{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-08", "file": "debates2002-01-08.xml", "sha256": "60b15c461faf7c4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.408.4", "colnum": "408", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Southend.", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "With his newly acquired Euro-enthusiasm, will the Minister tell us whether this convention will be likely to discuss the new proposal for an elected Euro-president? What particular powers would the new president of Europe have, and where precisely will his base be located?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.408.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-08", "file": "debates2002-01-08.xml", "sha256": "60b15c461faf7c4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.409.4", "colnum": "409", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I know, but Christmas has intervened and we are considering the issues. No game is being played here. We are anxious that the very strong views that have been represented by my right hon. Friend and others should be taken into account. Can I say too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-08", "file": "debates2002-01-08.xml", "sha256": "60b15c461faf7c4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.409.7", "colnum": "409", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "eople and the position of the Opposition? While it should finally be a matter for the House to decide who the representatives are, will the Minister press the Prime Minister to respond positively to the written offer made by the Leader of the Opposition on 19 December for my party to play a full and constructive part in the convention, promoting those positive views to which I have referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.409.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-08", "file": "debates2002-01-08.xml", "sha256": "60b15c461faf7c4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is a good and fiery democrat and he is right to keep pressing that issue. His voice will be listened to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-08", "file": "debates2002-01-08.xml", "sha256": "60b15c461faf7c4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will bear with me, I shall come to that point. That is a familiar argument, and it was rehearsed extensively in another place. I will come to that point; I want to spend a little time addressing those concerns, but in their proper place, so I hope that the hon. Gentleman will bear with me for just a few moments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-08", "file": "debates2002-01-08.xml", "sha256": "60b15c461faf7c4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ractical problem of the first importance and it must be dealt with. The defects of the system were first shown, surprisingly, at Lincoln's Inn. At the end of the 17th century, the benchers who ran Lincoln's Inn decided to go in for a bit of property development. The result is the attractive buildings on three sides of New square. Unfortunately, the benchers, no doubt being somewhat grasping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-08.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "The Minister may not be aware of a recent incident in Sandy in my constituency when a package that was suspected of containing anthrax caused a full-scale public emergency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.531.9", "colnum": "531", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend rightly highlights the global problems that require global solutions and global travel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.531.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.533.5", "colnum": "533", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been geed up to be a little more aggressive in his questioning, but he is not consistent with the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.535.8", "colnum": "535", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " . . be the mid-30s as an overall percentage of public expenditure\".—[ Official Report , 28 November 1995; Vol. 267, c. 1096 .] If we had 35 per cent. of gross domestic product as the public spending target, it would mean £60 billion worth of cuts in investment—cuts that would wipe out the entirety of the extra investment in the railways. We believe in putting that investment in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.535.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "target, it would mean £60 billion worth of cuts in investment—cuts that would wipe out the entirety of the extra investment in the railways. We believe in putting that investment in. [Interruption.] Opposition Members can try to shout me down, but let us understand the difference between the two parties. We believe that this extra investment should go in; let them state their position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.535.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "or, Richard Bowker, will publish the forward investment plans for the railways. As I said a moment or two ago, after the Hatfield rail disaster it became obvious that the condition of the railways was far worse than people had thought. It could have been said that post-1997, the moment that we came to power, we should have realised that that privatisation could not work in any shape or form—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.539.5", "colnum": "539", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, in relation to New York and so on, I think that those figures are wrong. In New York, the murder rate is about five times as high as in London. Secondly, the right hon. Gentleman is wrong in relation to the overall statistics for crime. The British crime survey—which the Conservatives have always said is the most accurate survey—shows that crime is down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.539.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "preceding_text": "It was great to see my right hon. Friend in Afghanistan earlier this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's logic is irrefutable. If \"significant\" actually meant large progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "s slightly harmed by the decision. I suspect that as long as the peace process is moving forward there will always be a plan B, a plan C or a plan D. We are not dealing with idiots in northern Irish politics; we are dealing with some of the most sophisticated politicians anywhere in Europe. I am very aware of those sitting on the Benches behind me when I say that, and I hope that they are nodding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.560.5", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "e. If we look at where we started and where we are now, we realise that those five years have generated more progress than the previous 30 years. That is a reasonable ground on which to give ourselves the space to allow the process to carry on. When one thinks about such things, it is always appropriate to ask, \"What would I do if I were in the position of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "at is the point about deadlines: they put on pressure. If one does not accept the deadline, there is a sanction. It is straightforward. If one does not submit a tax return by the end of February, I understand that 5 per cent. interest is charged on the sum owing. All hon. Members should note that, and more importantly, should note the lesson. It is vital that the point of a deadline be understood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.585.4", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is right to say that had we done what Conservative Members are urging us to do and held to those deadlines, we would not have had the act of decommissioning that we have witnessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.585.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "and it is certainly wrong to do so in a democracy. The hon. Gentleman's suggestion that the process is a facade is horrific, but if the effect of the new clause were to be to bring forward the publication of such bad news, it would be better than to continue to conceal it. I have explained the rationale behind the proposal and I assume that the hon. Gentleman is satisfied, as he is about to leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "a hole and she should stop digging. In reality, the only word that anyone is entitled to use is \"significant\", because that is the word used by the commission. To use that word, we need to recognise what the commission means by it. What the Minister might consider significant might not be considered significant by other hon. Members. So we are not simply talking about the difference between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "It is possible that the deadline will have no effect. I do not agree with the right hon. Gentleman that shortening a deadline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.627.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-09", "file": "debates2002-01-09.xml", "sha256": "faa732910c4508b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.643.6", "colnum": "643", "heading": "SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, following the Order of 20th November 2000, Mr. Nicholas Winterton, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Frank Cook and Mr. Edward O'Hara be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session.— [Mrs. McGuire.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-09.643.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman was not teaching the children of Southfields maths; the fact is that there are 12,000 more teachers than in 1998. As long as he refuses to accept that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the Minister is old enough to remember the 1970s and 1980s, but many of us in the House can, including, I think, the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the Minister is old enough to remember the 1970s and 1980s, but many of us in the House can, including, I think, the Secretary of State. [Interruption.] I am sure that she is much younger than me. In the 1970s and 1980s, competitive school sport was undermined by the dogma of Labour education authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.693.0", "colnum": "693", "heading": "International Assistance Force (Kabul)", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "oalition of the willing, that includes a significant number of countries—I read the list out fairly slowly for the hon. Gentleman's benefit. Countries such as Norway, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria and New Zealand have not yet exhibited characteristics consistent with being members of the European Union. I realise that the hon. Gentleman's grasp of geography might be a little less than desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "at least to be clear in their mind about the alternative that they would put in its place. That applies particularly to the official Opposition. Last night, the Conservative leader in the Lords braved \"Newsnight\". He was asked whether he agreed with the statement: \"Your MPs are split from what your peers are saying\", to which the noble and candid Lord replied, \"Oh, absolutely.\" This morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "my Daily Telegraph that last night the shadow Cabinet decided on a policy. I would ask the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) : do tell. Let us know the new policy. For a century the Conservative party has championed the hereditary principle. In their time in government, the Conservatives never once proposed that there should be a single elected Member of the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": "be different relationships between its Members and the electorate and between its Members and the Executive. There will be no potential Government in that House; it will be a House for scrutiny and deliberation. I also think that the House of Lords should be far smaller. There is no need for it to contain more than 300 people. Indeed, there is no need for this House to contain more than about 400.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": "ion. I also think that the House of Lords should be far smaller. There is no need for it to contain more than 300 people. Indeed, there is no need for this House to contain more than about 400. [Interruption.] The House should be smaller. Anyone who does not recognise that should consider the matter objectively, leaving aside his or her own job or career. Both Houses of Parliament are far too big.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "pting and completely wrong. I want the House of Commons to retain its primacy. It is perfectly possible for it to do so, as long as the powers and functions are properly defined. That has been mentioned by colleagues in all parts of the House. Yet we get fed this stuff from the Front Bench saying that we cannot do anything too radical. I exclude the Leader of the House from that, as he is an ally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": "ding the hereditary principle on which the monarchy itself is founded. I agree with many of the previous speakers—not least my hon. Friends the Members for Sutton Coldfield (Mr. Mitchell) and for South Staffordshire (Sir P. Cormack)—that the Government are proposing not a second Chamber, but more of a House of cronies with more elected politicians, as if we have not got enough already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Former Labour politician.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "e of the edges of the White Paper's pages turning green. It is not only Labour Members who are unimpressed with the Government's proposals. Lord Richard, the Prime Minister's first appointed Leader of the House of Lords, has described current proposals as \"half-baked\" and no more than \"tokenism\". The reason for producing such a dog's dinner was provided by Lord Stoddart, a Labour politician—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "ld remove the hereditary element; that we should assert the pre-eminence of the House of Commons; that we should have a second Chamber that reflects the balance of public opinion between the parties; and that there should not be a fundamental change in the powers of the two Chambers. Like many who have spoken today, my personal instincts have been in favour of a fully elected second Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "powers: the elected element would be 20 per cent., 20 per cent. would be appointed by an independent commission and about 55 per cent. would be appointed by parties, with most of those being appointed by opposition parties. Currently, the majority of new Members of the Lords are directly appointed by the Prime Minister, so the proposals represent a significant reduction in the powers of patronage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.777.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-10", "file": "debates2002-01-10.xml", "sha256": "6071a6d041b93c34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, following the Order of 20th November 2000, Mr. Nicholas Winterton, Mr. John McWilliam, Mr. Frank Cook and Mr. Edward O'Hara be appointed to act as additional Deputy Speakers at sittings in Westminster Hall during this Session.— [Jim Fitzpatrick.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-10.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": "That is a perfectly valid point, but we made a deliberate decision to have a system that, to use an abbreviated term, may be described as unisex, because women suffer much more severely than men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "Just when you thought you were doing so well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": "sisted. It is estimated that someone starting a scheme today would need to save 11.4 per cent. of net average earnings to reach the minimum income through the annuity—less than the existing arrangements demand. What would the Government get out of this? I keep emphasising what the Government would get out of my proposals, and I am becoming almost ashamed of how much I am trying to help them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.796.3", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Are they girls?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": " Friend makes an extremely valuable point and I am grateful to him for that additional information. In any case, it is evident that people are cautious about locking up capital in pension schemes when they may have emergency needs such as unemployment or divorce. To quote a personal example, two of my children are getting married this year. That could be described as an asymmetric financial shock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "principle of insurance is pooling risks. Separating out various groups is the start of a dangerous tendency. I declare a generic gender interest, and I am delighted that clause 1(4)(c) provides that annuities purchased to provide the proposed minimum retirement income should be provided on a unisex basis. We should not undermine the principle of pooled risk by separating provision for the genders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "Members campaigned in the general election on the issue of abolishing the compulsory annuity. It is right that the matter has not just been left, and that my right hon. Friend has brought it forward now. All of us have received constituency correspondence from people who are very concerned. Many hon. Members have drawn attention to the poor annuity rates that prevail. At the grand age of 55—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "olicies were introduced. Retirement annuity contracts were introduced in 1956 for the self-employed and those whose employers did not provide an occupational pension scheme. The personal pension legislation was enacted in 1988, so a great many working people with a variety of pension policies may benefit from flexibility. I agree with the hon. Gentleman who spoke from the Liberal Democrat Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "um of 25 per cent. of the pot to be paid gross if used to purchase long-term care insurance. The Government may not be enthusiastic about these ideas from a cost perspective, but they have said that they are keen to increase sales of long-term care insurance, and these ideas would certainly help to achieve that aim. A variation would be to re-introduce what was known as the Cannon Lincoln product.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bournemouth, West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "annuitant whereby, if one of them died early, the transferring annuitant and others would benefit, via a cross-subsidy, from the fund remaining on his death. The hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) went into the issue, and it is important to appreciate the point that the hon. Gentleman who chairs the parliamentary pension scheme made. I am sorry, but I have forgotten the name of his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.855.5", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "ight not have too much disposable income to hand. That is surely the case. However, even higher rate taxpayers do not save as much as they could in tax-privileged pensions. If one asks how much of the £34 billion applies to higher rate taxpayers, one finds that more than £8 billion applies to those higher rate taxpayers who do not take full advantage of their tax reliefs at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.855.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.855.5", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Pension Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": " years. Over such periods, if the lowest long-term growth projections of about 5 per cent. a year, as recommended by the Financial Services Authority for such a scheme, were achieved, the fund size would have increased to about £1 million. Under the right hon. Gentleman's proposals, the whole £1 million could be passed to the scheme's surviving members, tax free. It is not clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.855.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-11", "file": "debates2002-01-11.xml", "sha256": "a825c11e9630473f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.860.11", "colnum": "860", "heading": "NATIONAL HERITAGE BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 18 January .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-11.860.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "preceding_text": "We in north Kent would vote for the ranges to be closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.19.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "No agreement has been reached with the Spanish Government, and the Spanish Government have made no such claim. Discussions about Gibraltar's future, including the question of sovereignty, are continuing under the Brussels process established in 1984 by Lady Thatcher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "t expecting my right hon. Friend to be persuaded by my point about Lady Thatcher. However, I should have thought that it was a persuasive point for Conservative Members, as they started this process and it is actively supported today by many former Conservative Foreign Office Ministers and people who care both about Spain and about the people of Gibraltar, including Lord Howe and Lord Garel-Jones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " of sovereignty. Let me give a direct response to my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) . The problem about Gibraltar is that it, Gibraltar, raises all sorts of difficulties that it has with Spain. Spain, in turn, raises all sorts of difficulties that it, Spain, has with Gibraltar. Short of sending a gunboat to start military action against an EU and NATO ally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It is truly incredible to hear the right hon. Gentleman praying in aid the opinions of Lord Garel-Jones on this matter. The entire House considers them totally irrelevant, because we are looking forwards, not backwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Rail Strategic Plan", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "the failed privatisation—have now been addressed by the Government. As the director general of the Confederation of British Industry, Digby Jones, said this morning, \"nettles are at last being grasped\". Total investment each year over the next 10 years will average £4.3 billion in today's money. That contrasts with £1.4 billion in the final five years of the last Tory Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Rail Strategic Plan", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "k of reliability, to develop a new structure for the industry and to implement much-needed improvements across the country. Let us examine the detail of the improvements to take place between now and 2005. Specifically, 1,700 new carriages will be delivered by the end of 2004 to replace the 30-year-old slam-door rolling stock on the South Central, Connex South Eastern and South West Trains routes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Rail Strategic Plan", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "It was not. The right hon. and learned Gentleman really should know better. He has said that the Conservatives' aim should be to reduce the proportion of national output taken for the state to 35 per cent. The leader of the Conservative party said in the Budget debate in autumn last year that their target should be a reduction towards 35 per cent. of GDP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Rail Strategic Plan", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will know, I always treat figures from the Library with a certain amount of scepticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Rail Strategic Plan", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Busted pigs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that he was absolutely right to take decisive action against Railtrack and that that is one of the reasons why the Tories squeal like busted pigs every day he comes to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Rail Strategic Plan", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "atement, many of these proposals are priorities that are being addressed by the Scottish Executive and the Strathclyde passenger transport executive. That is the crucial point—these bodies will be working together. I believe that the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Executive will address the issues to do with Edinburgh and Glasgow airports. They are working on developing capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Rail Strategic Plan", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "nderpin it. As I said, it is important that we do not have merely vague aspirations as part of a grand vision. The specifics of the East London line extension, Thameslink, Orbirail, crossrail and improvements to Clapham Junction will all make a significant difference. Most important, they provide the opportunity for an orbital link in London, which will make a huge difference for people in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.61.4", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "for these proposals will be taking part in this debate. Ministers are not usually so coy, and there will be astonishment inside and outside Parliament at their reluctance to speak. Indeed, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport was not present at the start of the debate. Are Ministers' hearts not in the Bill, or are the proposals so complex that they have not been able to master them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.61.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.83.7", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "r that reason, I am worried about the proposal that the Secretary of State should appoint the chairman of Ofcom. As the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton said, it is imperative that someone is appointed who can do the job and who is perceived to be politically neutral. The same goes for the chief executive. It would be a sad state of affairs if two of Tony's cronies were appointed to Ofcom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.83.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-14", "file": "debates2002-01-14.xml", "sha256": "d13a2a9fce2afa63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": " changed Channel 4 so that, far from Channel 4 having to be subsidised by ITV through ITV revenues paid to the Independent Broadcasting Authority and later the Independent Television Commission, it is now Channel 4, through its advertising revenues, which to some degree subsidises independent television, by virtue of the fact that ITV fees are reduced because of the contribution made by Channel 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-14.84.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.149.9", "colnum": "149", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The first round of appointments made by the Appointments Commission included the chief executive of Centrepoint, the chief executive of Childline, and a trustee of Oxfam. The appointments also brought a welcome balance to the membership of the Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.149.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "amine the legal, financial, governance and accountability issues. While this will only ever be voluntary not mandatory for the health service's best performers, alongside new incentives, more devolution and greater patient choice it will help make for a different sort of NHS: where there is more diversity and less top-down control, with a framework of national standards in place and a means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman made five substantive points. As for being dragged to the House, I understand that the House will have an opportunity this afternoon and this evening to discuss NHS reform in copious detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is alive and awake for once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "is the best quality management and the best quality services. I simply do not believe that good quality managers begin and end at the public sector's door. We should consider using high-quality management wherever it exists to improve care for NHS patients. On my right hon. Friend's point about Railtrack, he is right. What the Conservatives did when they sold off the rail network was catastrophic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": ". I simply do not believe that good quality managers begin and end at the public sector's door. We should consider using high-quality management wherever it exists to improve care for NHS patients. On my right hon. Friend's point about Railtrack, he is right. What the Conservatives did when they sold off the rail network was catastrophic. [Interruption.] My right hon. Friend asked about Railtrack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There was a request to hear the Secretary of State and we must give him a hearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not want to hear about Railtrack, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. This morning I listened with interest to the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) , refusing to rule out charges to visit the GP's surgery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "As I have told the hon. Gentleman on very, very, very many occasions, both in Health questions and other health debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "NHS Hospital Management", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I notice that the hon. Gentleman and the Conservative party speak the language of opt-out, while we speak that of one NHS, one set of values, principles and standards, and one inspection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.169.5", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that the Minister was dragged here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.169.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I shall not go down that road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "Is not one of the strengths of the new system its location in the places that patients use? One of the downsides of the old system—perhaps the hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members share my experience in this respect—is that if we were to go into the street now and ask a British citizen whether they had heard of a community health council, they would say no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-15", "file": "debates2002-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c4d30e39f71a2978", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "In a world of reform by soundbite, where the answer to every issue is to set up a new commission, a new institute, a new agency or a new committee, surely there comes a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-15.234.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I can at least assure my hon. Friend that the review of the funding formula is intended to ensure that it is fairer. He will know that in Staffordshire, as elsewhere, additional resources have been going to education, health and the police. That means that education results have gone up, police numbers have gone up, waiting lists have gone up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.283.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " but hundreds if not thousands of people are alive today who otherwise would not have been; there is investment in Northern Ireland that would never have been made and there are jobs that would never have existed without the peace process. Hope and prosperity are at least available to people in Northern Ireland. If we went back to the old days of the Conservative Government, both would be missing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.289.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "tary of State gets his money, it will be at a higher price to the taxpayer or the fare payer. When the Minister for Transport sums up, perhaps he will tell the House what the Government estimate will be the extra cost of obtaining that £34 billion from the private sector, as a direct result of the Government's actions with regard to Railtrack, which have so damaged private sector confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.317.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "I think that the high sickness rates were a measure of the lack of confidence in the people running the railways. The trouble with Railtrack was that it was run by accountants and not by railwaymen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.320.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.368.3", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Care System", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "ly does that prevent them from leaving hospital, but it lengthens the waiting times for patients who want hospital treatment. The situation is ridiculous. On 9 October last year, the Government claimed that approximately 6,000 beds were blocked by patients who were well enough to be discharged. On 15 October , the Daily Mail revealed that the real number of delayed discharges was 100 times higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Care System", "cue_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": " homes are deemed to be a humiliating form of care. The models developed by the private sector in this country until recently were based on our old workhouse institution. Some of the care homes are not much better than some of the workhouse institutions of many years ago. I am sad to say that, and I am sorry that there have been attacks on the care standards legislation from the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Care System", "cue_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go to Stockton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "preceding_text": "I enjoyed the news from God's own county. It is very much a contrast to life in Surrey. My father is 80 and lives in Yorkshire and I have told him. \"Don't come south. Stay in Yorkshire.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Care System", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "ism. I say with the greatest respect, because the hon. Gentleman is bigger than me, that those who agree with our criticisms ought to follow the logic of their position. The hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) , one of the few Conservative Members in the Chamber tonight, confirmed in an honest speech that his party in opposition is committed to funding only nursing care, not personal care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-16", "file": "debates2002-01-16.xml", "sha256": "056f2d9e2abfc030", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Care System", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": " supported at home, which is why 1.5 million people are receiving care packages of various types in their own homes. Last September, the number of people receiving intensive home care packages was 3,500 higher than it was the previous year. My hon. Friends the Members for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe), for Stroud (Mr. Drew) and for Stockton, South (Ms Taylor) spoke imaginatively and creatively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-16.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State to ask whether she would meet a small delegation to discuss the heavy redundancies announced by BAE Systems, not least in respect of the regional jet division at Woodford on the periphery of my constituency. I deeply regret the decision of her junior, the Minister for Industry and Energy, who has just had a quiet word with her, to decline to meet me because he is too busy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Once again, that is the wrong analysis of the problems facing manufacturing industry. It does no service to manufacturing to make such comments. According to the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) , the Tory party is defined more by what it is against than by what it is for, and it is time to stop point scoring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ave set an example last Thursday when we debated the White Paper on Lords reform. He was invited several times by my hon. Friends and me to announce the Opposition's policy, but he refused to do so. However, on Sunday, we discovered that they had a fully formed policy which was disclosed courtesy of The Sunday Telegraph , not the most pluralist of vehicles by which we can inquire into that policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "r is. On the Saville inquiry, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was asked about its cost and he gave a perfectly correct, precise and accurate reply. The cost of the inquiry is met by the Northern Ireland Office and it is precisely the figure quoted by my right hon. Friend. Of course, parties to the inquiry and those supporting those giving evidence will have their owns costs on top of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " correct, precise and accurate reply. The cost of the inquiry is met by the Northern Ireland Office and it is precisely the figure quoted by my right hon. Friend. Of course, parties to the inquiry and those supporting those giving evidence will have their owns costs on top of that. [Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] Of course, they will, and no one has ever denied that, but that is not the cost of the inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "Can the Leader of the House clear up some confusion about the likely date of the Whitsun recess? He will be aware that the Whit bank holiday has been moved this year to allow it to stand beside the Queen's golden jubilee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Heartbreaking!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "o those prisoners who are deemed to be British citizens, because that would help to calm public disquiet? It would also help to ensure that we cease to give comfort to those who want an expansion of international terrorism and who use scenes and statements that seem to bear out their argument that western powers have little respect for, or consideration of, Muslim lives, religion and human rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will have seen recent press reports on the damage caused by alcohol misuse. He will also be aware that the Government have long promised an alcohol strategy, although it has yet to emerge. Will he encourage Ministers to bring forward the Government's alcohol strategy at an early date? Even before that, will he make time for a debate on alcohol abuse on the Floor of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There isn't any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the House requires a debate on backstabbing in the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Bristol Royal Infirmary", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "We will do it as quickly as we can and I hope that, in the not too distant future, we will have the White Paper. I cannot give a specific date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Bristol Royal Infirmary", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "irst to jump up and say that it was a rushed job. The seriousness of the issues raised today means that the most detailed consideration will be required before the White Paper is produced. The hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon made one of his usual speeches about the NHS and offered his prescription for what is wrong with it. He started where the Liberals always start—with resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-17", "file": "debates2002-01-17.xml", "sha256": "749d0c2cd3a5b796", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Bristol Royal Infirmary", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "ay means that the most detailed consideration will be required before the White Paper is produced. The hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon made one of his usual speeches about the NHS and offered his prescription for what is wrong with it. He started where the Liberals always start—with resources. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is not here? Then this will not be nearly as much fun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-17.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-18", "file": "debates2002-01-18.xml", "sha256": "6d01699f29893294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Employee Share Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": "on. Lady for her intervention. I cannot offer any detailed advice at this stage. Clearly, as she will appreciate, today's debate is on the Bill's broad principles. No doubt, if the hon. Lady or her hon. Friends wished to pursue those points in detail, they could do so in Committee. However, I have no doubt that my hon. Friend the Paymaster General will be able to outline the Government's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-18", "file": "debates2002-01-18.xml", "sha256": "6d01699f29893294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Employee Share Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": "y include community businesses and many providers of community and social housing and community leisure facilities. Indeed, they include companies limited by guarantee—a topic of some interest at the moment. They include the exciting and innovative scheme to promote a voice for football supporters in the management and ownership of their football clubs—the supporters direct initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-18", "file": "debates2002-01-18.xml", "sha256": "6d01699f29893294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.542.3", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Employee Share Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": " that route, they should ensure that the trustees elected by their employees are suitably trained. The hon. Member for Aylesbury rightly mentioned the nature of the election, which is not specified in the Bill. I understand why the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North and Leith has chosen not to do so, as we could get involved in a huge argument. It is often better if legislation is not over-specific.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-18", "file": "debates2002-01-18.xml", "sha256": "6d01699f29893294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.542.3", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Employee Share Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "r with the exact provision that he introduced. If it was introduced by him, that is not necessarily a poor source. The right hon. and learned Gentleman was responsible for some good measures. In the March 2001 Budget and in the 2001 pre-Budget report, the Government expressed interest in the matter. I shall be interested to hear from the Paymaster General when she sums up the debate tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-18", "file": "debates2002-01-18.xml", "sha256": "6d01699f29893294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.542.3", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Employee Share Schemes Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "am having a problem with timing. I hope that when she responds to the debate, she will say whether the measure is in line with the Government's thinking as it has developed since the 2001 Budget. I shall speak briefly about the John Lewis Partnership, primarily because, as I said earlier, it has two retail branches in my constituency. I have received letters from three constituents about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-18.542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-21", "file": "debates2002-01-21.xml", "sha256": "b89cbbe928e041fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.600.4", "colnum": "600", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "agree more with my hon. Friend. The figure that he has just given to the House illustrates that the quality and the quantity of volunteers are there now. Even the British media are now getting behind the Commonwealth games; the latest reports have been very encouraging. The only thing that we have to do now is to get the official Opposition on the side of the games, and we shall have a full house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-21", "file": "debates2002-01-21.xml", "sha256": "b89cbbe928e041fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend deserves a big pat on the back for asking that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-21", "file": "debates2002-01-21.xml", "sha256": "b89cbbe928e041fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "As I have said, it is important to promote take-up of digital services, and to maximise choice of free-to-air channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-21", "file": "debates2002-01-21.xml", "sha256": "b89cbbe928e041fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, there is a commitment in the Good Friday agreement to review the justice system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-21", "file": "debates2002-01-21.xml", "sha256": "b89cbbe928e041fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "d during a meeting with officials in the Northern Ireland Office on that matter, the document \"Restorative Justice Options for Northern Ireland: A Comparative Review\" is a companion of the review document itself. Far from there being no academic consideration or review of the provisions in New Zealand, there are no less than eight references to it in the companion document, which I commend to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-21", "file": "debates2002-01-21.xml", "sha256": "b89cbbe928e041fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "hed research on the way in which restorative justice operates in New Zealand. There is, however, a significant amount of research on that. Indeed, a plethora of it—nine pages, I think—is in the back of the companion document. It covers research throughout the world on restorative justice and its operation in many different jurisdictions. I hope that between now and the next time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-21.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.730.5", "colnum": "730", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that very much more money and resources are reaching trusts in Surrey than was ever the case under the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.730.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.735.4", "colnum": "735", "heading": "HIV", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "It is true that there are problems of capacity in this country, and it is no wonder, because under the previous Government 60,000 beds were cut. Between 1980 and 1997, the NHS lost 60,000 beds. That is why there is a problem with capacity. At long last, under this Government, we now have a scheme to rebuild Derriford hospital. What has already happened at Derriford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.735.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "HIV", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Would not one way of reducing demand for Caesarean operations be to increase the supply of acupuncturists? At Derriford hospital in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for South–West Devon (Mr. Streeter) , only 7.5 per cent. of babies are delivered by Caesarean. The working group on herbal medicines established by the Minister's Department, under Professor Pittilo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "HIV", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Calm down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "sm of teachers; and, while paying tribute to the immense skill and dedication of many public servants, shares the public's disappointment that the standards of many public services are well below those prevailing in the rest of Europe. So, new Labour moves closer to its sixth year in office, but what has it meant for Britain's public services, for those who work in them and for those who use them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.760.2", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "I think that I have given way perfectly sufficiently up until now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "Of course there are problems in the national health service: there are bound to be problems. There are problems in Surrey—which, incidentally, is why we have just increased the amount of money going into the Surrey health authority area. There have been years during which the NHS has not had the necessary investment, and has not had the necessary capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I have got the point. That is an issue for the Transport Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I have got the point. That is an issue for the Transport Secretary. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] We actually have a very good Transport Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.769.4", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to say that I am not familiar with the individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.769.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "t, however, that I now know more about the weakness of the Conservative unit on the Liberal Democrats, and I hope that I sample more of that weakness during my contribution. In the 1997 Labour manifesto the Prime Minister wrote: \"we have made it our guiding rule not to promise what we cannot deliver; and to deliver what we promise.\" That will be hard for people who use the public services to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "We are happy to say where we stand on the private finance initiative; we do not oppose it in principle, but it must pass tests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "te accountability; whether there is adequate risk transfer if it involves private finance; whether there is sufficient flexibility; and whether it will deliver those in the long term. I fear that he does not bother to ask those questions because he has been told from on high that he must support such initiatives. Liberal Democrat Members will always give practical scrutiny to such proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.774.11", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "They are thinking about it. It is at least a policy, but it fails many of the tests that I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.774.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "ned by the Liberal Democrats in government. Whatever the Labour party says it wants to spend on education, we would have spent £3.1 billion more, saying to the electorate that we thought it was necessary and that raising income tax was the fairest way to fund it. That would have meant smaller average class sizes, a fairer way to fund student finances and more provision for nursery education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.776.5", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady bases her question on a fallacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "No, I want to press on with my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.788.2", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on making the first Labour intervention that has not referred to the past—indeed, almost no speech has referred to anything but the past—and on being the first to have the nerve to glimpse into the future. I do not think that the quote is wholly accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.789.7", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "nt did make one terrible error in funding in the first Labour period in office, about which I have always agreed with the more sensible Liberal Democrats. The first two years were a complete disaster and the funding arrangements that the new Secretary of State for Education and Employment and the new Secretary of State for Health accepted were a disaster from which both services are still reeling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.789.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "a Chancellor. The right hon. Gentleman looks happy because he is responsible for local government, and the Government have taken the cap off local government spending and told those involved to go out and get the money through the community charge. I have to tell him, however, that the residents of my constituency are seeing the community charge increase year by year, beyond their capacity to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "ition that he used, and said that there were just 50 unfilled vacancies in Hertfordshire. I issued a press release to that effect and, to my embarrassment, the local newspapers came back asking, \"What do you mean by this? There are far more than that.\" Indeed, the county council figures show that the actual number of vacancies is more than four times as high as that revealed by central Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.816.3", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "That is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.820.3", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"CHI.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "I have already welcomed the increased release of information. We began a process; it has been continued, and I welcome that unreservedly. I do not think that it was NICE that released the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": "ugh the Tory health reforms. I am eternally grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for my getting elected in that by-election. Had it not been for his personal intervention, I would not have been elected. I thank him for the fact that I have won every election—I have had the majority vote from my electors in every election—since 1989, which is in part due to his intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": "e from my electors in every election—since 1989, which is in part due to his intervention. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) shouts from a sedentary position that I lost in 1992. Let me tell him that my electors elected me in that election. It was 64 South Africans who made the difference in the fiddled election system that the Tories introduced in the meantime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says that I missed nothing. I am sorry that I missed the speech, because the hon. Gentleman has previously been quite critical of his own Government's record in the past four and a half years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "y in his constituency and mentioned the reduction in crime there. He also drew attention, as did the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) , to the lessons to be learned from the Vale of Glamorgan by-election in 1989. As my hon. Friend pointed out, although he technically lost his seat in the 1992 election, in reality he had a majority among people resident in the constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": " proposed by its leader. I am pleased that the right hon. Member for South-West Norfolk (Mrs. Shephard) acknowledged that the Labour Government are investing more in public services—I welcome that refreshing honesty from the Opposition. The right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe said that the Labour Government were building on Tory success and our great economic legacy from 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I know that the Conservatives find it difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I shall come to Thameslink 2000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "hin and Harpenden will know that, as a result of the failures of Railtrack, which wanted to stand down the team driving the project through, Thameslink 2000 has been delayed. With the new management of Railtrack, and with the Strategic Rail Authority operating, that contract and project will be put on track; we shall deliver the improvements that the right hon. Gentleman and his constituents want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-22", "file": "debates2002-01-22.xml", "sha256": "8733b0157d5dd6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "ilable. Ultimately, the hospital patient, the school pupil, the rail passenger and the potential victim of crime must come first. The British people will not be fooled by the Tories' new rhetoric on public services. People know from their own bitter experience that the factors that have motivated the Tory party over the years—envy, self-interest and greed—are simply incompatible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-22.852.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Llew Smith", "preceding_text": "ment, does the Minister accept that hospital waiting lists could decrease dramatically if the Assembly stopped wasting money on projects such as the millennium arts centre in Cardiff bay and instead invested that money in the health service? Would that initiative have support in my hon. Friend's constituency, or are people queuing up in his surgery demanding yet another arts centre in Cardiff bay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "ere have been an extra 206 in the past year—and funds have been provided for a further 259 until next year. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman, like me, will welcome that, and will recognise that fighting crime is something in which all of us—the whole wider community—must participate. We want to ensure that our police service has the tools and resources to achieve what is needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " charge for more than four years. More illuminating is what my constituent said to me at the end of the conversation. She said that there were three generations of Labour voters in her household. They wrote to the Prime Minister to congratulate him on his election. They expected much more. Mrs. Addis's daughter also said to me: \"If my poor mother had been a dog she would have been treated better\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.882.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "rry on putting that investment into the national health service or take it back out? In the debate yesterday, the Conservative health spokesman, the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) , was asked that question. The Leader of the Opposition has been asked it several times in the past few days. Now let us have an answer. We are prepared to put this extra investment in, year on year on year; is he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.883.7", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of not listening to the consultation; indeed, we are going to listen to the consultation. If people think that we are simply going to try to railroad through proposals, they are wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.883.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.883.7", "colnum": "883", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e wrong. [Hon. Members: \"Oh\".] They are. It will be for every Member in the House to reflect carefully. I read the reports of the debates in this place the other day and in the other place. I read the speeches, for example, of several of the Members who spoke from the Conservative Back Benches. They did not agree with the proposals of the Leader of the Opposition. I spoke to many people who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.883.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Army Attributable Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "hough, when I discovered that a statement was to be made on this matter today. There were any number of issues on which I might have expected a statement from Defence Ministers, not least of which is Paul Bergne's view of the chaos at Bagram airport, or the A400M. Why are we being given a statement today—and especially one that has been so heavily trailed in the BBC and The Daily Telegraph ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Army Attributable Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "ess of the past two years would be taxed as a result of Treasury rules. That is surreal. We have reached the circumlocution office. The payment has to be made because it was mistakenly taxed, but any amount in excess of the two years will have to be taxed because of Treasury rules. I know that the Minister will confirm that those rules do not apply, because we are considering a Government mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.923.3", "colnum": "923", "heading": "International Development Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "No, I most certainly would not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.923.3", "colnum": "923", "heading": "International Development Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "No, I most certainly would not. [Interruption.] Hon. Members had better wait. The Labour Government made it abundantly clear when they first came to office that they were attempting to deal with this country's problems, which the Conservative Government had created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-23", "file": "debates2002-01-23.xml", "sha256": "2431b6cff1f8e9df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "International Development Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "With the best will in the world, I must tell the hon. Gentleman that he will have to live a long time before he intellectually challenges me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-23.926.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-24", "file": "debates2002-01-24.xml", "sha256": "fb1ffb6cb247827b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.991.6", "colnum": "991", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House will understand why the Chancellor of the Exchequer is not here today. I know that Members will want me, on behalf of the House, to send him and his wife Sarah our sympathy and best wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.991.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-24", "file": "debates2002-01-24.xml", "sha256": "fb1ffb6cb247827b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Roger Casale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Casale", "preceding_text": "Was not the legacy of the Tory Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-24", "file": "debates2002-01-24.xml", "sha256": "fb1ffb6cb247827b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "eek will be as follows: Monday 28 January —Remaining stages of the Civil Defence (Grant) Bill. The Chairman of Ways and Means has named opposed private business, namely the City of London (Ward Elections) Bill, for consideration at 7 o'clock. Tuesday 29 January —Opposition Day [9th Allotted Day]. There will be a debate entitled \"The Government's Mismanagement of the Post Office\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-24", "file": "debates2002-01-24.xml", "sha256": "fb1ffb6cb247827b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "in mid to late March or very early in April. I welcome what the right hon. Gentleman said about the importance of returning in September. We on the Labour Benches look forward to returning in September as well, although possibly for different reasons from his. We want to do so in order to put before the nation the way in which we are carrying through our programme to improve public services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-24", "file": "debates2002-01-24.xml", "sha256": "fb1ffb6cb247827b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "reasons why it will not be possible to introduce that innovation this year. A number of hon. Members have made their arrangements in good faith—I am impressed by the number of Members who are thinking so far ahead—and Mr. Speaker has arrangements to visit Canada and also to represent Britain on 11 September in New York. I am also advised that there will be roadworks outside the Palace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-24", "file": "debates2002-01-24.xml", "sha256": "fb1ffb6cb247827b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "me to introduce legislation on the continuing scandal of short measures of pints of beer in our pubs? Is he aware of the recent research conducted by the Campaign for Real Ale which shows that nine out of 10 pints being served in England and Wales are short measures, and that things are getting worse? Over the past three years the number of short measures being served has increased by 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-24", "file": "debates2002-01-24.xml", "sha256": "fb1ffb6cb247827b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "inherited a Committee steeped in a long tradition, spanning 140 years of thorough and worthwhile work. During his chairmanship, he raised the profile of the Committee's work and focused its energies more rigorously on issues of importance to people's day-to-day lives. I am sure that the House will join me in commending his contribution to the Committee's work, and we wish him well in his new role.