The target group is those on moderate earnings\"— not moderate or high earnings, which is what the Department has said in all its written answers since the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "urely, if a Government set themselves a target, they should make inquiries as to whether they are hitting it. I presume that the Secretary of State, being a responsible Minister, will have talked to those who know who buys stakeholder pensions. Who has that information? Those who sell them. I therefore presume that the Secretary of State has been in touch with the sellers and has asked them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "presume that the Secretary of State, being a responsible Minister, will have talked to those who know who buys stakeholder pensions. Who has that information? Those who sell them. I therefore presume that the Secretary of State has been in touch with the sellers and has asked them— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Stockport (Ms Coffey) prompts the Secretary of State to ignore my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.800.2", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "-testing has spread. One is because the money has gone into the minimum income guarantee. The other is because the pension rise has been so small. While the Secretary of State was speaking, he was heckled by Conservative Members with that memorable phrase, \"75p.\" When the House was invited to divide on the issue of whether 75p was inadequate, only one party said that it was: the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.800.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.800.2", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " because the pension rise has been so small. While the Secretary of State was speaking, he was heckled by Conservative Members with that memorable phrase, \"75p.\" When the House was invited to divide on the issue of whether 75p was inadequate, only one party said that it was: the Liberal Democrats. [Interruption.] When the Conservatives had the chance to put their money where their mouth was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.800.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Stakeholder Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I will give way later. Be quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.822.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed tomorrow.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That, in respect of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill, notices of amendments, new Clauses and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks at the Table before the Bill has been read a second time.— [Mr. McNulty.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.831.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-13", "file": "debates2001-11-13.xml", "sha256": "0fcd59d517ea1599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 14 November , pursuant to Order [ 28 June 2001 ].", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-13.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "oncluded last week that spending on flooding needed to be doubled and went on to describe Government policy in this area as piecemeal and short term? Ministers are fond of bleating about how advantageous our membership of the European Union is, so why will he not claim some of the money that is available from the European Union to member states for this purpose, thereby helping to alleviate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.843.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": "rgan division of the South Wales police area have decreased from 15,000 a year in 1995 to 10,000 a year? That has transformed towns such as Barry, including the seaside resort of Barry Island, from being among the most crime-ridden communities to being among the safest in the country. Will he join me in paying tribute to Superintendent Colin Jones and his officers for that magnificent achievement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.845.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "ous reasons for the comparative figures that he gave on full and final settlements in Wales and the United Kingdom. Although it is true that 7 per cent. of claims in Wales have been settled fully and finally, there are reasons for the delays. There can, for example, be delays because of the number of claimants and the difficulty in collecting evidence and the work records of older claimants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "most successful economy in Western Europe.\" As for the bits of regulation that the right hon. Gentleman mentioned, the figure of more than 3,000 relates to statutory instruments. It is true that there have been more than 3,000 statutory instruments; there were during the last years of the last Government. That is because 60 per cent. are to do with local matters, and nothing to do with regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y instruments; there were during the last years of the last Government. That is because 60 per cent. are to do with local matters, and nothing to do with regulation. [Interruption.] No, they have absolutely nothing to do with it. As for the right hon. Gentleman's £10 billion figure, I will itemise how it is broken down by some parts of business. The vast majority relates to the minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.854.5", "colnum": "854", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As a result of the changes that we have introduced, pensioners will not have to pay for nursing care that they used to have to pay for. The question is whether we should go further and spend what amounts to £1 billion on personal care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.854.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.856.4", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "s taking place in the health service today, the new hospital-building programme and the additional nurses and doctors is the extra spending that the Government are putting into the health service. What is the position of the Conservative party in relation to this extra spending? It opposes it. Yes, it is true that the BMA may criticise us over the health service, but the one group of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Betty Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Betty Williams", "preceding_text": "Now that my right hon. Friend and his colleagues are sorting out Railtrack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-14", "file": "debates2001-11-14.xml", "sha256": "769f3dc400ad4e37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Millwall\".", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " or sought since the fourteenth century to deal with the problem of disorder relating to football—a 1314 proclamation of Edward II declared: Forasmuch there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in future.\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-14.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-15", "file": "debates2001-11-15.xml", "sha256": "c74e39375d047dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "BSE", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "Like other hon. Members, I think that the Minister is due for promotion to the shadow Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-15", "file": "debates2001-11-15.xml", "sha256": "c74e39375d047dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.974.4", "colnum": "974", "heading": "BSE", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "The over-30-months scheme was started in England on 30 July —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.974.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-15", "file": "debates2001-11-15.xml", "sha256": "c74e39375d047dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " Gentleman knows perfectly well that the ombudsman never said that there was a cover-up. He did not say it, even in the words that the right hon. Gentleman quoted. I am sure that if he had said it, the right hon. Gentleman would have made a point of quoting that. Finally, on the question of deferred Divisions, what I said last week was that we actually have a much larger turnout of Members voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-15", "file": "debates2001-11-15.xml", "sha256": "c74e39375d047dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.1011.2", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Marine Wildlife Conservation Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": ", the Government indicated that they were content for the Bill to proceed into Committee and that was agreed by the House. As I outlined on Second Reading, the Government have great sympathy with the aims and objectives of the Bill and again I pay tribute to him for his choice of subject. I assure the House that, subject to suitable amendment, the Government are happy to allow it to proceed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.1011.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-15", "file": "debates2001-11-15.xml", "sha256": "c74e39375d047dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.1059.4", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ents of the City of London, will he enclose a copy of the excellent speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) so that, instead of thinking that the Bill is tinkering around with administrative arrangements, they are fully apprised of the arguments for democracy? Will he tell them that the prize for defeating the Bill is to gain control of their local government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-15.1059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-16", "file": "debates2001-11-16.xml", "sha256": "7331a4e776ef7d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-16.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Public Bodies", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "e, and only 50 per cent. of that 50 per cent. vote for the elected president. That is terrible, and I ask them to consider what happens in this country, where 78 per cent. turn out to vote, which is marvellous—or which was marvellous, because all of a sudden something went wrong at the last election. People may argue that there was not enough obvious difference between the two parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-16.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.12.3", "colnum": "12", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Lawrie Quinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lawrie Quinn", "preceding_text": " are successful in central areas have pushed criminality out on to estates and into outlying areas? Will she give careful consideration to the Eastfield area of Scarborough? The community there desperately wants CCTV but does not seem to be able to get hold of the right people in the local council to push that initiative forward. What is the best way of doing that on behalf of the local community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.12.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.22.3", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "1 September , the emotional response to what had happened—the sight that people beheld and the hundreds of public service workers and volunteers who lost their lives trying to save the lives of others—could have evoked an immediate and, I would have thought, universal call for even more draconian measures than those that I am accused of introducing. It would have been wrong to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.22.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.24.8", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of getting into conflict this afternoon, but, if I might say so, I had not noticed that the past 10 weeks were free of detailed comment by a range of lobbying organisations and individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.24.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Airy-fairy ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " require us to be able to take the necessary steps. That is why I am using article 15 to derogate from article 5, rather than seeking to withdraw altogether. If evidence could be presented that is not subject to the parameters that I laid out a moment ago, it would be used. I know that my hon. and learned Friend is a barrister and, as a non-lawyer, I always listen carefully to those who are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The argument is not whether people should be allowed to say what they want but whether the intention, and the likely effect, of their comments is to stir up racial hatred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "On that basis, we should never have taken into our country any refugees who were Jews, because they were likely to be followed by German Nazi persecution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.58.5", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "could fail to recognise that she is a lady, unless they were momentarily inattentive; I apologise again. I have tried to make it clear that eight parts of the Bill seem to relate to terrorism. Six parts either do not relate to the subject or go much wider than we would wish. In a second, I shall explain how we propose to deal with that, both today and in the days ahead. Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.58.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.58.5", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "rily inattentive; I apologise again. I have tried to make it clear that eight parts of the Bill seem to relate to terrorism. Six parts either do not relate to the subject or go much wider than we would wish. In a second, I shall explain how we propose to deal with that, both today and in the days ahead. Madam Deputy Speaker— [Interruption.] —I am sorry, I mean Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.58.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am afraid not. We are very short of time. The real argument is this, I think. We all know that no race is greater than another. All races are equal: people are equal, whatever the colour of their skins. Every religion, however, claims that it is the true faith, and denies the veracity of the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You are going soft.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "the Bill. Indeed, provisions such as those on communications data and police powers may well be targeted specifically on terrorism. It is for that reason that we on the official Opposition Front Bench support the Government on the Bill, but it is for that reason only. I am bound to tell the Home Secretary that an awful lot in the Bill does not seem to be about the emergency that has arisen at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "ligious hatred will not undermine free speech and the normal activities that we take for granted, but the Bill will cover those who indulge in threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with the intention, or the likelihood, of stirring up hatred of others because of their religious beliefs. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "Although this is a very important order, I think that the hon. Gentleman knows that it is technical in the sense that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "There would be no point in continuing with a derogation if we were not to get the powers in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "There would be no point in continuing with a derogation if we were not to get the powers in the Bill. [Interruption.] Okay, the hon. Gentleman is technically correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "No, I wish to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "No, I shall carry on a bit longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "No, I shall carry on a bit longer— [Interruption.] I have explained that point fully. We believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.129.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.134.3", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about France?", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "Even if that were legally possible, what example does the hon. Gentleman think it sets to countries who have joined the Council of Europe in recent years and others who now wish to join if we advocate denunciation whenever we are faced with a conflict, instead of seeking a specific derogation and having to satisfy certain conditions for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "for what may be as long as the hon. Lady suggested. I also want to respond to the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) , who listed the problems that we face. We are debating this measure for an hour and a half, late at night. We shall vote on it later and—a point that the hon. Gentleman did not make—the Minister has failed to answer any of the questions that have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.141.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-19", "file": "debates2001-11-19.xml", "sha256": "a94baa134942015f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 21 November , pursuant to Order [ 28 June ].", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-19.