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-24", "file": "debates2002-01-24.xml", "sha256": "fb1ffb6cb247827b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1059.0", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "risk is to take no risk, because we end up with no innovation, and the civil service culture is gradually changing in that way. However, when all is said and done, we have the best civil service in the world, and our role is to try to make it even better. I shall allude to the reports that refer to some of the less contentious issues on which we concentrate—the NHS, the PFI and the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-24.1059.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-25", "file": "debates2002-01-25.xml", "sha256": "1a944830cc48a32f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-25.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Industrial and Provident Societies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bob the builder?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "e dram, too. Co-operatives are not only economic entities, but community entities. They foster a great social awareness and build communities. John Williams, the president of my club, West Bromwich Labour club, is an electrician by trade. He leads a band of artisans who have been maintaining the club for many years. They are Pete Lowbridge the plumber, John the glazier and Geoff the builder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-25.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-25", "file": "debates2002-01-25.xml", "sha256": "1a944830cc48a32f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-25.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Industrial and Provident Societies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "nd it is another example of a Government stealth tax. I hope that the interest in the issue will now be such that the Minister will instruct the FSA to ensure that its proposal, which is so seductive for a self-financing regulatory authority, will be dropped. Societies that have set out on the basis that they would pay a one-off fee for registration should not have to pay recurring annual charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-25.1148.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-25", "file": "debates2002-01-25.xml", "sha256": "1a944830cc48a32f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-25.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Remaining Private Member's Bill — PRIVATE HIRE VEHICLES (CARRIAGE OF GUIDE DOGS etc) 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/2002-01-25.1171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-28", "file": "debates2002-01-28.xml", "sha256": "4c8e9f0723cf652c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that, according to his own figures, only 1,100 of the 460,000 cases of suspected fraud were successfully prosecuted? That is a success rate of some 99 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-28", "file": "debates2002-01-28.xml", "sha256": "4c8e9f0723cf652c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "As I said in November—it seems such a long time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-28", "file": "debates2002-01-28.xml", "sha256": "4c8e9f0723cf652c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "How could I?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-28", "file": "debates2002-01-28.xml", "sha256": "4c8e9f0723cf652c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.94.5", "colnum": "94", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "What interests me is that the Bank of England, which is located in Threadneedle street, has 3,000 employees—so if it were given the right to vote rather than being excluded, it would be a significant voter for the City of London corporation. Let me read out a few names. I dare not even mention Barings bank, although it is located in the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.94.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-28", "file": "debates2002-01-28.xml", "sha256": "4c8e9f0723cf652c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.97.3", "colnum": "97", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "Could my hon. Friend or the Minister throw any light on this point? I see that the Bill's promoter is not in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.97.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-28", "file": "debates2002-01-28.xml", "sha256": "4c8e9f0723cf652c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "r the Bank of England Act 1998. I think that the right hon. Gentleman is seeking to confuse the House because that is inaccurate, although he may not be doing so deliberately. I ask him, because he has introduced such an element of confusion into the debate, to withdraw the Bill, seek legal advice and publish it. I say that with the greatest respect because we all hold him in deep affection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-28", "file": "debates2002-01-28.xml", "sha256": "4c8e9f0723cf652c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "City of London (Ward Elections) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Simpson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to be pedantic. My hon. Friend listed 100 major City institutions and the number of employees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-28.113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I think that the issue is whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister's official spokesman—indeed, the Prime Minister himself, which is probably more important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.148.4", "colnum": "148", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "It is £64.9 billion, actually. The reason is that £3 billion is netted off. If it were not, we could be accused of double counting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Farming and Food Commission Report", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "on subsidies, although the commission blames them. I assume that he does not want us to blame farmers; every time anyone says anything that could conceivably be taken to mean that not everything in British farming is wonderful, he says, \"Don't blame the farmers.\" It appears that he wants the Government to take all the responsibility for the events of the past 50 years. I am disinclined to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.185.2", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": " addresses. Can the Secretary of State explain how war pensioners will be able to continue to obtain benefits in cash at post offices, as the Prime Minister has promised, once the system changes in eight weeks' time? Or is she able to say that the universal bank will be up and running within that time? As my hon. Friend the Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight) rightly pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members need to stop relying on speculation in the Sunday press. Our goals, as a Government, are clear. We want a universal service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members need to stop relying on speculation in the Sunday press. Our goals, as a Government, are clear. We want a universal service—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] I shall answer by spelling out our policy goals and what we are doing to achieve them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.187.2", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members need to stop relying on speculation in the Sunday press. Our goals, as a Government, are clear. We want a universal service—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] I shall answer by spelling out our policy goals and what we are doing to achieve them— [Interruption.] Opposition Members do not like my answer, and they will like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I remind my hon. Friend that we have cut the dividend that we would expect from the company from 90 per cent. to 40 per cent. I shall not make any decision on the dividend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has anticipated what I was about to say; my mind is perhaps working a little more slowly. The hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) must speak to the Question that has been proposed from the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "this point, then I will be happy to give way to the hon. Gentleman. I do not understand people who spend their day waiting behind their letter box for their letters to arrive. In our household, and probably those of all hon. Members, most people have gone out to work by 8 o'clock in the morning and rarely see their post deliverer. Their letters are waiting for them when they return in the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misrepresents the policy. Do not the people of Scotland and Wales have much more interest in the rural communities there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Here she is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": ". They have done nothing of the sort. They interfere in the running of the Post Office at all levels almost daily. As my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) said, they will simply not allow management to manage. As in every other field, they are an interfering, nannying, finger-wagging, hectoring, lecturing bunch of know-alls who have never run a commercial organisation in their lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-29", "file": "debates2002-01-29.xml", "sha256": "2c180d5b5754be2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Post Office", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ability in the Tory years was gained at the risk of investment; the drive was for profits, not for letting investment go ahead. The history of low investment could not be seen more clearly than in automation and computerisation. In 1997, not one branch of the Post Office was computerised; two years later, a Labour Government had invested £450 million and connected all sub-post offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-29.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.275.4", "colnum": "275", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "Development? That is despite the fact that £100 million has been made available to the Ministry of Defence from Treasury reserves for operations there. The right hon. Lady will remember that during the Kosovo crisis the Treasury reserves contributed £68 million to the efforts of DFID. Will she assure the House that the cupboard will not be bare in the event of another natural disaster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ous, we must first of all ask him the same question: is he prepared to accept, on his own measure and own figures, that he has made a mistake and got it wrong? One minute he says that the public servants leave scars on his back; the next moment he is running to hide behind them when there is a problem. He then turns the entire weight of his Government and their machine on a 94-year-old lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.284.3", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Phil Sawford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Sawford", "preceding_text": "I recently visited the new cardiac ward at Kettering general hospital where I saw the new building to house our MRI scanner, which will shortly be in service, and in a few days I shall attend the official opening of the hospital's new creche facility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "According to the Electoral Commission, the answer is in excess of £84,000. Of course, the union also gives extra perks to certain members of the Cabinet, whom we already know. Yet that is a union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "No, I certainly do not agree that we were wrong to abolish it per se—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.316.4", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for intervening. He makes the case very well. The Minister will have to address that point. Ring-fencing of funds centrally is not popular as a long-term strategy, but there is an increasing tendency towards that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "hrough the review of standard spending assessments, to have a better framework for the future. With the good grant increases that we have provided this year and the prospect of stable grant settlements, all authorities should be able to deliver improvements to public services while setting reasonable council tax increases. This year, we have made changes to what must be shown on council tax bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.355.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": "s are worth another 4.5 per cent. or more. A curious quirk of the Bellwin formula, which I am sure that the Minister recognises, means that the amount of money that the Government allocate to alleviate emergencies depends on the number of teachers that the local authority employs and their grades. It kicks in after 0.2 per cent. of the budget, which is largely determined by the teachers' pay bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.372.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "As a Member representing a Hertfordshire constituency, may I ask the hon. Gentleman to recognise the simple fact that because of higher housing and salary costs, Hertfordshire's local education authority has higher costs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "ed it, in which one side of the county boundary receives substantially more money per pupil than the other. That needs to be addressed. The hon. Members for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Betts) and for Stafford (Mr. Kidney) also mentioned that. The Minister said that the SSA is unfortunately so complicated that only boffins in anoraks can understand it and, by implication, that he, perhaps, did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-30", "file": "debates2002-01-30.xml", "sha256": "49bba6b286271e27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "eaking for the official Opposition, deftly tried to damn me either way by picking up my remark about the complexity of the system and the fact that it was probably only intelligible to anoraks; he then suggested that probably even I did not understand it. If I agree, I condemn myself for not understanding the system; if I do not, I condemn myself as an anorak. Either way, I cannot get out of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-30.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "e the Government have been led by the nose by the EU directive rather than initiating their own programmes, and failed to recognise that the directive had a mandatory requirement, which they discovered only three weeks before it came into effect? Is not the same problem going to arise with the disposal of cars? Does the Minister not recognise that it is not the job of the EU to tell us what to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": " nose by the EU directive rather than initiating their own programmes, and failed to recognise that the directive had a mandatory requirement, which they discovered only three weeks before it came into effect? Is not the same problem going to arise with the disposal of cars? Does the Minister not recognise that it is not the job of the EU to tell us what to do? [Interruption.] It is our job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "That is a useful point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "It is not the case that our import controls are lax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "— [Interruption.] Let me remind Opposition Members that we have strengthened the import controls that we inherited from them. Our import control procedures have been in existence for many years. I take the hon. Gentleman's point; all of us are dismayed when we read the stories about the amount of meat that some individuals bring in. However, the reason why he knows about those stories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 4 February —Opposition Day [10th Allotted Day]. Until 7 o'clock there will be a debate entitled \"Failure of the Government to Negotiate a Bilateral Agreement on Asylum with France\" followed by a debate entitled \"Failures of the Government's Pensions Plans\". Both debates will arise on a Government motion, or rather an Opposition one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "We had a long debate on political party funding during the last Session, in which we passed a significant Bill, and we can keep under review whether there is a will in the country or the House to return to the matter. There was a substantial debate only two years ago and I am not sure that there would be an appetite in the House to make it a priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Travel Concessions (Eligibility) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ealistic view that if extra duties are imposed they should be reasonably funded.\"—[ Official Report , 14 January 2002; Vol. 378, c. 125 .] The Opposition take the view that if the Government impose any duties on local government, they should be fully funded. If the Government impose duties, the Government should fund them. I shall now give way to the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Agriculture", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "' possible impact on the underlying value of farmland? Uncertainty surrounds the issue of whether set-aside land will be caught by the regulations. The pamphlet issued by the Department merely advises people to call a helpline if they have concerns about such land. I know of a farmer who telephoned the helpline earlier today. He rang 0800 028 2140 and a pleasant voice answered, saying \"EIA\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-01-31", "file": "debates2002-01-31.xml", "sha256": "ed0bd6073ff5d376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Line of Route", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: She is behind you.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "May I, as I omitted to do so earlier, apologise for the absence of my hon. Friend the Member for Cheadle (Mrs. Calton) , who had hoped to be here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-01-31.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-01", "file": "debates2002-02-01.xml", "sha256": "e6c8ca8bba3b86cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-01.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Learning Disability White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": " new procedures. I should like to tell the House the rules that the taskforce has agreed. It has agreed that people should raise their hand if they want to speak; speak clearly and slowly; look at the person to whom they are speaking; and avoid long words. It has also agreed that only one person should speak at a time; there should be no jargon; and that mobile phones should be switched off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-01.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-01", "file": "debates2002-02-01.xml", "sha256": "e6c8ca8bba3b86cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-01.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Learning Disability White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "illion that is currently spent on learning disability services. Much of the work that is carried out locally by the learning disability partnerships and at a national level by the taskforce and the Government relates to looking at the objectives that we have set ourselves and ensuring that the £3 billion is spent in a way that meets the aspirations of people with learning disabilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-01.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "what to trade and how to trade in order to achieve the desired result. It has, uncharitably, sometimes been alleged that just as the Department of Trade and Industry sponsors industry under the present Administration, and the Department for Education and Skills sponsors teachers, so the Foreign and Commonwealth Office sponsors foreigners. I do not for one moment believe that lamentable accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I answer that point in the words of the bilateral agreement. Incidentally, the agreement has sometimes been misrepresented as being a gentleman's agreement. It was nothing of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " cause. My claim is simple. At present, neither the Home Secretary, for all the good will that he has displayed in this matter, nor his officials, for all the ingenuity that they are displaying and will display when the White Paper is implemented, are able to deal with the problems that we face as a nation, because the weight of the numbers and the speed of the arrival and the disproportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.618.2", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Asylum Seekers", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " with compassion and humanity, we are not doing our job properly as parliamentarians. I hope that people outside, including some of those who write for national daily papers, have as much interest in presenting that side of the story as they do in presenting the somewhat distorted picture of people trying to break through and come illegally to the United Kingdom. One other preliminary point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.663.3", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " that no one would sell them. In fact, many providers are selling the pensions. Conservative Members then said that no one would buy them, but more than 637,000 stakeholder pensions have now been sold. I expect to see the figure improve year on year, but we shall know later this year exactly who has bought them. I will be happy to debate the matter with the hon. Gentleman if he is still here then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.663.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "r for Havant commented on public services. It is difficult to understand where that fits into the Conservative party's pension policy. All I can say is that the Conservative party, its leader and its shadow Chancellor are committed to reducing public spending to 35 per cent. of gross domestic product, which equates to about £60 billion—almost as much as we spend on health or education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " Pension.\" Clearly, 20-year-olds are all down the Dog and Duck or wherever they go, discussing the state second pension and its reform. I wonder whether the Secretary of State, who I assume wrote the article, can tell us how many 20-year-olds have bought stakeholder pensions? I am happy to give way to the Secretary of State if he is able to provide that figure—but, of course, he has no idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "arantee, many hon. Members on both sides of the House pointed out that a considerable number of our constituents who were doing everything that previous Governments and the current Government had asked them to do—that is, save for their retirement—would probably make themselves worse off. Initially, the Government denied that. Then, thank goodness, there was a Pauline conversion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-04", "file": "debates2002-02-04.xml", "sha256": "7b13ee7d4cf874e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Pensions and Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": "erably less than the full value of the state pension foregone—in some instances, arguably as little as half.\" That of course rings a bell with those already familiar with the stakeholder pension situation. We discussed that in detail last time, hence its relatively lower profile in this debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Havant showed that most of the uptake lay outside the target groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-04.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-05", "file": "debates2002-02-05.xml", "sha256": "7527769d7cf6831d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "That is obviously one part of the discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-05", "file": "debates2002-02-05.xml", "sha256": "7527769d7cf6831d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman suddenly seems to have been converted to the merits of the European Court of Justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-05", "file": "debates2002-02-05.xml", "sha256": "7527769d7cf6831d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.745.4", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "Why not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-05", "file": "debates2002-02-05.xml", "sha256": "7527769d7cf6831d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that view is shared by Liberal Democrat Front Benchers or by many other people. Between 1987, when the airport agreement failed, and the resumption of negotiations under the Brussels process last year, this Government and previous Governments have sought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-05", "file": "debates2002-02-05.xml", "sha256": "7527769d7cf6831d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.787.6", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "I want to finish this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.787.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-05", "file": "debates2002-02-05.xml", "sha256": "7527769d7cf6831d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.797.3", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-05", "file": "debates2002-02-05.xml", "sha256": "7527769d7cf6831d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.828.6", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down then!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Harrogate and Knaresborough (Mr. Willis) , as the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) reminds me. I am sorry that we have heard from the right hon. Gentleman only in interventions today. Many of us were looking forward to a more lengthy contribution from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-05.828.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.849.5", "colnum": "849", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "ase in the Short money, which goes to support their work—it is purely for parliamentary business, of course, and I am sure that it is true that central office is not propped up by that £3.4 million. I tried to do a bit of research the other day and it seems that in their annual report and accounts, the Tories simply lump Short money with the rest of the income that they generate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.849.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It has risen; however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The answer is quite correct: 50 per cent. I have to tell the Prime Minister that that is not just a figure. He talks about the rise in the number of operations done, but the numbers that have been cancelled have risen as well, and that is a real tragedy for those who have to wait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.855.3", "colnum": "855", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me explain to the right hon. Gentleman again why we believe that this is important. The London underground will remain in the public sector from the time that the tube opens until the time that it closes. The reason that we are engaged in this public-private investment partnership is so that the infrastructure work, which is urgently needed in the tube, can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.856.4", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Turner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Turner", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will be aware that the performance and innovation unit's report on future energy supply is now widely available on the internet, and that it confirms that renewable sources should have a vital and increasing role in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.856.4", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Turner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Turner", "preceding_text": "er will be aware that the performance and innovation unit's report on future energy supply is now widely available on the internet, and that it confirms that renewable sources should have a vital and increasing role in the future. [Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"] The UK is uniquely rich in wave and tidal energy sources, but if this potential is to be unlocked, it will require a lead from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Over the next three years, we have committed about £260 million in an extensive capital grants programme for renewable energy. We have a target to reach 10 per cent. renewables by 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Over the next three years, we have committed about £260 million in an extensive capital grants programme for renewable energy. We have a target to reach 10 per cent. renewables by 2010. [Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Over the next three years, we have committed about £260 million in an extensive capital grants programme for renewable energy. We have a target to reach 10 per cent. renewables by 2010. [Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"] [Laughter.] There will be a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Over the next three years, we have committed about £260 million in an extensive capital grants programme for renewable energy. We have a target to reach 10 per cent. renewables by 2010. [Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"] [Laughter.] There will be a— [Laughter.] I am told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.5", "colnum": "857", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "le. Let me tell him why that is the case. The evidence that I have read out is evidence not just about the importance of the MMR vaccine but about the importance of having it in combination, rather than in separate jabs. Let me just say to the hon. Gentleman that the evidence that that way is better comes from right round the world—not just this country. It comes from 90 different countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.857.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "In no shape or form are we giving way on the reform programme in the health service and the education service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am reluctant to interrupt the Leader of the Opposition, but I must tell him that the Prime Minister is here to answer questions as Prime Minister, not as leader of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.859.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "This issue goes right to the heart of the Government. While I fully respect what you say, Mr. Speaker, I must point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "y respect what you say, Mr. Speaker, I must point out— [Interruption] —if I may—that it is about what is happening on the railways and in the Post Office. I am simply raising an issue, and asking a question about whether there are links with and reasons for Government policy. I would like to pursue that line if you are agreeable, Mr. Speaker. Perhaps I can ask the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.859.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I would be delighted to visit my hon. Friend's constituency hospital in Kettering, although preferably not as a patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.861.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.883.2", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " so there are more applications than places. Some of us say that, if there are more applicants than places, perhaps there should be more places to meet the demand. That is a basic democratic demand. Others, such as the right hon. Gentleman, say, \"No, selection is so evil that we must eliminate all the places in such schools, so that no one is happy.\" That is old-fashioned equality of misery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "I admit freely that this is a much more complex issue than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.887.3", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "I hope it is apparent from my remarks that I do not believe that schools should be exclusive in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.890.5", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I wish to make some progress. In an hour's time, I will take more interventions. The amendment is not an attack on Church schools. If it is portrayed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.890.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way for a second time because the hon. Gentleman was not nice last time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "will continue to ban children. That is exactly what happens in Oldham, where Muslim children cannot currently get into the two Church of England schools. I congratulate one of those schools, which last week changed its admissions policy and said that it would deliberately take 15 per cent. of its pupils from non-Church of England backgrounds. That would not have happened without this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "I am reminded that the subject was in our manifesto, which I quote: \"We will encourage more church and other faith-sponsored schools, where parents wish it.\" That is the manifesto on which I stood and on which my hon. Friend stood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend may recall that when I introduced the new clauses, I said that it was quite possible that they were faulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": " an education system in which schools are all-Muslim, for example. Let us not forget that the reverse of that is illustrated in leafy Solihull, which abuts my constituency, and where the schools are 100 per cent. white and Christian. Do those schools present the same problem as the 100 per cent. Muslim schools? We have heard less talk about them than we have about the 100 per cent. Muslim schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.906.6", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "I hear what my right hon. Friend says, but I shall take the point seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.906.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "It would be a perfectly reasonable position if it were not an exclusive one, but the hon. Gentleman is proposing not that some schools should be faith-based and admit a range of members of other faiths but that it should be illegal for a maintained school to have a fully faith-based intake. That, to me, is intolerance. One of the sadnesses is that the Liberal party has a three-line Whip on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.912.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Claire Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Ward", "preceding_text": "I respect my hon. Friend's views, and respect people who follow different faiths. However, he has a choice; he, or anyone in his position, can decide not to send their children to a school with a particular faith or denomination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is the other way around.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "I am arguing that most faith schools would be stronger and that the faith itself would gain strength and wider support if the schools were more exclusive and less inclusive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "res, in which hypocrisy is entrenched, are part of the reason for the growing cynicism about religion in our society. I am neutral on religion. I do not oppose my party manifesto, which calls for an extension of faith schools; I am content to support diversity of school management. If it is a choice between Arthur Andersen and the Church of England, I go for the Church of England every time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.966.2", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Well, today is another day. This House has agreed to a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.966.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "rnment to change the law to give all teachers—of whatever school—the same rights under TUPE. I hope that the Government will give the new clause a positive response, as it aims to give all teachers—whether in community schools, voluntary-aided schools or any school maintained by the state—exactly the same rights as regards employment, redundancy and transfer of undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.990.6", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. How can the Secretary of State get away with misleading the House in such a vile way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.990.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.990.12", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "Those children deserve a good standard of education in our schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.990.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-06", "file": "debates2002-02-06.xml", "sha256": "30f8151160335f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "t we have failed to debate tonight, which cover an enormous range of policies that are deeply important to schools, parents and teachers. We have not discussed the Government's proposals on sixth forms or schools' powers to form companies—a radical and revolutionary proposal that the Government welcome and that everyone agrees is one of the most important changes to affect our schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-06.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Derek Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Foster", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the glee shown by Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I will draw Ministers' attention to the Hansard containing the hon. Gentleman's comments, but in an ingenious and, as we would expect, complicated way he has asked the same question as was asked earlier on what our legal advice is. He has given me his advice, for which I thank him, and hon. Members and Ministers will read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "r those designated asylum seekers who are claiming public support. The centres will offer education, health care and legal and interpreting services. Opportunities for volunteering and other purposeful activities will also be available, as will appropriate language support. For those refused asylum, secure removal centres will enable us to protect the integrity of the system through early removal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1027.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1054.4", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It should be pointed out that the majority of Labour Members who spoke from the Back Benches in support of the new clauses could hardly be described as Government members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1054.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "nse on passported benefits to her response on continued entitlement to the children's tax credit. On passported benefits, she gave an assurance that there would be no losers—people getting free school meals now will get them in future—but there was no such assurance on the children's tax credit: that will be dealt with in the Budget. What is the difference of principle between the two?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "They will be strictly germane, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am sorry for my rather lengthy introduction—that was always a fault with my university essays, and I was regularly marked down for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1088.0", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "Until latterly, we had rather a good debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "oach to addressing the problems of those most in need, the arrangements are not particularly effective. The hon. Gentleman will note that these criticisms have been made by a number of organisations that focus on poverty. There are many good things in the proposals, to which I referred on Second Reading. However, our objections of principles remain valid and have not been adequately debated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "thoroughly divided on their approach to the public-private partnership. Steve Norris, the Tory candidate for Mayor of London last year—and probably the Conservative who knows most about transport—said that the public-private partnership was, in reality, the only game in town and that to imply that we can just go back and have another negotiation was naive. So that is the reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": ".] Opposition Members do not like it when I reveal that their candidate for mayor holds a completely different view. We did not hear a word from the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) about the Conservative approach to the underground, but we know what it is, because it is on the record. The Conservatives have said, \"We should transfer the underground into the private sector\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": " case. I have said several times before that if they do not agree, we will not proceed with the PPP. I said that months ago; I continue to say it, and I say it again in the House this evening. The Deputy Prime Minister suggested that there might be indicative savings of about £4.5 billion—I read his precise words today. There are savings of about £4 billion, which is significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "Yes, Conservative Members all agree. That is where they want to be. Speaking to the Conservative party conference on 23 September 1999 , the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) said: \"We will transfer the Underground into a series of privately-run, vertically integrated, publicly limited companies.\" He did not mention that in his comments. That is probably understandable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "e will transfer the Underground into a series of privately-run, vertically integrated, publicly limited companies.\" He did not mention that in his comments. That is probably understandable. [Interruption.] It is always interesting to know the right hon. Gentleman's views, which are usually far more interesting than the views of the hon. Members for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) or for Brentwood and Ongar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "ays interesting to know the right hon. Gentleman's views, which are usually far more interesting than the views of the hon. Members for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) or for Brentwood and Ongar. [Interruption.] I would never get personal with the hon. Gentleman. The right hon. Member for Wokingham reveals what lies at the heart of the modern Conservative party—privatise anything. That is the reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-07", "file": "debates2002-02-07.xml", "sha256": "65c59188fba354d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's solution would be to privatise, whether it be the railways and Railtrack or the London underground. It is little wonder that the voters of Shrewsbury showed him where to go. I do not know whether he left by rail or road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-07.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-08", "file": "debates2002-02-08.xml", "sha256": "a7c6565388bc4936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-08.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Disadvantaged Areas", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "That is the kind of knockabout politics that I was trying to avoid. Frankly, such comments bring the House and the hon. Gentleman into contempt. Those figures hide a lot of human misery and misfortune for the victims. I hope that the speeches of Labour Members will be constructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-08.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-08", "file": "debates2002-02-08.xml", "sha256": "a7c6565388bc4936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-08.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Disadvantaged Areas", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "of policing in rural and urban areas, to address the fear of crime, which clearly has a significant, and disproportionate, impact on disadvantaged communities. Proposals such as a community safe force that would involve traffic wardens and estate and other park attendants could play a role. We would support the idea of a \"safer front doors for all\" initiative, which would ensure that people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-08.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-08", "file": "debates2002-02-08.xml", "sha256": "a7c6565388bc4936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-08.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Disadvantaged Areas", "cue_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "debates, which we try to make more thoughtful and restrained than our mid-week ones. Once again, she promoted the myth that all the problems that exist today are something to do with 18 years of Tory misrule. That is absolute nonsense. Every commentator knows that the tough economic decisions taken by Conservative Governments in that time laid the foundations for the prosperity that we have today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-08.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-08", "file": "debates2002-02-08.xml", "sha256": "a7c6565388bc4936", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-08.1217.0", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Disadvantaged Areas", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "orgiven.\" I am not a theologian, but my understanding is that for forgiveness to be offered it must be asked for, and not one Conservative Member has apologised for a single policy adopted by the previous Tory Government. Therefore, I cannot see forgiveness being offered or forthcoming from the electorate. I am one of nine Members—at the moment, anyway—representing the city of Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-08.1217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-11", "file": "debates2002-02-11.xml", "sha256": "6910ab1edf5e9833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-11.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "ot accept that, in addition to the Foreign Secretary saying that the anti-ballistic missile treaty had had its day, he went on to say that he thought there was room, without question, for ballistic missile defence? Does that not constitute a fundamental change of policy by the Labour Government? Is it not proof that they are moving increasingly to what my right hon. Friend Iain Duncan Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-11.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "ADVOCATE-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Lynda Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynda Clark", "preceding_text": "lso have to decide whether it would be useful to use public money to extend a case as a result of my intervention. Every case turns on its own merits. I can advise the right hon. and learned Gentleman that I gave detailed consideration to this case before making a decision on intervention. As it happens, I intimated that I wished to consider intervention when I still had time to consider the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.70.6", "colnum": "70", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "I understand that many Members preferred the original arrangement, on the grounds that it provided for a more consensual approach to debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.70.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.70.7", "colnum": "70", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that, partly because of its layout, Westminster Hall has been a triumphant success?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.70.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.73.5", "colnum": "73", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For visitors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "The aim of the proposed reforms is to increase the effectiveness of the House as a whole, and to ensure that all hon. Members benefit, irrespective of the location of their constituencies. I understand the hon. Lady's concerns as they might apply to the start time on a Monday, which we are not proposing to change, or to our finish time on a Thursday or Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.73.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.73.5", "colnum": "73", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": " to do with constituents. Constituents will want to visit the House at many different times during the week, and that is a factor that must be borne in mind. We propose that the House's hours on Wednesday mirror those on Thursday. It is fair to say that constituents are still able to visit the House on a Thursday, and that the experiment with the hours on Thursday has proved to be very successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.73.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "life balance campaign. We have an enormous interest in spreading best practice for flexible working even when it is unrelated to parenthood. It might be that people have other caring responsibilities, or simply want to pursue a hobby. This is a two-pronged attack. I have heard the backlash argument from several quarters, although the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge did not put it so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A third way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "I think that there is a third angle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "The disputes are not about train drivers. We all understand that drivers are extremely scarce, which is why they are cutting good deals with their employers. That is the marketplace working, and I have no problem at all with train drivers achieving good settlements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " Hammond) says that these things did not occur before. Conservative Members are so wrong about this it almost hurts. One reason why they were swept out of power in 1997 and lost again by a landslide last year is that they refuse to understand the difficulties of people at work and continue to be hostile to free, independent trade unionism. I find it reassuring to know that that gap is still there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I seem to remember that when the Minister was a union leader, he found it more useful to employ Lowe Bell than to take his members out on strike—but that is another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-12", "file": "debates2002-02-12.xml", "sha256": "735cb4be239c5e84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I feel the need to take the hon. Gentleman, whom I very much like, out for a gin and tonic, and sit him down and go through all of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-12.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "o Her Majesty the Queen, the Queen Mother and the royal family on their sad loss. The Prime Minister is right to say that Princess Margaret was a strong servant of her country, through war and peace. She will be mourned and much missed throughout the country. When the Prime Minister signed the letter to his Romanian counterpart on behalf of LNM on 23 July 2001 , was he or his chief of staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ocess of economic reform was going forward. The reason the right hon. Gentleman is raising this is simple—no one would know of any donations but for the legislation that we introduced—it is because the Conservative party got into such difficulty in the previous Parliament, because previous leading members of the Conservative party are either in jail or have just come out of jail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.199.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " party got into such difficulty in the previous Parliament, because previous leading members of the Conservative party are either in jail or have just come out of jail— [Interruption.] What Conservative Members want to do, because of the trouble they got into, is smear us with the same brush. I am afraid that all they do when they engage in this nonsense is remind people of their own record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "that, this January, recruitment was up 20 per cent. on last year. There are also reforms in the new Police Reform Bill that will allow new powers for civilian staff, so that we can free up more officers on the beat. There is also record investment in closed circuit television—some £200 million. We are also funding some 400 extra secure accommodation places and 2,500 more prison places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "investment, I think that, by the end of the year, we will have record numbers of police—more than in all the years of Conservative Government. It is correct, of course, that one of the answers is to get more police on the beat, more investment in secure accommodation and swifter court action. That is exactly what we are doing, but the key to doing all of it is to put in the extra investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.204.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": ", the crime rate doubled under the 18 years of Conservative Government, while in the five years of this Government it has fallen, not risen. Vehicle crime is down by 30 per cent; burglary is down by more than 20 per cent. Overall, crime is down by 12 per cent. So if we compare the records of Conservative and Labour Governments, we see that, under the Tories, crime doubled; under us, it has fallen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What are you going to do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y, however, that the amount of money that we are giving to local government has significantly increased. Let us wait and see what the actual council tax rises are. The hon. Lady spoke of the position of pensioners. Of course we are concerned if any pensioners face unacceptable rises in their council tax, but I would point out to her that the Government have done a lot for the income of pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "ons from the Committee's report, but Mrs. Filkin considered the argument spurious, and did not accept it at all. That is the point. The hon. Member for Leicester, East said that he had been cleared of various complaints. In fact, hon. Members should read the report. It says that inquiries were incomplete on several issues. That is different from complaints not being upheld or indeed being cleared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Watford (Ms Ward) , who is in her place, in evidence to Elizabeth Filkin in the report last year. I should like to take up the district auditor's report, which deals with the same matter that was raised in that Adjournment debate. It said: \"Housing bosses were wrong to reinstate an evicted tenant after an MP intervened and this cost Leicester city council some £1,800.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Standards and Privileges", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Very well, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I hear what you say and I shall not in any way transgress, except to say that I would like the NEC report to be published because it is relevant to what Mrs. Filkin was saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "use, the hon. Member for Middlesbrough (Mr. Bell) responds to the debate, I hope that he will say how quickly we will progress to the absolute minimum requirement of three days; otherwise, a backlog will inevitably build up in a matter of months. What period of notice do Mr. Mawer's ecclesiastical employers want him to work? Is he under a great obligation to them or, indeed, to a higher authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.236.5", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I shall not repeat it more than once, but my point is that I have not found a recorded occasion in the House in the past two months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.236.5", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": " days a week. Not only was that fact not explicit; it was not mentioned at all. We know that the commissioner was working five days a week, that the advertisement was for three days a week and that there had been a row about that reduction, but the right hon. Gentleman never mentioned that. From his reported remarks it sounded as though the commissioner could carry on as long as she applied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "that they were got rid of because they were inconvenient to people in this place. I have one more point about the Commission. When hon. Members have raised this issue at business questions—especially the hon. Member for Worthing, West, but also other hon. Members—they have been barracked by the shadow Leader of the House. I have never seen such strength of solidarity and support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "hey have been barracked by the shadow Leader of the House. I have never seen such strength of solidarity and support— [Interruption.] The Leader of the House does not seem to agree. There is something unhealthy about a political system where the Members of the Front Benches were so arm in arm—the Liberals were not much better—about getting rid of that independent regulator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Overseas Territories Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "f great moment to many people. It may not be of great importance to Foreign Office and Home Office officials in Whitehall, but it is of huge symbolic value to the Saints. I appeal to the Minister to exercise his discretion to ensure that 21 May is a red letter day for the Saints. I urge him not to be a party-pooper but to ensure that 21 May in St. Helena, if not Bradley day, is Bradshaw day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Overseas Territories Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "nderstand that the British Indian Ocean Territories police do nothing about passing millionaire yachtsmen drawing up their yachts alongside the outer islands of the archipelago and staying there for a considerable time without being told to move on. Any Chagos islander trying to go back gets stopped by fishery protection vessels on their way to the islands. There seems to be something wrong there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-13", "file": "debates2002-02-13.xml", "sha256": "0f72b5e8e03eea75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Overseas Territories Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "gos islander trying to go back gets stopped by fishery protection vessels on their way to the islands. There seems to be something wrong there. [Interruption.] As my hon. Friend the Member for Elmet (Colin Burgon) says, there could be a bit of class politics going on. Although such notions are not supposed to be popular among those on the Government Benches, some of us still understand them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-13.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his extremely pertinent comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.311.2", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "March —Debate on the achievements of the national lottery on a motion for the Adjournment of the House. The provisional business for the following week will be: Monday 4 March —Remaining stages of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill. Tuesday 5 March —Opposition Day. There will be a debate in the names of the Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru. Subject to be announced.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Innovation, not information.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "It may be Valentine's day outside, but there is obviously no love-in in here. I assure the right hon. Gentleman that no one will ever attempt to put him on a website, and he will be able to stick to his wireless. I welcome the right hon. Gentleman's recognition of the performance and information unit as a very important body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "m authorised by my colleagues at the Department of Trade and Industry to say that when they are in a position to announce their response to the PIU report, they will of course make a statement to Parliament. I expect that the House will want to hold them to that commitment. On the question of Mr. Mittal, he is resident in Britain, his headquarters are here and he employs 100 British citizens here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ssfully on behalf of such companies. Sometimes I lobbied on behalf of Swedish companies because British aerospace industries provide large numbers of components for the Grippen aircraft made by a Swedish primary contractor. It is right that Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers should lobby for people who are employed in Britain. The two most recent Conservative Prime Ministers did precisely that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "rt? Finally, last week, the Leader of the House kicked into touch my suggestion that it was time to review the issue of public funding of our democratic system. In view of the obvious briefing from No. 10 in the past few days to the effect that state funding is again in the frame, when can we debate that important issue which Members on both sides of the House clearly believe needs to be reviewed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, the Government have tried to be helpful during the passage of that Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, the common-sense question is whether the Prime Minister should have supported a company with British connections in its bid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.325.4", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Of course the whole House will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's point is well made. It is not only a question of high-intensity war fighting—we have found armour to be extremely useful in peacekeeping operations in the Balkans. I am sure that Ministers will confirm that. I want to move on to an area of defence policy on which I am tempted to congratulate the Government almost unreservedly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "lition must not determine the mission.\" That is an alarming development. A report in The Guardian today should also cause us great concern: \"The Pentagon and the CIA have begun preparations for an assault on Iraq involving up to 200,000 US troops that is likely to be launched later this year with the aim of removing Saddam Hussein from power, US and diplomatic sources told the Guardian yesterday.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-14", "file": "debates2002-02-14.xml", "sha256": "8e6d2d3de6259393", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "s to 1997. When did the Tories become converts with regard to cuts in the TA? The SDR focused on the strategic needs of the Territorial Army and the reserves. Previously, cuts in the TA numbers had been driven exclusively by Treasury demands to save money. I do not want to fall out with my right hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, South (Mr. George) , who is not in the Chamber at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-14.410.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Including curling.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware of concern across Greater Manchester and Cheshire about the proposed closure of the ice rink in Altrincham. Will he take a personal interest in what might be done to ensure that funds are made available for a replacement regional facility somewhere in Greater Manchester or Cheshire, which is important for ice skating, ice hockey and other sports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "nts, which is difficult to do without having seen the list of priority homeless. We think that we know what will be on it, but it would have been helpful to see it. Before the election, the Prime Minister promised everyone the chance of a decent home, and we all say amen to that. He also vowed: \"Our approach will be founded on the basic aim of ensuring that everyone has a chance to a decent home\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.471.5", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "se of Lords , 10 December 2001; Vol. 629, c. 30-32 .] What is the Government's solution? To take out the words \"read and\"—in other words, to weaken the provisions. Later, on Report in the House of Lords, Lord Falconer moved amendment No. 12, to leave out the words \"read and\", so the amendment was agreed to in another place. I cannot understand why the Government want to take those words out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.494.5", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "n this place at an earlier stage—there was pressure for an amendment to require authorities to notify applicants about such decisions. Unfortunately—this is where the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) was misguided—the proposal's construction meant that it would also have required authorities to notify applicants about routine decisions taken about the facts of their application.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.494.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.494.5", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": " not the case. The Government reflected on the points that were raised in debate about his amendment. We saw the force of the argument that in areas where pressure on housing is high a decision not to give preference could have the same practical effect as a decision to treat an applicant as ineligible; that is to say, it could remove any realistic opportunity of his being allocated accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.494.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Homelessness Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief, so perhaps it will be just half a postcard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "rnment intend to announce any housing benefit reform. Instead of that, we have had this evening's announcement on the hospital downrating rules in response to a campaign pressed by Age Concern in particular and by many Members on both sides of the House over the past few months. We welcome the change, which is not a U-turn, but, perhaps, a J-turn that tackles a genuine concern for many pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "Since 1948, the position has been that, in principle, people should not receive two separate benefits in respect of the same need. Conservative Members, not least my hon. Friend the Member for Daventry, have drawn the House's attention to practical proposals for tackling that problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.507.0", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " a mean settlement? We must look at the welcome announcement of the relaxation of the hospital downrating rules. Perhaps I am not the only hon. Member who discovered that—as usual, not in the form of a statement from the Secretary of State but about four hours earlier through a press release that mysteriously appeared on my fax machine, which said: \"McCartney acts to help those on benefits\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.507.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "It is absurd. The fact that the cost of a first-class stamp exceeds that amount highlights how absurd it is, yet it is a perfectly good mechanism for delivering guaranteed cash to poor pensioners. In fact, it is the only genuine guarantee. When I take over from the Secretary of State, I shall rename it the guaranteed age addition. It is the only feature of the system that is truly guaranteed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ive them. However, far too many of our constituents fail to get the benefits that they are being promised today. The Secretary of State has had his advertising campaigns, and Thora Hird, and people ringing up—but how many people, especially pensioners, are still not getting the money that they are entitled to? That number is still nearly half a million for the minimum income guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has heard me speak before on such subjects, so he probably knows that we do not regard targeting as synonymous with means-testing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well, that is not what my party leader said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "If we were suggesting blowing the entire national insurance fund I should agree with the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-25", "file": "debates2002-02-25.xml", "sha256": "345adaec308a04ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "fe of poverty. Listening to the hon. Member for Daventry, I would never have thought that the Conservatives were in government for 35 of the past 50 years. In government, we have done something about hospital downrating, we have done something about means-testing and we have done something about pensioner poverty—to cut it rather than to create it. That is an aside. I shall not get partisan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-25.527.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.546.2", "colnum": "546", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "You see—such visits are a morale booster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "You see—such visits are a morale booster. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Woodspring is not convinced, but the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Salford (Ms Blears) , who boosts morale wherever she goes, will visit that constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "appreciate the position of an individual parent. No matter how often the Minister says—with sincerity, I am sure—that MMR is the best route and no matter how much she believes that, she will not convince every parent in this country who has to take the risk to their own child into consideration. Will she not admit that it would be better to give three injections than none at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.558.6", "colnum": "558", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "o say that there have been marked improvements on all those indicators in the past two weeks in terms of trolley waits, waits in A and E and delayed discharge. A great deal of extra investment is going into the service. The hon. Gentleman's local hospital shows, however, that it needs to be matched by reform if we are to get the results that will benefit his constituents and patients in that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.558.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": " it seems that one or more officials from my Department began to brief the press that the line used by the Prime Minister's official spokesman was incorrect. At least one official appears to have spoken on the basis that he was ringing on behalf of Martin Sixsmith. So what we had was a concerted attempt by a very small number of civil servants in the press office to undermine the Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "ersonnel issue. Indeed, it is with some regret that I stand here now making clear what my views of Mr. Sixsmith actually are. I should emphasise that this is not an argument between elected politicians and civil servants. As the Prime Minister has repeatedly made clear, the dedication, professionalism and political impartiality of the British civil service is one of this country's greatest assets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "et that I stand here now making clear what my views of Mr. Sixsmith actually are. I should emphasise that this is not an argument between elected politicians and civil servants. As the Prime Minister has repeatedly made clear, the dedication, professionalism and political impartiality of the British civil service is one of this country's greatest assets. [Interruption.] I wholly endorse that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ed by anyone with a view to discussing a pay settlement for Mr. Sixsmith? Did the Secretary of State see Sir Richard Mottram's statement of 25 February before it was issued? Does the Secretary of State believe in the impartiality of the civil service? Does he believe that that impartiality has been strengthened or weakened by his actions? Has he no pride? How dare he come to the House today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.564.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "That was his recommendation to me, and I agreed with it. There is no question of instructions; a permanent secretary came to me and made a recommendation. That was the substance of the allegation that has been made. The hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) says that the Department is not doing anything, and that it is in paralysis and crisis. This is a Department that, in the last eight months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.568.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Friend explain how that action might have compromised the impartiality of the civil service, to use the words of the hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) ? Will my right hon. Friend accept it as a compliment that the BBC—which spent the whole of last Monday ringing Labour MPs to get one to criticise the Government on air—and the Tory press are using this matter as a distraction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.571.5", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "They are using this matter as a distraction from the fact that the Government have a lead of 17 per cent., according to the latest ICM poll. The Opposition's present performance will only serve to increase that lead. Is my right hon. Friend aware that, in the Gorton division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.571.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.576.2", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "In answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) , the Secretary of State referred directly to the ministerial code—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Resignation of Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I hope that I have made that clear, but I shall try to do so again. There was no linkage between the two. Jo Moore resigned without any conditions being attached. I understand from the statement made by Sir Richard Mottram—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "sh;to distinguish between time-wasting and the normal language of lawyers. None the less, it was clear to those of us with open minds that the Conservatives were employing circular arguments—admittedly, they were ingenious on occasion—for no purpose other than delay. We must reject completely the strategy that anything that they cannot win here, they will try to win along the Corridor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.606.2", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I have not changed my mind, and the hon. Gentleman does not make his point any more effectively by shouting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "udicrous. Yet that is what the amendment seems to be all about. The Conservatives seem to want to water down the Bill, to weaken it and to try to draw the teeth from it. I understand the point about retrospectivity; after all, we must remember that, by his own confession, the hon. Member for Beaconsfield is descended from cattle and sheep thieves and therefore has a vested interest in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-26", "file": "debates2002-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e99f1b525967bc61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "nds\". I would not wish to test your patience, Mr. Speaker, by rehearsing the debate we had in Committee about why it is possible to carry £25,000 in cash and not be a criminal. It is important that we are allowed to ask whether the agency has reasonable grounds for believing, rather than thinking, something. That is why I believe that amendment No. 59 should be sorted—I mean supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-26.664.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.698.6", "colnum": "698", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is sometimes subject to rather unflattering or even malevolent descriptions of his motivation. Will he provide the House with a brief characterisation of the political philosophy that he espouses and which underlies his policies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dai Havard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dai Havard", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the excellent work of the Merthyr crime reduction partnership? Will he join me in congratulating it on receiving a British community safety award for car crime prevention initiatives in my constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dai Havard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dai Havard", "preceding_text": "y award for car crime prevention initiatives in my constituency? [Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"] Is he also aware, however, that our efforts to extend crime prevention work are being frustrated because of the lack of use of antisocial behaviour orders? Will he therefore undertake to speed up both the implementation and issue of those orders? Will he ensure that they are used much more frequently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House should let the hon. Member put his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ply wrong. In respect of air traffic control, there has been pressure on systems and on the companies operating them around the world as a result of 11 September . The difference is that, in fact, as a result of the public-private partnership, we have managed to get hundreds of millions of pounds into the Exchequer which can then be used for the purposes of rebuilding the infrastructure over time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.703.4", "colnum": "703", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Another feeble answer from the Prime Minister. If he wants to talk about my constituency, he should ask himself why at least one or two of those schools have had to struggle out of special measures while his Government have been in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.703.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading!", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Another feeble answer from the Prime Minister. If he wants to talk about my constituency, he should ask himself why at least one or two of those schools have had to struggle out of special measures while his Government have been in power. [Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"] The answer that he would not give is that 19,000 teachers left schools in 1999–2000. Ofsted reports that 20 per cent. of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.703.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "constituency but up and down this country, he will find that they have seen the investment going into school rooms and school buildings. As for schools in special measures, this Government have taken schools out of those special measures since we came to power. That is one reason why the Ofsted report to which the right hon. Gentleman referred concluded that education in this country is improving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "ill you confirm that it has been a long-standing convention of the House that, in the interests of good cross-examination of Ministers, statements are released to Opposition spokesmen well in advance? Are you aware that the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions yesterday released his statement only a matter of minutes before coming to the Dispatch Box? Would you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "s of good cross-examination of Ministers, statements are released to Opposition spokesmen well in advance? Are you aware that the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions yesterday released his statement only a matter of minutes before coming to the Dispatch Box? Would you— [Interruption.] I am not surprised that the Government Chief Whip does not want to hear this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not a rule of the House but a courtesy that Ministers give as much warning as possible of any statement that they are going to make. I encourage Ministers to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.732.4", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "ers for Government amendment No. 93. I learned in Committee that if one thinks long enough about anything that is proposed in an amendment to this Bill, one will see it as a loophole. None the less, I invite him, the Minister and other Labour Members who want to support their Front Bench to ask themselves whether Government amendment No. 93 can be used as a loophole. I am an unscrupulous employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.732.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) did not know the separate scales. The Bill does not specify the scale, and it can contain differences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ons of part 8 of the Bill. But I can assure hon. Members that we intend to table such an amendment in another place. I hope, in the light of that, that hon. Members will not press amendments Nos. 69 and 70 to a vote. Amendments Nos. 237 to 250, 252 and 254 all relate to how the information disclosure provisions in part 10 will operate in Scotland. I shall start with amendment No. 237 as it stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a nitpicker even when there are no nits to pick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": " 70 would be to stop any information at all—not merely that under disclosure orders—being passed to the authorities? If a person had confessed to a range of offences, including murder or arson, could that information be passed to the appropriate police or judicial authorities? It would not be the case that none of it was \"handable overable\"—if I may use that made-up phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.784.2", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "t necessarily be easy, but it is worth examining the matter seriously. I was surprised by the position taken by Conservatives Members, and I continue to be so. I was convinced that the Liberal Democrats would adopt the position that they did indeed adopt, but I was surprised at the position of Conservative Members, which perhaps goes to show that naivety can continue well into one's forties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.784.2", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "inue well into one's forties— [Interruption.] I am talking about myself. I entered into our consideration of the Bill believing that the main thrust of the Conservative Opposition would be that it is not as effective as it should be and that some measures should be strengthened. I was therefore surprised by the tabling in Committee of substantive amendments that would have weakened the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.784.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-27", "file": "debates2002-02-27.xml", "sha256": "a37fc4d3a2657a41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "It will be a very brief speech indeed, Mr. Speaker. It is lovely to have the last word; I wish it were like that all the time in politics. I wish to associate myself with many of the comments about the consensus on the Bill. I fear that that is the last word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-27.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You supported it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "He should know. It is difficult to take lectures from the Conservative party about the running of exchange rate policy given the ignominious exit from the exchange rate mechanism that occurred when the right hon. Gentleman was a member of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " the position that we will join irrespective of the assessment of the economic tests. One can name the day, and the Liberal Democrats have also named the exchange rate. Surely the hon. Member for Truro and St. Austell (Matthew Taylor) , in his new exalted position, calling himself shadow Chancellor, in competition with the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.832.6", "colnum": "832", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "The answer to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.832.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Under the Conservative Government, we were 23rd in the world competitiveness league to which the hon. Gentleman referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept that. We support the growth and stability pact. We support the co-ordination of fiscal and monetary policy—that is absolutely essential—but we support the prudent interpretation of the stability and growth pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "as the shadow spokesman on international affairs, they frequently produced documents on Europe without even the courtesy that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has just given the House of an additional half-hour of questioning. I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman, who is fecund in his imagination, on having managed to bring the Secretary of State for Transport into the discussion on hunting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for saying that only one matter remains from the Jo Moore affair. I will hold him and his entire party to that statement. It is my understanding that there was no particular inquiry within the Transport Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for saying that only one matter remains from the Jo Moore affair. I will hold him and his entire party to that statement. It is my understanding that there was no particular inquiry within the Transport Department. [Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"] I merely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I wish the Leader of the House a happy birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "led Assembly that has alone led to enormous change in the lives of our Welsh people in the past five years. It is because of those policies that my hon. Friend the Member for Ogmore was returned with such a good majority. Devolution itself would not have happened under any party but the Labour party. If it were not for the Labour party, there would be no Assembly and we would not have objective 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"DFID?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "use Mr. Mittal is a British business man. That was later revised to a business man with British interests. We are told that his headquarters are here, but a leap of imagination is now needed to understand how the Prime Minister possibly thought that he was doing Britain a favour. It then transpired that DFID supported a bid from the company for extra help as well, because it was a British company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.879.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": " heated. It seems I had disturbed a hornet's nest by questioning the ability of the press to report news that matters. The journalists thought that I was suggesting that they should not report on the matter that interested them. Afterwards, I went to the media floor in the Assembly to make amends with one of the people who felt most patronised. She told me that she also regarded me as naive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.887.3", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "he leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, I invite my hon. Friend the Member for Brecon and Radnorshire, who has not been dragged to his place because he is some prime offender in the party, to engage in that process. I emphasise, for exactly the reason to which the hon. Gentleman referred, that I am speaking to my party and inviting Welsh Liberal Democrats to consider the points that I am making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.887.3", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "orshire, who has not been dragged to his place because he is some prime offender in the party, to engage in that process. I emphasise, for exactly the reason to which the hon. Gentleman referred, that I am speaking to my party and inviting Welsh Liberal Democrats to consider the points that I am making. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend has already read my speech; his presence indicates assent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": " He suggested that savings and best practice would be a way of finding the extra money in the health service, but I do not know of a single political party that stood for the 2001 general election suggesting that worst or second-best practice was acceptable. In the serious debate, once we get into it, we have to provide serious alternatives if we suggest that there is a different way to do things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "However, we will never make progress in that debate if most of the time the issue is used as a political battering ram by different political parties. People are switched off by such an approach. I believe that it is probably necessary to increase taxation a little bit to achieve a better health service. However, my saying that raises the danger that, instead of a rational debate in the pub—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "rty and others that we should start to focus on the outcomes that matter to people, there is little chance of change. So, Madam Deputy Speaker, there you have it. My deal with other Members of Parliament is that I will do what I can to make sure that \"Focus\" publications across Wales reflect the approach that I have described today. I am not a dictator—I cannot force people to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It will take the same time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "a\" and the romantic protagonists are buried at Llangynwyd church. Llangeinor was the birthplace, in 1723, of the radical thinker Dr. Richard Price, whose treatises on liberty and the American revolution were influential in the development of the American constitution. He was renowned for walking to London at the age of 18. I will not try to emulate that trek, but I shall travel regularly by train.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Martin Caton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cockles.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Caton", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies) on his excellent speech. He clearly has a valuable role to play in the House in future. I felt proud as I listened to him because he is from Gowerton stock in my constituency. He may be Ogmore man today, but he was Gower boy. That is why I know that he will be especially interested in the subject that I shall talk about in the few minutes that I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "Possibly, yes. In a sense, Welsh politics and affairs have been pushed to the periphery of interest by successive Governments. Hon. Members on both sides of the House would try to resist that kind of metropolitan centralism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Robert Walter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Walter", "preceding_text": " waiting more than 18 months for treatment, and since 1997 there has been an 850 per cent. rise in the number waiting for their first appointment in an out-patients department. The hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) made an interesting, varied and sometimes wandering speech. He took the moral high ground, almost oblivious of the activities of the leader of his party in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-02-28", "file": "debates2002-02-28.xml", "sha256": "858bb0a122ec9e31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Robert Walter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Walter", "preceding_text": " will be able to pass judgment on a second term of Labour Government in London and the cosy Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition in Cardiff. It will be a judgment on the National Assembly building, a judgment on Corus and Mittal, a judgment on education in Wales, a judgment on foot and mouth, a judgment on crime and a judgment on the national health service in Wales. I will make no predictions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-02-28.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-01", "file": "debates2002-03-01.xml", "sha256": "a7532071bd83f49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-01.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Achievements of the National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ts would be happy to go to Cardiff to a centre of excellence to see theatre, opera or dance. If that building were not to be built in Cardiff, it is unlikely that those people would have any opportunity to see the best in music, theatre, opera or dance. That is why I wholeheartedly support the millennium new centre that is being built there, while still wanting more money spent in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-01.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-01", "file": "debates2002-03-01.xml", "sha256": "a7532071bd83f49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-01.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Achievements of the National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "es in the Rhondda have done well from the heritage fund. Indeed, I could not continue without mentioning all the bands in the Rhondda that have received money: the Treherbert silver band, the Parc and Dare band, the Rhondda big band, the Ynyshir welfare band and the Tylorstown band (valleys line). Our bands have done well, which is only appropriate because the best brass band in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-01.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-01", "file": "debates2002-03-01.xml", "sha256": "a7532071bd83f49d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-01.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Achievements of the National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "We can bandy figures around because there is room for debate. All I am citing is the MORI poll—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-01.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-04", "file": "debates2002-03-04.xml", "sha256": "c32d0fd34ede86b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.2.2", "colnum": "2", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "ld have saved the hon. Gentleman the trouble, because he would be eligible only if he was over 65—he clearly is not, so he will be turned down. There is always a difficult balance to strike with the size of the form. The important thing to remember is that we are not testing whether people have a certain condition or impairment; we ask them what effect the impairment has on their care needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.2.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-04", "file": "debates2002-03-04.xml", "sha256": "c32d0fd34ede86b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.6.0", "colnum": "6", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "What does the Minister have to say to the couple I met in Birmingham on Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.6.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-04", "file": "debates2002-03-04.xml", "sha256": "c32d0fd34ede86b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.12.1", "colnum": "12", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "By October 2003, the introduction of the pension credit will mean that new pensioners coming up to claiming their—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.12.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-04", "file": "debates2002-03-04.xml", "sha256": "c32d0fd34ede86b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.40.7", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have an extremely tight schedule, and we must move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.40.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-04", "file": "debates2002-03-04.xml", "sha256": "c32d0fd34ede86b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "ittee. For obvious reasons, it does not apply to offenders who received a non-custodial sentence. I draw the House's attention to clause 67(8), which contains a number of safeguards. The Secretary of State will not be able to give out information on the release of an offender if that adversely affects the safety of the victim or any other person. There are no comparable safeguards in new clause 3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-04", "file": "debates2002-03-04.xml", "sha256": "c32d0fd34ede86b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State will not be able to give out information on the release of an offender if that adversely affects the safety of the victim or any other person. There are no comparable safeguards in new clause 3. [Interruption.] Will the hon. Member for Reigate wait until I have finished? The hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) referred to the bare minimum or the bottom line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-04.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.135.2", "colnum": "135", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "s head, but those are the facts. He does not like the facts to get in the way of his prejudices, but we all know that the Conservative approach to rough sleepers was well stated by a former Cabinet Minister who spoke about the inconvenience of coming out of the opera and having to step over people sleeping in the doorway. For the Tory party, rough sleepers are an inconvenience to be ignored—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "eman rather lost the plot at the end of his question. While the Government concentrate on the problems of the channel tunnel, he concentrates on the problems of personalties. Many of the matters that he just mentioned have been dealt with already. Unfortunately, he looked rather pleased when he said that some of the measures that had been taken were not working. The Government are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.138.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.141.6", "colnum": "141", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where's Byers?", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "We estimate that the total amount so far drawn down from the commercial loan facility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "I should like to make some progress, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": " warning of that issue; it was raised by his colleague Councillor Robert Bevan in the scrutiny committee, but he immediately withdrew the allegation. Councillor Robert Bevan and the hon. Gentleman were opponents for the Labour party nomination and they are not on speaking terms, but if the hon. Gentleman were to speak to his colleagues in the Labour group, perhaps he would have better information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "I shall let the hon. Gentleman into a secret. I gave the party about £900 myself last week. Mr. Mittal operates in countries with some of the worst—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.162.6", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that the Prime Minister went out of his way to support a foreign company in deliberately undermining the Welsh steel industry for a measly £125,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.162.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.162.7", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "ogy from their Government. In refusing to answer questions, in refusing an inquiry, in making a series of false and inaccurate statements, in putting up a Minister today who has no responsibility for what was done nor for what can be done, the Government have shown their contempt for democracy, for the steel industry and for the people of the UK. The Government are running out of time and excuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.162.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "ction and Development for its work on restructuring the Romanian and other Eastern European companies, including through supporting the successful sale of the SIDEX steel corporation; and further welcomes measures put in place by the Government and the National Assembly for Wales to train and retrain former steel workers and regenerate communities affected by Corus job losses.\". Plaid Cymru—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a few moments. We could be debating the health service, days after the opening of the first new hospital in Cardiff in three decades. We could be debating education and how we can build on our record exam results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.164.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Phone a friend.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "How does the Secretary of State define Mr. Mittal's steel company? Is it a British company, a British-based company, a company with British connections or none of the above?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "I completely reject the accusation that the letter had anything whatever to do with a donation to the Labour party. The Prime Minister has made it absolutely clear from this Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "I am certainly telling the House that the donation had absolutely nothing to do with the letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "ready asked how many other companies have been assisted in the same way as Mr. Mittal. How many other small businesses have been helped by a letter from the Prime Minister? I have written to the Prime Minister many times and I have even invited him to come to Hereford to see our hospital for himself. However, he has not written back to me. We need to know how many other companies have been helped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.197.5", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is implying that I have £1 million in the bank, I have not: I wish I did. No Romanian has bunged me anything recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.197.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Martin Caton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Caton", "preceding_text": "ur discussion on how we re-engage with the sections of the Welsh and British public who have become deeply cynical about politics. What is, perhaps, even more important is that we could have used this debate to concentrate on the future of the United Kingdom's steel industry, in the light of recent history and in the context of manufacturing generally. We could have raised a range of issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.201.6", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I shall begin by referring to the fine speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for East Carmarthen and Dinefwr (Adam Price) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.201.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.220.5", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "It depends on the circumstances that might arise. Let me take the point further. Let us imagine the circumstances in which a majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.220.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady is confirming that she and her Government intend to override a democratic view of the Scottish Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is a pattern.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "ate. I hope that the Minister for Industry and Energy, the other hon. Member for Cunninghame, shares his near neighbour's enthusiasm for the rights of the Scottish Parliament. I hope also that I shall be given a chance to develop my speech and that we will hear more about exactly that matter. I was asking whether what is happening is part of a pattern or a one-off blunder by the Minister of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "actly that matter. I was asking whether what is happening is part of a pattern or a one-off blunder by the Minister of State. [Hon. Members: \"It is a pattern.\"] My colleagues say that it is a pattern in which the Scotland Office is arguing for taking back the powers of the Scottish Parliament and Executive. I think that such a pattern is evident in current issues, such as free personal care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "eed with many of them, but last week we saw the procedure that is now being adopted, whereby such a motion goes through the Scots Parliament and is subsequently transformed and amended by this place, but does not go back to the Scots Parliament for confirmation. I think that we can see a pattern developing. People have asked about the role of the Scotland Office in the post-devolution environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "formed and amended by this place, but does not go back to the Scots Parliament for confirmation. I think that we can see a pattern developing. People have asked about the role of the Scotland Office in the post-devolution environment. [Interruption.] I think that we are identifying that role now—it is to argue against Scotland and the Scottish Parliament and to thwart the Scottish Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "le have asked about the role of the Scotland Office in the post-devolution environment. [Interruption.] I think that we are identifying that role now—it is to argue against Scotland and the Scottish Parliament and to thwart the Scottish Executive. [Interruption.] If hon. Members do not agree, they will have to cite examples. On free personal care, Sewel motions, nuclear power stations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.222.5", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "eartfelt devolutionist, perhaps the only way he could see of raising the issue about the Scottish Parliament—this point of view has been suggested to me—was to give that apparently careless interview to the BBC last week. Some people think that he was being much more cunning and was merely starting the argument running because he wants the position of Scotland and Wales to be defended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": " a renewable project in Scotland—Jamie McGrigor, the Conservative MSP for Highlands and Islands, who spoke against it in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) , who, like Margaret Ewing, the former MP, supports it. So the only person of political significance who has actively opposed the development of wind energy is the Conservative MSP for the Highlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "t opposes wind energy projects the length and breadth of Scotland. During the past year, it has singlehandedly stopped 14 wind energy projects in the south of Scotland, which have been detailed by Alasdair Morgan, the MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale. The Ministry of Defence, controlled by the Government, has scuppered every one of those projects because it thinks that they are a danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "The problem is that the hon. Gentleman's argument is based on a very left-wing political stance that does not understand the market and the need to meet its requirements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.246.4", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Annabelle Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annabelle Ewing", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way so graciously. Does he not agree, then, with his hon. Friend the Minister for Industry and Energy, who said: \"The position is unambiguous. If anyone wants to build a power station of any kind in Scotland it will be a matter for the Scottish Executive to determine. End of story\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "s the implication of what has been said, and that is why the Scottish people are prepared to protest. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman, who I believe has a long history in the trade union movement, is opposed to such use of civil disobedience, which has played a large part in the history of the labour movement and, indeed, in parliamentary democracy. I would therefore ask him to think again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ver, it is right that we should attempt to clarify now exactly who will be making those decisions. I confess to the House that I made one mistake. The mistake was to believe that, if I raised an important issue in public—open government at work, if you like—the SNP Opposition would be willing to have a sensible debate about it, instead of the Pavlovian reaction that we have seen today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-05", "file": "debates2002-03-05.xml", "sha256": "79571bb09b7fcf19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.254.5", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "laim that everything would be better if it were decided in Scotland. That is the magic bullet that will solve every problem. The nationalists are obsessed by the constitution, because their only political aim in life is to break up Britain—people, especially Conservative Members, should recognise that—to tear the United Kingdom apart, and to lead us into a constitutional confrontation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-05.254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.276.6", "colnum": "276", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "erformance. The purpose of CDC's restructuring was to encourage more private sector investment of that kind and to show that there can be returns on responsible and beneficial investment in Africa which will attract the private sector. Some agricultural investments with low rates of returns have been sold on to their African managers, and that is the right policy and we intend to continue with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.276.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's concern because I know that she has taken a close interest in the welfare of the San bushmen for a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I entirely support the decision to put Railtrack into administration. As I said, I thought the Liberal Democrats understood the reasons for that very well. I suspect that we are witnessing something of a piece of opportunism in their turning round afterwards and saying that it was not right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.284.3", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blizzard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blizzard", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that it is costing the taxpayer £400 million a year to clear up the millions of tons of litter dropped on our streets and in our open spaces? Although we have litter laws, only a few hundred prosecutions are made a year. As my private Member's Bill seems unlikely to find parliamentary time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ment within two weeks have risen from just over 60 per cent. when we came to power to more than 90 per cent. now. As a result of additional investment, not only in increasing the number of cancer specialists but in extra cancer equipment throughout the NHS, there is no doubt that cancer services have been enabled to improve. The hon. Gentleman's question brings us back to what I have already said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's knowledge of these matters informed the Committee. I do not quite agree with him, however, although I agree that it is de facto. For anyone living in Aberystwyth or anywhere along the west Wales coast, the choice if they want digital, de facto, is satellite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "n advisory committee, a member of Ofcom itself or someone on the office side, who understands what S4C and Welsh language broadcasting is about, and what English language broadcasting in Wales is about. That is why some form of representation for Wales and Scotland within the proposed Ofcom body is so important. If Scotland and Wales, as peripheral countries in terms of economic development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I rise in general support of the new clause. I do so as an Englishman and a Conservative Back Bencher, but also as someone with strong Welsh connections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": " he has not promised any connection between Ofcom and the devolved bodies in Wales and Scotland. He has said clearly that, because the matters involved are retained and not devolved, there should be no formal arrangements such as those proposed in the amendments. I point out that the Strategic Rail Authority has formal arrangements with the Scottish Parliament and with National Assembly for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.349.3", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "ding Committee, the BBC has contributed to the discussions with the publication of the document, \"BBC Governance in the Ofcom Age\". I welcome that document, which is quite revealing in more ways than one. It frankly acknowledges some of the shortcomings inherent in the present situation. That is a useful step forward, although it begs the question why some of the issues were not dealt with before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-06", "file": "debates2002-03-06.xml", "sha256": "a087ef02b28a2d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.356.9", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Office of Communications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "No; I will not give way because I have spoken for too long already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-06.356.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-07", "file": "debates2002-03-07.xml", "sha256": "786b1c6206783396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman might confirm that shortly. Wednesday 13 March —Conclusion of remaining stages of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] . Thursday 14 March —Debate on women and equality on a motion for the Adjournment of the House. Friday 15 March —Private Members Bills. The provisional business for the following week will be: Monday 18 March —Debate on hunting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-07", "file": "debates2002-03-07.xml", "sha256": "786b1c6206783396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Corus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman will be very pleased to hear that I can help him on Mr. Mittal and the newspaper story. First, the correspondence began with a request from the Belgian authorities, not with any request from Mr. Mittal. Secondly, Mr. Mittal is not under any investigation by the Belgian authorities; on the contrary, they were seeking evidence from him as a witness against one of his competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-07", "file": "debates2002-03-07.xml", "sha256": "786b1c6206783396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "be very pleased to hear that I can help him on Mr. Mittal and the newspaper story. First, the correspondence began with a request from the Belgian authorities, not with any request from Mr. Mittal. Secondly, Mr. Mittal is not under any investigation by the Belgian authorities; on the contrary, they were seeking evidence from him as a witness against one of his competitors. [Hon. Members: \"Corus.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-07", "file": "debates2002-03-07.xml", "sha256": "786b1c6206783396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "May we have a statement before Easter on the subject of Lords reform? The Leader of the House said that he was seeking a centre of gravity. The excellent and unanimous report by the Select Committee on Public Administration offers him an opportunity to create precisely that consensus and centre of gravity. Can I suggest that now the consultation period is long over, and that his White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-07", "file": "debates2002-03-07.xml", "sha256": "786b1c6206783396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "tatement in the House. It is rich for the Scottish National party to complain when Ministers go to Scotland. I should have thought that they would welcome every possible visit to Scotland by the appropriate Ministers. As I said last week, this matter has to be dealt with in partnership, whatever the legal niceties, and that is the way in which we shall proceed with the Administration in Edinburgh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-07", "file": "debates2002-03-07.xml", "sha256": "786b1c6206783396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2001-02 — Environmental Audit", "cue_speaker": "Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "need to keep a close watch on the arrangements whereby the water companies have to pay for the clean-up mechanism. These issues are at the same time both local and global. I urge the Minister to consider urban development and the nonsensical situation of having zero-rated VAT on greenfield site development. We have heard about the recycling of brownfield sites—what happened to that proposal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-07", "file": "debates2002-03-07.xml", "sha256": "786b1c6206783396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2001-02 — Environmental Audit", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Janus-like?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " Coastal (Mr. Gummer) that this Government, and the Chancellor in particular, do not have much interest in environmental matters. He bemoaned the fact that the Chancellor was not present this afternoon. At the same time, he suggested, Janus-like, that somehow the Treasury had no business introducing the climate change levy because it is not an environmental Department. He cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-07.487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-08", "file": "debates2002-03-08.xml", "sha256": "d938fe0162d5a88f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.541.6", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "It is clear from the ballot that a substantial number of police officers believed that they would be worse off, although they were wrong about that. It is a matter of regret that the federation did not campaign vigorously for the deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.541.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-08", "file": "debates2002-03-08.xml", "sha256": "d938fe0162d5a88f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "r than at any stage in the past decade. That is not a record that any Minister should be prepared to defend. Even the latest official figures, for last September, show the grand increase of 73 officers under this Government—hardly cause for acclaim. If the Minister can reach his target of 130,000 by next year we shall applaud him. It will be a welcome increase and I hope that it is achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-08", "file": "debates2002-03-08.xml", "sha256": "d938fe0162d5a88f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "Crime did not double under the last Conservative Government. Crime doubled over 18 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-08", "file": "debates2002-03-08.xml", "sha256": "d938fe0162d5a88f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Derek Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Conway", "preceding_text": "r £2 million an extra two police officers patrolling the streets of the borough of Bexley. That is simply not acceptable and people are absolutely fed up with it. They are angry at politicians because they feel that we do not understand and that, on the whole, we are not burgled or mugged too often and do not live in at-risk areas. They see us as increasingly out of touch with what they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-08", "file": "debates2002-03-08.xml", "sha256": "d938fe0162d5a88f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " blame culture that tends to predominate nowadays. Every morning on the \"Today\" programme someone is whingeing on: \"Why doesn't so-and-so do something? Why has this or that not been done?\" Perhaps I say this because I am now a member of the party that is in government, but it always ends up being the fault of the Government and their Ministers. Why do people not say, \"What are you doing about it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-08", "file": "debates2002-03-08.xml", "sha256": "d938fe0162d5a88f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " more effectively to deal with a number of very unpleasant and violent crimes, and it would be an invaluable tool in the event of a cataclysmic accident, where orthodox identification was very difficult, if not impossible—the twin towers is an obvious case. In conclusion, I suppose that some of my colleagues and, indeed, others outside might think that I have turned into a neo-fascist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-08.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "he conciliation with the intention of finding a solution, otherwise I would not have suggested going to conciliation in the first place. I also want to refute the hon. Gentleman's allegation that I have somehow used detrimental language against the police force. If he can find a single quote in my name, or an interview on radio or television, of course I will agree with him that I should withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Gentleman an absolute assurance that, unlike the Liberal Democrats, the Labour party will not propose the legalisation of heroin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Gentleman an absolute assurance that, unlike the Liberal Democrats, the Labour party will not propose the legalisation of heroin. [Interruption.] A serious issue lies behind the hon. Gentleman's question. We must ensure that the efforts of the police in London are focused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "d estate in the whole or part of the land, (b) is the registered proprietor of a leasehold estate in the whole or part of the land granted for a term of more than 21 years, (c) is the registered proprietor of a charge over the whole or part of the land, (d) is registered as a cautioner in respect of the whole or part of the land, (e) falls within any other class of person which may be prescribed.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "Amendment No. 68 relates to some of our earlier arguments. In our experience, tenant co-operative companies—freehold companies that are closely analogous to commonhold associations, the members of which are long leaseholders—are notorious for neglecting formalities such as filing annual returns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ause the value of the security is maintained. Fourthly, unit-holders who do not pay are likely to be impecunious. A charging order is worthless if no equity exists in the property over which the charging order is granted. The commonhold association would rank lower in priority to the mortgagee. I address that point to the Under–Secretary in particular, because she knows what I am getting at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "lause as it is wholly inappropriate, especially in light of the 1993 Act. One can see that garages, parking spaces, storage areas and so on are proper premises. It would be possible to convert a garage or parking space—presumably a covered one—into a home of some sort, but the idea that people would live on any part of the Circle line in a tunnel strikes me as out of order and bizarre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "re between 10 pm and 1 am listening to harmonious, or very unhappy, discussions. I have on occasion unwisely taken part in some of those activities. I am a little apprehensive, because there is always—I say it with great respect—the A1 barrack-room lawyer, who is determined to continue analysing the management association, the articles of association and the memorandum in every detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-11", "file": "debates2002-03-11.xml", "sha256": "ffd060a6fab41463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "d whether Members would have a right to discuss the regulations and, as he knows, if they are discussed under the affirmative resolution procedure, they will be debated in Standing Committee. That debate might be wide ranging and extensive. If the regulations are considered under the negative resolution procedure, the Opposition will have the opportunity to pray against them and then discuss them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-11.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Macclesfield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I dealt with the right hon. and learned Gentleman's last point in answer to the right hon. and learned Member for Sleaford, etc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "If I accepted the assumption behind my hon. Friend's question, I would share his concern, but I have not met members of the Bush Administration who are gung-ho.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Jordan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "We understand the vulnerability of Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.748.6", "colnum": "748", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "That question was not worthy of the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.748.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that in any action against Iraq it will be essential to carry with him not only his hon. Friends and Opposition Members, but the wider Muslim community and the country as a whole? That will mean building up trust in the Prime Minister. When will the Prime Minister come to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tomorrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that in any action against Iraq it will be essential to carry with him not only his hon. Friends and Opposition Members, but the wider Muslim community and the country as a whole? That will mean building up trust in the Prime Minister. When will the Prime Minister come to the House—[Hon. Members: \"Tomorrow.\"] When will the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e are people in all parties in this House who speak for all sides. The situation is profoundly grave. Yes, I grieve for all the innocent Palestinians who have lost their lives in recent weeks, and I grieve also for all the Israelis who have lost their lives. But I have to say that the terror that is now felt in Israel as a result of the increasing and escalating use of suicide bombers is palpable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "ent of 2.5 offences per 1,000 people. When we compare those figures with those for the same offences in New York over the same period, we find that a Londoner was five times as likely as a New Yorker to become a victim of violent crime. It is a sad day for this country when a member of the Soprano crime family might be reluctant to take tea at the Ritz for fear of being mugged in Piccadilly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.765.4", "colnum": "765", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "tipped fridges. New EU regulations that the Government signed without fully understanding the implications have just come into effect. The requirements will increase the cost of disposal. Not only are there currently no facilities throughout the UK for the disposal of fridges in the required manner, but the Government have imposed extra costs on councils that will run to £100 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.765.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "o be subject to the arrangement for special-purpose vehicles. What Railtrack would do with a couple of buckets of cement the Government are trying to do by putting together a special financing arrangement that will simply mean further delays. Moreover, we are unlikely to see an increase in the number of carriages from 12 to eight on most runs, because of the delay in the granting of the franchise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will well recognise the circumstances of west London and the area around Heathrow airport in the conditions that have applied since 11 September . I shall refer to that subject later in my speech, but it is certainly not a cause for party political comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "MPs who represent, and who used to represent, the area. In March 1992, the Conservative party had 48 MPs in London and 61 in the south-east, and felt that it was sitting pretty in the region. Today, after three consecutive electoral setbacks, it has just 13 MPs in London and 53 in the south-east. It was unable to hold on to Harrow, to Croydon, to Hove, to Hastings, to Guildford, to Basildon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.773.3", "colnum": "773", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "arty had 48 MPs in London and 61 in the south-east, and felt that it was sitting pretty in the region. Today, after three consecutive electoral setbacks, it has just 13 MPs in London and 53 in the south-east. It was unable to hold on to Harrow, to Croydon, to Hove, to Hastings, to Guildford, to Basildon— [Interruption.] —and to many other places that used to be thought of as true blue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.773.