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-20", "file": "debates2001-11-20.xml", "sha256": "f0508d16e5bd177d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, in his normal way, has highlighted a particular issue, but I say to him with all respect that, at present, major public planning inquiries have become a banquet for barristers—a lawyers' free lunch. They are the ones who are making money, not the local—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-20", "file": "debates2001-11-20.xml", "sha256": "f0508d16e5bd177d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, in his normal way, has highlighted a particular issue, but I say to him with all respect that, at present, major public planning inquiries have become a banquet for barristers—a lawyers' free lunch. They are the ones who are making money, not the local— [Interruption.] That may well offend the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-20", "file": "debates2001-11-20.xml", "sha256": "f0508d16e5bd177d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "That fell a bit flat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-20", "file": "debates2001-11-20.xml", "sha256": "f0508d16e5bd177d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.174.2", "colnum": "174", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": " an important point. I know through the questions that he has asked in the House that he is dissatisfied on behalf of his constituents with the quality of the railway service that they experience in Macclesfield. I believe that the changes will mean genuine improvements. On the specific point about Macclesfield station, I assure the hon. Gentleman that I will investigate exactly where it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-20", "file": "debates2001-11-20.xml", "sha256": "f0508d16e5bd177d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "out bed shortages in hospitals, but they cut the number of beds by 40,000. They complain about the state of NHS hospitals, but they were spending less capital at the end of their last Parliament than at the beginning. Only a fool—and the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) —would believe that decades of neglect in the NHS can be reversed in a few years of investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-20", "file": "debates2001-11-20.xml", "sha256": "f0508d16e5bd177d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.204.5", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is chuntering away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.204.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-20", "file": "debates2001-11-20.xml", "sha256": "f0508d16e5bd177d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "n. Friends do, that those are essential reforms if the service is to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Secondly, under the proposals that we are asking the House to endorse tonight, the balance of power in the NHS will shift decisively in favour of the patient. If public services are to command public confidence, they have to give greater control and more choice to the people who use them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-20", "file": "debates2001-11-20.xml", "sha256": "f0508d16e5bd177d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PETITION — Canvey Island Telephone Mast", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "Serious research shows that young children absorb up to 50 per cent. more radiation in their brains than adults from mobile telephones. International safety tests used to measure the absorption of radiation may therefore be inadequate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-20.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is rightly concerned that the civil/military liaison in Afghanistan is not working well. We have continually been told that the bombing in Afghanistan will bring a quick end to this campaign and open up humanitarian corridors before the winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "fghanistan is not working well. We have continually been told that the bombing in Afghanistan will bring a quick end to this campaign and open up humanitarian corridors before the winter. [Interruption.] The Secretary of State has not admitted that, despite the apparent collapse of the Taliban in many parts of Afghanistan, the delivery of humanitarian aid remains extremely difficult in many areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I am glad to inform the House that there is no such concern. The House should be proud that after—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend entirely. The re-establishment of a health system within Afghanistan, where life expectancy is 44 years, is an urgent priority, as is the re-establishment of a system of education so that at least half the next generation can have the opportunity to receive the education that they deserve. In the long term, that will make the greatest contribution to the re-building of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.308.7", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the Prime Minister knows of the case of a single mother in my constituency who needed a hysterectomy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.308.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is important that the target of 50 per cent. of pupils achieving five good GCSEs has been met. I believe that Tony Cooper, the head teacher at the school that my hon. Friend mentioned, was secondary head of the year in 2000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "In 1997 there was a surplus of nursing home places in Gloucestershire; now there is a severe shortage. Whom does the Prime Minister blame for the crisis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.311.4", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is a bit of an open goal, given that the last Government massively cut the number of beds in the national health service and elsewhere. In respect of nursing homes, as the hon. Gentleman knows, the Government have provided a great deal of extra money for the NHS to deal with social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I certainly will, but let me say this to the right hon. Gentleman. It is true that some private nursing homes are closing; as they will tell the right. hon. Gentleman, that is largely because of their worry about the level of fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "We are now clear about the Prime Minister: he would rather stand by a Minister than those thousands of investors who have lost money. Those investors are not fat cats, they are pensioners and people who work on the railways. What does he say to Mrs. Lloyd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "er stand by a Minister than those thousands of investors who have lost money. Those investors are not fat cats, they are pensioners and people who work on the railways. What does he say to Mrs. Lloyd— [Interruption.] Labour Members do not care. Mrs. Lloyd lost all the money that she invested in Railtrack, money which was meant to be used to help a sick relative. She has written to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The increase, as I understand it, is limited almost entirely to a certain number of trusts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "er of trusts. [Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"] Each of those trusts is being given a dedicated team to reduce the 18-month waiting list. However, the hon. Gentleman did not point out that the latest figures show that the number of patients waiting three months has fallen. Overall, waiting lists have fallen, which means that hundreds of thousands of people are waiting a shorter time for treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the serious damage done by the repeated press reports, which are obviously officially inspired, about the differences between him and the Chancellor of the Exchequer? There is one detailed report that the Chancellor used bad language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "way do I wish to offend my hon. Friend the Minister. However, I was brought up in a world in which business motions, particularly contentious ones, were answered, not by the Minister who had responsibility for the legislation, but by a senior Government business manager. It may be out of fashion, but a Cabinet Minister should have been present to hear what was said on the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.333.4", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "That was the most disappointing ministerial performance that I have witnessed for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.333.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.336.4", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": " at worst trivial and at best not very important, could have been delayed for a week. I hoped that the Minister would explain why the British Overseas Territories Bill is so important that its Second Reading must be debated tomorrow, rather than our having at least one extra day to debate this Bill in Committee. I now invite her to explain just why it is so important—but she shakes her head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": "ed. The speed of events and the implementation of the measures by those with that responsibility—in this case, the chief constables—meant that although the sweep was originally targeted at enemy aliens, it was much wider in practice. Nazi sympathisers and opponents, Jews and Aryans, and a whole range of people who were not originally intended to be caught by the measures were affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": " who said that he was persuaded by the recommendation of the Home Affairs Committee on the sunset clause. He went on to say that there were other areas on which he was prepared to continue listening to advice. I am prepared to give him more than the benefit of the doubt, as he has already demonstrated his willingness to listen. I said that I would give way to the hon. Member for West Dorset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No; 16\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Let me repeat everything that I read out. I read out a proposal that clauses 4 to 6, schedule 3, clauses 7 to 17—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Second Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "I do not need to take advice. I am sure that what I read out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I hope that whatever disagreement has taken place will not sour the serious debate that we are about to have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " remove on the grounds that they are a risk to our national security or that their presence is not conducive to the public good. We are challenged on that, not in terms of the fact that, historically, we can do that, because under the Immigration Act 1971—in schedule 3, I think: just for Simon Carr of The Independent , I was not referring to braille to enable me to remember that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "tion.] He would not be in the Gallery because he will be having a good dinner somewhere. The biggest choice that he will have made will not have been at Sainsbury's but on the quality of the wine that he is buying on the expense account of The Independent . He cannot say anything more vile about me than he said on Tuesday morning, so he can get his own back at length, and undoubtedly, often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "He is not here because, I believe, he has a dinner; we dealt with that earlier in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.416.4", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "nd, if I may be forgiven for saying so, I must point out that my dear late mother passed her driving test in Africa only because my father, who was a Church of England clergyman, gave a \"dash\" to the driving instructor. We have to look at the world as it is. We have to be sure that, in implementing the proposals, we take into account the effect that they will have on British business and commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.416.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I do not have time. I have only two minutes to answer some of the questions that have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.423.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-21", "file": "debates2001-11-21.xml", "sha256": "9428f7ca33ee5b7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I do not have time. I have only two minutes to answer some of the questions that have been raised. [Interruption.] I will not give way. [Interruption.] If Opposition Members had not spent so much time talking and voting, we would have had the time to have a much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-21.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "I am happy to articulate the feeling of the House that we would never have guessed that the Minister could be a grandmother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman did not listen at the last Question Time and he is not listening again. My hon. Friend the Minister for School Standards has already made it clear that the NUT figures are not accurate. In answer to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "The shadow Leader of the House did not raise this issue, but will we have a statement on why the advertisement for the post of Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards states that the job is only for three days?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Gentleman's first question is that the Bill has not been through the process of pre-legislative scrutiny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.471.4", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Select Committees. Earlier, I gave the House some examples: the Economic Secretary appeared before the Transport-Sub Committee on landfill tax and the Financial Secretary on green taxation. The reasons for their appearance before the Committee had everything to do with the Treasury, but rail franchising has everything to do with the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Overseas Territories Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that I have no intention of hiding away from the problem that Hong Kong posed, so I shall come to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.556.4", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Insolvency", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And Ladies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had gone down that route. I do not know whether that was a coded message, but I shall take it. I appreciate that the Minister wants eight to 10 minutes to wind up, but I hope that he can deal with my points and perhaps help other hon. Gentlemen who have not been able to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.556.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Insolvency", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": " the interests of the creditors, there is in a railway administration an equal duty to ensure that the train services, or at least the network, are kept running. I am sure the House agrees that ensuring the continuity of train services, including those on the west coast main line, which the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) mentioned, must be vital to any railway administration process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Insolvency", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "I see that he has other interests. The hon. Member for Congleton (Mrs. Winterton) may be telling him that his tea is ready. It is a rare moment in the House when the hon. Gentleman blushes, but I seem to have succeeded. I was waiting for the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar to say what he would have done in circumstances similar to those we found ourselves in during September and early October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-22", "file": "debates2001-11-22.xml", "sha256": "5022787debd904db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Insolvency", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ecision to approve any transfer scheme suggested by the administrator must be taken by the Secretary of State. I hope that that clears the matter up for the hon. Gentleman. He asked about European Union competition laws. I assure him and the House that the successor company to Railtrack will be selected in compliance with EU laws. As always, the hon. Member for Bath made a thoughtful contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-22.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-23", "file": "debates2001-11-23.xml", "sha256": "0090b98040a22b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Age Equality Commission Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julia Drown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Drown", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman perhaps implying that the House should never pass any legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-23", "file": "debates2001-11-23.xml", "sha256": "0090b98040a22b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Age Equality Commission Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman suggests that generalised burdensome legislation would be introduced. However, surely the purpose of the Bill is to advise the Government on specific legislation on specific problems. Each problem will be considered carefully and our Government would certainly not introduce legislation that had not been fully thought through and that was not carefully targeted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-23", "file": "debates2001-11-23.xml", "sha256": "0090b98040a22b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Age Equality Commission Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of great sadness to many of us that more women are not selected as Conservative candidates. Unfortunately, the women who dominate selection procedures often discriminate against women candidates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.582.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-23", "file": "debates2001-11-23.xml", "sha256": "0090b98040a22b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Age Equality Commission Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Question, That the Bill be now read a Second time, put and negatived.", "preceding_speaker": "Candy Atherton", "preceding_text": "bers on both sides of the House. It is clear that there is much support for action to be taken and I thank hon. Members for contributing to the debate. I also thank the Minister for the powerful case that he made on why I should not proceed with the Bill. I am pleased that the Government are making strides forward and I urge further strides in the future. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.627.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-23", "file": "debates2001-11-23.xml", "sha256": "0090b98040a22b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Remaining Private Member's Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Friday 25 January .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "HEALTH (AIR TRAVELLERS) BILL Question proposed , That the Bill be read a second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-23.