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Boreham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": " be saved from the house building that all the people of the village loathe.\" Amazingly, there was a 30 per cent. swing from the Liberal Democrat to the Conservative candidate, who also fought the election by opposing the house building. However, within six months of polling, the Liberal Democrats produced their master plan of where the houses would be built in the Chelmsford local authority area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": "Not for a moment, but the issue is what we should do about the problem. Should Sir John look over the shoulder of every judge and magistrate and insist that they lock everybody up? If mistakes are being made by judges and magistrates, we need to confront that, but it is not for politicians to prescribe that no one should be granted bail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geraint Davies", "preceding_text": ", only to be told to come back next week. That is appalling. Witnesses must be kept informed of the progress of the case. They need to know about the people who have committed the crime—where they live, for instance, otherwise witnesses can be intimidated. We need a system under which witnesses are welcomed, and that is being introduced in Croydon. I am aware of the time, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "to be fatuous. Several hon. Members referred to criminal justice and what happens to people once they are arrested. As my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) said, the Government have dropped their proposals for criminal justice legislation in this Session. I am sure that the Minister will repeat what he said on Friday and stress that that is due to pressure of work in the Home Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "That confusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.851.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-03-12", "file": "debates2002-03-12.xml", "sha256": "059e3bf71b9f2ac8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.853.5", "colnum": "853", "heading": "London and the South-East", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-12.853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hon. Friend!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will recall, he asked the same question on an earlier occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will recall, he asked the same question on an earlier occasion. [Hon. Members: \"Hon. Friend!\"] Well, I will leave that to the judgment of the House. I was trying to make it clear to the House that my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Question 3.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister, as ever, talks about the things that he was doing, but he fails to recognise that none of them has had any effect on bringing down street crime. In London alone, there are 218 street crimes every day; 150 knife crimes every week; and 275 gun crimes every month—so much for phase 1 and failure, but no apology. In phase 2, the Prime Minister made another manifesto pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "bers, which we will do; and, secondly, we need to introduce the major changes to the criminal justice system that we want. If we look at crime over the past few years, we see that there is a real problem with street crime. However, overall crime is down. Let us compare that with the record of the 18 years under the Conservatives. The Conservatives cut police numbers before we came to office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "preceding_text": "In fair trade fortnight, will my right hon. Friend welcome initiatives such as that in Garstang, in Lancashire, which is linking with New Koforida, a village in the cocoa-producing area of Ghana? Are not such local initiatives precisely in line with new economic policy for African development, and with efforts to make globalisation work for the poor across the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister happy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "The Minister may be able to help, because I am not sure. As I understand it, a Prince of Wales clause is a special provision in Acts to save the rights, properties, privileges and liabilities of the Prince of Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "I am happy to repeat my previous assurances, although I do not believe that that will have any effect on the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-13", "file": "debates2002-03-13.xml", "sha256": "6d652e55f5b30d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Taylor", "preceding_text": "Cleethorpes (Shona McIsaac) , cannot afford to take lawyers to the Lands Tribunal to argue about the price. They are entitled to a mechanism to work out what they should pay for their freeholds, so that they can know the price with some certainty and budget for it. Here we are 35 years later and the political community has funked the issue yet again. We have failed our constituents in this regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-13.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "nue to study a modern foreign language between the ages of 11 and 14 and will be entitled to continue with that beyond the age of 14, but we do not believe that it is right to force young people, against their will, to study foreign languages. That is constructive neither for their educational development nor for the teachers who are expected to teach them a subject in which they have no interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "ieve that it is right to force young people, against their will, to study foreign languages. That is constructive neither for their educational development nor for the teachers who are expected to teach them a subject in which they have no interest. [Interruption.] By 2012—an ambitious and optimistic target—all primary school children will be entitled to study modern foreign languages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Banking Services (Small Businesses)", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ty and financial services in the 1980s. No monopolies and mergers statement was brought before the House. We are bringing a statement before the House in a way that has never been done before. I also have to tell the shadow Chancellor, who is a barrister, that we have had to satisfy all the legal technicalities involved in the publication of the report, which also goes to the Stock Exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "cludes that \"the electoral process could not be said to adequately comply with the Norms and Standards for Elections in the SADC region.\" I shall place both reports in the House of Commons Library. Zimbabweans have plainly been denied their fundamental right to choose by whom they are governed. I am sure that I speak for the whole House in expressing my admiration for the people of Zimbabwe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "NEPAD is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Lord Browne.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I did not anticipate that the Conservative party would propose a reverse means test for Members of the second Chamber, but we look forward to that provision featuring in its submission on the reform of that Chamber. I am happy to say that I have no responsibility whatsoever for pay awards made to Sir John Browne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "mbers' opportunities to raise matters concerning their constituencies. In those circumstances, it is not improper for the Government and the House to look at ways in which we can ensure that Adjournment debates are fully serviced and replied to, without putting on Ministers a burden that interferes with other matters with which they have to deal, such as responding to hon. Members' correspondence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I cannot promise a debate on that issue before the recess, as I have just announced business for every day before the recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1051.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Send her a written answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "preceding_text": "influence to bear on the various Ministers heading up our Departments, and tell them that it would be useful for Members seeking to question them about responsibilities if we knew precisely what they did? It would appear that certain activities are the responsibility of people in the Cabinet Office one day and of someone else the next day. That also applies to their colleagues at the Table Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1051.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Women and Equality", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-14", "file": "debates2002-03-14.xml", "sha256": "68aad39c9915c1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Women and Equality", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "m so ashamed of that that I have no qualms about having my disappointment recorded in Hansard . I will take up the matter with my hon. Friends, and deliver a kick to the appropriate part of certain colleagues' anatomies. I must add that some Liberal Democrat Members had constituency engagements—some of them involving women—that prevented them from attending, even though they wanted to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-14.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-15", "file": "debates2002-03-15.xml", "sha256": "a1599677b363badf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-15.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Marine Wildlife Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " purposes, including the conservation of flora and fauna. Powers to control fishing already exist separately. The Bill will clarify the position of nationally important sites of marine interest and provide a mechanism through management schemes whereby appropriate operations may continue. I think that my very last point relates to what the hon. Gentleman asked me about the common fisheries policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-15.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-15", "file": "debates2002-03-15.xml", "sha256": "a1599677b363badf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-15.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Marine Wildlife Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "There are some concerns about the new clause, although I hope to allay them and obviously we shall consider further what has been said. First, the hon. Member for Oxbridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-15.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-15", "file": "debates2002-03-15.xml", "sha256": "a1599677b363badf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-15.1186.2", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Marine Wildlife Conservation Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Randall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Randall", "preceding_text": "holed below the water line. Again, I pay tribute to the Minister and the Department for their excellent salvage job, and I thank senior members of all parties. As a member of the Opposition Whips Office, I pay tribute to the Government Whips Office, and especially to the hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. McNulty) . I am pleased that he is not in his place, otherwise he would be deeply embarrassed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-15.1186.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.12.7", "colnum": "12", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "No, it was not mistake. To put the record straight, the Secretary of State said that initial assumptions involved a much larger cut than the one that was in fact made; the number of reserves therefore remains much higher than might otherwise have been the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.12.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "European Council (Barcelona)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Barcelona?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "race equality legislation is among the most advanced in Europe. We have introduced a new system of tax credits to make work pay. Our new deal has put more than 300,000 young people into work. Since we came to power, unemployment in Britain has therefore fallen to its lowest level for 25 years. We have one of the highest employment rates in Europe overall, including for women and for older workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "European Council (Barcelona)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ble to agree at Barcelona that by the end of this year there will be agreement on opening up that market too. As ever, with the greatest respect to the Conservative party, it has to be negative about everything to do with Europe. The right hon. Gentleman also made the extraordinary statement that we should not be in Macedonia—that we should have nothing to do with it. I cannot believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "European Council (Barcelona)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "it has to be negative about everything to do with Europe. The right hon. Gentleman also made the extraordinary statement that we should not be in Macedonia—that we should have nothing to do with it. I cannot believe— [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman will have to be a little less excitable and listen for a moment. I know that he does not believe that we should be in Afghanistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "European Council (Barcelona)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "dash;that is the policy. That is clear, then. When the shadow Foreign Secretary revisits the treaties, what do we think that that visit will entail? Will he revisit it and say, \"That was a good treaty; I liked that one.\"? The Conservatives' policy on the single currency is, \"Never. Not in any set of circumstances.\" We did not get a single word of dissociation from the remarks of Margaret Thatcher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "European Council (Barcelona)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for those generous comments on the achievements of the summit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "European Council (Barcelona)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "of the Opposition—I am glad that the hon. Lady agrees that he requires translation nowadays—was that, if we are to play our proper role in the Balkans, it is important that we are part of the system of peacekeeping there. We learned from Bosnia, where we did not go in in the early 1990s when we probably should have done and where tens of thousands of people died, and in relation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State for the full answers that he has given. He has described a fast-moving situation. Other partners may be involved in the operation taken on by 45 Commando; meanwhile, the question of ISAF's leadership remains unresolved. May I reiterate the need for a full debate which should, I stress, be in Government time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "With this it will be convenient to discuss motion No. 3—hunting with dogs: supervision—and motion No. 4—hunting with dogs: hunting under licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": " farmers started to report to hunts that acute fox predation was occurring, resulting in severe lamb losses. In January, the Farmers Union of Wales reported that: \"The ban on foxhunting over the last year has led to an explosion in the fox population to unprecedented levels. In some cases, farmers who lost six or seven lambs to foxes normally have seen the numbers jump to between 35 and 40\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "o their current financial difficulties. Hunts are not only at the heart of economic activity in the countryside, but play a vital role in organising a whole range of social activities that provide a lifeline in the more remote areas, which are so badly served compared to their urban and suburban counterparts; and everyone is welcome to participate, irrespective of age, income or social background.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.63.0", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "It falls to me to kick off the debate on behalf of my party because I am responsible for animal issues. I should make it clear that it has long been a tradition of the Liberal Democrats to have a free vote on the subject and I confidently expect my colleagues to split three ways in the Division Lobbies at 10 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.63.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " not eat meat, or kill anything, or wear leather. The reality is that we need to kill foxes, and we have to find a way that is as humane as possible. We have to be honest about the fact that what really upsets some of my hon. Friends—and, perhaps, some Opposition Members too—is the idea that only toffs go hunting. If only hunters did not wear red coats, things might be different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " red coats, things might be different— [Interruption.] Hon. Members will have the chance to speak later. I have spent some time with hunts now, which I had not done last time I spoke on this subject. When I visited the Thurlow hunt recently, and met many of the people involved, I found a more socially inclusive group of people out with the hunt than are to be found on our Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.69.2", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ge, they are entitled to do so. As we have discovered, feelings run high on this matter. My constituents, from everything that I have seen over many years, are very much in favour of being allowed to continue to hunt. I represent a very rural constituency. For some, hunting is a practical matter. For example, Hawes and High Abbotside parish council in Upper Wensleydale wrote to me on Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.69.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Right honourable\".", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.70.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "to take a balanced view. These issues go together. The hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) discounted the third way, but I make an appeal to the House to take it seriously. We should be able to say that the argument is not all on one side. When the hon. Member for Congleton (Mrs. Winterton) spoke, I thought, \"My Goodness, I have got to follow that and agree with some of the things that she said.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.75.5", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "No, I have not got a lot of time and want to address the question of reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.75.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.77.5", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "No. I want to speak bluntly, because on this issue—as on so many others—I am the Government's best friend. The indicative votes are worse than useless and will tell us nothing that we do not already know. I believe that hunting with dogs is cruel, inflicts unnecessary suffering and should be banned. Such sentiments are not being uttered by some Marxist from a different planet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.77.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.77.5", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister said recently that the third way is entering its third phase, but on this issue we seem to be stuck for ever. We are back where we started, endlessly dancing around and—as the hon. Member for Lewes (Norman Baker) said—getting nowhere. I shall give the House three guesses as to who said, in 1999, \"It will be banned, we will get the vote to ban as soon as we possibly can.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.77.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that point in a minute. Some people argue for the retention of hunting on the basis that it is the normal method of fox control and that if we get rid of it something vastly more cruel will be put in its place. The Burns report says that hunting is responsible for only 6 per cent. of all fox destruction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.81.4", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "The other 94 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.81.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.81.6", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not all the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " is not even an efficient pesticide, which is just about the one argument that could be made for keeping it. If hunting is not an efficient pesticide, it has no purpose. There is some purpose in fishing—and I come to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) . I agree that not all fishing has a purpose, but one can fish and then eat the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.81.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.82.6", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ld all go into the Lobby, but I have brought my speech and I intend to make it. If the Conservative party chose her as its leader, the Labour Government would find themselves in considerable difficulties. Fortunately, I know that such good sense does not prevail on the Opposition Benches. I say to the right hon. and pious Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) , who unfortunately has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.82.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "I was talking about the hon. Member for Pendle, who did not go on to read that sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.97.6", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend who makes my point for me. Most opinion polls show a significant majority against the ban in one form or another. In any event, as my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) said, this House cannot be dictated to by opinion polls, whatever they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.97.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.113.4", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Ian Cawsey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, they don't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Cawsey", "preceding_text": "ver has. I therefore do not accept the hon. Gentleman's argument. Furthermore, I do not accept the argument that dogs kill a mammal in the most humane way—the single nip on the back of the neck argument. Every single year—I accept that this is not the intention of those who hunt—there are instances of hunts attacking other prey or quarry. It might be people walking the dog—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "r some form of licensing enshrined in statute. The foot and mouth crisis brought further misery on my constituents. We already know from parliamentary answers that 44,000 jobs have been lost in agriculture in the past three years, but the Burns report estimates that we will lose another 8,000 to 10,000 if we ban hunting, so anybody who votes for a ban is voting to put my constituents out of a job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": " as a compromise, but as a potential solution in all our interests. Let me remind Members that we propose the establishment of an independent hunting authority with statutory powers to enforce a legally binding code of practice and tough penalties to ensure that it works. We want that to apply to all methods of fox control, not just one. Our proposal goes further than any other option in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "pig farms. I saw in the papers this weekend a story about the Labour Chief Whip in the Lords. On a farm that he owns, pigs were crammed illegally into tiny pens, where they had no room to turn round or lie down. Others were said to have died from heat exhaustion and related conditions. I tend to agree with Joyce d'Silva, the director of Compassion in World Farming, who said: \"I am appalled\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-18", "file": "debates2002-03-18.xml", "sha256": "14369f667c5b2982", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.127.2", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Hunting With Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way; we have cut our speeches to give Members a chance to contribute. It is nice to see tonight's turnout of Conservative Members, who are rarely present when we debate rural issues in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-18.127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. I ask everyone—colleagues, Opposition Members and the media—to publicise the fact that men who are over 60 and eligible for the allowance can still claim up to the end of this month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It says here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Minister is appalled, as I am, that Scottish rail passengers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "We are talking about standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.178.7", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ence to policy failures. There are many, but by far the biggest is retaining teachers. I suspect that the right hon. Lady will boast about teacher recruitment. I point out gently that there is no point in recruiting ever higher numbers of trainee teachers if most of them leave within a few years. Pouring ever larger amounts of water into a bucket with a hole in the bottom is not a rational policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.178.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The simplest way for the Government to do so is by doing less. Instead of producing 1,000 years' worth of bureaucracy every 11 months, doing less would reduce the work load on teachers who would then have less unnecessary paperwork from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "school?\" The answer: \"There is no discipline. At the worst they get suspended for a few days, which isn't a punishment in anyone's eyes. It's just a good excuse to have a few days off.\" Thirdly: \"Do you think bullying and discipline in your school have been getting worse or better?\" The answer: \"Worse, definitely. That's why I am home educated.\" That was the response that we received from a pupil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "g worse or better?\" The answer: \"Worse, definitely. That's why I am home educated.\" That was the response that we received from a pupil. [Interruption.] Labour Members find this a laughing matter. That shows how distant they are from the real problems. The Government have undermined discipline in schools. They are damaging standards in schools. That is making many school children's lives a misery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. That was the poster to which the hon. Member for Ashford referred. I had not intended to mention the poster, but as we have had the NUT magazine brandished about because it has a picture of the hon. Gentleman on the centre pages—I must remember not to open my copy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "n inspected. It is now achieving standards that were not reached under the previous regime. I am pleased that my hon. Friend the Minister for School Standards will visit my constituency in the near future. He will see two examples of the effects of investment. First, he will see an almost brand new primary school, Brookside, which has been open for only a few months. It has brought together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "nd) , who went on about benchmarking, best practice and socio-economic indicators—there was some good and interesting stuff about low expectation thresholds and so on—but I am genuinely interested in the Government's response to it. When I visit schools in my constituency, I am struck by the lack of something that teachers had when I was at school: respect, in the words of Ali G—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-19", "file": "debates2002-03-19.xml", "sha256": "f8ca691aab2db1ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Education and Skills Training", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "It ill becomes the hon. Gentleman to return again, as his hon. Friend the Member for Preston (Mr. Hendrick) did, to the so-called derelictions of the Conservative Government, when it is the present Government who have produced the first NUT strike in 30 years and who are depriving my children of the education that they promised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-19.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I have told the hon. Gentleman that all these matters are under discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.294.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "to look after more people in their own homes—that is what they want—and we are able to increase the level of fees given to those care homes. If the right hon. Gentleman opposes the provisions of the Care Standards Act 2000—which allow, for example, some of the people working in those homes to get paid holidays for the first time in their lives—let him get up and say so now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do stand by it and of course we have not put proposals to people in Gibraltar yet. When we do put those proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.300.4", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "sals or penalties applied to the people of Gibraltar if they reject the plans. If they reject the plans, the plans are rejected by them. There is no question of the plans being able to proceed without their consent. That has been made clear throughout. I must say to the right hon. Gentleman and other Opposition Members that this is a process that began under the last Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.300.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister did not answer the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister tell me why, after nearly six years of a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister tell me why, after nearly six years of a Labour Government—[Hon. Members: \"Five.\"]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.301.6", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Five, then. Why, after five years of a Labour Government, in my constituency, are women with breast cancer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.301.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to revisit the scene of an earlier triumph. To answer my hon. Friend's question, we believe that it is important to combine fairness and enterprise throughout, and that is what we as a Government are doing. In respect of the House of Lords, a consultation process is under way and we are listening to the responses to it. There are many different voices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Castlereagh Break-in", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ess to me. I have met Sir John, who has already made arrangements to do just that. That is important, not only in terms of trying to get to the truth of the matter but in terms of there being wider public confidence that we are trying to get to the truth of the matter. I can assure my hon. Friend and my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. Mullin) that that is what we are about to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.328.3", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "First, I do not think that this is going to be an occasion to make party political comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, that is a tiresome and cheap point. I do not begin to assume that it is easy to withdraw from such operations. It might be fairer to ask which original deployments we would not have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "That is a question that I have raised from the Dispatch Box before and I note that it has also been raised by the leader of one of the minority parties. I do not believe that the Government have ever given a satisfactory answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "That is one of the things that I did discuss this morning with the Russian Foreign Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Portillo", "preceding_text": "US embassies in Africa and the attack on USS Cole, which met with a perfunctory response from the US. I regret to say—and many of my hon. Friends will not like me saying this—that even the September 2000 proposals by President Clinton and Prime Minister Barak, with major concessions proposed by Israel under the United States' umbrella, were taken by enemies as a sign of weakness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-20", "file": "debates2002-03-20.xml", "sha256": "beeccaf257337e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "As always, from his experience, my hon. Friend makes a very important point. Opposition Members have raised the issue of resources. We can expect a substantial amount of the extra £66 million for adoption that was announced in the White Paper to be used by local authorities to improve their adoption support services. It will ensure that many more people receive the support that they need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-20.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "I am beginning to feel that I am living in a parallel universe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be well aware of the ongoing crisis in the railway industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Hunting with Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "l last no more than six months, including work on drafting a new Bill. We promised in our manifesto that this issue would be resolved. Should there be no way through, and should the new Bill be frustrated in its passage rather than scrutinised and improved, the Government could not properly stand in the way of the application of the Parliament Act, which of course would be a matter for this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Hunting with Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "It is very disappointing that the Conservative response has been so narrow and petty. It is clear that Opposition Front-Bench Members are determined to create division and not to help a process that will create good legislation. It is the process of creating good legislation that is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Hunting with Dogs", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": " the Minister for his patience in renegotiation, but may I remind him that in 1994, when the House passed my anti-fox hunting Bill—the Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill—by a majority of 253 to zero, I engaged for six months with those in the other place but not one inch was given on foxhunting? Let us face the fact that this is no longer about foxhunting but is now a constitutional issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Hunting with Dogs", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "anti-fox hunting Bill—the Wild Mammals (Protection) Bill—by a majority of 253 to zero, I engaged for six months with those in the other place but not one inch was given on foxhunting? Let us face the fact that this is no longer about foxhunting but is now a constitutional issue. [Interruption.] If the will of the House prevails, as expressed year after year in massive majorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "We will publish the results of the consultation. Hon. Members will not expect to receive a copy of every letter and submission, but a representative summary will be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "man was making. I thought that he was supporting my comments. I totally agree with him. When the hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale, West (Mr. Brady) and I sat for many happy hours considering the Learning and Skills Bill, we knew that that would be one of the objectives of the Learning and Skills Council, especially the regional councils. They would do the research that the hon. Gentleman wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": " only three have been judged inadequate. The inspectors found that 92 per cent. of teaching was satisfactory or better, that 93 per cent. of curriculum grades achieved were satisfactory or better, and that 58 per cent. of those grades were good or outstanding. We should celebrate our colleges, not denigrate them. We should not tell students not to go to them because they might end up with nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "nt for Education and Skills. At a rate of two minutes per page, it would take 17 hours to digest those instructions from the centre. To that must be added the considerable amount of paperwork that individual teachers have to cope with in their own right—not least in respect of performance-related pay. Many teachers have complained to me about what they call the Sunday evening syndrome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "retary of State for Education and Skills, the hon. Member for Bury, South (Mr. Lewis) , kindly drew attention to the recent literary work of the former chief inspector of schools and invited us to quote from it. I wish that I had more time to quote those views about the Government—the book contains some wonderful quotes. I am sure that hon. Members of all parties are already digging into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-21", "file": "debates2002-03-21.xml", "sha256": "e22155f113f7421e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "fying recognition for their achievements, whether they have been pursuing academic or vocational options, or a mixture of the two. As my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary said in opening the debate, we also want the diploma to recognise wider interests—citizenship, volunteering and wider activities. I am one of those who think that there is some merit in the name \"matriculation diploma\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-21.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.556.4", "colnum": "556", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that reply. Does my hon. Friend agree that there is enormous diversity in music in this country, from folk music to jazz, from classical music to garage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.556.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Consignia (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "succeeded. The losses on parcels have drained investment from the rest of the Post Office. For the sake of the company as a whole, Parcelforce now needs to be restructured and restored to profitability. It is important to consider how the company got into this position. The British Post Office used to be admired across Europe for its high standards of performance. But in the 1980s and 1990s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Consignia (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": " Office used to be admired across Europe for its high standards of performance. But in the 1980s and 1990s— [Interruption.] Hon. Members should just listen. During those years, other postal services across Europe began to modernise and invest so that they could deliver better services in a rapidly changing market. But successive Conservative Governments did not care about improving delivery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Consignia (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "the 1980s and 1990s— [Interruption.] Hon. Members should just listen. During those years, other postal services across Europe began to modernise and invest so that they could deliver better services in a rapidly changing market. But successive Conservative Governments did not care about improving delivery. [Interruption.] They allowed the Post Office to stagnate and starved it of investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Consignia (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It must be all that sea air in Harrogate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Consignia (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It must be all that sea air in Harrogate. [Laughter.] Oh go away; they are pathetic. While new technologies and changing markets were transforming the communications sector, our postal services were allowed to drift and decline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Consignia (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "sts and reducing the quality of service to customers. The necessary rationalisation will increase the volume of mail carried by rail. Although the practice of sorting mail on trains will be phased out, bulk mail will be carried by rail during the day. The total number of road journeys undertaken by Royal Mail will be reduced, as will the number of vehicles used, cutting pollution as well as costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Consignia (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not seem to understand the idea of commercial freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Consignia (Restructuring)", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The profits that were being made in the Conservative years were artificially inflated to secure covert tax rises and the subsidy to the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": " might be made on their merits. Getting Railtrack out of administration must be done on the basis that it will produce a viable, financially sound company—one that takes a long-term perspective, and that puts the emphasis first and foremost on operating a safe, efficient and reliable rail network. Taking action on Railtrack has been criticised by some, including the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "I will answer in my own way. There was one element of the hon. Lady's question that I agree with—that there is a link between the two issues of the Post Office and Railtrack. On looking back, people will see that it is this Government who are tackling the Conservatives' failure in respect of the Post Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The reality is that Railtrack was a Tory creation that was failing the travelling public, and I make no apology for taking action on it; it was part of the problem with our railway system, not part of the solution. The Conservatives would have thrown millions more into it, but it would not have delivered an improvement in our railway system. The hon. Lady raises a number of important questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Bayley", "preceding_text": "As a representative of a great railway city that has hundreds of skilled engineers working for the train-operating companies and a wide range of infrastructure companies, may I say that what the railways need is a clear future for infrastructure, which this statement gives, and it will be widely welcomed in my constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "he point that I have been making today. Network Rail has put forward such a proposal, and I think that we should welcome it. However, the point that I made in my statement is that the administrator has made it clear that if there are other proposals, they will be considered. The administrator will look carefully at the proposals and will then make a recommendation to me if it is a transfer scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Railtrack", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "de in my statement is that the administrator has made it clear that if there are other proposals, they will be considered. The administrator will look carefully at the proposals and will then make a recommendation to me if it is a transfer scheme. [Interruption.] For the benefit of the House, the Railways Act 1993 is not the basis on which Network Rail has made its approach to the Railtrack group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ded the figure of 750,000 pensioners as realistic. I note that the authors of these findings warn the reader to treat them with great caution. There is a huge variation in the findings on take-up. I shall deal with take-up and the important point that the hon. Gentleman has either deliberately or inadvertently stumbled upon. I shall deal with the criticisms that are made in the reasoned amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The Conservative spokesman is famous for having two brains. I think that the Conservative party speaks with two voices on pensions. It tells us that it wants to increase the basic state pension, yet we know that it is committed to privatising it. Look at what happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.605.7", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ash;extending the basic state pension and introducing the state second pension. I understand that the hon. Gentleman will be going along to the next Conservative party team meeting. These meetings are held on Tuesdays at 10.30 pm. If anyone wants to go along, I should say that no doubt the professor—the hon. Member for Northavon—will be there, and maybe others. They will find out more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.605.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ives cut it. The state second pension was reformed by the Government before it had even come in. What chance is there that the state pension credit will even be there in 25 years' time? What chance is there that any sane person in middle age will plan for their retirement on the basis of a scheme that is so complicated that they cannot work out what they will be entitled to? It is simply nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.625.6", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "Earnings indexation of perhaps a couple of per cent. a year more than inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.625.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "By 1997, there was an ever-widening gap in pensioner incomes, with the bottom fifth of pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-25", "file": "debates2002-03-25.xml", "sha256": "4eca7f7acbd79ea2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.665.4", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "ng to teach him the same lesson again. Going into the next election promising to take an average of £400 in pension credits from pensioners is unlikely to be popular with them. I was going to suggest, Mr. Speaker, that you should watch out for the U-turn, but I think that we have already heard it during the hon. Gentleman's speech. I want to deal with some of the points raised in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-25.665.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.692.4", "colnum": "692", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "nfirm patients, to whom he was about to refer, in many parts of the country, sadly, local provision is not available in the way that it should be. That means that sometimes relatives and carers have to travel further to visit their elderly relatives in accommodation that is some distance from their home. Again, the answer is precisely the same—we must keep putting money into public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.692.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.692.4", "colnum": "692", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "erly relatives in accommodation that is some distance from their home. Again, the answer is precisely the same—we must keep putting money into public services. [Interruption.] I know that Opposition Members do not like that because their commitment is not to increase investment in public services but to go for tax cuts. We cannot have one and the same agenda, with tax cuts on one side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.692.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "What a cheek! It is this Government and this Government's investment that have ensured that 18,351 people are now benefiting from a modernised hearing aid service and that 30 more sites will come online next year. When the hon. Gentleman was in government, he made no provision whatever for that service on the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "nline next year. When the hon. Gentleman was in government, he made no provision whatever for that service on the NHS. [Interruption.] Actually, it did happen towards the end of his time in office. As we know from the speech that the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) made last weekend, Conservative party policy is now clear. It is to talk down the NHS and the extra provision that is being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I thought that when we heard from the hon. Member for Fareham (Mr. Hoban) we had reached rock bottom, but obviously I was wrong. This is preposterous hypocrisy by Conservative Members, who never showed any interest in or concern about such issues when they were responsible for running the affairs of the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"1866!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": " penny should be spent without parliamentary approval, it seems to have slipped somewhat. The Executive have begun to entrench their power. Let us be honest: they have taken over most of the functions that should fall to this House. What would have happened more than 100 years ago, in a typical day in the House for looking at expenditure? Let us consider 10 May 1966 , when Mr. Gladstone was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": " well on the doorstep, but Labour Members find that it no longer does so, as the Government enter their second term in office. The general public are sick to death of the blame culture that comes from Labour Members. The present situation is dire. Whether in education, law and order, the health service, transport or defence, the Government are in crisis. The Leader of the House may shake his head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.788.0", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " is somehow under the improper influence of commercial interests, we certainly want to know about it. Something should be done about it very quickly indeed. The hon. Gentleman also raised the problem of VAT on church repairs. I would not be so uncharitable as to tell him that that is one of the many benefits flowing from our membership of the European Union. I should not be as crude as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": " successful and that it gives our constituents the service they deserve. I do not believe that that would be a party political issue in an ideal world, but it has been raised as such during the debate, so it is worth reminding ourselves of the Conservative party's record of post office closures. Post office closures did not start with this Government; there were very many such closures previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-03-26", "file": "debates2002-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2b41fc7f0b58ad6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "North Cornwall (Mr. Tyler) raised a number of issues about organophosphates and VAT on church repairs and conservation. Although the advice issued by the Food Standards Agency states that washing or peeling fruit and vegetables is not required as a protection against pesticide residues, it also says that it is sensible to wash fruit and vegetables before eating for reasons of general food hygiene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-03-26.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-03", "file": "debates2002-04-03.xml", "sha256": "0ce87a3c67e65e35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-03.803.0", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "year for a private lunch or dinner, and he would invite friends of his from a cross-section of age groups and walks of life. On this occasion I was asked along, and it was very pleasant. There were a couple of dozen of us and the Queen Mother was holding forth on subjects ranging from agriculture to Europe, and even proportional representation—she was not very sound on that one, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-03.803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-10", "file": "debates2002-04-10.xml", "sha256": "1e940b85a0a4ee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.9.8", "colnum": "9", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "If, by any chance, in the near future, my hon. Friend sees the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.9.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-10", "file": "debates2002-04-10.xml", "sha256": "1e940b85a0a4ee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.11.1", "colnum": "11", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "This is a momentous day for my family and me, because this morning my wife and I, in common with thousands of parents up and down the country, took our children to school for the very first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.11.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-10", "file": "debates2002-04-10.xml", "sha256": "1e940b85a0a4ee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.13.4", "colnum": "13", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " has to come about is precisely that it is not possible, unless we are to spend very large sums of money, to say that no post office will ever close. In fact, under the restructuring proposals, 95 per cent. of people will still live within a mile of a post office in urban areas, and as a result of the restructuring package, we will of course give the best protection possible to rural post offices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.13.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-10", "file": "debates2002-04-10.xml", "sha256": "1e940b85a0a4ee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.14.4", "colnum": "14", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ecurity and a viable Palestinian state, and that Israel should withdraw from the occupied territories. Of course it is also important that we deal with the issues of weapons of mass destruction. Some people say that America has not been engaged in this issue, but that is unfair. Secretary of State Colin Powell is now in the region. He will visit Israel shortly. That mission is extremely important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.14.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-10", "file": "debates2002-04-10.xml", "sha256": "1e940b85a0a4ee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that our armed forces are at all in the state that the right hon. Gentleman describes. On underfunding, I was making exactly that point a moment or so ago. When his party was in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-10", "file": "debates2002-04-10.xml", "sha256": "1e940b85a0a4ee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Page", "preceding_text": "y tough competition regime by creating a new corporate authority in the Office of Fair Trading and establishing new penalties for failing to comply with the enforcement regime. I support the measures to establish codes of practice for business and consumers. In case the Minister takes me seriously, I am only joking when I suggest that the Conservative party might become a designated consumer body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-10", "file": "debates2002-04-10.xml", "sha256": "1e940b85a0a4ee98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "bour force . . . the Government's pro-business agenda is at odds with its social objectives, for business will always do best if the Government simply gets out of its way.\" We agree with that sentiment. It stretches credulity when the regulatory impact assessment accompanying the Bill claims that no significant costs will be imposed on business as a result of the competition and consumer measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-10.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should read the transcript of the tape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.141.5", "colnum": "141", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor will recall being advised by Mr. Ed Balls on post-neoclassical endogenous growth theory. We now read that Mr. Balls has a new big idea called progressive universalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.147.4", "colnum": "147", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "onstrated, there have been improvements in the number of patients being treated and the time in which they are being treated. I recall that the hon. Gentleman is on record as supporting the use of charging and privatisation in the health service. I also recall that the Conservative party is determined first to undermine the health service and then to challenge it and introduce privatisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.147.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I must correct the hon. Gentleman on one point that he made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I must correct the hon. Gentleman on one point that he made— [Laughter] —indeed, on several points that he made. Lord Levy did not cause me any difficulty during my time as Foreign Secretary. Indeed, he and I worked very closely together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware of yesterday's lobby of the House of Commons by postal workers, which closely followed reports last week, particularly in Tribune —a newspaper known and loved by Labour Members old and new.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.161.4", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I have to say to my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Mr. Foster) that I could not envisage this Chamber being used for any purpose other than the sitting of the elected House of Commons. Indeed, strictly speaking, it is an act of treason to take a seat in this Chamber without being elected to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "se on the Conservative and the Liberal Democrat Benches at a time when we are all concerned to promote world peace. The hon. Gentleman has made an interesting suggestion, on which I am sure both parties may wish to build. I am not sure that I see the case for the House spending a day debating that matter, but plainly, should a consensus gather, the Government would naturally want to be part of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": " in Kabul as part of the international security assistance force, and held its own memorial service on Tuesday as a mark of respect. Tuesday was a sad day for the Royal Anglians for another reason. Tragically, one of their young soldiers was killed after an accident while he was out on patrol in Kabul. I know that the whole House will join me in extending their condolences to the soldier's family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.170.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that there is no difference between the hon. Gentleman and the leader of his party. The Liberal Democrats have made our position absolutely clear. If there is to be any action against Iraq, it must be taken by the international community under proper United Nations authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "ve a negative impact on their lives and those of their families. I have commented before on the danger of developing two-tier armed forces—those units that are used a lot, such as the green berets and the red berets, and others that are not. Unlike the Conservative party, which may not have been preparing its policies, the Liberal Democrats have recently published a strategic defence review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "lleagues, that they will kick him out, and that he will then devote all the time he has to spend on defence to the Defence Committee. We would welcome his full return with, literally, open arms. As I have spent nearly all my career in the House of Commons criticising the Labour party in relation to defence, it is a sheer delight for me to be able to endorse almost entirely things that it is doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Blyth Valley (Mr. Campbell) asked: \"Given the fact that when Russia had its troops in Afghanistan, it got a bloody nose and got bogged down, particularly in the mountains, what is the difference now between the two conflicts?\" My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State replied: \"That is one of the things that I did discuss this morning with the Russian Foreign Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-11", "file": "debates2002-04-11.xml", "sha256": "8e57ba2226184a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.250.7", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " it will be among the best in the world. We shall feed the lessons that we are learning in ISAF, and those that we learned through Saif Sareea 2 and Kosovo, including best practice from other countries, into the project. The question of the food available to our forces has been raised. The food available to our forces deployed in Afghanistan is the envy of the other forces deployed alongside them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-11.250.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-12", "file": "debates2002-04-12.xml", "sha256": "05e98cc75ab8b08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-12.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Pensions Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "Once again, I must rebut what the hon. Lady says. My lack of respect applies not to the beliefs of the Plymouth Brethren, but to her remarks. I do not respect them because they are wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-12.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-12", "file": "debates2002-04-12.xml", "sha256": "05e98cc75ab8b08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-12.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Pensions Annuities (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "ind a way to enable Christian Brethren to save for a secure income in retirement in a way that does not conflict with their religious beliefs. That is what I intend to try to facilitate. Officials at the Inland Revenue are already involved in detailed and constructive dialogue with the Christian Brethren. I have published a consultation document and the Christian Brethren have provided a response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-12.315.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-04-12", "file": "debates2002-04-12.xml", "sha256": "05e98cc75ab8b08c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-12.333.6", "colnum": "333", "heading": "FOOD LABELLING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate further adjourned till Friday 21 June", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 2 November ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-12.333.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-15", "file": "debates2002-04-15.xml", "sha256": "a2edf0a6e4435351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.366.0", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "other party in the House—the official Opposition, the Liberal Democrats, and every Northern Ireland party including the Social Democratic and Labour party. I am delighted to see the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady) . In my experience in the House, on 99 occasions out of 100 the SDLP vote with the Labour party, in government or in opposition. That is an extraordinary state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-15", "file": "debates2002-04-15.xml", "sha256": "a2edf0a6e4435351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill (Programme)", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "top a Conservative Front Bencher suggesting that that is exactly what the Government are doing. In having to be consistent with the position that the Conservative Front-Bench team is attempting to take, the right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal suggested that there is a conspiracy on only one Front Bench, and that that has led to the timetable motion. That is no explanation for the motion either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-15", "file": "debates2002-04-15.xml", "sha256": "a2edf0a6e4435351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "If the chief electoral officer can speak for himself, Sinn Fein Members elected to represent their constituents can certainly speak for themselves, although they choose not to in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-15", "file": "debates2002-04-15.xml", "sha256": "a2edf0a6e4435351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.399.5", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "ity the more the balance of effort and gain turns away from favouring vote cheats. Useful identifiers which might be included in applications to register as a voter are the date of birth . . . and the voter's national insurance number. Neither of these pieces of information is completely secure, particularly against organised vote theft, but their use would deter opportunistic fraud.