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "nt. However, the interpretation of \"religion\" must not cover simply the great world faiths; it must be much more narrowly defined. There is an argument that if there is to be a definition, it should refer to \"religion or other belief\", not just something that calls itself a religion. It should also cover a lack of religion or belief, because otherwise agnostics or atheists are not treated equally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.700.6", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "xpand until people are really worried, and sit back and watch the implications grow; then move on to something else. We saw it last week with clause 17 and we see it in relation to the incitement of religious hatred. There was tremendous support for including religion in the legislation, which can be checked in the cuttings, until Rowan Atkinson—God bless him—wrote to The Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.700.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "That is very good, except that the groups that the hon. Gentleman quotes had not seen the Bill at that time; they have been debating it since. Today, the Muslim Council of Britain issued a statement saying that it \"supports the present proposals\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "nstructions? It gets worse. Berg interpreted the New Testament's \"I will make you fishers of men\" as a requirement for women to have sexual intercourse with potential recruits. He called this \"flirty fishing\", or \"FF\" for short, and published a range of pamphlets—pamphlets that I have here—explaining exactly what his followers had to do. I shall spare the House the lurid details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "I have a couple of questions for the Minister, but I shall be entirely content if he is good enough to give me answers in writing over the next few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.748.6", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "ress on the arguments that I want to put to hon. Members. When the police are holding someone in a police station without knowing who it is—either because the person will not co-operate or because he has given a false identity—they do not know what they are dealing with. They do not know whether the person has been involved in terrorist acts, or whether the reasons for detaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.748.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bennett", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment No. 124, in page 53, line 31, leave out lines 31 to 33 and insert— '(a) incidents involving serious violence may take place in any locality in his area, and'. Clause 93 provides powers for the police to demand the removal of items of clothing which officers believe are designed to conceal identity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " the debate, will she tell us exactly how she defines the disguise that has to be removed? The word \"disguise\" can mean many things: for example, do beards and facial hair constitute a form of disguise? In the current anti-Taliban atmosphere, would my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Andrew Bennett) and I be hauled into a police station for someone to set about us with a razor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Annabelle Ewing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Annabelle Ewing", "preceding_text": "These provisions will not apply to Scotland if Government amendments Nos. 63, 64 and 67 are agreed tonight. I sincerely hope that those amendments are passed because, as a Scottish National party Westminster MP, I believe that the best place to consider legislative changes to Scots law is in the Scots Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.765.6", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sir Alan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Simply to respond quickly to that point, Mr. Haselhurst—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.765.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I beg to move Amendment No. 1, in page 7, line 10, leave out \"criminal\" and insert \"terrorism\". Amendment No. 1 is the same as amendment No. 85, which we wanted to discuss in Committee last week but which we did not reach. The provisions of clause 17 represent some of the most major transfers of power by the state in terms of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " statements may be obtained from individuals—indeed, they are compelled to provide them. That information, too, may now be shared, even though the 1974 Act specifically provided that it could be made available only for legal proceedings relating to the Act or in circumstances in which the individual consented. Conservative Members wish to assist the Government in the fight against terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "Such provisions could have been included, but it was decided that that would confuse certain other issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I do not believe there is any contradiction between the Data Protection Act and clause 17. It is clear that both the Data Protection Act and the Human Rights Act apply in this case. I forget the hon. Gentleman's second question. Will he remind me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.795.7", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "As I said, it is quite clear that many serious crimes are intimately linked to terrorism. It is potentially even more difficult for public officials to determine whether certain acts of a criminal nature that are committed abroad are linked to terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.795.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": " everyone tells us is necessary, except that the Government wish to bulldoze civil liberties at a great rate of knots in the little time remaining for consideration of the Bill. We should not simply throw the net as wide as possible to catch everyone including criminals within it. That is what is being proposed. Consequently, in the years to come we shall undoubtedly face umpteen injustices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "the little time remaining for consideration of the Bill. We should not simply throw the net as wide as possible to catch everyone including criminals within it. That is what is being proposed. Consequently, in the years to come we shall undoubtedly face umpteen injustices— [Interruption.] The legislation is badly thought out, and the Minister has the lamentable task of implementing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Gateways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "There is nothing new in the Bill other than the widening of existing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "There is nothing new in the Bill other than the widening of existing—[Hon. Members: \"Gateways.\"]—gateways for the disclosure of information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-26", "file": "debates2001-11-26.xml", "sha256": "07a01feaf06449d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.800.4", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have no doubt that you and your fellow occupiers of the Chair will have kept a careful note during the two days of discussion on the Bill, so can you tell me what proportion of the Bill has been debated and what proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-26.800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-27", "file": "debates2001-11-27.xml", "sha256": "a81a594e8f73241c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-27.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " health services policies that are failing. And failing badly.\" If the Government and the Chancellor can no longer convince The Mirror with their phoney pledges, such as those in today's statement, who on earth do they think that they can convince? They certainly cannot convince the chairman of their own party, the Minister without Portfolio, the right hon. Member for Norwich, South (Mr. Clarke) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-27.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-27", "file": "debates2001-11-27.xml", "sha256": "a81a594e8f73241c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-27.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The only years in which productivity has been negative were under the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-27.850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-27", "file": "debates2001-11-27.xml", "sha256": "a81a594e8f73241c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-27.895.3", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "he opportunity to run his own business. The Government's figures for the Bill say that the cost to business will be £369 million in the first year alone. In years two, three, four and for ever after, the costs will be £272 million each year. If that were not enough, the Government have admitted that small businesses will again disproportionately have to bear the brunt of the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-27.895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-27", "file": "debates2001-11-27.xml", "sha256": "a81a594e8f73241c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-27.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "tutory maternity leave to 26 weeks, increasing statutory maternity pay, which has been around the £62 mark for years, to £100 by 2003, and introducing statutory paternity leave. Anyone whose wife or partner had a child 20 years ago will remember that the woman spent a week to two weeks in hospital. Now, a woman who goes into a maternity unit is lucky if she is there for 20 to 30 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-27.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "ace? The Government offices for the regions need to be enhanced and supported so that we ensure that they work not just on traditional housing and regeneration issues, but on planning, environment and anti-crime measures. The area-based initiatives—not least those started by the right hon. Gentleman's Government—need to be properly reformed so that they make a difference on the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Greece.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to update the House on the position of the 12 British tourists held in jail in Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The policy of the Conservative party is to improve the health service, not make excuses for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "out concerns why they should have to wait in pain for routine operations or die sooner than their counterparts in Europe, and the fact that the fourth largest economy should be able to offer decent treatment to its people. Those are the consensus issues for the public. The only consensus for the right hon. Gentleman, his Chancellor and his Government is that between him and the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "There is a perfectly simple distinction between a national health service that should indeed be reformed, as the Chancellor said yesterday and as I say today, and the right hon. Gentleman's proposals to force people out of the health service to pay for their treatment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.963.4", "colnum": "963", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Methinks the Prime Minister does protest too much. I just want a straight answer to a straight question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.963.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Of course it is. That is precisely the point of the Chancellor's announcement yesterday. With respect to the right hon. Gentleman, he is not being generous—we are. Whatever system we have, the money must come in the end from general taxation, from social insurance, or from people paying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He supports.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "While I acknowledge that equality of opportunity for our young people is something that you support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Benefits Uprating", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "the Treasury have made an art form of disguising true marginal rates by ignoring council tax benefit and housing benefit in the figures that they bring to the House. You, Mr. Speaker, made a very welcome statement a few minutes ago, in which you referred to the need to answer written questions fully. Last night, I tabled questions to the Chancellor about marginal rates of benefit withdrawal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Benefits Uprating", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "t of measures that we have introduced since 1997 than they would have been with an earnings-linked basic pension. The critical difference between us is that I believe we ought to pay more to the people who need it most. I have never entirely understood the argument that we should pay exactly the same to, say, Lady Thatcher and the poorest pensioner. I do not think that that approach is fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Prime Minister (Office, Role and Functions)", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": " unbounded is power uncontrolled. The time has come for this Parliament to acknowledge and define the true extent of the power of the United Kingdom prime ministership. We will all be stronger for recognising the central truth of British politics: the office of Prime Minister towers over our democracy. This mighty oak casts a long and chilling shadow over all of us who are drawn close to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Defence (Grant) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": " is dedicated to ensuring that public expenditure delivers value for money. From the view of the customer, in terms of budget management and projection, and the taxpayer, in terms of delivering value for money, the Bill is appropriate and necessary. The hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) did not mention this, but the legislation will be superseded in a wider context within the next couple of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "FOOT AND MOUTH (TATTON)", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Indeed. If other Members wish to contribute to the debate, they are more than welcome to do so. I hope that the Minister will appreciate that I have tried to be as reasonable as possible in putting the case for my constituents. I have not resorted to party political point scoring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-28", "file": "debates2001-11-28.xml", "sha256": "cf6c6d7e31d2d984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.1074.2", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "FOOT AND MOUTH (TATTON)", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "the Member for Tatton that the Government announce the opening of cattle markets and auctions in the immediate future, if we are to save many of them from liquidation and going out of business. My hon. Friend the Member for Congleton (Mrs. Winterton) , who is the shadow agriculture spokesman, told me tonight that, regrettably, there is talk that two important cattle auction markets may be closing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-28.1074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Page", "preceding_text": "ve their postal votes. Is she not aware of the record losses of Parcelforce, which are hitting day after day? Is she not aware of the international competition that is coming along? Is she not aware of Monday's announcement of Consignia's losses, £100 million of which are operating losses? That is particularly important and worrying. Will not the Secretary of State do the decent thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "lluding, was that within five years of March 2001 we would be at the average for European spending on the health service—that is an average expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product. I am pleased to inform the House that, over the past four years, we have been able to approach that average at the rate of 0.1 per cent. of GDP each year, so we are on course to meet the average—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " meet the average— [Interruption.] No, we are on course to meet the average by the time that my right hon. Friend mentioned. I am entertained that Opposition Members should find that they are not impressed by 0.1 per cent. of GDP as an increase. That may of course reflect the fact that during their period in office they never came remotely near increasing NHS spending by 0.1 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1109.2", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am happy to repeat my earlier comments that the commitment that my right hon. Friend confirmed yesterday was made not yesterday but in 2000. He said that in the financial year 2005-06, we would meet the European average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Human Reproductive Cloning Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "nt that that is right and proper. However, there is no reason to rush through it this afternoon. Parliament is being treated with a cavalier disdain that would never have occurred to Charles I. That is monstrous, an exercise in arrogant parliamentary tyranny that even the Government have not previously undertaken. We hear nonsense, and lip service is paid to the House, scrutiny and accountability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Human Reproductive Cloning Bill [Lords] (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I am genuinely surprised by that intervention. Generally, on conscience issues, there is an understanding on both sides of the House that there will be a one-line Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1138.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Reproductive Cloning Bill[Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "preceding_text": "iscuss later, I chaired a meeting at which Chief Rabbi Sacks gave a talk; he said that there is no special boundary between the point when life starts and the point when it does not; it is impossible to define. I have great respect for that view. Dr. Sacks said that one could tell where Scotland and England began, but one could not do the same with life; there was no precise way of doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Reproductive Cloning Bill[Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "preceding_text": "ch Chief Rabbi Sacks gave a talk; he said that there is no special boundary between the point when life starts and the point when it does not; it is impossible to define. I have great respect for that view. Dr. Sacks said that one could tell where Scotland and England began, but one could not do the same with life; there was no precise way of doing so— [Interruption.] I shall give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Reproductive Cloning Bill[Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "se was, \"Look, until we know whether we have won the appeal, we do not know what measures will be necessary.\" However, even if the Government win their appeal, two areas will remain completely unregulated according to their own lawyers. I hope that by raising the issues at this point in the debate, the Minister's brain will be able to catch up with her even if she cannot give me immediate answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-29", "file": "debates2001-11-29.xml", "sha256": "093474164eb96e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Reproductive Cloning Bill[Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": " we should all show the greatest regard for the sanctity of human life, but if Parliament refuses to allow the type of research that we are discussing we shall be deliberately turning away from people who need help—and who can be helped. That is what makes those of us who support that scientific research pro-life. We are pro-life. I will not have that term hijacked by a pressure group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-29.1195.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-11-30", "file": "debates2001-11-30.xml", "sha256": "23e421311cbb33ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-30.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Home Energy Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Harold Best", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harold Best", "preceding_text": "on, Kemptown (Dr. Turner) . The Bill is important, to say the least. When it is enacted, as I am sure it will be, it will become a marker for what private Members can do. The matters raised in the Bill are of great concern to my constituents. Many of those matters have already been discussed in some detail by previous speakers, so I now have the difficult task of trying to avoid being repetitious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-30.1249.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-30", "file": "debates2001-11-30.xml", "sha256": "23e421311cbb33ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-30.1288.8", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 10 May .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-30.1288.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-11-30", "file": "debates2001-11-30.xml", "sha256": "23e421311cbb33ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-30.1288.11", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "FIREARMS (REPLICA WEAPONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 15 March .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-11-30.1288.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give a more specific answer on the value of the assets in London? We do not all have the annual report to hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.22.7", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.22.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "what were then the Department of the Environment and the Department of Employment. At that time, the only civil servant who answered to me was a secretary. For clarification, I should explain that that was a typing secretary, not a permanent secretary. In the 1992 election, I served as the press secretary to the then Prime Minister, as an employee of the Conservative party, not as a civil servant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "e Minister's policy unit in Downing street. I do not believe that it was a case of post hoc, ergo propter hoc, but John Major resigned at the time to contest the leadership of the Conservative party. I immediately left my post to serve once more as his press secretary. Again for the benefit of the Minister for Transport, we won that particular campaign, for which I took unpaid leave for two weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": " incompetence, lack of probity and lack of candour of the current Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions is not of interest solely to people in the Westminster village: it has serious implications for the state of our railways, their safety and their reliability. We learned last week that since the right hon. Gentleman acted, in his own words, \"against Railtrack\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "ned to spot an opportunity for grabbing a headline and too exposed to having to reverse the decision later.\" That sums up Conservative Members' approach this afternoon. They will repeat it time and again. That is why they altered the subject of the debate, which was raised in points of order with you, Mr. Speaker. The motion deals with accountability, which is vital in our parliamentary democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "at sums up Conservative Members' approach this afternoon. They will repeat it time and again. That is why they altered the subject of the debate, which was raised in points of order with you, Mr. Speaker. The motion deals with accountability, which is vital in our parliamentary democracy. [Interruption.] The shadow Leader of the House mocks, but I believe that parliamentary democracy is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "line of parliamentary accountability runs from Members of Parliament to the Government. Ministers are accountable to Parliament for their decisions and actions; Parliament ensures that we are accountable to the British people. The ministerial code includes a clear statement by the Prime Minister of his strong personal commitment to the bond of trust between the British people and their Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.35.4", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "I am grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.35.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.35.8", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) . We all had the opportunity to read his memorandum of 14 September this year to his Conservative colleagues. From it we discovered how deep his respect for Parliament really ran. He urged his party to frustrate the workings of the House with \"trench warfare\". What respect is he showing for Parliament and the House by writing in those terms? I am really shocked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.35.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "If we are talking about accountability on the part of Governments, including the last Government, we should bear in mind that some of the biggest scandals and cover-ups, some of the greatest secrecy, were perpetrated by the Conservatives. They covered up the BSE scandal, and the export of arms to Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.39.6", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I believe that the motion and the Government amendment to it are on public information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.39.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "I am of course tempted to give other examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "I am of course tempted to give other examples—[Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"] My problem is that, although some of my right hon. and hon. Friends press me to do so, I am kinder than they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "eputy Prime Minister.\"—-[ Official Report , 8 November 2001; Vol. 374, c. 379-80 .] Most of us would take that as a clear statement of the Speaker's view that that should not happen in the future. Lo and behold, within a matter of days, I received an extraordinary letter from the Deputy Prime Minister. It made me so angry that it went straight in the bin and, indeed, it has tea stains on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "sely where the Government thought that he—or, in this case, she—should stand. If Ministers want to challenge the House, and the Speaker of the House, they should have the guts to come here in person. Perhaps the letter was drafted by a political adviser. Reference has already been made this afternoon to the attitude of the Conservative Opposition, and they cannot escape some criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "they should have the guts to come here in person. Perhaps the letter was drafted by a political adviser. Reference has already been made this afternoon to the attitude of the Conservative Opposition, and they cannot escape some criticism. [Interruption.] The reference to the infamous trench warfare memorandum from the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) did not do it justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We have already done that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) had seriously wanted answers to those questions, rather than putting out another spin of his own, he would have put in for a debate on the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "use—I do not know whether it is a declaration of interest—that Jo Moore worked for me on one occasion, when I was the shadow housing Minister. She is a very capable press and media officer. That does not justify her comments on that occasion, as they were by any standard gross and incredibly insensitive. As many hon. Members know, the incident has probably also ruined her career—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.65.6", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "maximum publicity.\" If any politician or party wants to kid anyone that they do anything other than try to manage the news, no one will believe them. It is not an unreasonable thing to do. No private organisations, including businesses, voluntary groups and charities with the holiest of reputations, will give maximum exposure to anything that is embarrassing to them. We should all recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.65.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "subject of a \"Dear Colleague\" letter of 14 November , in which she gives an explanation, in effect, and almost apologises although she does not actually excuse her Department. I shall not refer to the letter as right hon. and hon. Members will have already received it. However, another letter has come into my possession—I am not entirely sure whence it came. It is a \"Dear John\" letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "e importance that the official Opposition attach to the issue of access to Government information and, in particular, to the behaviour of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions in refusing to provide information to Members, in making disputed statements to the House and, of course, in presiding over chaos and increased delays on the railways. I am here; where is he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "phrase, \"If you are in a hole, stop digging.\" The Secretary of State cannot rely on his Cabinet colleagues. I was interested to see that, when he responds to debates on this matter, he does not have a single member of the Cabinet alongside him, whereas a member of the Cabinet is supporting the Minister for Transport in this debate. It is also interesting that, on 22 November , The Guardian —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.74.6", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "tate has done, the Government may face legal action. The Railtrack shareholders action group has today written to the Secretary of State and the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions requesting certain documents. The group has said that it has been hampered in its ability to obtain all the relevant facts, most notably by the Secretary of State's inconsistent account of events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.74.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.76.2", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Dissemination of Information", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush (Mr. Soley) said in response to the right hon. Member for Wokingham. How the right hon. Gentleman must suffer, seeing the mess that Conservative Front Benchers are making—how he must grieve. That was the issue that he tried to raise, but that is not what we have had from the Opposition. Instead, we have had endless trivia and dross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.76.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked an interesting question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked an interesting question— [Interruption.] Yes, I will answer it. The hon. Gentleman asked whether I would match Labour's spending commitment on the NHS. We do not know what that commitment is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.88.6", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I want the Chancellor to answer some questions when he replies to the debate. I want him to confirm whether, as has been widely reported, the Health Secretary was told of the Chancellor's intentions only on Monday last week, 24 hours before his statement. The Health Secretary is reported to be \"furious\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.88.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The NHS is indeed a Stalinist creation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "rtant was the Turner committee that the Prime Minister appeared to have forgotten all about it. The Chancellor certainly made no mention of it in his statement last Tuesday, yet on Friday night he was hurriedly dispatched to give an interview to \"News at 10\", giving the impression that it was an entirely new committee. It is worth reminding people of the Turner committee. It was set up in October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.5", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " Unfortunately for him, the Prime Minister took a different view. Yesterday, he decided to downgrade what had been a firm commitment to the status of a mere aspiration \"in broad terms\"—the Chancellor smiles about that, as he has had his way—and the Secretary of State for Health yesterday described it as an aim. My third challenge for the Chancellor is this: will he now clarify matters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.5", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "bed it as an aim. My third challenge for the Chancellor is this: will he now clarify matters? [Interruption.] Is it a firm commitment or a vague aspiration? Does it relate to European health spending in 2000, 2001, 2005 or 2006? Does it relate to averages including or excluding Britain? Are those averages weighted for population differences, or is Germany being given the same weight as Luxembourg?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.5", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "larify matters? [Interruption.] Is it a firm commitment or a vague aspiration? Does it relate to European health spending in 2000, 2001, 2005 or 2006? Does it relate to averages including or excluding Britain? Are those averages weighted for population differences, or is Germany being given the same weight as Luxembourg? [Interruption.] And when will it be achieved: 2005, 2006, some time or never?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.89.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.92.2", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.92.6", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I have said that I shall give way during my speech, but I want to set down my argument. First, we believe in a health service that is free at the point of need; the question that we must ask ourselves this evening is this: do the Opposition? Secondly, we believe in a health service that is principally funded from tax revenue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.92.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.92.6", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ight hon. and learned Gentleman could not do so, as I have in front of me the memorandum written by the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight) to the shadow Chancellor on 12 November . It is marked \"Private and Confidential\". I am sure that the Opposition now wish that it had been kept private and confidential. Let me refer to what the Flight memorandum, as we will now call it, said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.92.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": ", therefore, be looking to lower the taxes on people at the same time, enabling them to have more of their own money to spend on better and more efficient healthcare . . . Put more simply, what Iain has already said in principle, with regard to healthcare, should have the corollary of reducing taxation to leave people with more of the income . . . to spend on the provision of improved healthcare.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "nd on the provision of improved healthcare.\" [Interruption.] Conservative Members should listen. We have reached the main point because the memorandum also states: \"The reforms, which we will be proposing, will end the NHS monopoly and will entail those who can afford it making some payment for healthcare services.\" That is not simply a suggestion or idea. The deputy Treasury spokesman wrote that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ices.\" That is not simply a suggestion or idea. The deputy Treasury spokesman wrote that. [Interruption.] Conservative Members will have to face up to that in every constituency. I repeat: \"The reforms which we will be proposing . . . will entail . . . some payment for healthcare services.\" The memorandum also states that solving problems will require \"a degree of charging for healthcare service.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "rations? Are they for medical drugs that are currently free? What proportion of people would be expected to pay the charges? What services would the rest obtain? Who would be exempted? What would happen to the terminally ill, cancer patients and old age pensioners? If Conservative Members call for a debate in the House about the future funding of public services, they have a duty to tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "d be expected to pay the charges? What services would the rest obtain? Who would be exempted? What would happen to the terminally ill, cancer patients and old age pensioners? If Conservative Members call for a debate in the House about the future funding of public services, they have a duty to tell us—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Oh yes they do. Every Conservative Member stood on a manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.94.2", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor confirm or deny that the Secretary of State for Health received only 24 hours notice of his plans last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.94.