\" It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.399.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-15", "file": "debates2002-04-15.xml", "sha256": "a2edf0a6e4435351", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "e registration, the hon. Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Dodds) should be cautioned on accepting the Minister's undertaking that he will be in touch, and if not with him, with a member of his party. The Minister gave a similar undertaking about consultation in Committee on multiple registration. He was gracious enough to accept that the consultation was not entirely flawless when we came to Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-15.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I have to tell my hon. Friend that there is no such thing as state terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.452.7", "colnum": "452", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "We are very concerned about this matter because, despite our warnings, the Government of Gibraltar have been indulging in what we think may be discriminatory pensions practices. I have had to write to the Chief Minister explaining that. The European Commission at present is investigating these potentially illegal practices. What is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.452.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.452.7", "colnum": "452", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "esent is investigating these potentially illegal practices. What is important— [Interruption.] If Opposition Members will listen for a moment, the House will wish to know that a bill of £77 million could fall on the taxpayers of Britain if, as a result of this scam, the Government of Gibraltar do not pick up responsibility and accept their obligations. So far, they have resisted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.452.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.454.0", "colnum": "454", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "We will put the agreement in full to the people of Gibraltar—the agreement in full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "The Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It included Attlee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There is a separate, and perhaps more academic, debate to be had about why the Balfour declaration did not work. Happily he was not a member of my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "The Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "There is considerable dispute about what happened at both of those places; the hon. Gentleman may be right, but that was some time ago. If we are to move forward, relying on what happened then may prove ineffective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "The Middle East", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": "e Palestinians. As the Foreign Secretary said, Barak offered them, in the words of a Palestinian negotiator, 95 per cent. of what they wanted. That was not just turned down flat; it was not even used by Arafat as a basis for continuing negotiations. In the middle of those negotiations, Arafat restarted the intifada for some trumped-up reason. Perhaps it was because Sharon went to the Temple Mount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "The Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "otal. We have yet to see what did happen in Jenin, but Israel has been careful to minimise civilian casualties, which is why the mission has taken so long, and why Israeli forces have suffered. The Israelis could have done what we did in Afghanistan: they could have conducted aerial bombing of the area, which would have resulted in far higher casualties overall, but fewer Israeli casualties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-16", "file": "debates2002-04-16.xml", "sha256": "39bc6308e0f8c2e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "The Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "s history, in its geography and in the interaction of political powers. There is also the unfathomable complexity of some of the personalities involved. Looking at the history, and perhaps at the risk of being slightly selective myself, I point out that the Foreign Secretary skirted slightly over the events of 1948, and so much stems from the war of Palestine between April and September that year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-16.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.558.3", "colnum": "558", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "We had this argument about Kosovo. It is not for the hon. Lady, me or anyone else to tell Afghan refugees when it is best to go home. We should facilitate their choices, and we see very wise choices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady will know that I have just returned from a visit to Sudan with the all-party group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.566.5", "colnum": "566", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "w the NHS as a clear, enduring and practical expression of our values as a country? Does he accept that the Government have to demonstrate that change must be effected on the ground with results? Will he not be put off by the discordant voices that are trying to say that the NHS cannot or will not work? Is not the best thing that can be done for the country that the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.566.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.568.5", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "d sight charges, the scrapping of all tuition fees and the reintroduction of all student grants. They also asked that benefits be given to all students during the summer holidays and for an increase in housing benefit; the payment of no-fault compensation, compensation for Gulf war veterans, greater spending on debt aid relief, and the giving of greater subsidies to small and medium-sized farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.568.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What I would say to the hon. Gentleman is that that is precisely why extra investment is required in social care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.571.4", "colnum": "571", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "question. Perhaps he has a vested interest. Simply put, both the Labour council and the Labour Government are to blame. The Labour Government are the ones who have increased the costs to councils, through the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Labour councils cost people more across the board. In Labour council areas, band D council tax is at least £135 more than in Conservative council areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.571.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y as a whole is stability and growth. It is precisely because of the way in which the Chancellor has managed the economy that we have ended up in a situation where this country has effectively weathered the potential economic downturn better than any other country of a similar size in the world. We now have the lowest inflation and the lowest interest rates that we have had for many, many decades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "their jobs in being made redundant. However, the problems of manufacturing have been acute over the past number of years because of the very strength of the pound against the euro. What is important is to recognise that, for manufacturing industry and, indeed, all industry in this country, the single best thing we can do is never return to the days of boom and bust, where in the early 1990s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "nouncement: his taking up of a Conservative proposal that he has rubbished over the past two years on a Brit disc for commercial transport. We are always willing to welcome a sinner that repenteth, even if it is at the eleventh hour. However, there is a real issue here and things in the Red Book that he did not mention. First, this country is now running a deficit for the first time in four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ever announced, and his abolition of the married couples allowance, in respect of which he failed to tell anyone that there would be a year when all married couples received no tax relief at all. It is amazing to hear him criticise the tax system for not recognising children, when he was the one who abolished the last such recognition in earlier Budgets. We will study this Red Book very carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " in respect of which he failed to tell anyone that there would be a year when all married couples received no tax relief at all. It is amazing to hear him criticise the tax system for not recognising children, when he was the one who abolished the last such recognition in earlier Budgets. We will study this Red Book very carefully. [Interruption.] One thing we do know is that the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "rrow's papers. One thing that we learned from the Chancellor today is that he has already broken one major election promise by putting up national insurance, which is a tax on income. He has previously said: \"National insurance is a tax on ordinary families.\" Only 10 months ago, during the election, he and the Prime Minister assured the country that they were not going to raise national insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ng patients to go to other countries for treatment. Their health service is letting people down, especially the elderly and the vulnerable. Last year, as a result of the Chancellor's mismanagement, 250,000 patients had to pay for their operations out of their own pockets. More people than ever before have had to do that under this Government. People should not have to use their life savings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I begin by congratulating the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "emocrat candidates used every hour of the day, every day of the week during the general election campaign last year: \"You can't get something for nothing.\" Although we welcome the convert to the cause, I have searched in vain for Labour party proposals in the general election campaign for the taxation increases. I examined the Labour manifesto, but no. I watched the launch of the Labour manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ign last year: \"You can't get something for nothing.\" Although we welcome the convert to the cause, I have searched in vain for Labour party proposals in the general election campaign for the taxation increases. I examined the Labour manifesto, but no. I watched the launch of the Labour manifesto. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I watched the television interviews with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "though we welcome the convert to the cause, I have searched in vain for Labour party proposals in the general election campaign for the taxation increases. I examined the Labour manifesto, but no. I watched the launch of the Labour manifesto. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I watched the television interviews with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I looked at the election rallies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "r Labour party proposals in the general election campaign for the taxation increases. I examined the Labour manifesto, but no. I watched the launch of the Labour manifesto. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I watched the television interviews with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I looked at the election rallies. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I watched the Labour party election broadcasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": " taxation increases. I examined the Labour manifesto, but no. I watched the launch of the Labour manifesto. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I watched the television interviews with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I looked at the election rallies. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I watched the Labour party election broadcasts. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I looked at the morning press conferences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": " I are both Scots. I am not always the best advertisement in lifestyle terms, but we must both acknowledge that the structures of health care delivery in Scotland are not the only providers of discouraging indices—the lifestyle of many Scots cannot be divorced from those. Although we can blame the Chancellor for many things, we cannot necessarily blame him for that reality, as he well knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "ed; inflation was in double digits and we had what have been referred to as three booms and busts. They were deep economic troughs. That is the history of the right hon. Gentleman when he was a practitioner in government. He is a clever man, but there is a meanness of spirit in every political utterance that he makes. He offered not one good comment on anything that the Government have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-17", "file": "debates2002-04-17.xml", "sha256": "afbd8dcdc007d0fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "n drink three pints without being over the limit, so it would be nice to have fiscal recognition of the benefits that that beverage can provide to the rural economy. I also congratulate the Chancellor on getting rid of some ridiculous tax breaks that the Labour Government instituted for the film industry. Well done, at last. However, bigger announcements were made today, and I turn to those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-17.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "will be: Monday 22 April —Continuation of the Budget debate, in which the theme for the day will be enterprise and opportunity for all. Tuesday 23 April —Conclusion of the Budget debate, in which the theme for the day will be health. Wednesday 24 April —My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will propose an Humble Address to celebrate the golden jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "rtising and Promotion Bill [Lords]. Tuesday 30 April —Second Reading of the Finance Bill. Wednesday 1 May —Second Reading of a Bill making the necessary legislative changes to national insurance following the statement by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Thursday 2 May —There will be a debate on Wales in the world on a motion for the Adjournment of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that since we came to office, we have made sure that all appointments follow a clear standard procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "need is a new set of bureaucrats. Perhaps the most important question is this: will the auditors be able to audit private hospitals? That is especially important when NHS patients are being treated in such hospitals. Will we see the Commission for Health Improvement and the National Care Standards Commission merge with the National Audit Office, or any potential mixture involving the three bodies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "an three years, the Government were warned about the consequences of their policy of running down care homes in the community. They were warned that when they lost beds in the community they would block beds in the NHS, and that they would see an increase in the number of cancelled operations and a rise in waiting lists as well as inappropriate care. What is the Secretary of State going to do now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.726.5", "colnum": "726", "heading": "NHS Plan", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "In the end, those decisions are best taken not by me, but locally. It will be a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.726.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": ". So we have exactly the same phenomenon—we have endless fiddling, tinkering interventions, with no impact on the thing that the Chancellor claims he is trying to address. The pattern with this Chancellor is that he is best at the things in which he is not interested. His biggest single triumph as Chancellor was to take his hands off monetary policy and give independence to the central bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.748.5", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I have answered the hon. Gentleman. He asked me about the PSA target, and I said that we were sticking to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.748.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-18", "file": "debates2002-04-18.xml", "sha256": "11ec5b1097f81829", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.761.7", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "lth but on pensions and other services, or it will go into the national insurance fund surplus. The Chancellor rejected hypothecation for one reason: he did not want the cyclical effect of the economy to undermine the funding of the health service. I gave him, in my usual generous way, an offprint of an article that I wrote for New Economy , the journal of the Institute for Public Policy Research.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-18.761.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-19", "file": "debates2002-04-19.xml", "sha256": "6a5e58f2af4fb764", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-19.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Industrial and Provident Societies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "y law was changed in 1989 so that third parties lending money have sensible protection if the company acts ultra vires. In Committee, I used a rugby club as an example. A rugby club that is a company and uses company legal form borrows money to modernise its social facilities—perhaps for that glorious time when Wales again beat England in the Six Nations, which will happen fairly soon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-19.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-19", "file": "debates2002-04-19.xml", "sha256": "6a5e58f2af4fb764", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-19.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Industrial and Provident Societies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "It is somewhat unusual to hear a Conservative Member, even one as knowledgeable as the hon. Gentleman, pressing the Government on the need for greater regulation of companies, but I shall take his point in good faith and resist any further jibes. I promise never to quote his suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-19.831.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-22", "file": "debates2002-04-22.xml", "sha256": "aac8a7d9fabc79ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-22.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I am certainly aware of the Conservative Government's neglect of the importance of research and development, and their complete contempt for the manufacturing sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-22.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-22", "file": "debates2002-04-22.xml", "sha256": "aac8a7d9fabc79ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-22.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I suspect that this measure has not been introduced in perpetuity. We are talking about it as we would a windfall tax, which should be levied only once or for one year. It would not be sensible to burden the industry if it became clear that the price of oil was falling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-22.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-22", "file": "debates2002-04-22.xml", "sha256": "aac8a7d9fabc79ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-22.80.5", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "That does not bear any response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-22.80.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker— [Interruption.] It gets better— [Interruption.] Oh yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker— [Interruption.] It gets better— [Interruption.] Oh yes. [Interruption.] Opposition Members are in a frisky mood today. Before I start, I have to draw the attention of the House to the fact that Budget resolution No. 6, as it now appears on the Order Paper, has been slightly amended. In the course of finalising the drafting of the biodiesel provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "he biodiesel provisions— [Interruption.] I should be grateful if there were no interventions on this one. It became apparent during that process that it would be clearer if excise duty on blends of biodiesel and diesel could be dealt with as a separate item and not under existing powers to make orders relating to fuel substitute. The changes in the proposed resolution enable that to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "e national health service on a sustainable footing for the long-term. It deals with funding not for a single year, as used to happen when the Conservative party made Budgets. It is a Budget not even for three years, but for five years, so that the national health service can plan ahead with confidence and stability for the long term. After years when the economy veered between boom and bust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "We continue to examine complementary therapies and complementary medicine, but as I have said to the hon. Gentleman before, I cannot take such decisions: they must be taken by the clinicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.156.2", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Good question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "ticular? The city has the worst health record in the UK. The Arbuthnot report was not implemented in previous years because that would have meant taking money from other parts of Scotland. Does my right hon. Friend agree that now that new money is being made available more can go to Glasgow without anyone else suffering, and that it is now possible for Glasgow to get the health care that it needs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "e to get it up and running and time for it to report. By our reckoning, the very earliest that such a body will be able to report to Parliament is 2005. The body set up by the Chancellor to guarantee to monitor how our taxes are to be spent will not be able to report to Parliament until after the money has been spent. Once again, we are being entirely hoodwinked by spin and a false calendar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "ed into: \"if the Primary Care Trust and if your local GP and you yourself as a patient decide . . . There are a lot of ifs about this—decide that what you want to do is to be treated in that hospital, then providing it's got the capacity that's fine.\" Little wonder the public are so hugely sceptical, when what Ministers say one day is translated into something entirely different another day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.169.5", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "hat lessons we can learn for the sake of the people of the United Kingdom. As the King's Fund puts it: \"It is time to stop making heroic promises, and buckle down to the unglamorous detail of building a good-enough health system for the 21st century.\" The Labour Government will ultimately live or die as a result of their success or failure in producing a world-class NHS by the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "ting lists did not decrease, but grew by almost 100,000 before they started to fall. There is more, not less red tape now. I shall give some examples of red tape that could be hacked not only to make savings but to affect people who work in the health service. I worked in the health service under the previous Labour Government, when we were all crossing picket lines to get into operating theatres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "efinition, take up valuable resources, not least doctors' time—to set up a system that is so bureaucratic. My worry about endorsing this Budget is not about the principle of spending more money or about the fact that the money is coming from the public sector; it is that there is no confidence in the Government to deliver. Throughout the public sector, there has been an inability to deliver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "lute minimum\". In the words of the Forum of Private Business, the result of the Budget will be \"a further disincentive to employ\". The chief executive of recruitment specialists, Reed Executive, said that the national insurance increase goes \"directly against the Government's professed objective of full employment\". He highlighted the warnings from employers that they might move jobs abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I have explained very clearly our position on health, and I shall have some more to say about health in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.244.6", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": " of my right hon. and hon. Friends and those of right hon. and hon. Members on the Conservative Benches. My hon. Friends spoke positively, with knowledge, passion and conviction, about the national health service, as well as about what we are doing for enterprise and to encourage investment to build social cohesion in this country. I listened very carefully to the speeches by Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-23", "file": "debates2002-04-23.xml", "sha256": "09a108b2332b1286", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.244.6", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "tively, with knowledge, passion and conviction, about the national health service, as well as about what we are doing for enterprise and to encourage investment to build social cohesion in this country. I listened very carefully to the speeches by Conservative Members. [Interruption.] Yes, I did. The hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) had the nerve to go on about GP recruitment when G str—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-23.244.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-24", "file": "debates2002-04-24.xml", "sha256": "33501364dcb3cf40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ling all play a part. As my hon. Friend will know, the issue of landfill has rightly been closed off, and we have to strike a balance between recycling and incineration. The Government have increased the proportion of waste that is dealt with by recycling. Ultimately, we must strike a balance between the options available. That causes controversy, but we intend to deal effectively with the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-24", "file": "debates2002-04-24.xml", "sha256": "33501364dcb3cf40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "When will the Prime Minister do something about state subsidy junkies? Is he aware that one organisation has received a massive 300 per cent. increase in handouts from the taxpayer since 1997 with no improvement whatsoever in its performance? Does he agree that that shows that pouring money into unreformed institutions is a waste of time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-24", "file": "debates2002-04-24.xml", "sha256": "33501364dcb3cf40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.328.6", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Another one of those 10-year plans that we never get to the end of. Four months ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.328.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-24", "file": "debates2002-04-24.xml", "sha256": "33501364dcb3cf40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " not reached. The Home Secretary was very honest when he said that the Home Office makes progress slowly; I think that that is true. Let me give an example from the most recent targets set for the immigration and nationality directorate at Lunar house. The Government set themselves a target of 60 per cent. of asylum claims dealt with within two months; the latest performance figure is 45 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-24", "file": "debates2002-04-24.xml", "sha256": "33501364dcb3cf40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": " clarify the Home Secretary's words. He did not question the practice of arranged marriages at all, but asked whether, now there are substantial numbers of British-born Asians who embrace the cultural practice of arranged marriage, it might not be more appropriate for more arranged marriages to be conducted within the country rather than for people always to go back to the country of origin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-24", "file": "debates2002-04-24.xml", "sha256": "33501364dcb3cf40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": " hear it, but let me say this. He prides himself on being blunt-spoken and on having no truck with political correctness, but he needs to be careful in his use of language regarding this matter. There is a danger that by being the blunt Yorkshireman and trying to conciliate white people's fears he strays into using language that many people find offensive. I say that in the most comradely fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-24", "file": "debates2002-04-24.xml", "sha256": "33501364dcb3cf40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "t delays were avoided. When will the centres be ready? Will it take one year, two years or more? Many of us have concerns about the detention, particularly in prison, of asylum applicants who do not commit a crime. Surely the appropriate time for detention is in a removal centre at the end of the asylum process prior to removal from this country and only when there is a serious risk of absconding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-24.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurrah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The business for next week will be: Monday 29 April —Second Reading of the Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [ Lords ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "rds ]. Wednesday 8 May —Progress on consideration in Committee of the Finance Bill. Thursday 9 May —Conclusion of consideration in Committee of the Finance Bill. Friday 10 May —Private Members' Bills. The House will wish to know that subject to the progress of business, it is envisaged that the House will rise for the Whitsun recess on Friday 24 May and return on Monday 10 June .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Indeed. Too much time spent reading The Sun may distract one from noticing what is being said by the Government. The commitment given in February was that we will stabilise street crime in London within a six-month period, by September, and will thereafter proceed to reverse the increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "What is new is that we have it in writing. The advice continues: \"Don't be afraid to exaggerate. For example, responses to surveys . . . are always 'massive'. . . Oppose all service cuts . . . why court the unpopularity that goes with . . . responsibility\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am always open to invitations to recall Parliament during the Tory party conference, and we shall reflect on that request as the conference coincides with the turn of the month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "able attention at education questions earlier this morning—and focuses on the differentials between funding for colleges and sixth forms in schools. Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is unique in the public services to have such a large differential in salaries and per capita funding between two areas doing essentially the same job? Will he find time for an early debate on the subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.479.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right about that.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "dleman, so the Government could have gone straight to that Danish company and saved the taxpayer a lot of money. Can we have a debate, so that the Government can answer the allegation that they are for sale to the highest bidder? When the right hon. Gentleman replies, will he not go on about the Tories, because people are not interested in what the last Tory Government did in the previous century?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "of supporting sub-optimal public sector-led investment that gets a rate of return to which the private sector would never respond. If the hon. Lady is saying that Africa and other regions in which the CDC operates can get investment only at that level, she is suggesting that the private sector will never invest in those countries and they will be marginalised from the globalising economy for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "Again, we are not at the stage of the parliamentary cycle when we have formulated our full plans for the future of international development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "d to be called creative accounting in local government—is going on. I think that we are being told that more is being done than is actually happening, and that the overseas aid increase is not as big as it seems because other considerations are being taken into account. As the Secretary of State knows, I would defend her and the Department to the death if necessary for the work that they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-25", "file": "debates2002-04-25.xml", "sha256": "d4670a016289c87b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "International Development", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "The Minister should bear it in mind that figures given as percentages often have a lot do with the state of the economy rather than the amounts donated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-25.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-26", "file": "debates2002-04-26.xml", "sha256": "2ac0a098a9ef551f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Local Communities", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "has launched a city guardian initiative to reduce crime, antisocial behaviour and breaches of public safety. Adequate street lighting is crucial to the fight against crime, particularly theft and assault. Conservative councils spend more on street lighting; they spend £66 a year per street light compared with £61 in Labour councils and only £60 in Liberal Democrat councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-26", "file": "debates2002-04-26.xml", "sha256": "2ac0a098a9ef551f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.585.4", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Local Communities", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "I made no derogatory remarks about Croydon whatsoever. The hon. Member for Croydon, Central (Geraint Davies) just does not listen. I simply said that the Prime Minister had made a speech in Croydon; I made no remarks about urban decay in Croydon itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.585.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-26", "file": "debates2002-04-26.xml", "sha256": "2ac0a098a9ef551f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.586.3", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Local Communities", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "I am happy to give the figures for Liberal Democrat councils, which I omitted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.586.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-26", "file": "debates2002-04-26.xml", "sha256": "2ac0a098a9ef551f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.588.4", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Local Communities", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Poll taxes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "No, I have only a limited amount of time and I want to press on. I am moving on to toll taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.588.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-26", "file": "debates2002-04-26.xml", "sha256": "2ac0a098a9ef551f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Local Communities", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "abour areas tended to fall into lower council tax bands and this was why the average council tax was lower. . . The proper way to judge the figures was to compare like with like—Band D figures, council by council\". He went on to state that Labour's claim \"is as misleading as it ever was . . . On this issue, Labour is wrong and Tories are right.\" That is a quote from The Sunday Times in 1995.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-26.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I wish that the hon. Gentleman would listen to answers. This is not a savings decision. The decision to upgrade the GR variant of the Harrier to the GR9 has been made on the balance of investment, and it will give us an offensive strike capability that is wholly consistent with the SDR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.661.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Israel", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I understand what the European Parliament has done, but it is not a decision-making body; it expresses points of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "Before the Secretary of State moves on to his next point, I want to ask about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "f the articles of the European convention on human rights, which he must have considered, and which he says are not affected by this legislation. Did he listen to, or read a transcript of a recent edition of the Radio 4 programme \"Unreliable Evidence\", in which an American supreme court judge said that the Bill would be struck down under United States law, and in which an English High Court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "l liberty about which the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) was so concerned. As my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley (Judy Mallaber) said, we are trying not to restrict any individual but to prevent fat-cat bosses in the industry from persuading people to start or to continue smoking. That is all that we are talking about. We do not want to stop Tom, Dick or Harry, but Ken and his mates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Bailey", "preceding_text": "everyone else. Tobacco advertising billboards convey the impression that smoking is a normal part of life. It is, for 28 per cent. of the public, but most people do not want it to be. Even some of those who make up that percentage do not want to smoke. By banning adverts, we remove an element of the social geography that conveys that smoking is normal. The Bill alone will not be hugely successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Flook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Flook", "preceding_text": "As I have said, ASH thinks that advertising encourages children to smoke. The cigarette advertising companies have said that they will not advertise to those children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.748.3", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Flook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Flook", "preceding_text": "id earlier, at the age of 16 it is possible to marry—to choose the person with whom you will live for the rest of your life. Should it not be possible for people to decide voluntarily at that age whether to smoke? Labour Members often quote statistics, but one fact we have not heard is that it is possible to smoke until the age of 30, then give up and suffer no long-term health consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-29", "file": "debates2002-04-29.xml", "sha256": "410ae367dec6b073", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to participate in the debate. Like many Conservative Members, I wish to register my own interest: when I was younger than 16, I was a smoker. To this day, I have never admitted it to my family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-29.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "thing but a cloud of words about the west coast rail link north of the border. Will she clarify what will happen to it? Will she also estimate the effect on the recovery of the tourist industry in Scotland of the increase in national insurance, which is nothing but a tax on jobs? The right hon. Lady mentioned golf. Will she give her view of Visit Scotland's inability to promote deerstalking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.797.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "ADVOCATE-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "ted: \"The Advocate-General's post is a crucial part of the devolution settlement . . . The . . . post is likely to continue and become a valued part of the UK constitution.\" If she agrees with that, does she also agree that a five-minute Question Time is complete nonsense and does not allow her to be held responsible for the discharge of her duties? Can we have a Question Time of 15 or 30 minutes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.797.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman could profitably spend some time reading Sir Robin Auld's report in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PRIVY COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "hich he obviously feels powerfully. I shall have an opportunity to discuss the matter with the Liaison Committee when I visit it next week, and I hope that on that occasion we can understand each other and see whether there is a way forward. I remind the hon. Gentleman and the House that there are already two Select Committees of 17 members and that they have traditionally been of that size—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "PRIVY COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "It is very kind of my hon. Friend to remind me of the debate in the House; I assure him that every moment of it is engraved on my memory. I was conscious that the majority of Members taking part in the debate wanted a higher democratic element in the new second Chamber. Of course a period of reflection must come to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am grateful for this opportunity to draw further attention to the strength of feeling in Herefordshire about the lack of hospital beds and to give credit to the hon. Member for Hereford (Mr. Keetch) for his part in helping me with this very serious issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.812.5", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Hereford (Mr. Keetch) and I would have been in the Chamber when the hon. Member for Leominster (Mr. Wiggin) presented his petition if he had done what he promised and told us when he was going to present it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.812.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "peared lower than if the credits had been treated as public expenditure, in accordance with international accounting convention. For years, Ministers have been stubbornly insisting that they are right and all their critics are wrong. A delicious irony is therefore to be found by fiscal anoraks who peruse box C2 of the Red Book, which illuminatingly states: \"The Government . . . has decided\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "s 70 per cent. of their income. It is reasonable for them to rely on the guarantee given by this country 30 years ago when we joined the European Economic Community that their tax sovereignty was untouchable. For the Government to contemplate wrecking the economies of those dependencies is both financially short-sighted and, if I may say so, the most objectionable form of Executive bullying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.830.3", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not being too pessimistic, but he might be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.832.7", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that there is provision for minority reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.832.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "No. Interestingly, Labour's key policy changes after the last election and the 1997 election were based on Liberal Democrat manifesto commitments made in the campaigns. In 1997, in order to move away from the Conservative policies of boom and bust and failed economic management, the Labour Government rightly adopted our policy of establishing an independent central bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.846.5", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "our ability to understand net migration. We do not have the figures, yet the Government base their increase in growth forecast on that. They may be right; perhaps we will achieve that underlying growth, but they need a slightly better analysis in order to convince us. We hope that they are right. It will be a long summer in the Finance Bill Standing Committee. We will have some long debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.846.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "roperly, not thrown into a black hole. I have made that point to the Chancellor and others. As a Scottish MP, and one who represents a constituency that has whisky interests—it is not awash with whisky, but we have some whisky plants—I have lobbied the Chancellor, along with my colleagues, not to adopt the strip stamp for whisky. I do not see any of my colleagues in their places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "s been handled. The Government will live to regret the fact that they have missed out on the key economic lesson of the past 50 or 60 years: that it is competitive, decentralised markets, not monopolistic, tax-financed institutions, which deliver for consumers. The NHS is not about a set of buildings or a set of staff. It is about a set of values. It is about being free at the point of need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "est (Kevin Brennan), for Dagenham (Jon Cruddas) and for Dundee, East (Mr. Luke). I also hope to deal with points made by the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr. Davey) , the right hon. Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) and the hon. Members for Sutton Coldfield (Mr. Mitchell), for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. Field), for Angus (Mr. Weir), for Fareham (Mr. Hoban) and for Yeovil (Mr. Laws).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.909.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-04-30", "file": "debates2002-04-30.xml", "sha256": "0522b2f584a5c646", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "DRAFT COMMUNICATIONS BILL (JOINT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "wer— (i) to send for persons, papers and records; (ii) to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House; (iii) to report from time to time; (iv) to appoint specialist advisers; (v) to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom; and That Paul Farrelly, Mr. John Grogan, Nick Harvey, Miss Anne McIntosh, Anne Picking and Brian White be members of the Committee.— [Mr. Woolas.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-04-30.921.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-01", "file": "debates2002-05-01.xml", "sha256": "e4862a22529c2b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As I just said to the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith) , when we have a firm proposal, we will put it forward for consideration. However, as I said, we are examining the matter. What is more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-01", "file": "debates2002-05-01.xml", "sha256": "e4862a22529c2b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We won!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall his Deputy saying just days after the 1997 election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-01", "file": "debates2002-05-01.xml", "sha256": "e4862a22529c2b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Ways and Means — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "I take it from those comments that the hon. Gentleman means that, having talked to his constituents in Solihull, he will support us if the extra money goes into the national health service and raises standards as we propose. Were he to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-01", "file": "debates2002-05-01.xml", "sha256": "e4862a22529c2b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Ways and Means — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "No, we do not accept that. The hon. Gentleman must accept that if we raised the money primarily through income tax, many pensioners on fixed incomes would have to pay more, and it would deter saving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-01", "file": "debates2002-05-01.xml", "sha256": "e4862a22529c2b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Ways and Means — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs to listen to what businesses have been saying in the past week about the Budget. They have been scathing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-01", "file": "debates2002-05-01.xml", "sha256": "e4862a22529c2b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Ways and Means — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "That was very impressive, but I shall try to keep to the subject. The rise in national insurance contributions is a redistributive measure. There is no doubt about that. Some Labour candidates have to say \"redistribution\" in a lower voice than they may have used in previous years, but I am delighted to see my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary nodding when I describe the Budget as redistributive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-01", "file": "debates2002-05-01.xml", "sha256": "e4862a22529c2b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Ways and Means — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Mann", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"On the Budget?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Mann", "preceding_text": " Downs (Mr. Flight) is called the Flight Site, but, unfortunately, it crashed repeatedly, so I could not judge his views. Luckily, however, the website of the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) was available. Unfortunately, I could find no comment on the Budget, health, taxation or national insurance contributions, but there was a questionnaire that his voters could use for giving feedback.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-01", "file": "debates2002-05-01.xml", "sha256": "e4862a22529c2b74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Draft Communications Bill (Joint Committee)", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ake progress on this matter, and to get the Joint Committee under way soon, so that it can report in time to have a Bill ready to go when we meet for the next Session. If the right hon. Gentleman will pardon me for saying so, I warmly welcome the support he gave in his speech for the principle of proportionality. I look forward to his commitment to proportional representation at the future debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-01.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1049.2", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The business of the House for next week is as follows: Monday 6 May The House will not be sitting on the bank holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1049.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "nt for Culture, Media and Sport on trying hard to stick to the rules. That is the good news. Unfortunately, not all Departments took that admirable attitude. Is the Leader of the House intending to have discussions with the Cabinet Secretary, and perhaps even with the Prime Minister, about other colleagues who were more cavalier with the rules? I do not want to pick out anyone in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "merged from an unbalanced, badly attended meeting. However, I should have thought that if he were seriously concerned that occasionally an hon. Member will have a family duty to perform and would therefore be unable to attend a meeting, he would support our proposal for a larger membership, to make sure that when one or two Members went missing it did not result in such a disproportionate outcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Betty Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Betty Williams", "preceding_text": " place over the Easter weekend in which activists from the Cymuned group stood on the cob in Porthmadog. It did not affect my constituency directly, but it affected the constituencies of the hon. Members for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) and for Caernarfon (Hywel Williams). I would hope that they would join me in condemning such actions, which will affect the livelihood of their constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "ther competing bids for today's subject. We should build on the report. In parts, it is a fairly miserable report, given that, of all the United Kingdom's constituent parts, Wales comes fourth out of four in terms of recognition. We are mostly known for things such as the Princess of Wales and the Prince of Wales. News bulletins in the United States of America used to refer to them as the Waleses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1074.4", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "s. They spend money at bed and breakfasts and hotels and in restaurants and cafés. It is important that we make certain that everyone in England knows they will get a good royal welcome when they come to Wales. We know what Wales has to offer historically. The Secretary of State spoke about the beauty of Wales. Its coastline is superb, from the Gower peninsula right up to Aberystwyth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1074.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": "outh-east of England, where tourists may rely on paying multiples of the prices that they would pay in Wales for transport, accommodation, food and entry to attractions. Essentially, tourists could be ripped off in the south-east whereas they could get much better value for their dollar or mark—or their euro, now—in north Wales. I am sorry, in Wales generally; that was a Freudian slip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "This is exactly the new, positive approach to inclusive politics that I referred to in my speech on St. David's day. Having had sharp words only a few weeks ago, the hon. Gentleman and I are now speaking and marching as one to the resonant sound of the performing arts in Cardiff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "ers may be surprised to learn that Wales has the oldest space port in the world. Aberporth was founded in 1939 when the secret rocket propulsion group was evacuated from Fort Halsted near London. It operated throughout the war and has been operating ever since. It represents an enormous international opportunity for Wales to play a meaningful role in the developing environment of space technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": " Ceredigion (Mr. Thomas) popped in and out of the debate regularly. Neither the hon. Member for Caerphilly nor one single member of the Welsh parliamentary Labour party bothered to turn up to the debate on UK-Japanese relations on 11 April in Westminster Hall, despite many Labour Members having important Japanese concerns in their constituency. Of course, it was a Thursday—time to skive off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1116.5", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "chools not to accept too many non-Welsh-speaking children. That includes my own daughter, who attends a Welsh-speaking school. In fact, it was the first Welsh-speaking school in the English language community in Wales, and I attended its 50-year celebration two years ago. In that school, 85 per cent. of the children are from families whose mother tongue is English, and it is doing a fantastic job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1116.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "d the multicultural arts centre for Wales. I could go on, but I do not have the time. We have a major cultural infrastructure in our capital city, and we can build on it. Cardiff also has an outstanding track record of hosting major international sporting, cultural and political events, including the European summits, the FA cup, the rugby world cup and, indeed, the Labour party spring conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Well done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "out his constituency as well as Estonia. I am sure that he will not be described as the hon. Member for Estonia for long after today. The hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) spoke about Wales's wider role in human rights. She made an extremely interesting and important contribution. The hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) —I hope that I have pronounced it correctly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-02", "file": "debates2002-05-02.xml", "sha256": "d6c8fae8152fde5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Wales in the World", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "the tourism industry and the whole of Wales. Initial indications are that we are overcoming those problems and that tourists are returning. In the next few days, I will write to him about a number of other matters that he raised. The hon. Gentleman mentioned that the Secretary of State and I have made just one trade mission in 22 months. That is true. Our visit to the Czech Republic was a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-02.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Wembley Stadium", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "ich it expected to have met the four tests that formed the condition for Government support for the project. As I have outlined to the House this afternoon, in my judgment, and on the basis of the evidence that has been made available to me, it is clear that the FA has made good progress on at least three of the tests. The outstanding matter relates to the financing of the project, on which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.27.4", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Wembley Stadium", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "end's decision. The English national stadium has to be at Wembley. It would be absolutely crazy of my right hon. Friend to pull the plug on a deal that looks as though it is almost complete. Let me say to my hon. Friends who represent constituencies in Birmingham and the west midlands that I am not opposed to Birmingham. My family comes from Birmingham; I used to go on holiday in Birmingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.27.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Wembley Stadium", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Stadium!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that Wembley holds a special place in the hearts and minds of football fans internationally? Does she agree that it is only too appropriate that the Government should bring the national football station—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Draft Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "ly to the BBC. I have outlined the new shape of regulation at tier three where, arguably, the BBC will be subject to much tougher regulation because of the regular monthly vigilance of the governors, whereas the other broadcasters will be subject to post hoc regulation by Ofcom against their statement of programme policy. The BBC will be accountable to Ofcom for all its commercial standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's support for CSOs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.60.7", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "To say that there could never be a point in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.60.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "e is a great danger to our democracy lurking in that proposition. I do not say that the current Government would wish to abuse that power; they would not. I do not say that an immediately future Government would be likely to abuse it; they would not. But some day, people would look back at that clause and identify it as the moment when we had begun to slip into tyranny. That is too great a danger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "mself the question, and if the Home Secretary can be contacted, I urge him to ask himself the question—whether there is the slightest shred of evidence that, of all the bodies in Britain, the Home Office is the one most able to bring about the efficient deployment of anything. This is the Home Office that has created an asylum system which, by the Home Secretary's own admission, is in chaos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "We will, in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " get CSOs on to the streets quickly, without undergoing prolonged training. The hon. Gentleman misses another point. The advantage to the Treasury is that CSOs will be cheaper; they will not be paid as much as constables. That is another reason for the Government's wish to proceed with them. The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but the Home Secretary has admitted it. He said that they were cheaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I find that argument extraordinary because earlier the Minister rightly defended traffic wardens. He defended them against nobody because no one opposes them. According to the hon. Gentleman's argument, traffic wardens would be useless, yet they are not. We perceive CSOs and accredited officers as useful. However, the system whereby traffic wardens impose fixed penalty notices works well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": ", there were 29,992 specials, whereas on 30 December 2001 , there were only 12,068. That is a fall of more than 50 per cent. in the numbers of specials over that period. In fact, there has been a fall of 7,000 since the Government came to power in 1997. I am not making a party point, as the figure was dropping under the previous Conservative Government. Nothing has been done to arrest the decline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.80.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "I quoted from a letter from the chief constable of Hampshire, who is the chief constable for the constituency of the Minister for Policing, Crime Reduction and Community Safety. The chief constable pointed out that his officers felt that they had been subject to a campaign of denigration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-07", "file": "debates2002-05-07.xml", "sha256": "0a2ea681c4160263", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "HOLLANDS WOOD CAMPSITE", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "It is customary to begin an Adjournment debate by saying how fortunate one is to have secured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-07.128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that the Conservative party was to blame as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "t, is doing its best to regenerate our south Wales valleys. In his constituency, for example, there have been 18 new inward investment projects, creating more than 1,000 jobs and safeguarding more than 100 jobs. The unemployment rate in his constituency has dropped, which is part of the general picture in Wales and means that unemployment in Wales is the lowest that it has been for 27 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.142.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I recently met members of my local mountain rescue teams. This year is the International Year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.148.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "It would be most unwise, in considering this question, to suggest that small regional breweries are likely to go out of business as a result of anything that this Government have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "em of abandoned vehicles. We recognise that the Government have taken action and that the clause is part of the strategy for dealing with the problem. My constituency of Kingston and Surbiton has experienced an epidemic of abandoned vehicles, which has caused huge problems for many residents. They are literally fed up of contacting the council or the DVLA and getting nowhere. I have many examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "he next one, two or three years are funded? It is fine if he supports the Government's approach or our approach, but if he does not support either because he does not support a tax-funded NHS, he needs to say how the money would be found now. If he cannot, the implication is that there would be cuts to the health service in every constituency up and down the country. He has to have an alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ash;I am very much against those procedures—which means that one has to try to make one's point in other ways, which is what we did. The Paymaster General therefore does not have a strong case. The Paymaster General and the Financial Secretary share an antipathy to \"Focus\" newsletters, which have been effective in Brent and Bristol, where Liberal Democrats made net gains last Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "d will be better off as a result of the improved quality of the health service when the investment is made. Single people aged 25 or over working 35 hours a week on a minimum wage are better off and will have access to improved public services. Because of the tax and benefit reforms that we have made since 1997, the poorest fifth of families will on average be £2,400 a week better off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "n giving the answer, because I do not want to mislead the Committee on that matter, and I will check carefully whether I have answered the hon. Gentleman correctly. The working tax credit, the child tax credit and the pension credit, linked to the minimum income guarantee for pensioners, the £200 a year allowance for heating and the changes that we have made to indexation for over-65s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman referred specifically to VAT. I do not mind debating the record of his Government or scrutinising it, but I do not recall that they ever made an assessment of the problems of VAT fraud. I certainly remember that they got their forecasts wrong; there was one year when £6 billion of VAT receipts disappeared and could not be accounted for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.237.6", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "I will come to the UK interest, but it is important to raise the matter, partly for the reason that my hon. Friend has mentioned and partly because in some senses the British dependencies are part of British interests. If, as a result of clause 88, we end up damaging our own self-interest, that will not be particularly sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.237.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-08", "file": "debates2002-05-08.xml", "sha256": "201144fdd010c9d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "roving. The regulations will tackle harmful tax competition and predatory tax regimes that seek to undermine legitimate fair tax competition; they have nothing to do with money laundering. I call on every Member to vote for the best economic interests of the United Kingdom, to defend its tax base, to support the clause and to reject the amendment because it would deny us those opportunities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-08.243.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The one thing that our Budgets have not been is what the Conservative Budgets were—totally regressive. [Interruption.] Let me tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman, so that he can say what the Conservative party position is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The one thing that our Budgets have not been is what the Conservative Budgets were—totally regressive. [Interruption.] Let me tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman, so that he can say what the Conservative party position is— [Interruption.] —that first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.257.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Once again, the hon. Gentleman, who is also a member of the Treasury Committee, does not conduct his research properly, despite the fact that he was a political adviser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.278.2", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Regional Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "e and given to the regions, but we must recognise that there are differing needs. In the south-east, for example, the needs of the Kent coastal towns are quite different from those of the Thames valley. Will people in Falmouth really want decisions affecting their lives to be taken in Bristol? Will people in Sunderland want Newcastle to rule their lives? We also learn from today's statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Regional Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " more Departments are actively involved in them. Furthermore, they were an idea of the previous Administration, which I thought was excellent. My only disagreement is this: if they make recommendations to Ministers, who debate with Members of Parliament here, why cannot they have a say about the priorities of their areas? That can be achieved effectively only by an elected regional assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.287.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Regional Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He was not listening.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should be putting questions to the Deputy Prime Minister not about the Conservative party but about the policies of the Government. I think that the Deputy Prime Minister has got the drift of the hon. Gentleman's case, and perhaps he can try to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Regional Government White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not in the south-east.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ere either will or will not be a referendum. At the end of the day, the judgment will be whether the people in a region want an assembly. I have heard much from Conservative Members that such assemblies are not wanted in the regions and we can all quote stories about whether they are or are not wanted. However, a BBC poll says that two thirds of the population are in favour of regional government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.289.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "recisely why the agreed statement with Mr. Sixsmith explicitly says that any misunderstanding over his resignation was in good faith. While these discussions about the employment status of an individual civil servant have been taking place, Ministers in my Department have not been diverted from the real tasks that face us and the people of our country. Those tasks are to rebuild communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.294.6", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "That task is to rebuild communities and give new hope to neighbourhoods. That is why, since my oral statement on 26 February , we have introduced new laws to get rid of abandoned cars; introduced measures to stop the scandal of children in bed-and-breakfast accommodation; set up nine projects to tackle low-demand and abandoned housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.294.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The ministerial code is absolutely clear: a Minister who knowingly misleads the House should tender his resignation. That is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Martin Sixsmith", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "The ministerial code is absolutely clear: a Minister who knowingly misleads the House should tender his resignation. That is absolutely right. [Interruption.] Opposition Members who are shouting should look at my statement. I will say this again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.300.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-09", "file": "debates2002-05-09.xml", "sha256": "c502cf220987f46c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.316.3", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I heard what my hon. Friend said with interest. I am very pleased that the business statement has given her the opportunity to complete the intervention that she attempted earlier this afternoon. I certainly take a dim view of the conduct in local government that she describes, and I very much hope that the electors of Lincolnshire will find a happier and better outcome in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-09.316.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-13", "file": "debates2002-05-13.xml", "sha256": "31fff87175d8682a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.548.5", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " 28 per cent. in real terms, there has been a 25 per cent. increase in the average waiting time for an out-patient appointment. That is the reality; it may not seem natural and might not have been expected, but it is the consequence of the mismanagement of our national health service and the defects of the status quo that reigns within it. There are now more bureaucrats than beds in the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.548.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-13", "file": "debates2002-05-13.xml", "sha256": "31fff87175d8682a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.554.7", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has the misfortune of being patently incapable of quoting and of facing an author of the document, my hon. Friend the Member for Truro and St. Austell. If the hon. Gentleman has the courage to provide the quote, we can refute his words. We have been clear about the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.554.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-13", "file": "debates2002-05-13.xml", "sha256": "31fff87175d8682a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.556.5", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "In the alternative Budget, we made it very clear that we would freeze prescription charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-13", "file": "debates2002-05-13.xml", "sha256": "31fff87175d8682a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "In a moment. What the Wanless report does not show is that between 1997 and 1999, according to the Library, there were real-terms cuts made under Tory spending plans, imposed by the Government on the most vulnerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-13", "file": "debates2002-05-13.xml", "sha256": "31fff87175d8682a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "stern democracy and every emerging democracy in other parts of the world that we can deliver health care through general taxation that meets people's needs without forcing them to pay from their own pockets, without making the sick pay for being sick. We do not have to go down that route. The Labour Government in the United Kingdom are showing the world one of the most spectacular success stories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-13", "file": "debates2002-05-13.xml", "sha256": "31fff87175d8682a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.604.0", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "100 patients were so dissatisfied that they considered making a formal complaint. This was true for only ten of every 100 patients of the lower-budget, longer-waiting list English NHS.\" That is what is happening in Scotland, and that is what will happen in England if we have more expenditure without reforms. The Government have been presiding over an NHS that is riddled with fraud and waste—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-13", "file": "debates2002-05-13.xml", "sha256": "31fff87175d8682a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "han £18,000 a year will be worse off. The new tax credit system ensures that lower earners will still have an incentive to take jobs and increase their earnings. Together with the freezing of the income tax personal allowances, the changes allow for a substantial increase in investment in the NHS. There are no broken promises. The Government promised not to raise the basic or top rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-13.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-14", "file": "debates2002-05-14.xml", "sha256": "3bae02e5ab496359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I am happy to congratulate any country that enjoys a victory in that contest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-14", "file": "debates2002-05-14.xml", "sha256": "3bae02e5ab496359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.652.6", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ng agreed to act as convener of the Committee of Nomination. In our report, we identified as the criteria for the Committee of Nomination that its members should have \"a proven ability to perform with impartiality and a broad knowledge of the strengths and special interests of back-benchers.\" No one will better fulfil those criteria than the team of Chairs whom we elect to oversee our proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.652.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-14", "file": "debates2002-05-14.xml", "sha256": "3bae02e5ab496359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-14", "file": "debates2002-05-14.xml", "sha256": "3bae02e5ab496359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "m that is worth trying, and I agree with that. It appears, however, that in seeking to provide a Committee of Nomination to remove the controversy from nomination of Select Committees, I have not removed the controversy from the nomination of the Committee of Nomination. I understand the force of view of those who argue that the formula appears to reward gravity rather than to encourage freshness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-14", "file": "debates2002-05-14.xml", "sha256": "3bae02e5ab496359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I understand that, apart from members of the Executive, those who receive a salary are: members of the Speaker's team, the Leader of the official Opposition and, I believe, the Opposition Chief Whip and the Opposition pairing Whip. It is for every hon. Member to consider whether that constitutes the most rational choice of priorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-14", "file": "debates2002-05-14.xml", "sha256": "3bae02e5ab496359", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.720.0", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for Government Whips to stand outside the Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-14.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.766.7", "colnum": "766", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Helen Southworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Southworth", "preceding_text": "d its first anniversary? I have been privileged to join them in the past 12 months and it has been a lot of fun, but it is fun that underpins a serious aim—to promote the physical, social and intellectual well-being of babies and young children in a disadvantaged part of my constituency. It is breaking the cycle of disadvantage and giving them opportunities to flourish at home and at school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.766.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.766.7", "colnum": "766", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Helen Southworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Southworth", "preceding_text": "that underpins a serious aim—to promote the physical, social and intellectual well-being of babies and young children in a disadvantaged part of my constituency. It is breaking the cycle of disadvantage and giving them opportunities to flourish at home and at school. [Interruption.] Will my right hon. Friend make sure that many more children have the opportunity to have a sure start in life?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.766.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What I can tell the right hon. Gentleman is that as a result of our measures, crime has fallen whereas it doubled under the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I agree that that is a serious issue, and that is why we are making it quite clear to Sinn Fein, and to any paramilitary organisations, that such behaviour is unacceptable. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "National Cancer", "cue_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "preceding_text": "establish priority for the treatment of cancer in the allocation of resources within the national health service. Right hon. and hon. Members could reasonably ask why there is a need for such a Bill, given the Government's positive moves in national health service and cancer services funding since May 1997. Indeed, there are those who argue that we can sit back and wait for it all to happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Post Office Closures", "cue_speaker": "Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Page", "preceding_text": " In that spirit of generosity, which will not last long, may I turn to the Minister for E-Commerce and Competitiveness and even to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry? I do not blame the right hon. Lady for the mess that Consignia is facing—it is not the Government's fault. In politics, as we know, the guilty party often moves on and someone else is left to sort out the mess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Post Office Closures", "cue_speaker": "Richard Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Page", "preceding_text": "lity for the Post Office, said: \"The terms of reference are unequivocal. The Post Office will remain in the public sector\".—[ Official Report , 14 May 1998; Vol. 312, c. 505 .] My hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne says, however, that there were negotiations to try to do a share swap deal with the Dutch post office. If that is trying to remain in the public service, I am a Dutchman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Post Office Closures", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "Postcomm consultation on deregulation of letter post—a subject that has exercised many of my constituents and causes grave concern throughout Orkney and Shetland. In March, I presented at Downing street a petition bearing some 5,000 signatures; since that time, a further 1,000 signatures have been added. I have an electorate of 34,000, so about 17 per cent. of my electorate were represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.829.0", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Post Office Closures", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Liberal Democrats have left me only three minutes to respond to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Post Office Closures", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e prevents me from discussing that issue. In a witty and incisive contribution—in fact, it was one of the best speeches of this year—my hon. Friend the Member for Conwy (Mrs. Williams) put the best case yet for strengthening the Post Office's management team. I can assure her that we have done just that. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Post Office Closures", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Conversations are taking place throughout the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Johannesburg Summit", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "than waiting for an Opposition party to raise the issue. Where is the big, distinctive idea that the United Kingdom should take to the summit? May I suggest to the Minister and the House that we are not the only people who need answers? If the Prime Minister were here, I would tell him that he needs answers. He is the guy who will be standing up for the United Kingdom at Johannesburg in September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-15", "file": "debates2002-05-15.xml", "sha256": "f112445423b1d35a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "MAGISTRATES COURTS (WILTSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "recently requested a meeting with me, and in my response I will point out that I am happy to meet all interested parties separately to discuss the matter in detail. If the hon. Gentleman wants to discuss these issues seriously—unfortunately, for reasons of time I have been unable to address several of them this evening—I am happy to invite him to the meeting, or to meet him separately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-15.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-16", "file": "debates2002-05-16.xml", "sha256": "43116223b6ef78d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "s. They all need to be involved in developing policy. It is not one or the other; we can do far better than in the past in reconciling interests. The hon. Gentleman also asked about the extent of the review. It does not cover our territorial waters out only to 12 miles but to 200 miles. We propose to extend and apply the habitats directive to that distance. Britain is the first country to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.899.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-16", "file": "debates2002-05-16.xml", "sha256": "43116223b6ef78d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "onage, somewhat perversely on Tuesday night the House voted to give them even more? Will he consider with the Modernisation Committee the specific proposition that the House rejected on Tuesday to see whether it might be amended to reflect the concern of the House? Will he then bring a fresh proposition back to the House, so that we can move away from the present position, which is unsatisfactory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-16", "file": "debates2002-05-16.xml", "sha256": "43116223b6ef78d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ement, and I assure him that the best possible medical and prevention advice has been made available and acted on. As for the defence medical services, I have spoken a number of times in the House about the difficulties that we inherited with regard to that vital contribution to our armed forces. We are making determined efforts to improve the position—which indeed already has been improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-16", "file": "debates2002-05-16.xml", "sha256": "43116223b6ef78d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "ing to the remainder of Part 3, amendments relating to Clauses Nos. 101 to 104, 126, Schedules Nos. 3, 4 and 5, Clauses Nos. 127 to 134, Schedule No. 6, Clauses Nos. 135 to 137, remaining new Clauses, new Schedules and remaining proceedings on consideration Four hours after the commencement of proceedings on the Bill. I hope that I shall not disappoint the House, as I rose only to move the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-16", "file": "debates2002-05-16.xml", "sha256": "43116223b6ef78d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "That is a legitimate point, which I shall come to in a moment. We should applaud the Secretary of State for Health's personal support for these measures, but we look forward to a time when free votes are offered across the board on genuine points of principle or ethics, and when Governments accept accountability for children's welfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-16", "file": "debates2002-05-16.xml", "sha256": "43116223b6ef78d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "biting couples want to adopt? The British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering claims that \"some adoption agencies process an adoption as if it is by a single person when in fact the person is cohabiting.\" That organisation commissioned Cardiff university to carry out a study of almost 2,000 adoptions, in which it \"did not record any adoptions by a cohabiting couple.\" I am afraid that any evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-16", "file": "debates2002-05-16.xml", "sha256": "43116223b6ef78d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "We now have all of 44 minutes in which to debate three important amendments and two new clauses tabled by myself and my right hon. and hon. Friends, together with a handful of Government amendments. The amendments and new clauses in our name are on important subjects. They would provide full information to prospective adopters, giving rights of information to those involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-16.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-20", "file": "debates2002-05-20.xml", "sha256": "335294d531479314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-20.6.5", "colnum": "6", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ly by refusing to hand over information. As a result of powers that we took in the child support legislation passed two years ago, it is now possible for the CSA to get information from the Inland Revenue so that individuals cannot play one part of the state off against another. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing both those cases to the attention of my noble Friend, Baroness Hollis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-20.6.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-20", "file": "debates2002-05-20.xml", "sha256": "335294d531479314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-20.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": " the pensions industry on whether there should be compulsion. Opposition Members have raised the issue in debates, as have my hon. Friends occasionally. The Government have no plans to make it compulsory for employers to contribute to their work force's stakeholder pensions. In respect of living longer,I agree with my hon. Friend that it is entirely a good thing. Perhaps we should make that clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-20.8.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-20", "file": "debates2002-05-20.xml", "sha256": "335294d531479314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-20.73.5", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "ou did not notice either, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that amendment No. 322 was being discussed. May we return to amendment No. 280, which I think appeared at the beginning of the Minister's tour d'horizon? There is a certain irony in a group of amendments described as minor drafting and transitional measures, given that amendment No. 280 would replace the words \"transitional\" with the word \"transitory\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-20.73.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-20", "file": "debates2002-05-20.xml", "sha256": "335294d531479314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-20.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "f the Bill. I was quite annoyed, but I got even angrier when he kindly told me to calm down. He has also made a contribution, and no one can deny the genuineness of his belief in adoption as a means to provide a better future for children. He has consistently spoken on that issue, and although we hold differing views on several matters, I take my hat off to him: he has shown commitment throughout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-20.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "TRANSPORT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "costs involved in reorganisation. The only pointer that I can think of for his figures is the extraordinary waste of time and money during the Banham review, which his Government set up in the 1990s and which created exactly the climate of chaos and confusion in local government that we are determined not to replicate. It is pretty rich of the Conservatives, who have an extraordinary record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ctly the opposite message. They were instructing head teachers to exclude fewer pupils. The confusion does not only date back four years. If the Secretary of State had made an honest U-turn, we would have applauded it, because today's policy is better than yesterday's policy. Unfortunately for the Government, I have taken the trouble to read the amendment that they have tabled to our motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "per cent. in inspected secondary schools. Those are not abstract figures on the number of children missing school. Truancy Call, a charity that tries to deal with the problem of truancy, estimates that, on a typical school day, 50,000 children are truanting, their life chances disappearing. Most schools, it says, do not have the time or resources to undertake first-day contact with those children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "h they have failed is that of making every day at school relevant to every pupil. If pupils think that nothing that they do at school will be relevant, useful or interesting, they will start bunking off. Clearly, the long-term policy must be to reduce the number of regular truants to the hard core. There will always be a hard core, but we need to reduce truancy so that only that hard core remains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " core. There will always be a hard core, but we need to reduce truancy so that only that hard core remains. [Interruption.] I am glad that Government Front Benchers agree; perhaps they will adopt the policy that I am about to put to them. The first and most widespread thing that the Government should do is make a radical improvement in the provision of vocational education in our education system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " to a radical change in anything, I suggest that he reads it. The first and most important radical change that should be made is that of rewriting the Green Paper in English, instead of the current jargon. The Green Paper is not remotely adequate to cope with the crisis in vocational education. The Government do not need Green Papers; they need to do what we do and learn from some other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "d up today and applauded the fact that, after six years of a Labour Government working with the education service, the percentage of pupils from working-class families reaching the expected standard in English has risen from 34 to 58 per cent. Which is the most improved borough in England, in terms of literacy and numeracy? It is Tower Hamlets. The next most improved boroughs are Darlington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "I was interested to hear that the hon. Member for Ashford has decided that the head teacher will have that power. That needs a lot of thinking about. With respect, perhaps it would be better if I answered that question towards the end of my speech. This is a serious issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "I despair. When there is full-time education for excluded pupils in every local education authority in September, it does not matter whether it is provided by the Tories, Labour or Liberal Democrats. A Government have a responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "t we should allow ourselves to reach a point at which permanent exclusions are seen as the only answer. The Secretary of State half fell into that trap today, and the hon. Member for Ashford constantly makes the same claim. All that the Tories had to say in their 2001 manifesto was that they wanted to give head teachers an instant ability to kick kids out of school. That is not the final solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "st significant of all, perhaps, is the fact that teacher demoralisation is a real problem. This is, of course, related to the quality of life that teachers can expect to endure in our schools. Given a choice between teaching in a comfortable school somewhere in the leafy suburbs of London or teaching in the inner city, it would take a brave, devoted and committed person to teach in the inner city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "entation of the policy in relation to an exclusion only if there has been a clear failure of process. The panel should then refer the matter back for further consideration. Nothing could be worse than leaving a head teacher red faced and impotent, sometimes in the face of a pupil who has persistently flouted the discipline of the school and perhaps acted to endanger the well-being of other pupils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "I do not want to take interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.203.5", "colnum": "203", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "Hang on; hear me out, old boy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.203.5", "colnum": "203", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "rity as they used to. There are many reasons for that, and in some ways it is a good thing, but in some ways it is a bad thing. We need to restore the chain of responsibility between child and adult, and if that means fining the parents of truanting and undisciplined children, I say that that is fine. I am reminded of a friend of my family—a single mother from Bridlington in Yorkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.203.5", "colnum": "203", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "for that, and in some ways it is a good thing, but in some ways it is a bad thing. We need to restore the chain of responsibility between child and adult, and if that means fining the parents of truanting and undisciplined children, I say that that is fine. I am reminded of a friend of my family—a single mother from Bridlington in Yorkshire— [Interruption.] Is Bridlington in Yorkshire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "r for Henley: the parentage of the policy is obviously extremely doubtful. The key question is \"Will this really happen, or is it just another attempt to grab a headline, like the absurd chaos of the Government's policy on drugs in schools?\" The Government are swinging wildly from one extreme to the other. Just a few months ago, in January, the Daily Mail produced a report from DfES sources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.215.2", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "on of children with Special Educational Needs. Special educational needs are not a glamorous subject; I get that feeling as the Chamber empties at their mention, which is sad. They are not a glamorous subject, but they are important. This is not an occasion for witty party political banter; it is too serious for that and, I am sure that the Minister for School Standards would agree, too sad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.215.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " it is sometimes necessary, but publishing bits of paper does not mean that anything has been achieved. I feel sorry for Ministers, who have it drummed into them all the time that it is what they say that matters, not what they do. But if they are led by a Prime Minister who believes that saying something three times is tantamount to having achieved it—\"education, education education\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "No—all it means is that the hon. Lady is bandying statistics. What we are talking about is people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.221.6", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "to pay for themselves, yet even they cannot get the help that their children need. So what happens to the children of parents who are not articulate, do not know how to insist, and are so tired from looking after a disabled child that they do not have the energy to fight? I do not know what the Minister for Lifelong Learning is sneering at. This is not a matter for sneering. I am describing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.221.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.221.6", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Apologise!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "arning is sneering at. This is not a matter for sneering. I am describing— [Interruption.] It is not patronising. I am describing what I see in my own constituency. I am describing real people, and the hon. Lady is sneering at them. I have their names written down here, but I will not embarrass them by using them. The hon. Lady is sneering in a disgusting way—it is totally intolerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.221.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "utism, referred to autism week. He gave the Government a score of 68 per cent. and said how pleased his dad would have been if he had gone home with that mark. I do not necessarily concur with the mark of 68 per cent., but I agree that taking home 68 per cent. to one's dad was pretty good. I say that tonight because it is my dad's birthday, and I hope that he gives me 68 per cent. for this speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-21", "file": "debates2002-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f64b68ece51be7dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.256.7", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-21.256.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is developing a reputation for asking personal questions that have no relevance whatever to the point before us. He relies heavily on a British press that is much discredited for its handling of such stories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.289.6", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The position in relation to the referendum is clear. If the economic tests are passed, we put the matter to the people in a referendum. What is more, those tests have to be met, or passed, or assessed before June 2003.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.289.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "une 2003. [Hon. Members: \"More.\"] Let me say this to the right hon. Gentleman: it is clear, as we said in the manifesto, that the tests have to be assessed before June 2003. If the tests are met, the issue goes to people in a referendum. The right hon. Gentleman can make whatever debating points he wants, but that is the policy. It is clear—indeed, it is a darn sight clearer than his policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.289.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "May I raise the question of Gibraltar?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.292.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "that I cannot, and the wisdom to know the difference\"? Should not that be applied in relation to the Government's policy on Gibraltar? The fact is that we cannot change Spain's position, so is it not time that we concluded those abortive and foolhardy talks and robustly defended the right of the people of Gibraltar to enjoy access throughout Europe and to promote their economy unhindered by Spain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister believes that questions in the House about whether a Minister has told the truth are not important matters for the House, may I ask that he take advice from his mentors and come back next week with a different answer? Moving on from that, my specific question is on Northern Ireland. Has the Prime Minister noticed that the proportion of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Burnside", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burnside", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. On 10 April I tabled a question to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "cern to many of us. Nearly every day we see many people queuing to enter the Strangers Gallery. As that is happening, we discover that there is a website which has been organised by the president of Plaid Cymru, who is not a Member of this place. He states on his website that if a certain sum—£180 a year—is paid to his club, he will arrange access for members of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "ery. As that is happening, we discover that there is a website which has been organised by the president of Plaid Cymru, who is not a Member of this place. He states on his website that if a certain sum—£180 a year—is paid to his club, he will arrange access for members of the public— [Interruption.] I ask the authorities of the House urgently to look into the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.330.10", "colnum": "330", "heading": "National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Linda Perham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Perham", "preceding_text": "uld prefer the Government to support the introduction of his model for patients councils. It is almost two years since one line in chapter 10 of the NHS plan baldly stated that CHCs were to be abolished, and I have never had a satisfactory and rational explanation of why CHCs could not have been reformed and strengthened to play the central role in other reforms, most of which are warmly welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.330.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": " say that I note the time is 6.32 pm and it would be fair to say that the Government willingly agreed to our request to change the guillotine arrangements so that there would be a guillotine part way through our proceedings. I should like to put on record our appreciation for that. A subsequent request for further time came not from Her Majesty's official Opposition but from the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the effect of changing the guillotine arrangements in that way was that we were unable to debate three groups of amendments that would have been discussed earlier, as a result of the Liberal Democrats' activities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-22", "file": "debates2002-05-22.xml", "sha256": "ec6ba5fcc3d37e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "PETITIONS — RAF Lyneham", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "I have the honour to present a petition on behalf of 11,657 of my constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-22.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "Our objective is to ensure that more offenders are brought to justice. The hon. Lady makes the point about youth offenders and thanks the Government for taking up her Bill. I wonder why the previous Government did not take up her Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.384.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Write to him.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.394.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "English National Stadium", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I want to make a statement on the progress of the national stadium project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "English National Stadium", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "tendering and procurement processes, and weaknesses in the corporate governance of the project. The allegations applied specifically to the period from 1999 to the summer of 2000, and they make disturbing reading. That is why, when I saw the James report in December last year, I set clear conditions that this project had to be cleansed before any further commitment could be made by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "English National Stadium", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has worked hard on that one, hasn't he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "n the Sunday Mirror article so that people are not misled either about a lack of entitlement to minimum income guarantee or the current level of the basic state pension. The hon. Member for Northavon may say that he was misquoted or that the article was edited to give average figures. I shall be kind and say that it must be the latter, because the Sunday Mirror never misquotes anyone of substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "hat should be acknowledged by all concerned. I turn to the debate in Standing Committee on 18 April this year. I want to give two short quotes that set the tone for what I am going to say next. The quotes come from columns 121 and 122 of the Official Report . That is not so much a reference for Hansard as for the Gallery writer from The Times , who unfortunately seems not to understand Glaswegian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "With the best will in the world, it is not entirely self-evident that the provisions of the pension credit will simplify future pension provision. Amendments Nos. 4 to 12 attempt to achieve the simplicity to which my hon. Friend refers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "nly partially. When the Government came to power in 1997, the gap between the basic pension and the MIG—or income support, as it was then known—was about £7 a week. For anyone who could save more than £7 a week, it therefore paid to save. Those who saved £8 a week got the first £7 at the 100 per cent. marginal rate, so they were better off by the extra £1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "s the hon. Gentleman suggests, but I am sure that if I did so, you would immediately call me to order, Madam Deputy Speaker, because we are debating new clause 5. What do the Government have to be afraid of if more light is shed on the matter, which is all that new clause 5 seeks to do? We should all be concerned about today's pensioners, because they have had a raw deal from the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "about what expert individuals and bodies believed would be its effect on future saving. The Norwich Union, for example, declared that the incentive to save is \"insufficient\". The Institute of Actuaries said that it would become \"impossible to provide savings advice to those on low to medium incomes\". The IPPR—a body associated not with the Conservative party, but with the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.444.4", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "ive, effect of the Bill may be on the propensity to save, as the new clause puts it, so there could be rather more confusion. I hope that I shall not be unfair to the hon. Member for Hertsmere if I say that he probably tabled the new clause to promote a debate about incentives to save. It would probably be fair to say, having listened to the debate, that he certainly managed to have such a debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.444.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "The approach that the Liberal Democrats have chosen would not achieve that aim, whereas our policies will. I assure the hon. Gentleman that I am not in the business of wilfully misrepresenting him. Perhaps he is in the business of not being quite as clear as he might be. I listened to him carefully and he basically said that targeting could be achieved without any form of means-testing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "showed how clever he is. He is clever because he has done a lot of reading recently. He is both a campaigner and well and truly in opposition, and he has read the Liberal Democrat document entitled, \"How to be an effective opposition: a guide for campaigners\". It offers the following advice: to \"act shamelessly, stir endlessly, and embarrass the administration . . . don't be afraid to exaggerate.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-23", "file": "debates2002-05-23.xml", "sha256": "a7c501df12bd51be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — State Pension Credit Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "No. I will not give way. I did not intervene.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-23.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-24", "file": "debates2002-05-24.xml", "sha256": "7ffb07f7e320bea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-24.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Adjournment (Whitsun)", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "etary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the hon. Member for Scunthorpe (Mr. Morley) , who has responsibility for those matters. Perhaps we could hold a round-table meeting to discuss the issue. My hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) has left the Chamber, but as he seems to have dropped a pound coin on the Bench I am sure that he will be back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-24.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-05-24", "file": "debates2002-05-24.xml", "sha256": "7ffb07f7e320bea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-24.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Adjournment (Whitsun)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "He is a former rugby player. We had an interesting exchange about the relative merits of the 19th-century Liberal and Tory parties, but the main conclusion that I would draw is that neither really succeeded in liberating the poorest, which is why the Labour party had to be founded 100 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-05-24.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where have you been?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "It is good to be back, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "India/Pakistan", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "stan stopped using them in that way and messing around with people's lives. We have lost more than 70,000 people in Kashmir. Others have been lost through acts of terrorism. I condemn all the acts of terrorism, and all the human rights abuses and violations, that have taken place. Unless and until we move to secure international action, we will not resolve the issue. Will the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "India/Pakistan", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "f the world's poor, according to figures from the Department for International Development. Per head of population, India and Pakistan are significant recipients of aid from this country and from around the world. As for the hon. Gentleman's question about realistic prospects, I have given an explanation why the matter has to be resolved by the parties, albeit with encouragement from others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I wish that the hon. Gentleman would follow the logic of the argument and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.641.5", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "The answer is no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.641.5", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "eved if I resist the temptation to refer to any hon. Member's intervention before those arguments have been reasonably aired. We are talking about employers providing private medical insurance. It is important to place this debate in the context of subscriber numbers. The Committee will be very familiar—if it is not, it should be—with \"Laing's Healthcare Market Review 2001–2002\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.641.5", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " will be very familiar—if it is not, it should be—with \"Laing's Healthcare Market Review 2001–2002\". [Interruption.] As the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Mr. Pound) rightly observes, I am sure that his constituents speak of little else. He will probably be very familiar with paragraph 3.2 on the demand for private medical insurance and, indeed, some of the subsidiary paragraphs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.641.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "loyed attract an additional 1 per cent. levy for their employers. It would also—I hope hon. Members on both sides of the Committee will support this—give a modest but important encouragement to employers to employ people of pensionable age. There is an increasing feeling that age discrimination operates in the employment market. We know that those who are of pensionable age wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "the exemption of companies from corporation tax on sales of substantial shareholdings; a reduction in the starting rate of corporation tax from 10 per cent. to zero; and a cut in capital gains tax to 20 per cent. for business assets held for one year and more, and to 10 per cent. for assets held for two years and more. Is that the sort of list that the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) sought?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Insurance Contributions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have flushed the hon. Gentleman out. He appears to be greatly concerned about that point. I could not persuade him with my previous argument, but perhaps I can persuade him with this one. When the Chancellor announced his business tax cuts, of which the hon. Gentleman is so proud—it gives me great pleasure to hear Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-10", "file": "debates2002-06-10.xml", "sha256": "60b25e099ede6550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "OVERSEAS STUDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "periods, they account for about 40 per cent. of all applications. The IND's target is to complete 70 per cent. of all general and settlement applications on initial consideration and within the three-week period. That target applies to all categories, including students. Because of an exceptionally high intake during the second half of 2001, however, and the implementation of a new database—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-10.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.711.6", "colnum": "711", "heading": "ADVOCATE-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Lynda Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynda Clark", "preceding_text": "It certainly was not a photo opportunity involving me. I have no knowledge of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.711.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "s into petitions to Parliament and proper use of the democratic process, which is why I have been very keen on a public inquiry into the proposals for a centre in my constituency. I am glad to say that, in the nearly 20 years for which I have represented Banbury, there has not been a single vote cast for a single National Front or British National party candidate at any local or national election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "gle National Front or British National party candidate at any local or national election. [Interruption.] I cannot hear the cheap jibe that the Home Secretary is making. This is an important point and I would have hoped that the Labour party would wish, as strongly as we do, not to see any support given to the tendencies that have been represented by the National Front and the BNP in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "esentatives of the parishes surrounding the accommodation centres could hold regular meetings with the management of the centres to raise matters of concern to the local community. Local people could then have confidence that their concerns would be addressed in a timely, proper and systematic way. That would ensure that they were not frustrated and that they could express concerns and grievances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "No, there is very little time and I want to make several comments. These were people coming up to the exchange of contracts who now found their property unsaleable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Of course I am happy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Of course I am happy— [Interruption.] Of course I am happy to come to the hon Lady's constituency—indeed, I visited it on several occasions when I was a Minister for housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "to divide the House on amendment No. 6, when the time comes. That amendment relates entirely to accommodation centres not holding more than 200 persons. I need not go through the arguments. One of the tragedies of this place—frankly, it is a disgrace—is that at ten minutes to 7 tonight there will not be a chance for us to get on to vital debates on other matters. That saddens me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.775.5", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Allan", "preceding_text": "I shall briefly introduce amendments Nos. 28 and 29, which were tabled by my hon. Friends and me and echo the concerns of the hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Malins) . We take seriously the concerns of people outside the House, who believe that smaller accommodation centres in appropriate locations would be more fitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.775.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-11", "file": "debates2002-06-11.xml", "sha256": "4a7689d55901e013", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "er existing procedures in this country work well and efficiently. It is no good legislating year after year—there have been four Bills in the past nine years. What use is legislation when the basic workings out there in our immigration and asylum system are not functioning properly? I could talk for 10 hours or 10 weeks and it would not make a ha'p'orth of difference to what happens outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-11.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I repeat the words of the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, who said that when there are hotheads on the streets, it is helpful to have cool heads in Chambers such as this. It is not the case that intelligence has informed me that there was an attempted murder of a young policeman by the IRA. I have been informed that it was dissident republicans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "If the problems of Northern Ireland could be solved by shouting, they would have been solved a long time ago. I must correct the hon. Gentleman: according to my reading of the transcript of the interview, the chairman of Sinn Fein did not fail to dissociate himself from the attempted murder. He failed to condemn it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.854.4", "colnum": "854", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "onal commitment to devolution, and the Government's record in this area stands for itself. We will do everything in our power to sustain devolution because it is what the parties and people of Northern Ireland want and it is delivering for the people of Northern Ireland. It is delivering, in particular, significant reform and additional investment in jobs and services and in public administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.854.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.854.4", "colnum": "854", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "s delivering for the people of Northern Ireland. It is delivering, in particular, significant reform and additional investment in jobs and services and in public administration. [Interruption.] Although it is not easy, in devolved terms, to do that in Scotland or Wales, it is a sign of the maturity of the politics of Northern Ireland that these questions are being faced up to by local politicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.854.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.859.5", "colnum": "859", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ross Cranston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ross Cranston", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will recall that three years ago, the health White Paper, \"Saving Lives\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.859.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.927.7", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "These are mainly minor and technical amendments, but it might help if I run through them briefly in a little more detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.927.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ernment new schedule 2, which deal with carriers' liability, were not debated. Like me, the hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Malins) regrets that, because those provisions raised substantial issues of interest to hon. Members and to commercial operators and their employees, and have been the subject of significant decisions by the courts, one of which resulted in the Government introducing legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.0", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " taken over it, but on three previous occasions Parliament has rushed legislation through without listening to advice. On all three occasions, it has got the legislation badly and—in some cases—criminally wrong. My colleagues and I are not, therefore, willing to endorse a fourth mistaken set of proposals, and we are going to rely on the other place to amend the Bill as far as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "If that was a constructive contribution, I would hate to hear the Liberal Democrats make a destructive one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "If that was a constructive contribution, I would hate to hear the Liberal Democrats make a destructive one. [Interruption.] That was a typical response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "a typical response from a party that is unable to make a constructive contribution to anything. In Committee, I listened for hour after hour to the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) . The main reason why we did not discuss most of the clauses was that he spoke at interminable length, and for far longer than anybody else. Nor was that the first time that he has done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": " reason why we did not discuss most of the clauses was that he spoke at interminable length, and for far longer than anybody else. Nor was that the first time that he has done so. [Interruption.] I remember when we discussed legislation on the Greater London Authority and on terrorism in Standing Committee. He is an expert at taking up the time of other Committee members and Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "e issues before us. The Bill is vital. It contains important provisions on citizenship, integration and respect that we in this country can be proud of. It is also about incorporating our black and ethnic minority communities, so that they have full rights and are fully integrated. The fact that the Liberal Democrats propose to vote against it tells us a great deal about the nature of their party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ur black and ethnic minority communities, so that they have full rights and are fully integrated. The fact that the Liberal Democrats propose to vote against it tells us a great deal about the nature of their party. [Interruption.] As we know, in parts of the country such as Oldham, they have pandered to racism and xenophobia, and have played a duplicitous role in respect of accommodation centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "It is time we told the truth about the two-faced, Janus-like Liberal Democrats, who say one thing in one street, and another in the next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-12", "file": "debates2002-06-12.xml", "sha256": "b0c72fb889a04c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "to smuggle them in dangerous conditions from, for example, Sri Lanka through the Balkans into western Europe. When they arrive, those people live in semi-slave conditions, often working illegally with no social protection. That undermines the national minimum wage and thus one of the other achievements of this Labour Government—the attempt to raise people out of poverty. From the left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-12.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "y involved with suppliers to the Ministry of Defence. Nor does his appointment at Brunswick involve his working with clients. Having said that, as somebody who wishes Mr. Hood well and who has a very high regard for him, I am not at all surprised at his securing a position of high status in the private sector. However, I am always mildly ambivalent about seeing a good man go into public relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly draw Ministers' attention to the hon. Gentleman's view that due course has now arrived and that it is time that the MOD expressed its view on the tribunal ruling and gave its response. Little new can be said about the vote in May. I am pleased that a majority of Labour MPs voted for reform, and I regret that I did not have a majority of the Labour Whips voting with me for reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1006.2", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "On Wednesday night, we will be presented with a list of names for the new Joint Committee that will consider the reform of the House of Lords, but no one has asked me if I want to join the Committee. I feel that I have something to contribute, and I think that my hon. Friends would agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1006.