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.95.12", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. You quite rightly admonished me earlier for making an intervention from a sedentary position. You said that I had to ask the Chancellor whether he would give way. Since then, I have tried to persuade the right hon. Gentleman to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.95.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.96.7", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The Conservative party does not like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.96.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.96.9", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that we are operating rules that have been operated by both political parties over the last few years. He also knows that we are now talking about charges for a visit to a GP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.96.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.96.11", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.96.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am proud of the fact that the national health service does not charge people for treatment in the way that the right hon. Gentleman wants to do. Under his proposals, the constituent whom he mentioned would have to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.97.5", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "o below 37 per cent. I believe we might have done even better.\" That was the shadow Chancellor's programme for the last Parliament, which would have meant public spending cuts of £10 billion a year. In 1997, in a speech that now influences the whole thinking of the shadow Cabinet, he said: \"Our aim should be to reduce the proportion of national output taken by the state towards 35 per cent.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.97.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the Chancellor to say at the beginning of his speech that he will answer the points made, then, halfway through the speech, to refuse to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.98.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.98.9", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor clarify the Treasury's position on hypothecation? I understand that the Treasury is concerned that revenues might rise or fall with the cycle. I wonder whether the Chancellor has had the opportunity to see my article, published this morning in the Institute for Public Policy Research journal, which shows how that problem could be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.98.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "lth service that is free at the point of use; it is clear that the Opposition now do not. We believe in a tax-funded national health service; it is clear that the Opposition want a system of private health insurance. We believe in more investment in the NHS; the Opposition want to cut investment. I say this of the shadow Chancellor: he got every major decision wrong in his past career in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have been diverted from this during the election campaign, but our manifesto made both those promises. More recently, the Government proved still to be making the same mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "e dominant creature in the Government, dictating the course of events, in control of the show. I remind the House that, since 1997, the Government have been responsible for the failure to spend more than £5,000 million that the Chancellor and his right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary have allocated to spending Departments, but which they have not had the wit, competence or sagacity to spend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "n the Chancellor's ambitions. They do not like the unedifying spectacle. What they want is a decent health service, reliable provision, policies that translate care from a word to a deed for the majority of hard-working, long-suffering people in this country. The Chancellor's policy will not deliver. We are determined to produce a coherent, credible, costed and attractive policy that will deliver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": " of someone's eloquence outrunning his judgment than in the hon. Gentleman's speech. The hon. Gentleman refers to the fund raising for the Nuffield orthopaedic hospital in my constituency. I am proud of that fund-raising effort. I commend the energy and support that Lord Tebbit has put into that out of personal commitment. I would not seek to use that for political purposes, here or anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.125.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.136.8", "colnum": "136", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hat, (1) At the sittings on Tuesday 11th, Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th December, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Lords Messages relating to the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill have been received; and (2) At the sitting on Thursday 13th December, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until he shall have reported the Royal Assent to any Act agreed upon by both Houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.136.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-03", "file": "debates2001-12-03.xml", "sha256": "7287604bb0135a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "BELMONT PRIMARY SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Ashok Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ashok Kumar", "preceding_text": "I am grateful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-03.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take the opportunity—unusually, perhaps—to agree with me that the best way for south-west Scotland and Scotland as a whole to be represented is within the United Kingdom? Will he once and for all condemn the rump of the Scottish national party at Westminster for its narrow and self-centred attempt to break up the United Kingdom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "The Lord Chancellor, the Home Secretary and the Attorney-General are considering Sir Robin Auld's recommendations and consulting on them. Among my functions in that process, I am conducting a series of roadshows across the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "I think that before he asks a question or, indeed, makes a speech in this place, the hon. Gentleman might be better advised to do a little bit of research and read what Ministers have actually said. We have made it quite clear that our commitment to the lay magistracy is unassailable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.160.4", "colnum": "160", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": " endorse every word said by the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) . It is not often that we are in full agreement with each other. When my hon. Friend the Minister considers the matter, will he bring to the attention of his colleagues and the Chairmen's Panel the fact that we are slipping badly behind in IT? For example, in the Estonian Parliament, the whole Cabinet is now run electronically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.160.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England) 2002-03", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "With permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England) 2002-03", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ntrolled councils who suffer most because those councils have the highest council taxes in England. Will the Secretary of State confirm that 13 of the 20 councils with the highest council tax are Labour controlled? None is Conservative controlled. I understand that the Secretary of State has had other things on his mind recently. The fiasco of his handling of Railtrack meant that he has not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England) 2002-03", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "pitals. Funds are being provided to help local authorities and schools to tackle those very real pressures. The important message of today's statement is that all of that is over and above the 4 per cent. that we have provided as a minimum for all education and social services. Opposition Members representing shire counties such as Worcestershire know that we have listened to their concerns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Local Government Finance (England) 2002-03", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills has heard my hon. Friend's comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I remind the House that this explanation of what the Bill really contains does not come from Conservative central office; it has been handed out to Labour Members so that they can be helpful to the Government. If they do not understand it, the back of the document invites them to contact the Department's special advisers—on a telephone number that I shall refrain from giving in public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may not have heard the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Lammy) , from a sedentary position, ask what was improper about using a civil servant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "It was certainly designed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "ar those schools, who could have expected to go there, will be turned away in favour of Church of England schoolchildren from further afield. More choice for some will mean less choice for others. Nothing will persuade me to support the concept of school organisation committees, on which the Church of England and the Catholic Church have two thirds of the places, being allowed to have a say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "olic secondary school. It used to take in large numbers of needy children who had been rejected or excluded by other Catholic secondary schools in north London. Eventually, it sank under the weight of the problems that others had piled on its teachers. That did not reflect well on the system that allowed the school to get into such a mess—and I am not referring to Camden education authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ial measures should be eligible for these freedoms and decisions should be taken locally, not by the Secretary of State. That is a fundamental issue on which we will, if necessary, seek to divide the House on Report. There is no definition of a successful school in the Bill. Yet at the whim of the Secretary of State, successful schools will be able to opt out of the provisions for up to six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I admire the hon. Lady's idealism. Every specialist school that I know has done it for the money. Fundamentally, they want the extra £500,000. If hon. Members on either side of the House think that there is some glorious journey towards the arts, languages or science—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "children. The Bill will do nothing to address the chronic problems of overcrowding in schools right across East Sussex, particularly in my constituency. It will do nothing for the 40 per cent. of primary schools in my constituency which have one class or more with 35 or more children. It will do nothing for the 25 per cent. of primary schools that have two or more classes with more than 35 pupils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Next Wednesday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "Thanks to the Government condescending to debate this motion we have a lot of time available to us. However, we cannot have a vote at the end of our discussion. Any Division that takes place on the motion will take place on Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "l that, whatever the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions would have us believe, secondary legislation is not drafted a day or two before it is laid; it is drafted some time in advance. There is no secret that there will be a draft of the secondary legislation to which the Parliamentary Secretary referred, and that it will be printed. It is probably on his desk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "It occurs to me that the hon. Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike) makes a better point than he imagines. The poll tax legislation had the majority of the House at the time to get it through but it did not have the consent of the public. If a Bill is passed without the consent of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.312.5", "colnum": "312", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "ong session. The other place may have a compromise amendment which might, for aught I know, find favour on the Government Benches. If that happens, a compromise will be put together without external groups ever having the opportunity to express a view to right hon. and hon. Members. That cannot be right. You will be extremely pleased to know, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I am coming to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-04", "file": "debates2001-12-04.xml", "sha256": "8c844402f831f396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "That is the way I like to be treated—with real courtesy, my opinion sought, my experience praised, my impatience lauded. It is Mr. Toad himself. The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. In the first place, I would not put the Bill through this procedure at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-04.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-05", "file": "debates2001-12-05.xml", "sha256": "0e8935f51beaaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "rest of it is as interesting as the article to which he referred. My understanding is that my right hon. Friend referred to events that occurred after he was Secretary of State. I commend him on his performance as Secretary of State, but the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies) asked today whether new measures would be taken. I replied no, other than those we have debated previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-05", "file": "debates2001-12-05.xml", "sha256": "0e8935f51beaaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Patsy Calton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patsy Calton", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the best way to reduce organised crime in Northern Ireland is for all political parties to participate in the new policing board? That would replace vigilante activity with legitimate policing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-05", "file": "debates2001-12-05.xml", "sha256": "0e8935f51beaaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Last week, as the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West (Mr. Kennedy) said, the Prime Minister said that he had a commitment to spend at the European average of health spending. Over the weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-05", "file": "debates2001-12-05.xml", "sha256": "0e8935f51beaaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.327.6", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "People out there do not pay their tax as a percentage; they pay it in real money. Will the Prime Minister now tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.327.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-05", "file": "debates2001-12-05.xml", "sha256": "0e8935f51beaaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That will be a difficult task, Mr. Speaker. Of course we want extra money spent on the health service. The ludicrous thing about the right hon. Gentleman is that he says that he wants to look at other health care systems. He listed a whole lot of other health care systems in the article he wrote today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-05", "file": "debates2001-12-05.xml", "sha256": "0e8935f51beaaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The answer is as I gave a moment or two ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-05", "file": "debates2001-12-05.xml", "sha256": "0e8935f51beaaaa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "hat has gone on in this House of Commons: without knowing about the weight, import, number or seriousness of Lords provisions, motions such as this are hung in front of us, late at night, in secrecy—as if we were in wartime circumstances—with the microphones turned off, with one good, loyal citizen in the Public Gallery waving goodbye as we close down the House of Commons to outsiders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-05.374.