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Consignia", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That was yesterday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": " rise. On the broader issue of competition and market opening, I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman that the proposals and decision that Postcomm has made should now be shelved. I am surprised to hear him blowing hot and cold on competition. One might have thought that the Liberal Democrats were in favour of competition and of encouraging new entrants to the market in the interests of consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Consignia", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "The statement is rather disappointing, inasmuch as it appears to water down the idea of universal service obligation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Consignia", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "There is no question of awarding fat cat payments or rewarding failure. Of course, John Roberts will receive an appropriate payment, in line with his contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Enterprise Bill (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "Here we are again—yet another programme motion for the Enterprise Bill. I do not expect to speak for more than a few minutes and I certainly do not want to divide the House on the motion, but it would be wrong to let it pass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "Since October 2000, the director general's advice has normally been accepted. Taken together, the formulations set out in clauses 21 and 32 require a reference to be made in respect of proposed and completed mergers, except in certain limited circumstances. Lest anyone think that I am cleverer than I really am, the amendments were inspired by the joint working party of the Law Society and the Bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "ve technological change in which we are moving forward to new types of industry, it is possible to approach the issue in as organised and as regulated a way as possible so that people's interests are protected as they develop new skills and are given new opportunities. We do not do that. My attention was drawn to the Bill by an anonymous letter that I received from the British Bankers Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "vember , he had a half-hour chat at No. 10 with the Prime Minister. Mr. Desmond has forced himself into the consciousness of many of us recently through the titles of some of the magazines that he publishes, as well as through his newspaper activities. The list of publications is very long; I was going to say that it is impressive, but it is long. There are titles such as Weird Sex Special —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is inviting me to comment on what happened. It is hard to understand the relevance of his case to amendments Nos. 197 and 198—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1102.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-06-13", "file": "debates2002-06-13.xml", "sha256": "a65744ff226676e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t later than three hours after the commencement of proceedings on the Motion; such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; the Questions may be decided, though opposed, after the expiration of the time for opposed business and the Order of 28th June 2001 relating to deferred Divisions shall not apply to them.— [Mr. Jim Murphy.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-13.1110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-17", "file": "debates2002-06-17.xml", "sha256": "b01c88bfec651df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-17.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I do not know which question the hon. Gentleman wants me to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-17.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-17", "file": "debates2002-06-17.xml", "sha256": "b01c88bfec651df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-17.106.2", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I can probably beat the hon. Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Waterson) for brevity. I believe that there is some force in what he says. I feel as if passing competition legislation is almost like buying a new computer—by the time everything is installed and all the games are up and running, it is obsolete and something better has come on the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-17.106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-17", "file": "debates2002-06-17.xml", "sha256": "b01c88bfec651df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-17.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "they see my name on the monitor at this stage in the proceedings. What I am about to say may or may not be party policy; I merely ask Members not to assume that I say it simply because of where I am standing. The absence of my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham has given me my big chance, however, which I shall take with all the skill and precision of an Irish footballer taking a penalty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-17.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-17", "file": "debates2002-06-17.xml", "sha256": "b01c88bfec651df5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-17.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "ine for the unalloyed operation of competition as an economic force. One of the great strengths of the Bill is its provisions on anti-competitive practices, including stop now orders and the attempt to try to produce a culture in which people challenge an existing business regime to develop new enterprises that produce services and goods in new ways. It is a jewel within a crown, as it were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-17.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the honour that he received at the weekend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ot stability and democracy throughout our continent and should generate up to an estimated £1.75 billion per year in additional business for British companies. All those achievements have improved the quality of life and security of British people. They demonstrate that this Government are realising the aspiration of a former Conservative Prime Minister to put Britain at the heart of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.159.4", "colnum": "159", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "g to impose those on Europe—they ignored the minor difficulty of having to obtain the approbation and agreement of the other 14 member states. Under those new treaty flexibility provisions, \"Countries need only participate in new legislative actions at a European level if they see this as in their national interest\". Opposition Front-Bench Members are obviously still signed up to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "y, the only way to cure such an infection is to pass it on to another party, and the Conservatives have now caught it. On page 79 of that programme, three paragraphs set out Labour's detailed commitment to establish a system of local authority licensing of horse dealers. That was in 1983, not 1883. I mention that because it illustrates the mindset that infected the Labour party at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "now caught it. On page 79 of that programme, three paragraphs set out Labour's detailed commitment to establish a system of local authority licensing of horse dealers. That was in 1983, not 1883. I mention that because it illustrates the mindset that infected the Labour party at that time—[Hon. Members: \"What about the answer?\"] The answer is that I do not agree with what we said then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the tribute, as well as for the difficult question that followed. I cannot give my hon. Friend an exact figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e here at the beginning of the debate will show proper respect to the Chair and be here at the end, too, there will be no punishment involved in waiting for my right hon. Friend to give that answer. Although I do not have the exact number, I can tell my hon. Friend (Mr. Vaz) that a significant proportion of those 20 points, which are capable of non-treaty implementation, will be agreed at Seville.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "It is my understanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "wing sense of alienation. If Europe is to carry true democratic legitimacy and accountability, it must find a way to reconnect with its peoples. Europe itself has realised the need for that. For a start, there is now the convention on the future of Europe. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend the Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) for representing our parliamentary party so effectively on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Mandelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name him!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Mandelson", "preceding_text": "reign Secretary that we must find ways to ensure that decision making in Brussels is not only more visible but more political. That is the essence of the case for abolishing the obscurity of the six-month rotating presidency and for having an elected president of the European Council for a significant period. It is not to find a resting home for some, no doubt distinguished, elder statesman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "h is a multicultural city. We welcome people from all parts of the world if they wish to be part of the Leicester experience. I asked her, not as an inquisition but for information, why she chose to come to live in Leicester. To use Daily Mail speak, I asked her whether she came because the benefits were higher in Leicester, or whether it was because we provided council housing more quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "just one big bang in 2004 before the European elections? The shadow Foreign Secretary was a Minister in the previous Conservative Government and he spoke about agricultural reform. For 18 years the Conservative party in government did nothing about reforming the common agricultural policy. It is all very well to come to the House now to say that he wants reforms, but we have been arguing for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "orted vigorously by the UK Government—has with regard to the acceptance of the idea that any eventual subsidiarity watchdog might have fewer representatives than there are member states of the European Union. Of course, that would preclude direct representation of interests from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. I do not know whether there are any Members in the Chamber from Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": "atters the devolved Administrations should be involved in the UK team as of right. To date, the Government's record has been patchy to say the least. It has not been lost on the Scottish public that the party which delivered devolution for Scotland seems once more reluctant to recognise its implications fully. The Government will insist that they have consulted the Administrations regularly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-18", "file": "debates2002-06-18.xml", "sha256": "bbd6fbc02a4837d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ons of Britain. I have tried to carry the debate to the grass roots and to generate discussion at a much more local level. That has been quite successful, but I would not make exaggerated claims about the visits. I intend to visit the rest of the regions of Britain. There is a website seeking to involve people and everyone can contribute to another one about the convention on the future of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-18.243.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-19", "file": "debates2002-06-19.xml", "sha256": "2fb9c59b30064903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "In the light of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-19", "file": "debates2002-06-19.xml", "sha256": "2fb9c59b30064903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "World Poverty", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "to provide advice from trade lawyers to the poorest countries free and to low income countries extremely cheaply—a law centre to enable low income countries to exercise their rights under the rules of the World Trade Organisation. When we tried to promote the proposal early on, we met massive resistance, first within our own Government, which we overcame in the ways that I described earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.292.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-19", "file": "debates2002-06-19.xml", "sha256": "2fb9c59b30064903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "I am very pleased to speak in this debate, and I am delighted that the Joint Committee is being set up. Many months ago, I wrote to the Prime Minister, among others, suggesting this approach. I also asked to be a member of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-19", "file": "debates2002-06-19.xml", "sha256": "2fb9c59b30064903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.355.3", "colnum": "355", "heading": "House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right on the latter point, but he ought to bear it in mind that some aspects of our actions, on devolution in Scotland and Wales, make this country federal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-19", "file": "debates2002-06-19.xml", "sha256": "2fb9c59b30064903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "uld ignore the result. We need proper consultation on the powers of the House of Lords or its replacement, its functions and its composition. That consultation should be undertaken by the Joint Committee in the regions, involving real people, not just the political classes, so that they have a genuine say, an accessible opportunity to give their views on this important element in our constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.370.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-19", "file": "debates2002-06-19.xml", "sha256": "2fb9c59b30064903", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "House of Lords Reform (Joint Committee)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "it one-dimensional at the elected end. Does elected mean directly or indirectly elected? Although we have the nod from the hon. Member for Cannock Chase (Tony Wright) , I am not sure that we have the nod from anyone on the Treasury Bench as to whether \"elected\" in the motion refers only to directly elected. It is a widely held view that there are too many politicians in this country already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-19.371.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-20", "file": "debates2002-06-20.xml", "sha256": "f45d53b042975197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-20.393.4", "colnum": "393", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "We have cut the burden of regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-20.393.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-20", "file": "debates2002-06-20.xml", "sha256": "f45d53b042975197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-20.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "First, I tell the hon. Gentleman and the House, yet again, that no decision has been taken. Indeed, no decision is immediately in prospect of being taken about Iraq and no such decision may ever be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-20.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-20", "file": "debates2002-06-20.xml", "sha256": "f45d53b042975197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-20.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Energy: Towards 2050", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "ngs are best achieved through the liberalisation of markets and the operation of market forces at an international, as well as a domestic, level. Others require direct intervention by Governments and through international agreements. It is clear that, by 2050, world supplies of oil will be steeply in decline, and gas will soon face such a decline. Perhaps there is a future for nuclear waste—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-20.467.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-20", "file": "debates2002-06-20.xml", "sha256": "f45d53b042975197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-20.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Energy: Towards 2050", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "he debate has been, but today it is true, and that is a tribute to all hon. Members who participated. If we compare it with an energy debate at probably any time in the post-war years, it is striking how non-ideological it has been. As an old-fashioned ideological guy, I am not sure how comfortable I am with that. I like to know where the enemy is, and it should be on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-20.505.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-06-21", "file": "debates2002-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0b88494a2b568c69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-21.583.23", "colnum": "583", "heading": "DATA PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 28 June", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-21.583.22"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "On the first day of Wimbledon, does my right hon. Friend accept that when I recently launched the new out-of-school-hours courses at Rising Brook high school in Stafford, there was widespread interest by students in the school and youngsters in the surrounding community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "afraid that I simply do not accept what the right hon. Gentleman says. It is absolutely correct that we would have gone somewhat further in Seville than other countries, but we were probably in the majority in wanting to do so. The point that I was making earlier to Opposition Members was that the difference now is that we set the agenda on economic reform, defence or asylum and immigration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "aging them to take action against migration flows. We are saying, however, as we do now in relation to the Cotonou agreement with African and Caribbean countries, and as we have just done in relation to Balkan countries, that the totality of our relationship with those countries whom we are assisting must also include the issue of trafficking in illegal immigrants. That is entirely sensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "r the European border police, if we were the previous Government we would probably have said, \"We are not having any discussion of this whatever.\" Instead, we have entirely secured our own position, because of the protocol at Amsterdam. No one can impose anything on us. We have a complete veto on anything that is agreed. However, I do not think that it is foolish to consider the feasibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "terruption.] People should listen to what I am saying instead of shouting out. When we take 10 extra countries into the European Union and when we extend the border of Europe many miles eastward—that is precisely the point, with some of these countries, where illegal people trafficking is happening—I do not think that it is foolish for Europe at least to ask the question whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.621.6", "colnum": "621", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "when we were opening up the single market? The only way to solve the asylum problem is at a European level. Does the Prime Minister agree that it would be critical if we failed the nations that are joining us, and did not help them with their policing of a common border, and with the institutions right across Europe, against traffickers in people who are exploiting their countries as well as ours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.621.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have already explained to the hon. Gentleman why that is the case: the protocol in the Amsterdam treaty that we negotiated makes it clear that nothing can be done without our consent. Therefore, the whole idea of European police taking over from British police at Dover or anywhere else in the UK is fatuous and wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have told the hon. Gentleman already about our position on Britain. In respect of the rest of it, I will listen to what the feasibility study says, because I want to see what arguments there are. I will make up my mind on the arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is wrong on the facts, I am afraid. Let me repeat it to him: we made substantial progress at Seville, but as I said, we did not get everything that we wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "European Council (Seville)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ntleman is wrong on the facts, I am afraid. Let me repeat it to him: we made substantial progress at Seville, but as I said, we did not get everything that we wanted. [Interruption.] If he and his colleagues will stop shouting from a sedentary position for a moment, I will explain to them exactly what we got on asylum and immigration. First, we got the agreement that any future co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Export Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "Yes, they come from a number of academics and the Defence Manufacturers Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Single European Sky", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "That is not a prerequisite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.705.4", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "Sadly, that is the case. Many Government Whips are present, and that suggests that the Government expect their Members to vote the motion through willy-nilly without the courtesy of an explanation from anyone on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.705.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ever, I can only speculate because we have not been told. The right hon. Gentleman came rushing back into the Chamber having been told that the House was impertinent enough to want to query the measure, which he assumed would go through on the nod. I hope that he has a thorough briefing from his assiduous officials so that he can give us at least one credible reason why the motion has been tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I thank the shadow Leader of the House for this unexpected pleasure—unexpected, in part, because I announced the business for the next week last Thursday, and unexpected also because, contrary to what the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan) said, the order was laid on Thursday and has been on the Order Paper since last Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-24", "file": "debates2002-06-24.xml", "sha256": "046cf4c31bec7795", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "f the Finance Bill has frequently been taken immediately after consideration\"— that is, consideration on Report— \"when such an order has been made.\" The right hon. Gentleman will be particularly interested to know that there is a footnote, No. 5. When I refer to footnote 5 for the precedent for taking the Third Reading after consideration on Report, I find that it quotes 1995–96.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-24.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.722.5", "colnum": "722", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "ce Doha the momentum towards liberal world trade, which has underpinned the prosperity of the world for the past 50 years, has come under threat, especially from the unilateral decision of the United States to impose tariffs on steel, which is all too reminiscent of the Smoot-Hawley trade tariff Act of June 1930, which precipitated the world depression? Will the British Government draw that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.722.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.722.6", "colnum": "722", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "There was some levity at the fact that the hon. Gentleman clearly remembers the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, but he is right—they were a disaster imposed by a reactionary right-wing Administration. It has always been reactionary right-wing administrations that tend to go in for protectionist measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.722.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You used to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The difference is that we are signatories to a range of international treaties on the control of nuclear weapons, but neither India nor Pakistan is. I understand my hon. Friend's point, but I do not personally believe in unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It's an Opposition day\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "As the Foreign Secretary and many hon. Members have made clear, the political situation in Zimbabwe is lamentable. Elections are stolen, journalists are arrested and there is widespread corruption among the governing elite. This issue will of course be debated today on a motion for the Adjournment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.732.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Mental Health", "cue_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State stresses the breadth of the consultation procedure, which I am sure that we all welcome. A procedure exists, however, whereby the Committee dealing with a Bill can go into a Select Committee phase to take evidence before moving to a Standing Committee phase. Have the Government considered whether it might be appropriate to use that procedure for this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Mental Health", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "ment. Government funds would be better spent in the provision of more effective clinical services for patients. The new Mental Health Review Tribunals alone would require the time of 600 (extra) psychiatrists. It would be impossible to recruit such numbers. Those in post would be diverted from direct patient care.\" Many feel that they are now; the shortage of mental health professionals is severe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Mental Health", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "erit the description \"dithering.\" There has only been silence, broken astonishingly last week on 20 June when the Foreign Secretary claimed, as he did earlier today, that sanctions were working and that Zimbabwe's Government were experiencing—I think these are the words he used—isolation from the rest of the world. Who does he think he is kidding? Certainly not the people of Gib—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "atically if the violence and intimidation do not cease, and it should persuade countries such as Libya to cease the material help that they currently give to Zimbabwe, which only serves to encourage Mugabe. In Commonwealth terms, the coalition should seek to secure the implementation of the Abuja agreement of last September in respect of the rule of law in Zimbabwe and the proper transfer of land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "ake Mugabe face up to the realities of Zimbabwe's crisis. As I said in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry) , at the G8 summit, progress on the NEPAD initiative should be linked to stronger and more credible efforts by African Governments to resolve Zimbabwe's crisis. The time for appeasement and empty rhetoric is over. Supine inaction must now be replaced by action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "We will indeed review the operation of sanctions when we meet on 22 July . There is a strong case for an extension of the measures, but I will not give specific notice of what I have in mind, for the simple reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You sent him a note.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman mentions that number from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman mentions that number from a sedentary position. [Hon. Members: \"You sent him a note.\"] I will not tell hon. Members what the note said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "as visiting dignitaries or heads of state. As I mentioned in Question Time earlier today, we know from the criticism of them inside ZANU-PF that they are desperate for the sanctions to be lifted because we have gone to the heart of part of their corruption. I am offended by seeing Mrs. Mugabe going to Madrid, no doubt to spend thousands of pounds shopping while the people of Zimbabwe are starving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "clear. I would like President Mugabe to recognise the error of his ways and the disaster into which he has plunged Zimbabwe. I would like him to leave office, allow elections to take place immediately, stop interfering with humanitarian relief, get the farmers, whether they are white, Indian or black, back on to the land, respect the rule of law and allow this wonderfully prosperous country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "preceding_text": "e. In November 2001, the Government of Zimbabwe amended the Land Acquisition Act to allow them to allocate land without giving owners the right to contest the seizures. That contravenes not only the letter, but the spirit of the agreement at Abuja. How on earth can we believe anything that the Zimbabwe Government say when they signed up to an agreement at Abuja and immediately walked away from it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": " However, the debate has improved as we have gone along and it entirely vindicates the Opposition's choice of the subject for one of our precious Supply days. From all parts of the House, we have offered the Government a number of suggestions for measures that might be taken. The most recent suggestion, from my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham) , is not such a bad one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-25", "file": "debates2002-06-25.xml", "sha256": "5349b0b0415ec2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.851.2", "colnum": "851", "heading": "ASTHMA", "cue_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity to talk about this important subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-25.851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Julia Drown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Drown", "preceding_text": " on developing countries. The availability of small and large weapons plays a part in fuelling that conflict. The UK is one of the largest producers of weapons and therefore has a responsibility. What mechanisms exist whereby my right hon. Friend can engage in conversations with other Departments to ascertain what can be done to diversify away from that dangerous trade into more productive trades?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.868.9", "colnum": "868", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.868.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "There can be no greater menace than those who make large profits out of trading on the misery and desperation of others. That is why we hope shortly to introduce proposals that will increase sentences for those who trade in human beings. We made good progress at the Seville summit on getting agreement on joint action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ply, and the whole House will want to congratulate the police and customs on their progress in seizing an extra £140 million worth of drugs in the past year. On the action against demand, we have doubled the amount of money available for treatment of those who abuse drugs, and we are on target to get the majority of drug abusers into treatment by next year. That is a solid achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.869.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.869.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "When I question the Leader of the House at business questions, he is normally remarkably honest and straightforward with the House. In fact, on occasions he has even apologised to the House when he has been mistaken. What is it about appearing at the Dispatch Box at this time of the week that renders him unable to give a straight question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend was absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "ylum seekers \"anywhere else but where I am\". Yesterday, the Bishop of Worcester said that that was \"an unwarranted slur on the serious intentions of people from the churches of our diocese.\" Can the Leader of the House identify any Church, charity, trade union or non-governmental organisation that supports the Home Secretary's plans to put asylum seekers and refugees in large, remote, rural camps?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "What my right hon. Friend said in her speech was that she had taught for 18 years at a comprehensive, and would not have taught at any other type of school. I will not take criticism of my right hon. Friend from a Conservative party whose leader will not touch any state school with a bargepole when it comes to sending his children to school, and who has sent his children to Eton. Of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Meeting with French Interior Minister", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on being elevated to membership of the Privy Council today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.880.0", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Meeting with French Interior Minister", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "May , in which he said: \"I am committed to negotiating a new bilateral agreement with the French government. But I intend to negotiate something that will work\". Is it not time for the Home Secretary to make an application to his right hon. Friend the former Home Secretary—the current Foreign Secretary—who is the agent who brought chaos to an asylum system that was once in order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Meeting with French Interior Minister", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " cease once the Dublin convention was introduced. When it was implemented, of course, the gentleman's agreement ceased. I must say that the gentleman's agreement was not all that it was cracked up to be—last year we returned to France 6,000 people who had not claimed immigration status, whereas in the last year of the gentleman's agreement, just over 500 people were returned to France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "e Government responded that their initial estimate was that the new working tax credit and child tax credit arrangements would cost business £11 million per annum less than the WFTC. We are pleased to hear that, but it was only after being pressed that the Government came clean that the cost to business had been £100 million a year. Therefore, it will still be £89 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I think I am right in saying that the amendment in lieu before us is a Government proposal to produce an annual report containing the information. Therefore it is the Government who are today offering to produce it. If the Government consider that that would be a waste of time and a duplication and would add nothing else, they should have stood against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.905.7", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "It is the role of the prosecution to get the evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.905.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "We have obtained a massive amount of statistics on that which the hon. Gentleman can find in the responses to written parliamentary questions. The fact of the matter is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-26", "file": "debates2002-06-26.xml", "sha256": "f2467b3d321f8520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.906.5", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tax Credits Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": " will be forthcoming again—I asked the question again. That was in December. She told me that the results would be known \"early next year\". That was earlier this year, and we had the opportunity to ask the right hon. Lady about these matters when we were considering the Bill in Committee. When I asked her again about the extent of the fraud and the outcome of the benchmarking exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-26.906.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ot blame my civil servants; they did exactly what they should have done, which was constantly to raise at formal meetings—nine times over two and a quarter years—the need for an answer to the question as to whether CFC should be removed from insulation foam. They were right to do that. The only comment that I made was that I should have been informed about the matter at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "at right over the coming weeks. I have to say to the right hon. Gentleman that I have checked the facts about the movements in the stock market. What my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said to the House last Wednesday was factually absolutely arithmetically correct. Indeed, as the right hon. Gentleman queries the matter, let me share with him what the market capitalisation was on 1 May 1997 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "in the life of this Government; it was our birth. On 1 May 1997 , the market capitalisation on the stock market was £762 billion. That rose to a peak of £1.553 trillion in December 1999 and, as at 19 June , the figure stood at £1.121 trillion. That is £400 billion down on the peak, but it is still substantially—£350 billion—more than it was on 1 May 1997 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I have always wondered what the clothes were that the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) wears; I am very grateful that they have now been satisfactorily labelled. This is not a matter for the Government to impose on the House, nor are there any obligatory dress standards on Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Network Rail", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ack came to the Government about a year ago. Essentially, it asked for three things in order to carry on. One was that the Government should meet uncapped additional financial support. It also wanted us to underwrite the value of its shares, and a suspension of the regulatory regime for up to four years. No Government, of whatever political colour, could meet that sort of uncapped liability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — 3rd Allotted Day — ESTIMATES, 2002–03 — London Underground", "cue_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "asking me to exaggerate in a way that I am not prepared to do. I am the first to admit that—for the reasons that I have just explained—things have not gone right, and I thought that that point had indeed been put on the record. I make no apologies for privatisations, 99 per cent. of which have worked. Privatisation of the airlines and the public utilities has been a tremendous success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Individual Learning Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "it's not our responsibility.\" There is evidence on the record from departmental civil servants that the attempt was made to create a market and expand the number of providers. That places a moral responsibility on the Department to help providers who got into trouble. The Minister should also say sorry, and if he does all of the things that I asked him to do, he will earn the respect of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Individual Learning Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": " entrepreneurial and to provide a new way to learn to meet the demands of modern living. Regrettably, the safeguards were inadequate, as we all know. That is why we are in the current position, and it is why the Select Committee needed to undertake the inquiry. I pay tribute to its Chairman, my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Sheerman) , who steered us through this fast-track inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Individual Learning Accounts", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "re referred to in the report. It would be interesting to know the cost of employing the consultants whose advice was sought and who were asked to evaluate various stages of the scheme. Perhaps I will table that some time as a written question. I endorse what several of my colleagues and several Opposition Members said about the role of Capita and the assumption that Capita will carry on as before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-06-27", "file": "debates2002-06-27.xml", "sha256": "f778db2cdb3265b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Individual Learning Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Moral responsibility.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "er service, management capability, data handling, negotiating the overall financial settlement and appropriate revisions to the existing contract. We will have to be satisfied that Capita is best placed to ensure that the new scheme is the success that all hon. Members support. Many hon. Members referred to compensation. The Government have no legal responsibility to compensate learning providers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-06-27.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.11.7", "colnum": "11", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "Because of the need to be absolutely accurate about these statistics, I think it best to write to the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman) , who raised the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.11.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.14.3", "colnum": "14", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is another man with a record as long as his arm. He was a pensions Minister who made such a botched job of it that his constituents rightly got rid of him. Perhaps he would like to tell us about the letter that he received from the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.14.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.14.3", "colnum": "14", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is another man with a record as long as his arm. He was a pensions Minister who made such a botched job of it that his constituents rightly got rid of him. Perhaps he would like to tell us about the letter that he received from the—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] I am answering the question—Opposition Members may not like the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.14.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "cial Report , 20 June 2002; Vol. 387, c. 413 .] Last week, however, he told a Select Committee that \"immunity is not quite the right word\". Which is it? Perhaps the Prime Minister can tell us what our position is. Was the Prime Minister not aware of grave misgivings, which we share, that the court could be used maliciously to put our soldiers in the dock merely for carrying out their duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t the French have been able to negotiate immunity for their troops for the next seven years as a condition of signing up to the ICC. When we sought in the course of debate to introduce similar protection, that was rejected, even though it was for British troops. Will the Prime Minister tell us once and for all what protection, if any, our troops will have, apart from the judgment of the ICC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "They hate it when they get difficult questions as they never hear the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.25.2", "colnum": "25", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ing up the difference. Let us be clear. When the Government came to office, we had nothing like the help in place for Africa on debt relief or anything else. What we have done through the additional aid means that billions of dollars of debt relief will be saved for those countries, so that the money can be put into education. I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would welcome that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to say that I was able to report that the British economy was in a strong position, not merely in relation to productivity, but elsewhere. When I think back to the time when I was in opposition and the hon. Gentleman was a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-01", "file": "debates2002-07-01.xml", "sha256": "151e387a50ed77cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to shout protests of support for General Pinochet, he is perfectly entitled to do so. To be absolutely honest, that is on a par with the rest of his judgments on foreign policy. As for the other question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-01.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "Our manifesto made it clear that we wanted to encourage people to save for their retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "The reforms to which I have already referred, and especially the pension credit, reward people for saving. The Financial Services Authority has made that clear. Stakeholder pensions make an invaluable contribution in adding to the convenient vehicles that people can use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.99.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "The dividing lines in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.101.14", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "Fourthly, should pensioners continue to receive the £200 winter fuel payments, and should those over 75 continue to receive free television licences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.101.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.103.8", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady raises an important question about raising the level of savings among the young. The answer is the ISA, a more flexible vehicle which is attracting more savings, especially from younger people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.103.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.103.8", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "sion credit system for the future to ensure that saving is rewarded and not penalised. However, we must also continue to increase incomes by building a stable economy, making work pay and helping people into jobs—something that the Conservatives were not so good at when they were in government. All those measures build on the historical partnership that we have enjoyed in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.103.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.104.7", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "We have taken a crucial first step in raising awareness to ensure that people have enough income when they retire. All too often at present, they have a rude awakening when they realise that they will be getting less than they expected. Inevitably, it is also a lot less than they were getting while they were at work. It is a scandal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.104.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "No, I do not believe that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I should explain that this is me speaking; this is not yet official party policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "t is sheer folly to consider a pension period such as this in isolation, because it is narrow in the context of the whole history of funded pension schemes. There has been market volatility before, and there will be again. The current market volatility is not surprising. Let us look at the markets. What happened with Equitable Life? There was a complete ignorance, or an \"ignore-ance\", of its duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " help. As I explained—if the hon. Gentleman had been listening—the fall in Vodafone and BT was far greater than the amount I should have expected as a direct result of the Chancellor's actions. My modest calculation blames the Chancellor for £90 billion of the fall. A lot of that loss was incurred by British pension funds, so they will find it difficult to pay the pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": "ith the stock market already improving, it is to be hoped that this hiccup is almost over. The stock market fell in recent days not because of actions by Governments, but largely because of fear in the markets as a result of the signals that have been sent from WorldCom, Enron, Xerox and others, from a sky darkened with greedy, fat cat chickens coming home to roost—if I may mix my metaphors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.171.5", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": "Everything I say is sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "h;not the fall, but the collapse—in the savings ratio. When I intervened on the Secretary of State to ask him how he accounted for the fact that the ratio was 9.5 per cent. when the Government took office and that it is now 3.75 per cent., he brushed it off as a cyclical factor. As for the current state of the economy, it has a modest growth rate and a relatively low unemployment rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "st of Europe is slipping. When the Conservative party was last in government, the one area of our pension provision that, as an occasionally rebellious Back Bencher, I sought to attack, was the changes that we introduced in 1988 that combined a more generous income support arrangement for the poorest pensioners with stringent capital testing for their counterparts who had managed to save a little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Funded Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman wait? I am not quite warmed up yet. I know that he is always warmed up; I am not so certain whether that is good for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.185.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-07-02", "file": "debates2002-07-02.xml", "sha256": "18d8ad7d53e3bcee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.197.12", "colnum": "197", "heading": "SECTION 5 OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1993", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "otion made, That, for the purposes of their approval under section 5 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1993, the Financial Statement and Budget Report 2002–03 and the Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report 2002–03 shall be treated as if they were instruments subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 118 (Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) .— [Mr. Pearson.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-02.197.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.211.5", "colnum": "211", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": " White Paper said that the Government would explicitly seek the views of key stakeholders on this issue. I do not know whether the Government include Members of Parliament in that category, but perhaps I can start the ball rolling, as an elected representative from the north-west of England, by telling the Minister that, in the last five years, I have never met a single member of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.211.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "and register of interests on those voluntary councils? In my own constituency alone, that has caused the resignation of two entire councils and many individual councillors. The Prime Minister should be aware of that policy, since he sacked the Secretary of State and the junior Minister responsible for it last month; so will he use the opportunity to withdraw those measures, or is it the aim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister carefully does not explain to his less intelligent colleagues that the money he plans to give from the last Budget is dwarfed by the extra costs from the increased regulation. It is an absolute clear fact. All independent inquiries show that the majority of care homes are closing because of the burden of regulation, not because of the levels of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "let me repeat that the regulations that are complained of do not come into effect until 2007. That is why it is important to take some account at least of the fact that the real complaint of many care homes has been about the level of fees, especially when those homes are situated on very high-value property areas, such as in London and the south. The only way we will increase the provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Oona King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oona King", "preceding_text": "sh at the case of a 23-year-old woman who has shared a bedroom with her father her entire life because the family has been on the council waiting list for years and cannot possibly afford to rent or buy in London? While commending the Government for trebling the money available for social housing—we will not hear a word from the Conservatives, who left people on council estates to rot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Entitlement Cards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "time of the card, and by charging a lower card fee for those who do not have either a driving licence or a passport. There is always a danger of bureaucracy in such areas. We spell out that possible downside and illustrate potential ways of dealing with it. However, by building on existing systems and expertise we should be able to reduce the risk and costs inherent in an undertaking of this size.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.230.2", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Entitlement Cards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "le are committing credit card fraud and automatic teller machine fraud to defraud individuals and businesses of large sums of money. Such people are often linked to criminal gangs involved in people smuggling. I have responsibility for people smuggling, illegal working and ensuring that people do not get into the country clandestinely. That is why the Home Office is in charge of this policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Entitlement Cards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Because the United Kingdom Passport Service now turns applications around in 24 hours. I am proud that we have made considerable progress on this front. We need to be able to replicate what happens with lost credit cards—people have their cards cancelled and a new dated reissue provided very quickly. That is what is intended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.233.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I fear that I am about to strike a discordant note in the debate, but before I do, may I join in the congratulations to the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) ? We will be looking at the Conservatives' policy on the married couples allowance to see whether there are any changes in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Frank Doran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Doran", "preceding_text": "not recall exactly when he came into the House, demonstrates that he has not experienced government at all. Full-frontal attack is not always the best way of dealing with issues. The ability to sit down and talk directly to Ministers is more important, and I am very pleased about the access that Ministers at every level have provided for Scottish Members who are interested in discussing the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "consulted the Secretary of State for Scotland—who had a huge interest in the matter because of the employment implications of the change—and the Minister for Energy and Construction—who is responsible for general oil policy—about the tax change. I believe that they were not in a position to anticipate events. I base that strong belief on watching their reaction at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.319.2", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "I confess that I used to be a solicitor before entering this House, and not an accountant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "ced the substantial shareholding legislation in March, that they wanted to move to a system under which tax was not the driver in commercial decisions. Hence an exemption from tax has been introduced on the disposal of qualifying shares. However, tax is still a driver in the form of stamp duty. If a company makes a disposal of an asset that the Government accept is free from corporation tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.360.4", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ious Finance Bill, back in 1999. I gave concrete examples to show that many elderly people have been worried sick by receiving those forms. They often have no liability to income tax, but the forms are sent to them because they are triggered by automatic thresholds in the Inland Revenue computers. I refer hon. Members to my speech, as reported in column 755 of the Official Report for 5 July 1999 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-03", "file": "debates2002-07-03.xml", "sha256": "db12c5d05fe7591e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "At this late hour, it is a joy to be able to welcome the Paymaster General's positive assurances on this point. I shall, in a moment, seek the leave of the House to withdraw the new clause, as she has given such a positive reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-03.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "nding, the Secretary of State talks a good game. Can she explain the headline in 12 June 's edition of the East Anglian Daily Times , \"Schools feeling the pinch—Tight budgets mean heads have to cut back on support staff\"? The article quotes one head as saying: \"In all my 25 years as a headteacher I have never had to deal with as bad a budget\". Does not the Secretary of State recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I have had a letter from a head teacher, too? She told me that she was thanking the Labour Government for all the money that has been put in. I have to tell her something else as well. I listened this morning to that creeping Jesus from the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.383.7", "colnum": "383", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. Of course that is one of the factors that we are considering in reviewing the whole local government funding system, including education funding. The hon. Gentleman refers to Devon; another Member mentioned Yorkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.383.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Business Statement", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " of financial interests will be made to the permanent secretary; so that particular issue should not arise again. Against the totality of the greater openness brought in by the Government, those particular exceptions need to be kept in proportion. We look forward to the foot and mouth reports with great interest. Their publication dates are not within our gift because they are independent reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Business Statement", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where's the tie?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "I refer the House to last week's business questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Luke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Luke", "preceding_text": "h imperatives to introduce this tax change. Any price increase may restrict access and discourage the purchase of what is a particularly addictive drink by the most vulnerable, young and often under-age consumers. I was brought up in a strongly Presbyterian household, where the consumption of strong drink was frowned upon, but I must confess that I have lapsed from those strict religious leanings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, expectations are rising and output was improving in the last quarter. As he rightly acknowledges, the long and hard position of the manufacturing industries is improving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "argets and thus affect interest rates and the exchange rate, that will undermine the credibility of the inflation rate. Long-term interest rates show some evidence that we are still paying a premium in the UK. We have slightly higher long-term interest rates than many other of our competitor countries. That slight premium exists partly because the Bank of England does not have target independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.484.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.503.5", "colnum": "503", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 10 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/2002-07-04.503.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.503.9", "colnum": "503", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 10 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/2002-07-04.503.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-07-04", "file": "debates2002-07-04.xml", "sha256": "f5615b8f839ba311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Public Trustee (Liability and Fees) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, during the proceedings on the Public Trustee (Liability and Fees) Bill [Lords] , the Standing Committee on the Bill shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it shall meet.— [Joan Ryan.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-04.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-05", "file": "debates2002-07-05.xml", "sha256": "3dcff4a2a506918b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-05.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Gambling", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "l. Hon. Members have already talked about the old days, and when I was a child, there was an illegal unlicensed bookmaker called Mr. Dunn at the corner of the square where I lived. He operated from a somewhat rundown caravan, from which he ostensibly sold things like a quarter of tea and a pound of sugar, but really he was taking bets. Things moved on and betting became legal, but even then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-05.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-05", "file": "debates2002-07-05.xml", "sha256": "3dcff4a2a506918b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-05.556.2", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Gambling", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": ", however, that all these new casinos will be cultivated places, full of black-tied croupiers and James Bond-style girls, draping themselves over people's shoulders as they go into the final rubber with Le Chiffre, playing vingt et un. They will not all be high-class establishments. It is more likely that there will be a great profusion of establishments with wall-to-wall, winking one- eyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-05.556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-05", "file": "debates2002-07-05.xml", "sha256": "3dcff4a2a506918b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-05.556.2", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Gambling", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "l be cultivated places, full of black-tied croupiers and James Bond-style girls, draping themselves over people's shoulders as they go into the final rubber with Le Chiffre, playing vingt et un. They will not all be high-class establishments. It is more likely that there will be a great profusion of establishments with wall-to-wall, winking one- eyed— [Interruption] —one-armed bandits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-05.556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-05", "file": "debates2002-07-05.xml", "sha256": "3dcff4a2a506918b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-05.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Gambling", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "artnership is looking at a number of schemes. There are ideas for a \"snow dome\" and for \"storm city\". It is important to recognise that Blackpool, like other seaside towns, is already doing things to regenerate itself. We have had major new art installations on the promenade and we had a modern statue called \"Desire\", which was supposed to embody the sexual frisson of a weekend in Blackpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-05.