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Harry Cohen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "at are in difficulty? The answer is that we are doing everything we can with permanent capital allowances, help for new investment, help for training and the work of the regional development agencies, which, as Conservative Members have acknowledged, help in individual industries. Where there are redundancies, the rapid reaction forces are moving in to help. People get jobs as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "osition and his expression of concern about manufacturing industry, we must remember that his is the party which not only brought us 15 per cent. interest rates and lost us a million manufacturing jobs, but would refuse to do anything—through public expenditure or public investment—to help manufacturing industry. And as for the policy on Europe and helping manufacturing industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Some £10 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "n Afghanistan, calls upon the Government Chief Whip to discipline those members of her office who have infringed acceptable methods of dealing with one of their own back bench colleagues.] I am sure that the Leader has memorised it, but while he is waiting for his Parliamentary Private Secretary to give him a copy, I can tell him that it concerns a press release entitled, \"Labour thugs attack MP\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Health Authority Resource Allocations", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": " from areas where the supplements are not yet available. I have decided, first, to increase to more than £100 million the resources allocated to fund the cost of living supplements. They will continue to be paid to the areas currently receiving them. However, I have decided that from next year, in addition, the scheme will be extended to cover East and West Kent, North and South Essex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Health Authority Resource Allocations", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "nt the attitude of the Conservatives towards the national health service. He did not say whether he supports the Leader of the Opposition and the shadow Home Secretary who called the national health service Stalinist. Is that the hon. Gentleman's view? Does he believe that the national health service is Stalinist? I remind him what the national health service is: the national health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Health Authority Resource Allocations", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I have answered a load of questions put by the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) . I have answered the questions about NICE. I have answered the questions about how much money will be going into waiting initiatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Health Authority Resource Allocations", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "That was pretty tame stuff. I am surprised by the hon. Gentleman's position on NICE and the financing of drugs, because I understood that the Liberal Democrats were concerned about the fact that NICE had sometimes made recommendations and not every health authority had taken them up. He is either against the lottery in care or he is not. Which is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.494.4", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Health Authority Resource Allocations", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Hughes", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement and congratulate him on securing a great deal from the Treasury; that must have been pretty difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "I want to make some progress. The hon. Gentleman will probably want to intervene later, when I start dealing with the part of the world that he represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is new and perhaps he does not understand the cause of the problem, which is the rigidity in the system. It is the Commission that runs the policy and it is for the Commission to enforce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "No, how could I have forgotten that? I am not trying to make cheap party political points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.513.7", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way to that hon. Gentleman either. Let him make his own speech and he can give way to me. On 1 January 1999 , the Minister introduced a system of fixed quota allocations, on the basis that that was what the industry wanted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.513.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "No, I intend to continue with my speech. I want to look elsewhere in the world for a moment. Global warming moved the cod from Canadian waters, not overfishing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "flecting that there was something to be said for the laid-back approach of her predecessor, the hon. Member for North-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Moss) . Conservative Members do not want to talk about the history of the common fisheries policy and their involvement in it. Given the vast expanse of green Benches with no Conservative Members to fill them, it would be unfair to put the boot in too hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-06", "file": "debates2001-12-06.xml", "sha256": "e7147bf8520003ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.537.2", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": ". Let me consider the Government briefly. The Minister knows that I admire him greatly, but my comments constitute a warning. He confirmed in a debate in Westminster Hall earlier this year that his previous boss had complained in a letter, which was leaked to The Herald , that he had been \"holding the line\" against allocating decommissioning grants across the fishing industry. He then wrote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-06.537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.577.8", "colnum": "577", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "We are publicising that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.577.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Nick Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that—but I thank the hon. Gentleman for his welcome for the Government's decision not to proceed with random assignment, while gently taking issue with him and pointing out that it was not my \"ill conceived idea\", if that is how he wishes to describe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not waste the House's time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "The Paymaster General is raising an issue that we shall debate at great length in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "The vast majority of people whom we are talking about are income tax payers. The working families tax credit is currently paid above certain bands. The children's tax credit goes to people beyond the higher rate threshold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "tions in family circumstances using the labour force survey. It says that 225,000 couples with children break up in a given year and 200,000 lone parents start to co-habit in a given year: nearly 500,000 families with children experience a change that would affect their entitlement. One million families with children change employment status within a given year, so there is an awful lot of change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "I go one step further and point my hon. Friend to the ONE project, a pilot of which was run in my constituency, where the local authority, the Inland Revenue, the Benefits Agency and the Employment Service were all part of one system. The great thing is that people only have one place to go to get advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that comment. I will have to disappoint her because, as a result of the policies of the Conservative party, 4 million people were unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that comment. I will have to disappoint her because, as a result of the policies of the Conservative party, 4 million people were unemployed. [Interruption.] I can hear the hon. Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "und;10 million less than the current arrangements. Going over to an annual cycle will reduce the cost by some £9.5 million; not having to issue a certificate of payment will save some £400,000; and not having to issue an earnings inquiry form will save £1.1 million. If my mathematics serves me right, that comes to savings of about £11 million, rather than £10 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "l difference. It is worth while looking at the record of the Conservatives when they were in power. In 1979, 14 per cent. of children lived in households with below 60 per cent. of contemporary median income. By 1996–97, the figure had increased to 34 per cent. Under the stewardship of Conservative Members, the number of children living in poverty more than doubled. That was our inheritance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-10", "file": "debates2001-12-10.xml", "sha256": "3e81a6203acbf551", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "hat, by the end of the decade, there will be a higher proportion of people in work than ever before. The Bill has to be seen in the context of the national minimum wage—a national minimum wage that was opposed by the Conservative party. We still have not heard any recognition in the remarks of the Opposition spokesmen who bothered to address the House how they view the national minimum wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-10.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-11", "file": "debates2001-12-11.xml", "sha256": "707e9d6d7af2eae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Local Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ate that Members of Parliament now know not to take at face value what he tells the House. Following the fiddled figures of the local government settlement last week and our experience with Railtrack, Members know that with this Secretary of State more than any other, they simply cannot believe what he says. The devil is in the detail, and so it will be with the local government White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-11", "file": "debates2001-12-11.xml", "sha256": "707e9d6d7af2eae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Local Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " for councils and deregulation, but, sadly, the statement and the White Paper do not deliver on that promise. In one of the early paragraphs in the statement, the Secretary of State says that he wants to \"tackle the trend towards excessive central prescription\". I do not know whether the House noticed that the Secretary of State was not even able to keep it up for the whole of his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-11", "file": "debates2001-12-11.xml", "sha256": "707e9d6d7af2eae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Local Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "nd regional government? With regard to the league tables, will he set out to the House how the performance of each council will be determined? How will it be determined when a council's performance is high in one area of service but not others? Then came an amazing statement. The Secretary of State announced with a flourish that he had decided to abolish the standard spending assessment mechanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-11", "file": "debates2001-12-11.xml", "sha256": "707e9d6d7af2eae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Local Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is aware that Wealden district council runs the most effective waste recycling scheme in the country, which involves up to 48 per cent. of waste collected in the district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-11", "file": "debates2001-12-11.xml", "sha256": "707e9d6d7af2eae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Local Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "We all know the way in which the SSA formula was manipulated by Conservative Members when they were in government to reward some of their favourite councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-11", "file": "debates2001-12-11.xml", "sha256": "707e9d6d7af2eae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Waste Management", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Sayeed", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": "blic, and some do not even understand their meaning. It is when they are put in the context of everyone's everyday experience—when people can see that what they are doing is of value to them, close to home—that our efforts to achieve sustainability will succeed. That is why the Conservative party's recycling policy is significantly greener and more radical than that of any other party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-11", "file": "debates2001-12-11.xml", "sha256": "707e9d6d7af2eae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Waste Management", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ecovery. Having paid a visit in or near the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Normanton (Mr. O'Brien) , I agree that Rockware Glass is a model company. It provides educational facilities at the factory to enable people to understand the importance of recycling. I agree with him about the need for encouraging civic amenity sites and the importance of kerbside collection. Our view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-11.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": " the climate change levy, my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Wales recently met representatives of the CBI and the Trades Union Congress to discuss the matter. However, despite what the hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) has said, thousands and thousands of jobs are coming into Wales, and many are in the manufacturing sector or high-tech industries. That is news to be welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "ress before too long. I am aware of my hon. Friend's point about abattoirs. When I was recently in mid-Wales, I discussed with a number of producers the problems caused by not having enough abattoirs. I have also discussed the matter with my colleague, the Assembly Secretary responsible for agriculture. I have another bilateral set up with him in a week or so, and I will take up the issue further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ncy wards at Whipps Cross and King George; £1.8 million to expand critical care services; £205,000 so that local hospitals can introduce booked-admissions systems; and £149,000 earmarked funding for heart disease services. Now, all that money has improved health care services in his own health authority. What part of that money does he think is like pouring water into a colander?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.834.3", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have no immediate plans to do so—my apologies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.835.6", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I understand that it is being debated. Of course, there will be many opportunities to debate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.835.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "Leader of the House, would do little to tackle the deeply held cynicism of many voters about politics and politicians? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the root of the problem lies with us all in the House, including the Prime Minister, and that, instead of for ever changing the structure of Parliament, what we need is more forensic questioning and fuller answers, less point scoring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "and politicians? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the root of the problem lies with us all in the House, including the Prime Minister, and that, instead of for ever changing the structure of Parliament, what we need is more forensic questioning and fuller answers, less point scoring— [Interruption.] and fewer bogus statistics and ritual rants against the last Conservative Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.851.2", "colnum": "851", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "resolute in ensuring that Afghanistan will never again be used as a haven for international terrorism. There has been some surprise and concern at the way that announcements have been made over the past few days about the further deployment of British troops in Afghanistan—I hope that the Foreign Secretary will give me his full attention at this point—through leaks in newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Konigswinter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "ugh I do not know whether that will happen in the debate. Of course the military campaign was more successful than expected. Indeed, part of the problem is that it has been so successful that its political counterpart has taken longer to reach a conclusion. That political counterpart, however, has indeed been successful, so far at least. A remarkable conference has taken place in Konigsburg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And you thought.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "tarian problem in Afghanistan. Millions of people there faced starvation even before the military action began. We questioned the nature of the military action that had been undertaken, and whether it would make the humanitarian situation worse. In the event, the hon. Gentleman should be honest and decent enough to admit that the bombing came to a conclusion very much more quickly than he thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.869.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": " of bragging when people are right and a reasonable amount of recantation when people believe that they are wrong. I very much believe that, and in so far as I have been wrong in the views that I have expressed about this war, I shall say so—indeed, I shall do that in a moment. In doing so, I want to make it clear to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that no one has had me behind the bike shed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. What did the Chief of the Defence staff mean when he said: \"there will be some slight difference in emphasis in the approach between the United States and the UK\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "International Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "like in particular to thank the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell) , my right hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, East (Donald Anderson) and the hon. Members for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) and for Gosport (Mr. Viggers) for their comments. I also thank my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews) for his recognition that he is capable of error.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Obviously, it must be late in the day and late in the week, because I am struggling to understand why my hon. Friend feels that a body involved in such dealings—as Customs and Excise is day in, day out—that had a reason to pass material to the police would do so other than because it suspected that something was amiss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "If the amendments were passed, that would be the case if they believed there was a terrorist threat, but not if they had suspicions that led to an understanding of a terrorist threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "If the amendments were passed, that would be the case if they believed there was a terrorist threat, but not if they had suspicions that led to an understanding of a terrorist threat. [Interruption.] It is no use the Liberal Democrats giggling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "If the amendments were passed, that would be the case if they believed there was a terrorist threat, but not if they had suspicions that led to an understanding of a terrorist threat. [Interruption.] It is no use the Liberal Democrats giggling— [Interruption.] Laughing, then. I mistook a gurgle for something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No we do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "I must respond to the question that my right hon. Friend the Member for Llanelli (Denzil Davies) asked about the word \"legitimate\". We all know what we mean by that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Is not it fair to say that the specific reason why the amendment was tabled is the problem that was presented to us in Committee by the right hon. Member for North-West Cambridgeshire (Sir B Mawhinney) ? It related specifically to the question of how he might accidentally, in stating his own Christian faith as a Catholic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.941.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "She is not that naive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "t not once, not twice, not thrice but four times—except that, on the fourth occasion, she mis-stated her mis-statement. She described the incitement as an incitement to \"disorder\". It is not so. Were it so, the matter would be easier to address. It is an incitement to hatred. The record will show that she used the word\"disorder\" three times. On the fourth occasion, she used the term \"order\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ucidly that she cannot possibly have understood what she was doing when she told the House that the Attorney-General intended to produce the guidance tomorrow. The clause and its amendment were first conceived approximately 48 hours ago. So, in some 72 hours, the Attorney-General will have produced law for this country. What is to guarantee that, 72 hours later, he will not produce some other law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not a chance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The cries of astonishment when the last vote was announced reminded me of \"phone a friend\" in the television programme. I hope that there will be a few friends around tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "shment when the last vote was announced reminded me of \"phone a friend\" in the television programme. I hope that there will be a few friends around tonight—[Hon. Members: \"Not a chance!\"] I think there will be—there may even be one or two on the Opposition Benches as well as one or two on the Benches behind me. The amendments relate to the moonlight clauses, or rather the sunset—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ould be laid before the House of Commons, and both Houses would hold a full debate on it. I am prepared tomorrow to consider the suggestions that the Opposition parties are putting to me to strengthen that proposal. Clearly, the review committee's recommendations on individual parts of the Bill would be taken forward by the Government. We will propose further refinements tomorrow that might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"But not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "r not in accord with the wishes of both Houses. We could reach a reasonable measure of agreement on that—if not wholly tonight, then certainly in the next 24 hours. That is an attempt not to end up with a Bill that is fragmented, or with this House and the Lords constantly repeating proceedings on the Bill, which, I have to remind right hon. and hon. Members, has had eight days in the Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "he next 24 hours. That is an attempt not to end up with a Bill that is fragmented, or with this House and the Lords constantly repeating proceedings on the Bill, which, I have to remind right hon. and hon. Members, has had eight days in the Lords. [Hon. Members: \"But not here.\" ] No, not here. Let us be clear: we originally agreed a timetable, and I have always accepted that it is extremely tight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.956.5", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "It is because he wants to be in a position not to do that which he has just said. If not, it would be in the Bill. What procedure will there be for ensuring that the report is speedily debated? The answer is none. The truth is that weasel words have been brought forward by a Government who are in a fix, trying to find a mechanism to smooth over the effectual injustice of that which they are about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.956.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-12", "file": "debates2001-12-12.xml", "sha256": "2744a8c1d9698668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " to raise three points on the amendments. They have evidently been put through the Lords with agreement, and there is therefore no attempt to reject them in the Commons. Lords amendments Nos. 33 to 35 relate to the nuclear industry, and raise some important issues that we had barely a moment to discuss earlier. Lords amendment No. 33 covers the regulation of security of the civil nuclear industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-12.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": " recent waste summit, Friends of the Earth and other bodies such as Waste Watch estimated that about £375 million will be required annually if targets are to be met? In addition, the £140 million that she mentioned, which was first identified in the 2000 comprehensive spending review, has still not been paid. My county council in Essex has not received a penny. If the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.998.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House for the business for next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1001.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am gratified by the interest in the business for next week. The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 17 December —Second Reading of the Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill. Tuesday 18 December —A motion to approve the use of the facilities of the House for those Members who have chosen not to take their seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nor a payroll vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "sing sex offenders who have been released. I assure the House that we shall continue to do everything possible to protect young children. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will keep hon. Members informed of further developments. Let me deal with the questions that the right hon. Gentleman asked about Tuesday's debate. It is a House of Commons matter and there will not be a Whip on this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The position in relation to staff of the four Members who have not taken the Oath will be precisely the same as that for any other member of staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Modest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "land. I fully recognise my hon. Friend's deep and long-standing interest in Northern Ireland politics, and I welcome the sentiments that he expressed. We are engaged in a process; we want that process to advance; we want to draw into that process precisely those who have resisted peace in Northern Ireland in the past. If we refused to take the modest step of allowing them into the precincts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "r, time and again all the parties represented in the House of Commons urged the IRA to drop the terror and adopt politics? Would it not therefore be right for office accommodation to be provided, possibly as a first step to Sinn Fein Members of Parliament taking their seats, bearing in mind the fact that, whether we like it or not, they were elected as Members of Parliament no less than ourselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, the hon. and learned Gentleman and his party would wish to make the distinction between the two sorts even greater than I propose. They would keep anyone elected who does not take the Oath out of even the precincts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The logic of the hon. Gentleman's position—I suspect that he may be prepared to follow it through—is that we would never have signed the Good Friday agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "Until the next Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1024.4", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "It does not become the Minister to be as complacent as he appears about the serious problem of animal, plant and human diseases that may come into this country in illegally imported meat and meat products. He is right that no Government can guarantee that no disease will enter the country in that way, but I wonder whether he has recently travelled extensively as a private individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1024.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1030.6", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "If he said it, no doubt he will wish to correct the impression that he gave. I know the hon. Member for Ceredigion—I know the hon. Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor) as well, of course—and that is not a view that he would ever express or espouse. I shall rush to his defence, and pull out my trusty sword.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1030.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1031.3", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "The recent outbreak started in February. If the Government had been the French Government, they would have immediately stuck two fingers in the air—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1031.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "ry person, but as a member of a Select Committee, I hope that he will take the opportunity to go around every airport, open his eyes and look at what other countries do. If he goes to New Zealand, or even perhaps South Africa and the United States, that will be a very good experience for him. What he sees will bear out everything that I have said. I think that I have spoken for far too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "paraphrase her remarks, are in it commercially. We have heard many stories of people bringing large quantities of meat into Heathrow in private suitcases, and they presumably do not do so on spec but have a destination for it. The problem goes further than that. What should be done about the countless number of much smaller items such as ham sandwiches and other consumer items that are brought in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "I have a certain sneaking affection for the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not the sheep?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "l would become obsolete. If we could focus on preventing the import of disease and not on the 5 million animals that were slaughtered, we would be doing something positive and not concentrating on passing a draconian Bill. I have examined other parts of the Bill and hoped that science would throw light on them. It did, because one of my constituents was the first to be genotype-tested for scrapie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "I shall start where my hon. Friend the Member for South-East Cambridgeshire (Mr. Paice) left off—with the difference between the Government's talk and their action. Just this morning, I was speaking to a leading figure in the pig industry, who said: \"The Government has done nothing that would give anyone any confidence that a new outbreak isn't incubating right now.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am dismayed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "hich that will be based. I intend to clarify the process with farming representatives and other interested groups during the consultation process in the new year. I am surprised to see some reports suggesting that the Bill will give us powers to kill horses, dogs, cats, goldfish and hamsters. It will not. I made it very clear in Committee that the criteria in the Bill apply to susceptible animals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It did not show.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "Committee: they deserve particular congratulations. I mention my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning) and our esteemed colleague, the Whip, my hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan) . For my hon. Friends the Members for South Norfolk (Mr. Bacon) and for Leominster (Mr. Wiggin), it was their first experience as members of a Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1107.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1107.3", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, it does.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "Well— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1110.5", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The reason why it is a Privy Council-established committee is to give it access to the security and intelligence services. Of course it will not have access to the detailed cases of the individuals who have gone through the Special Immigration Appeals Commission and the evidence that has been heard in private.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1110.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1110.5", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "esist the House of Lords on that matter, the Bill is in danger of falling. We have some quaint rules as between the two Houses. If something is resisted twice, the whole Bill falls—not the clause, but the whole Bill. It is a learning curve even for those of us who did politics as a degree. No doubt the Leader of the House will get around to looking at modernising the way in which we operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1110.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "t 5. Coming from Sheffield, I am familiar with the old nursery rhyme about the grand old Duke of York. So I have marched myself up to the top of the hill and I am about to march myself down again. Before anyone can quip about giving way gracefully or otherwise, I shall ask the House to give way to the House of Lords, which has voted twice to remove the incitement to religious hatred from the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "re we have it. There will be consequences. Every decision that we take—be it this House, the House of Lords or people in their individual lives—has consequences. Some people's attitude is, \"We really agree with this proposal and we think that in the long term it would be a good thing to do, but this is not the time or the Bill and we did not agree with every word so we will reject it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ponded to. Discussions took place behind the scenes, and the Attorney-General did his best to ensure that we found a way forward. I have no disagreement with that. People genuinely felt that there could be improvements and safeguards. That is fine. What I was referring to was the tremendous cheer that getting rid of the provision altogether aroused. There was no quiet pleasure at having won—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1114.3", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "There is every reason to continue encouraging those who are prepared to co-operate to do so. I repeat that my remarks were based not on concern about people's disagreement but on the triumphalism surrounding that disagreement. I intend to conclude, because I want people to have the chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1114.3", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "lism surrounding that disagreement. I intend to conclude, because I want people to have the chance— [Interruption.] It is no good the Conservatives or Liberal Democrats immediately offering their co-operation, if that is what they are doing, and then criticising me for being taken aback at their tone. That is all. If we want co-operation, let us seek it. I shall conclude on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "eded to deal with the current emergency, we have done so because we believe that it is not right to deal with those matters in this process and in this Bill and that, if the Government want to do that, they should do so elsewhere. I want to make a point about the deliberations of the past day or so. Although the Government have no majority in the country, they clearly have a majority in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "oint about the deliberations of the past day or so. Although the Government have no majority in the country, they clearly have a majority in the House. [Interruption.] No, they have no majority in the country. Indeed, no party has a majority in the country, and the Government achieved a considerably lower vote than most Governments since the war, so we should have no arrogance from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "hat there should be legislation on religious discrimination. We believe that, if the Government want to legislate, they can find the time to do so. We shall, indeed, collaborate with other parties and faith groups to seek to persuade the Government to find the time to legislate properly. Secondly, we believe that there should be a sunset clause for the Bill. What the Government have offered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Like other Members, I shall be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Religious hatred\"", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "I support the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) and place on the record the fact that many of my constituents believe that there should be a criminal offence based on incitement to racial hatred", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1120.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Elect them.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "on and the Liberal Democrats—I do not know what one calls the Liberal Democrats; one can hardly depute them to be the unofficial Opposition—argue that the Government are eroding the powers of this Chamber for various reasons, yet they are perfectly prepared to allow the noble Lords in the other place to overturn this Chamber's decisions. The sooner we ensure that the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-13", "file": "debates2001-12-13.xml", "sha256": "85bc2b767031cd39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " fellow Ministers, who have worked incredibly hard, and our Whip, who has worked particularly hard on the Bill. I thank officials and the lawyers, not just my own, who have worked extremely hard, but many others who have worked outside, briefing hon. Members and political parties and making sure that the Bill is a better one than when it entered the House. I have got over my momentary pique—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-13.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady go to Holland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will know that there are considerable reservations about the implications of the European arrest warrant, which seems to include a list that wouldmake people liable for the \"crimes\" of abortion, homosexuality—and criticising European institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "European Council (Laeken)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "nt. That has done away with the principle of habeas corpus in regard to no fewer than 32 crimes, including crimes unrecognised in British law such as the ill-defined \"EU crime\"—a real thought police crime which will no doubt be drummed up in the future by someone in Brussels. Then there is falsification of means of payment, and, of particular concern, xenophobia. What exactly does that mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "European Council (Laeken)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "end. The only time the leaders gathered around the table became really exercised and excited was when it came to carving up the agencies that would go to their various countries. There were rows about what they would get—whether they would get enough—and disagreements over whether Parma ham looked better than Swedish women. That was what exercised the whole institution. How ridiculous!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "European Council (Laeken)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) might be on it. There seems to be no end of attempts to find a job for the right hon. Member for Hartlepool. Two weeks ago, he was going to be Mayor of London; now he will be on the praesidium in Europe. Is the Prime Minister prepared to open up the debate by offering such a post to somebody from the Conservative party, who would have a different view?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "European Council (Laeken)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the Labour party has travelled a certain distance on Europe since 1983. I regret to say that his party has travelled a certain distance too, but in the opposite direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "European Council (Laeken)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "at it was part of the agreement for the political future of that country—concluded by all the parties in Bonn. It will be a real shame if the Conservative party now sets its face against supporting such a force. Britain is talked of as the lead nation because it was specifically asked by both the United Nations and the United States to take on this role. The reason why it is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.34.4", "colnum": "34", "heading": "European Council (Laeken)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " how we deal with the issue of a rotating six-monthly presidency—a procedure that cannot be maintained in an enlarged European Union. It is important to get into those arguments, participate in them and attempt to succeed in them. The trouble is, as the right hon. Gentleman's leader found when he went to the leaders' meeting in Laeken, that if the Conservatives are completely isolated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.40.5", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that every member of Sinn Fein is a member of the IRA or that they are completely identical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.40.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "That is entirely a matter for General de Chastelain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "No, I am accepting the Belfast agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "rth-East Derbyshire (Mr. Barnes) , who, as always, made a serious speech—although I fear that his keenness on the trade union movement and its relationship with the Labour party led him to stretch an analogy a bit too far, in a way that was not entirely helpful. The Bill relates to arms decommissioning, and in that context we must first welcome a first act of such decommissioning by the IRA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": ", and being able to say that is the beginning of being able to apply pressure to them. That is the Government's mistake. Over the past three years, there has been movement by republicans on decommissioning. They started off, in April 1998, denying that they were under any obligation from the agreement. They were wrong, but worse was the error made by those who supported republicans in their error.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Joyce", "preceding_text": "n the subject. My constituency is no different. That makes the comment of the hon. Member for Belfast, South (Rev. Martin Smyth) —that the Labour Government have nothing to lose in Northern Ireland—seem a bit cheap, given that the right hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. Trimble) spent several minutes saying how large the responsibilities were of the Labour Government in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the Government in the Republic. I shall just finish the list of positive things that have happened that cannot possibly be described as concessions to Sinn Fein or the IRA. We have a new police service with cross-community support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-17", "file": "debates2001-12-17.xml", "sha256": "13a0a1e2a2b4642a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the Government in the Republic. I shall just finish the list of positive things that have happened that cannot possibly be described as concessions to Sinn Fein or the IRA. We have a new police service with cross-community support— [Interruption.] Absolutely not; that is not a concession to Sinn Fein or the Provisional IRA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-17.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.135.5", "colnum": "135", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "lice or other agencies? Will he consider taking an early legislative opportunity to create a civil offence, whereby a bike can be impounded and only returned to the owner on payment of a fixed-penalty fine to abate what must be the very considerable number of deaths caused by a lack of lights, as well as the trauma and anxiety caused to the diligent motorists who cannot see the offending cyclists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.135.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "mbers come to the debate with views mainly shaped by events in Northern Ireland. The hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies) , who I understand will respond to my opening remarks, informed us this morning, courtesy of The Daily Telegraph , of the views that he brings to the debate. He said that the Conservative party is withdrawing bipartisan support in Northern Ireland over this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "No, I will not. Amendment (q) in the name of the Leader of the Opposition would prevent any part of this motion from being implemented until all of the decommissioning has been completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I wish to make some progress. The step that the House is being asked to take is a limited one. It will restore access to the precincts and Commons services that existed before the election in May 1997. It will not confer any right to take part in proceedings or to vote. It will not provide a salary or pension for Sinn Fein Members. It will not provide any Short money for Sinn Fein as a party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.155.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "mons services that existed before the election in May 1997. It will not confer any right to take part in proceedings or to vote. It will not provide a salary or pension for Sinn Fein Members. It will not provide any Short money for Sinn Fein as a party. [Interruption.] Yes, it will extend the entitlement to constituency allowances to Sinn Fein Members on the same basis as any other elected Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.155.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "In respect of the access to the precincts and services, it is precisely that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "e an entry in the register. They are not required to do so under the rules, which provide that Members shall be obliged to make an entry only within three months of taking their seat. If that disappoints Opposition Members, I can give them the assurance that the motion will bring the four Sinn Fein Members within the scope of the remit of Mrs. Filkin, who will be able to apply the code of conduct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " costs as set out in the Resolution of 5th July 2001, relating to Members' Allowances, Insurance &c., and the allowances relating to travel within the United Kingdom for Members, their families and staff\". Those allowances were never available to Members who did not take their seat. That was explicitly set out in the statement made on 14 May 1997 by your illustrious predecessor, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.161.8", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "No, I will not take any more interventions for the moment; otherwise we shall not make progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.161.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Now we have it. There is an objection in principle to the facilities of the House being extended to Sinn Fein after the IRA have gone on ceasefire, after Sinn Fein has Ministers and Members of the Assembly, and the IRA have decommissioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "I said that I would not give way to the hon. Gentleman. Did he not hear me the first time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "fraction of that felt in Northern Ireland as we caused a political settlement to take place that mandatorily required cross-party support and cross-party alliance. It is telling that that cross-party alliance led 100 per cent. of the nationalists and republicans in Stormont to vote to maintain the right hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. Trimble) —a Unionist—in the post of First Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": " peace process. That argument is that Sinn Fein will move. In the past, I have made certain predictions about where the Unionists will end up and where the republicans will end up. I have been wrong on both scores at times, but I have also been right on several occasions. I make another prediction tonight: that within about four years, Sinn Fein Members will be taking their seats on those Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "They have not taken their seats and their inability to sit in the Chamber cannot therefore be questioned. However, their ability to use facilities and office allowances can be questioned and sanctioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Savidge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Savidge", "preceding_text": ", but from any part of the country—who is properly elected to the House happens not to be a monarchist but a republican, it would be proper for us to say that they should not be allowed to take their seat. I have a clear view on that question. Indeed, I should go further: in our population, there are a certain number of cranks, oddballs and nutters. They have a right to be represented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "r, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have no hesitation in acceding to the point that the right hon. Gentleman makes, which relates, in particular, to the reference to \"the continuing decommissioning of weapons\". In fact, I did read out that section, although he is correct to say that I did not read out the second paragraph. My point was not to try to pretend that he had agreed to something in Stormont—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "Roy Beggs", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Roy Beggs", "preceding_text": "so—I have only a few minutes for my speech. I am well aware that my party and representatives of other Unionist parties sit with Sinn Fein representatives in the Northern Ireland Assembly. I am also fully aware that we sit with them in district councils throughout the Province. However, the difference is that Sinn Fein members entered those forums under the same rules as everyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "to Mr. Speaker in the normal fashion and made in the normal fashion. Not surprisingly, there has been a great deal of heat in tonight's debate. There has also been a great deal of light, not least in the contributions of my hon. Friends the Members for North-East Derbyshire (Mr. Barnes) and for Walsall, North (David Winnick), both of whom are consistent contributors to debates on Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.242.2", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If I give way, it will be claimed that I have not addressed the arguments that were made in our debate. We heard the argument that Sinn Fein Members stood on an abstentionist ticket, and that constituents knew what they were getting before they voted for them. That overlooks two things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.243.5", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The second reason is that there are constituents who should be supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-18", "file": "debates2001-12-18.xml", "sha256": "a83effd5086ef861", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.243.9", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Facilities of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I shall end with two quotes. First: \"The sensible democrat helps the embryonic democrat to find the way to democracy\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-18.243.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I think that all of us who care about the people of Zimbabwe and the future of Africa must do everything in our power to ensure that there are free and fair elections and that outside observers are present, and so on. There are great worries about that, but we should not prepare for failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is very silly to make such a foolish argument. Mugabe was elected by the people of Zimbabwe. As a Government, we support democracy and the right of people to elect their own Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": ", has faced the most challenging problems in social policy since 1989? Will he and the Department in general liaise with their colleagues in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to ensure that the UK/Romania action plan, which was introduced earlier this year to prepare for enlargement, gives sufficient emphasis to social programmes, particularly those involving child care, the Roma and minorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.284.5", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Colin Challen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Challen", "preceding_text": "Is it not extraordinary that 53 years after the NHS was founded, one of its founding principles—that it is free at the point of delivery—seems to be under attack from the Leader of the Opposition, only a week before Christmas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y profitable and very solvent, and did not need any public money at all. Let me read to him what the judge said in the administration case: \"This is clearly a case where the making of a railway administration order is not only appropriate but absolutely essential\". That was the case for a very simple reason: the company had debts of £700 million that were going to rise to £1.7 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.286.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Come on!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " before, is that he has got himself into the position of saying that he would take £1 billion of taxpayers' money to bail out the shareholders, while we would put that money into a better railway network. If he wants to get up and tell us that Railtrack was a solvent company, perhaps he will explain why it had those debts of £1.7 billion by next March and why the judge made that order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.299.6", "colnum": "299", "heading": "National Stadium", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I give some advice to all my hon. Friends who have deployed their advocacy for Birmingham, and that is to lobby the FA because, as I have made absolutely clear, the Government hold a neutral position on the location of the stadium. The decision on the location of the stadium—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.299.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "International Force (Kabul)", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "sume the most charitable interpretation of his reservations and try to deal with his observations. First, on the nature of Afghan consent, that will be dealt with in the military technical agreement. The hon. Gentleman will have read the terms of the Bonn agreement, under which the designated members of the Interim Authority signed up for precisely such a force, so they have already given consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2001-12-19", "file": "debates2001-12-19.xml", "sha256": "366eb63cf9b716e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "International Force (Kabul)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "es air cover had been placed in the Library, but are there any contingency plans for the UK to provide air cover RAF units to go out to Afghanistan to support the force on the ground? Finally, does he agree that the need for the UK to be in the lead again underlines the importance of establishing a proper EU military process and the need to get that up and running so that the burden can be shared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2001-12-19.309.0"}
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