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Apart from the royalties question, I did give due credit to the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge. It was an exemplary Committee in the way in which various items were raised. It was scrutiny at its best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "s to tribunals by improving the procedures for dealing in the workplace with what might otherwise become employment tribunal applications. I believe I am right in saying that the Minister has already acknowledged—he will clarify this when he speaks again—that we will not see a reduction, and that the best we can hope for is a diminution in the rate of growth. I do not have the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend remember from our Standing Committee debates that, according to the Government, the clause will lead to a massive expansion in the number of union learning representatives from just 3,000 now to 22,300 in eight years' time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.655.4", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "No, because I think that the hon. Gentleman will want to catch your eye in a moment, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.655.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I am going to make progress. Some of the requirements in respect of room sizes and other structural changes are unnecessarily over- prescriptive and ludicrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "re home owner in East Sussex who has been running her home for 18 years told me: \"The inspector said the rooms were the wrong size and the social needs of the residents were not being met because not every resident was taken out every day.\" Ironically, many of the residents chose their own rooms as they were happy with their size and \"preferred a smaller and more cosy room to a large vacuous one.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "I was quoting the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, rather than myself. I was, however, going to go on to say that I recognise the concerns that come with managing this change in the care home market. As hon. Members have heard me say on numerous occasions, there has been a small loss of care home beds since 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " my constituency in Devon, geographical spread and availability are important to choice? In many of my larger villages, there is only one residential home. If that home closes, the people in that local community will have to live much further away from their friends and relatives. We are going to end up with Trust House Forte-style care homes with colour co-ordinated bedrooms in urban areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misses the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misses the point. [Interruption.] I intend to assist him with the answer in the course of the debate, if he will let me make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.706.7", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "talk to inspectors and others. I cannot guarantee what the Conservative local authority does in the hon. Lady's patch—that is not my job. According to the independent care consultants, Laing and Buisson, there has been a drop of about 19,000 places since 1997, which is a far cry from the figure of 50,000 that some hon. Members were bandying about but which Front-Benchers have chosen to drop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.706.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.707.4", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "s without believing in some minimum care. It is a case of the emperor having new clothes but not bothering to check the quality. Minimum standards are important. Conservative Members claim that the care home sector has been thrown into crisis by the introduction of the national care standards. That is an extraordinary suggestion. Do they oppose the introduction of training for staff in care homes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.707.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.707.4", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "ering to check the quality. Minimum standards are important. Conservative Members claim that the care home sector has been thrown into crisis by the introduction of the national care standards. That is an extraordinary suggestion. Do they oppose the introduction of training for staff in care homes? [Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"] Do they oppose medicine management for all and personally managed care plans?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.707.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "Homes are not closing as a result of the standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "ulnerable. That journey began when the Leader of the Opposition turned up in the inner city, in Hackney, to take his path of compassionate conservatism. After 18 years of Tory rule, no Labour Member will take lectures from the Opposition on that. We remember the 2 million pensioners who were living in poverty on £68 a week when we came to power. We remember the VAT on pensioners' fuel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "eader of the Opposition turned up in the inner city, in Hackney, to take his path of compassionate conservatism. After 18 years of Tory rule, no Labour Member will take lectures from the Opposition on that. We remember the 2 million pensioners who were living in poverty on £68 a week when we came to power. We remember the VAT on pensioners' fuel— [Interruption.] We also remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.708.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-07-08", "file": "debates2002-07-08.xml", "sha256": "901bd1db8d585808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.716.10", "colnum": "716", "heading": "PUBLIC TRUSTEE (LIABILITY AND FEES) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, during the proceedings on the Public Trustee (Liability and Fees) Bill [Lords] , the Standing Committee on the Bill shall have leave to sit twice on the first day on which it shall meet.— [Mr. Kemp.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-08.716.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-09", "file": "debates2002-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5887acc467ccb3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "the European Union—was organising. Was she involved in the discussions between Jack McConnell and the Foreign Secretary on Scotland's voice in Europe? Why was this women's forum set up if she was not involved in the issue? Was she cut out of the loop altogether? What does it say for the future of women politicians in Scotland if Scotland Office Ministers were not involved in the discussions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-09", "file": "debates2002-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5887acc467ccb3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": " tribute to 45 Commando Royal Marines, based in Arbroath, who have just returned from Afghanistan. I assure the hon. Gentleman that when I was talking to Brigadier General Robert Gordon last week, he stated that the armed forces are putting all their resources into recruitment and that the figures are comfortable enough at the moment, given an economic situation in which people have other choices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-09", "file": "debates2002-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5887acc467ccb3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Retail Savings (Sandler Review)", "cue_speaker": "George Mudie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Mudie", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the public will be horrified by the approach of the shadow Chancellor to this important matter, when millions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-09", "file": "debates2002-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5887acc467ccb3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.771.6", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "fic circumstances in which resignation and retirement are required, but not to the stage of suspension. That brings me to the draft protocol, which has been sent to CPOSA. The association is now considering the procedures relating to suspension of chief officers. I will not detain the House by going through the protocol, with which the Minister is obviously familiar; at least, I sincerely hope so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.771.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-09", "file": "debates2002-07-09.xml", "sha256": "5887acc467ccb3c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords] — [1st allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Somewhat ironically, the Conservatives' comments reveal the true nature of their opposition. As two such contributions have shown, they are against community support officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-09.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "John Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hume", "preceding_text": "ax on fuel has closed petrol stations in Derry, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Newry and Armagh, and instead of bringing the Government extra money, the tax has lost them £400 million a year because fuel is being bought on the other side of the border. Will the Minister therefore ask the Chancellor to act strongly on my proposals to restore the petrol industry in the border counties of Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "iminality in this country. The saddest thing about this policy is that it owes it origins not to the advice of the Government's chief adviser on drugs, not to a well considered examination of the results of the Brixton experiment, and certainly not to the views of people whose children's lives are being destroyed by drugs, but to a political stratagem. The Home Secretary adopted this policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame on you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "organisation against me time and again. When he wants me to give them total independence, I am to believe its word, not mine. Let us have some consistency. That consistency was not exhibited by the former drugs tsar, Mr. Keith Hellawell, who ceased to be the tsar when I took over as Home Secretary. He has been given part-time roles advising on international drugs matters over the past nine months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " appropriate remedy is the criminal justice system—the courts and punishment. I listened carefully to what the right hon. Gentleman said about heroin, which is hugely important. If he rejects the shooting gallery option, does he agree that we must find a way of taking the heroin addict out of the clutches of the criminal profiteers and into the safe hands of the health service professionals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.891.0", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ifications of drugs yet the same maximum penalty for people dealing in those drugs, as will happen now with amphetamines and cannabis? The Master of Rolls, among many others, says that the law on cannabis is not working. We, like others, have argued for a long time that cannabis should be reclassified as a category C drug. We also welcome the announcement of a common police response across London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.894.4", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "mdash;that must be the direction in which we move, and drug testing and treatment orders and arrest referral are designed to do that. The establishment of the National Treatment Agency in April last year and the development of sensible drug policies in prison were necessary to start the process of reversing years of neglect. I do not wish to make a silly party political point this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.894.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " a differential rate for trafficking and dealing would lead to people receiving a lesser penalty for dealing in cannabis—they would get away with it and encourage people to get involved in class A drugs. We now hear the reverse argument: that by having a similar penalty, we make it more likely that people will turn to class A drugs. We cannot have it both ways. It has to be one or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Drugs Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Janet Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Dean", "preceding_text": " made available. It is right that we should have a credible drugs message. I welcome my right hon. Friend's reassertion that all drugs are harmful because that is the message that we should get over to young people. I welcome the proposal to increase the maximum sentence for dealers, but I am concerned that my right hon. Friend does not believe that there should be a supply for gain offence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "out, and the Home Secretary might feel that as part of defining the strategy, he ought to define the targets of the strategy, because otherwise it might be almost impossible to assert that the strategy should be thus, rather than otherwise. So we move almost invisibly from the strategic, or non-operational, to the operational. I dare not have confidence that we shall be able so to define it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "e officers. Has any work been done that shows either that such dialogue has failed to deliver the changes in particular authorities that Home Secretaries have looked for— the hon. Member for Crosby (Mrs. Curtis–Thomas) cited one example—or that the intervention of the inspectorate has not, of itself, produced the improvements desired by the Home Secretary and the wider community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.926.5", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police Reform Bill [Lords] — [2nd allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman, and I must make progress. I am taking even longer than the right hon. Member for West Dorset did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.926.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Police Reform Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "David Cameron.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.993.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-07-10", "file": "debates2002-07-10.xml", "sha256": "f09edd05ce4d36a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-10.999.7", "colnum": "999", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 17 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/2002-07-10.999.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-11", "file": "debates2002-07-11.xml", "sha256": "f3226f486b9fe03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "We have significantly reduced the number of post office closures, especially in rural areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-11", "file": "debates2002-07-11.xml", "sha256": "f3226f486b9fe03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ed to drive forward the UK on broadband has been fostered partly by the success of narrowband and the fact that so many households—10 million—are connected to the internet. I gather that that is more than in any other country. In addition, more people are connected. The majority of the population use narrowband internet services. That slowed down some of the demand for broadband—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-11", "file": "debates2002-07-11.xml", "sha256": "f3226f486b9fe03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I regret the fact that the hon. Gentleman thinks that one can reach a conclusion about the amount going to any individual local authority on the basis of a range of different options proposed in a consultation paper. The Government have been explicit: we do not favour any one of the options.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-11", "file": "debates2002-07-11.xml", "sha256": "f3226f486b9fe03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1062.5", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Pickering Review", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": " who, in a previous life, negotiated with large companies on pension matters, I know that many people will welcome simplification and better information in the workplace; indeed, that is mission critical to the success of future schemes. However, like my hon. Friend the Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike) , I have had to deal with the sad case of a scheme that was abused by an employer, H. H. Robertson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1062.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-11", "file": "debates2002-07-11.xml", "sha256": "f3226f486b9fe03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "hed specifically to look at these questions—comments, on the basis of what I take to be knowledge vastly greater than can be gained from public sources, that the resources devoted to serious crime are too limited, that does seem to me to call into question whether Ministers need to look at the distribution within the available resources to see whether more should be devoted to serious crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-11", "file": "debates2002-07-11.xml", "sha256": "f3226f486b9fe03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ding civil liberties and of taking liberty too lightly. At the same time, however, he mentioned that we seemed to demand of him the protection of society against very dangerous and obnoxious elements. He displayed a little anxiety or irritation that we might be demanding of him things that were inconsistent. I recognise that sentiment, and I might even feel it were I sitting in his position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-11", "file": "debates2002-07-11.xml", "sha256": "f3226f486b9fe03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1093.0", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Intelligence Agencies", "cue_speaker": "John Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Stanley", "preceding_text": " implication, coupled with a degree of anxiety at that time about the security reliability of a Committee of Members of Parliament. I am not a member of the Committee, but on the basis of many years' experience of its work I can say that, as far as I am aware, there has not been a single leak from it. Some of us serve on Select Committees that deal with classified material from time to time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-11.1093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Behaviour Improvement in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": " the policy of the social exclusion unit—it was a social, not an educational, policy. There may be some merit in its aim, but the result in our schools was, in some cases, horrific. The hon. Member for Ealing, North is an amateur comedian from time to time, but, if he will allow me, I will make the slightly more complimentary remark that behind it all he is a level-headed sort of chap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1157.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sell-out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ns in a referendum. After 12 months of negotiation, we and Spain are in broad agreement on many of the principles that should underpin a lasting settlement. They include the principles that Britain and Spain should share sovereignty over Gibraltar—[Hon. Members: \"Sell-out!\"]—including the disputed territory of the isthmus; that Gibraltar should have more internal self-government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Surrender!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "altar—[Hon. Members: \"Sell-out!\"]—including the disputed territory of the isthmus; that Gibraltar should have more internal self-government—[Hon. Members: \"Sell-out!\"]—that Gibraltar should retain its British traditions, customs and way of life; that Gibraltarians should retain the right to British nationality, and should gain the right to Spanish nationality as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "; that Gibraltarians should retain the right to British nationality, and should gain the right to Spanish nationality as well—[Hon. Members: \"Surrender!\"]—that Gibraltar should retain its institutions—its Government, House of Assembly, courts and police service; and that Gibraltar could, if it chose, participate fully in the European Union single market and other EU arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1169.2", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Falklands?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position that the Conservatives never did anything like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "They say that it was 30 years ago, but it is the same Conservative party. We know that when it comes to selling out British interests the Tories have not changed. We know about their Pol Pot syndrome, where they keep bringing forward year zero to try to encourage the country to go in for collective amnesia, but it does not work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Gibraltar", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": ", however, and it is entirely appropriate that they should be able to mark it, so I will look into the matter and write to my hon. Friend. My hon. Friend talked about promoting the best interests of the people of Gibraltar and encouraging commerce. I agree with that, but he and other hon. Members have not told us how we are to do that but for a dialogue, to which Mr. Caruana has himself signed up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Behaviour Improvement in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman, but that is impractical in this modern day and age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "GREENFIELD LAND (BILLERICAY)", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "may be making progress. The Government recently issued a press release, dated 5 July , entitled \"A New Approach to Tackling Unauthorised Traveller Camps\", which appears to accept that councils cannot deal with the issue alone. The initiative will apparently produce new guidance on managing unauthorised camping, and provide police with increased powers to move on unauthorised traveller encampments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-12", "file": "debates2002-07-12.xml", "sha256": "1c3d2029ab5b7e5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "GREENFIELD LAND (BILLERICAY)", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": " the issue alone. The initiative will apparently produce new guidance on managing unauthorised camping, and provide police with increased powers to move on unauthorised traveller encampments. [Interruption.] However, it appears that the increased powers will apply only in cases of trespass. Will the Minister confirm whether that is the case? If so, the new guidelines will not help my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-12.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "I have to say that, as a Scot, I would always object to moving things further south if it could be avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": ", as always, is to remain vigilant and committed to sustaining monetary and fiscal stability, with the strength to take the right long-term decisions for Britain. I can tell the House that, over the economic cycle, we will not only meet all our fiscal disciplines and rules, but we are on track to meet our fiscal disciplines and rules with a margin for prudence even on the most cautious case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ellor for advance sight of his statement. I am delighted that relations between the Chancellor and the Prime Minister have improved so much since the pre-Budget report. So cordial have they become that they cancelled all their engagements at the end of last week to spend more time together. Indeed, they have not spent so much time with each other since the last time the Government were in turmoil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " it becoming clearer and clearer that money alone is not the answer? What is the result of the Chancellor's failure? When public services fail, is not it those on the lowest incomes who get hit the hardest? Is not it those in the inner city who cannot escape from the failing school, the hard-pressed hospital or the crime-ridden estate? The Chancellor likes to talk about fairness, but what is fair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "rms of housing, social services and so on. I should have thought that he would welcome the inspectorates that we have set up to ensure that there is proper public information about how various organisations are meeting the standards expected of them. Once again, while I welcome the fact that the hon. Gentleman supports the additional public spending, the Liberal party wants us to spend more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "On the hon. Gentleman's point about off-balance-sheet debt, we have done what no other country has done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Well, if the right hon. Gentleman wants to accuse the previous Government, whose practices we have followed, of cooking the books, it shows how out of touch with that Government he was—as we thought. So far as contingent liabilities are concerned, we publish all the details on that matter and we have had discussions about it in the Select Committee on the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "y. If a group of schools want to purchase their supplies together and so benefit from economies of scale, it will help them greatly if they can do so as a single legal entity. Because a company provides limited liability status, these clauses will also mean that schools can reduce the financial risk of collaborating. That will leave them free to take advantage of the opportunities offered to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "g that issue. He and I know that most local authorities, especially shire local authorities, have fewer assets on their balance sheets than some individual schools. The £1.1 billion on school balance sheets exceeds significantly the assets of a number of LEAs. Recourse to the Chancellor might well be needed in such cases. In Committee, although the Minister was not present at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.59.4", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": " I believe that the core business of a school and its management and governors is to run the school effectively for its youngsters. I do not want companies to take away from that core function and I think that we need some assurance about that. It is interesting that neither of the head teacher associations supports that part of the Bill. Neither of them wants the greater levels of autonomy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.59.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I want to make some progress, because I have taken five interventions and I am still on my first point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "The Minister is obviously relying heavily on the notes with which he has been supplied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.72.5", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I hope that we shall not lose the attendance of the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) , whose new-found interest in education has added a lot to our debate. I am disappointed that he does not perceive the legal aspects of the clauses with which we are about to deal. I recognise that the amendment is well-intentioned", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.72.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "I am talking about the streamlining of provisions across the board. I shall not deal with specifics now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I apologise for not articulating my point clearly enough. We do not propose to introduce a trigger mechanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ave been lobbied. The National Assembly for Wales's Green Paper, \"The Learning Country\", was a very good document. I urge the Minister to reconsider separating schools forums for Wales and for England, because under the legislation it is possible to do so. I am pleased to see that the Welsh Minister is in his place to answer these deep questions, if he is still a Minister in that Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I do not want to be distracted on to that issue. I am sure that the hon. Lady is far too wise to lead me astray. The hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale, West made a telling point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-15", "file": "debates2002-07-15.xml", "sha256": "182da93aeb6a5002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "e LEAs, we will have a very different beast from the one that we have now. We have major reservations about the new arrangement, and it will call into question the enormous top-up that local authorities give to schools over and above the standard spending assessment that the Government say that they should spend on their schools. The Minister knows—he is a highly intelligent young man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-15.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that reply. The traditional herbal medicinal products directive threatens the availability of 70 per cent. of safe herbal products in the UK. The food supplements directive, to which the Minister referred, would ban 300 safe nutrients and many safe higher potency vitamins. I have considerable regard and affection for the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Education Spending", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "f Ministers miss a target, the target gets sacked. The centrepiece of the statement is the introduction of new types of school. Does the right hon. Lady accept that the fact that schools will seek to jump through these new hoops to get the extra money will inevitably lead to a further increase in red tape? What has she got to say to the head teacher, Janet Smith from Lealands high school in Luton?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Education Spending", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "at schools will seek to jump through these new hoops to get the extra money will inevitably lead to a further increase in red tape? What has she got to say to the head teacher, Janet Smith from Lealands high school in Luton? [Interruption.] Labour Back Benchers groan at the mention of head teachers; they do not want to hear things from the real world of education. What has she got to say to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Education Spending", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ever before. When will they learn that micro-management from the centre is not the way to create world-class schools? The right hon. Lady talks about diversity, but it is an imposed diversity: \"You can do what you want as long as the Secretary of State approves.\" That is a sham diversity. I will disappoint Labour Members by saying that we are not in principle opposed to spending more on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Education Spending", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "s that Alastair Campbell has talked about? Why is there nothing about further education in the statement, apart from a 1 per cent. increase in funding? Fourteen to 19-year-olds have been identified as a key sector, yet FE, we are told, will get a 1 per cent. increase—we have not been told what strings are attached. We welcome the universal expansion of education maintenance allowances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Education Spending", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "I shall let the hon. Lady into a big secret. People in my patch got more money than people in her patch when the Tories were in power as well. That's life. The difference between the two Governments is that we are trying to do something about it, whereas the Conservative Government did nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The resolution of disagreement between the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister is a matter for them acting together. It is not for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "No, I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman; his point has no merit. The devolution settlement for Northern Ireland clearly provides for a process for electing a First Minister and a process for electing a Deputy First Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Northern Ireland Peace Process", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "rting some beneficial objectives; they must have the guts to face up to the tough means that are sometimes required to achieve those objectives. We will not change the course of history simply by wishful thinking or risk aversion; nor will we do so by being fastidious over every step required along the way. General de Gaulle once wrote that achieving the right outcome sometimes necessitates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.231.3", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Northern Ireland Peace Process", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman agrees. An equality commission and equality of opportunity are not concessions to the republicans or gestures to a ghetto in west Belfast, but things to which every child and family in Northern Ireland should have access. A police service that the whole community can participate in and support is not a concession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-16", "file": "debates2002-07-16.xml", "sha256": "177cb3b651f99b9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Northern Ireland Peace Process", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "n which, nevertheless, a Government must make decisions. Were I to attempt to give a more specific answer to the hon. Gentleman, I would say that I would probably set the threshold rather higher than him. I would therefore guess that if, or when, the Liberal Democrats run Northern Ireland policy we will set the threshold in a slightly more flexible way than the Conservatives will do in 2090—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-16.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.277.10", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Bob Laxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Laxton", "preceding_text": "unding of £2 million for the new deal for communities, along with the increase in resources for the neighbourhood renewal fund? That will have a strong impact on local communities. May I ask the Prime Minister whether he would like to visit the Derwent new deal project in my constituency, and see the real partnership between local authorities that operates there? Does he agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.277.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.278.2", "colnum": "278", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "\"It is what money is actually spent on that counts more than how much money is spent.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have just made it a moment ago, in the answer that I gave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As usual, that is a typical piece of opportunism by the Conservative party. The process began—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.286.4", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There will now be a statement by the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Criminal Justice White Paper", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " putting victims at the centre, and about the critical aim of protecting, encouraging and supporting witnesses. We have a slight disagreement about the statistics on people pleading guilty. Some 57 per cent. of those who opted to go to Crown court instead of being heard in a magistrates court eventually pleaded guilty, so the decision was clearly a delaying tactic. There are very real issues here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Criminal Justice White Paper", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ing, encouraging and supporting witnesses. We have a slight disagreement about the statistics on people pleading guilty. Some 57 per cent. of those who opted to go to Crown court instead of being heard in a magistrates court eventually pleaded guilty, so the decision was clearly a delaying tactic. There are very real issues here. [Interruption.] To plead guilty after months of prevarication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Criminal Justice White Paper", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ome 57 per cent. of those who opted to go to Crown court instead of being heard in a magistrates court eventually pleaded guilty, so the decision was clearly a delaying tactic. There are very real issues here. [Interruption.] To plead guilty after months of prevarication— [Interruption.] The barracking can continue from the barrack-room lawyers, but it is simple fact that 57 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.292.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Criminal Justice White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This is a speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "ever violated a woman before would be considered relevant in any event. To enshrine the test in statute would not cause a great problem. There are three matters that do and, I anticipate, will cause problems, and I ask for my right hon. Friend's assistance. The first is double jeopardy. He gave the example of DNA evidence, and I certainly would not be against a specific provision relating to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Criminal Justice White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Please have a seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "ng the risky element of upgrading the engine and issues relating to the management of resources. Military people would probably say, as now seems to be the case with the Liberals, \"Just give us everything that we ask for.\" Then they must step back and accept that we have to live in the real world. The advice was that there would be a reduction for a time in the layer of defences for any taskforce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.321.5", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "eriod that I mentioned, the new Type 45s will be in service and the other support mechanisms on existing ships will be upgraded. We will thus have the capability. Hon. Members will understand that the probability of a single Royal Navy taskforce going to sea is not high. International coalition of effort leads us to the conclusion that if we were deploying against a threat, we would have partners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.321.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "Well, okay, let us match commitments. Let us go down the list. When I get to the end of my speech, I would like the hon. Gentleman to say that he will stand by every one of our commitments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "e directly to our forces' ability to deploy, engage and win on the battlefield. The first is the delivery of the Westland Apache attack helicopter, which entered service in January last year. The arrival of Apache illustrates how we are meeting our strategic defence review commitment to deliver world-class, highly capable equipment to the armed forces, which will help to transform the battlefield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "ginning to bring delays on major projects under control, and is continuing to control costs on major projects and to meet the vast majority of the technical requirements of the Armed Services.\" We will respond formally to the PAC report—and to the Defence Committee's survey of major procurement projects—in the early autumn. It would be wrong to reply before the formal response process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "formally to the PAC report—and to the Defence Committee's survey of major procurement projects—in the early autumn. It would be wrong to reply before the formal response process. [Interruption.] The Opposition complain that I have now been speaking for an hour, but I have tried to take all the interventions that would add value to the debate. We have an extensive debate on a key issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " to manage general stores and has already generated significant savings. In its first year of operations, it rationalised the supplier base, making savings of some £40 million on new contracts valued at £350 million. Other partnering agreements with industry are helping the Department to manage its stocks more effectively, transferring stock-holding activities and risks to contractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ith allies and partners\". That is entirely consistent with what the Minister said, but it means that we shall not have that independent capability should the need arise. We hope that the need will not arise, but it may. My remarks are slightly tongue in cheek, but currently there are arguments relating to Gibraltar and we have just seen Spain reclaim an island that the Moroccans had claimed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Faversham and Mid-Kent (Hugh Robertson) said, we believe that it is imperative that the equipment is entirely compatible and interoperable with our partner nations, particularly the United States. The Minister referred to the need to buy the best, and not necessarily British. All of us believe that we can buy British and best in nearly every case, but that will not always be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.340.2", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "on. It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) . I do not know how he manages to combine the two onerous tasks of being a senior member of the Defence Committee and a member of the Conservative defence team. If he finds the tasks too difficult to bear, we will reluctantly wave him goodbye. I promise him a champagne reception, which the Minister will pay for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "three years, after a period of unrelieved and stark decline, is very welcome. I hope that the evaluation that the Defence Committee will make will bear out more or less what the Government are arguing—that the increase has been reasonably substantial. I mentioned at the beginning of my speech that, since the second world war, and, I am sure, since the days of procuring bows and arrows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "preceding_text": "d States Government have never said how we will obtain such material if it cannot be supplied from across the pond—I felt that I ought to repeat that to the House. In terms of supply, from where will we get explosives for Sea Wolf, Spearfish, Sting Ray, BVRAAM and CASOM—I do not know what they stand for, but they all need a warhead that has something in the end that goes \"Bang!\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "The planned total does not include unforseen items.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-17", "file": "debates2002-07-17.xml", "sha256": "9fec0133ccac42eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "I really cannot give way. I do not have time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-17.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.410.8", "colnum": "410", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "At the last general election, the Conservative party stood on a policy that the national health service would be free at the point of need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.410.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.410.8", "colnum": "410", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "At the last general election, the Conservative party stood on a policy that the national health service would be free at the point of need. [Hon. Members: \"Order.\"] Since then, a policy of charging, which the Conservatives are now proposing, has been put forward by the shadow Chancellor. The policy of charging is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.410.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.412.6", "colnum": "412", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "It has no connection whatever with the so-called £25 million raid on pensions. What the hon. Lady must understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.412.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is putting his old proposition. What the Government will do is assess the five economic tests, ensuring that the Government's best economic interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.421.2", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "It will be a pleasure. The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 22 July —Second Reading of the Mobile Telephones (Re-programming) Bill [Lords] . Motions to establish the Transport and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Select Committees. Motion on the summer recess Adjournment. Tuesday 23 July —Debate on public expenditure on a motion for the Adjournment of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Sadly, I am too constrained by my work on behalf of the House to take time off to do that. On behalf of the House, I wish to thank all the staff of the House for their hard work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You will be on your own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "y, we will get the Anderson report on foot and mouth. We know that because Anderson has told the world so. Will the Leader of the House guarantee that the House will have the opportunity to consider that very important report before we leave for the summer recess? We must not slip into the recess without being given the chance to consider the report, and perhaps we could delay the recess by a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the event that the Bill, as amended, does not pass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I gently say to the hon. Gentleman that my election by my constituents and my democratic mandate entitle me, just occasionally, to disagree with the BBC, and I may indeed do so again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.432.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He's wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I cannot hope to match the literary flair with which my hon. Friend asks his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Sustainable Communities, Housing and Planning", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "making. Who else but this Government, who presided over the worst housing figures since 1924—the year that Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister—could make a virtue out of reversing their own mistakes? This great leap forward is to achieve the same housing building figures that were achieved under Thatcherism. Perhaps the Prime Minister is right—perhaps we are all Thatcherites now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Sustainable Communities, Housing and Planning", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": " the problem of the flight from our inner cities, and the Deputy Prime Minister's suggestion that he will intervene rings rather hollow, because he shilly-shallied over the development at the Elephant and Castle. If the Government had shown some backbone over that, many of those new houses would already have been built in Southwark. People are fleeing the city because of the quality of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Sustainable Communities, Housing and Planning", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Sustainable Communities, Housing and Planning", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": " of business planning zones was heavily savaged by the Select Committee. Whether its criticisms were right or not, there is still a fundamental problem with the idea. Will not areas close to the zones be at risk? Will it not be a case of chase the job around the region? A new set of multiplex cinemas or a do-it-yourself outlet will not revitalise an area. That idea smacks of 1980s solutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.452.4", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Sustainable Communities, Housing and Planning", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "generally recognised by all involved—I have had time to read their reports—that there are too many plans in this area. We need to shape it better than we have before, which is why I have made these proposals. The hon. Gentleman's concern for county councils is very touching, in view of the fact that the Conservatives abolished three or four of them, county structure plans or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Strategic Defence Review", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "gin by welcoming the increased allocations for defence in the comprehensive spending review. However, we must put the increases in perspective. The Chancellor disingenuously claims a \"rise of £3½ billion a year\".—[ Official Report , 15 July 2002; Vol. 389, c. 22 .] The Secretary of State for Defence repeated that claim today, and I fear that Labour is up to its old tricks again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": " There is no issue here that the hon. Gentleman should not be able to understand, and he should not surmise that someone's nose has been put out of joint or that that has subsequently had to be put right. He is far too suspicious. As for the hon. Gentleman's concerns about what the Prime Minister said yesterday, let me read the Hansard report to him so that he can hear exactly what was said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.483.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-18", "file": "debates2002-07-18.xml", "sha256": "c73b5884104304be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "re is some merit in what the hon. Gentleman says, but I do not want to extend the discretion, lest it waters down the mandatory aspect. This is not an arcane debate about the law. It is about how the law impacts on real people, real lives and real communities, which we are sent to this place to represent. We are talking not about Jeffrey Archer or Jonathan Aitken, but about major league criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-18.492.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-19", "file": "debates2002-07-19.xml", "sha256": "e6430d45da567b5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-19.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Private Hire Vehicles (Carriage of Guide Dogs etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tremendous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": " clause and amendment No. 2. However, there are some in the House today who may recall the passage of what was then the Disability Discrimination Bill. The Government of the day chose the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) as the Minister who piloted the Bill through, and he did that extremely well. I led for the Opposition, and I leave others to decide what my performance was like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-19.559.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Future of Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "new airport would depend crucially on its ability to attract airlines.\" Has he done a feasibility study on whether airlines will be prepared to move out to Cliffe marshes? Is it not the case, as some have speculated, that this proposal has been advanced only so that the Secretary of State can look very green when he abolishes it, never having been in favour of it in the first place? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Future of Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Andy King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy King", "preceding_text": "at there would be a new airport in Rugby and Birmingham airport will close, they would not have believed that it was humanly possible. My right hon. Friend said that Birmingham is a very successful airport. I believe that it should continue to be so and that the people of Birmingham would not want to lose their airport. Will he meet a delegation of the people of Rugby within the four-month period?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Future of Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " of people wanting to fly from midlands airports. The options canvass is on whether we expand capacity at Birmingham or east midlands, or both. Alternatively, the option is whether it is worth building a new airport. No decisions whatever have been made. I strongly urge my hon. Friend, not for my good but for his, that before he tells his constituents that they will be getting a new airport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Older People's Services", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "ys for equipment of dubious quality . . . many who could benefit from equipment services are excluded by stringent eligibility criteria . . . waiting times for some equipment is up to six years . . . a mood of despondency is common among managers running equipment services . . . no progress has been made in integrating mobility services, leaving the wheelchair and orthotics services marginalised.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.890.2", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "o congratulate the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight) on what is a genuine promotion. He has worked hard for it, and I hope that he lasts a little longer than his predecessor. There is something of the night about recent events. For instance, why is the shadow Chief Secretary, whoever it was to be, not opening for the Opposition in this debate? That is the precedent in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.890.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman normally does better than that. There were many of us who were glad that he was not on holiday and hoped for his preferment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "tments to account. The National Audit Office has said: \"the introduction of Public Service Agreement targets, and in particular the move to outcome-focused targets, is an ambitious programme of change which puts the United Kingdom among the leaders in performance measurement practice.\" Even right hon. and hon. Members who represent the Liberal Democrat tendency ought to recognise and welcome that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "ent targets, and in particular the move to outcome-focused targets, is an ambitious programme of change which puts the United Kingdom among the leaders in performance measurement practice.\" Even right hon. and hon. Members who represent the Liberal Democrat tendency ought to recognise and welcome that. [Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"] At least one of them is present, and that is more than enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.895.3", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman examined the Department's performance, he would see that it is the Lord Chancellor's Department's intention and practice—it has delivered on that intention and practice—to provide a better service to small businesses. The whole point of such a target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.896.7", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " course of the cross-cutting review of the delivery of public services by the voluntary sector, it became clear that there were still areas in which improvement was needed and that barriers needed to be removed. As a result, I can announce that there is to be a new one-off three-year fund worth £125 million to help such organisations in their public service work. Called futurebuilders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.896.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.896.7", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "nd is to increase the scope and scale of voluntary sector service delivery, to remove obstacles in the path of organisations that want to deliver services, and to provide the means to modernise operations in the long term. It is no use the Opposition saying, \"Oh dear,\" because as we speak voluntary organisations such as the Leonard Cheshire fund are out there, working with local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.896.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "ources to be wasted. We have set out a framework for progress—a framework in which resources are tied to reform in order to deliver results. It is a vision for public services that has at its heart the concrete steps that it is necessary to take to enhance opportunity and security for all in this changing world. Above all, it is about bringing together people in partnership for change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.898.2", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "e country can be forgiven for a sense of deja vu because his recipe is always the same. First, he announces record amounts of money. We have his word for that. In 1998, the extra money was said to be the biggest ever investment in health and education. In 2000, it was record investment. Last Monday, it was more of the same. Then comes the spin. With the Chancellor, not everything is what it seems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman attends these debates, he will know perfectly well that I do not wish to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I have listened to all this and reached the conclusion that many people on the Front Bench just do not live in the real world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.908.4", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "a meeting involving the budget chairman of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, in Washington. David Walker, of the general accounting office, said that every country in the world will experience such problems. There are several things that can be done. There could be a reduction in the provision of services, but that is very hard for politicians of whatever party to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.908.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": ". I congratulate them both, along with other members of the Committee, on their work in scrutinising the spending review. However, it is a great shame that, because of the truncated timetable that the Government have instigated, we cannot consult their report in order to enhance our debate. It is a genuine pleasure for a Liberal Democrat to be able to say in a public expenditure debate, \"At last!\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me at the climax of this debate. I have sat here for some four hours plus, and I have listened to the debate ebb and flow, although I should say that it has mostly ebbed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-23", "file": "debates2002-07-23.xml", "sha256": "81b67dcf6959a209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.949.5", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "es to reform and results through streamlined arrangements for accountability and audit. I would have thought that the Opposition would welcome our new inspection regime. Those of us who believe in public services know that we have a special duty to make sure that public money is well spent and spent efficiently. We are as determined to secure value for money as we are to secure money for services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-23.949.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.968.4", "colnum": "968", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "The UK worked hard to reshape IMF and World Bank relations with developing countries through the creation of the poverty reduction strategy process. This puts developing country Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.968.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "n strategies that they are openly debated with civil society. We must make sure that it is not just a few groups who are capable of applying to agencies such as mine for grants, but that representatives of the people, such as churches, women's organisations and village groups, can apply so that the real poor get a say in the priorities of their country. That is improving, but there is a way to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is right; the Committee does not take issue with the fact that there has been work done, and much good work too. But the Select Committee did go on to say—this is the critical bit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not accept what the right hon. Gentleman says about DEFRA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Roger Casale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Casale", "preceding_text": "s potential for good in our society by strengthening, and not by severing, the links between football clubs and their local communities? Will he do what he can to make sure that no new public money is given to sponsor the move to Milton Keynes? Any such money should go to the newly formed AFC Wimbledon which may, one day, find its way back to Wembley as well as finding its way back to Plough lane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.979.2", "colnum": "979", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will be aware of the concern throughout the country that by the time the House returns in the autumn we will be at war with Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.979.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "With permission, I wish to make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "lling murder of Gerard Lawlor by so-called loyalists early on Monday morning—a young man who was barely in his teens when the peace talks started, and not out of them when his life was so cruelly taken. I am sure I speak on behalf of the whole House when I send our sympathy and condolences to his family and our deep regrets to all the families of the injured and murdered in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What steps?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "tation. Those benefits include government of Northern Ireland by the people of Northern Ireland, with local elected representatives in a cross-community Administration. The stability of those institutions is not a concession to paramilitaries or paramilitarism. On the contrary, it provides a platform for putting their activities in the past, where they belong. The steps that I have announced today", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"This is not very positive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " I asked him to do, with the Irish Government and the American Government to put in place real financial and other penalties for any organisation that he may specify as being in breach of the agreement and the ceasefire? At present, as he knows, the entire specification system is a paper tiger—a sword of clay, I called it the other day. That is not good enough. Will he do something about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "h;I will write to him. I can say only that I think he is around the right mark. The last figures I heard were around 90, but they may have moved up to over 100. There is a range of reasons, but the right hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct: they are directly related not to substantiated evidence but to the main line of inquiry that has been followed into the break-in at Castlereagh and the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.992.2", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "s remained tense with little variation since the signing of the Good Friday agreement? In that context, does the Secretary of State agree that trust and responsibility are extremely important, not only in this House but among the parties in Northern Ireland and that hon. Members have a responsibility not to destabilise the situation by trying to score cheap or opportunistic party political points?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. I agree with many of his points. He makes a point of which it is worth reminding everyone. Northern Ireland is not only part of the United Kingdom but a greatly valued part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "Unquestionably, now and in the future, governing bodies are the people who will remain responsible for running schools. There is no disagreement about that. As we discussed last week, the issues in relation to clause 2 refer to exemptions that relate to education law. The situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "scussed last week, the issues in relation to clause 2 refer to exemptions that relate to education law. The situation— [Interruption.] Will the hon. Gentleman let me finish my point? The situation in relation to governing bodies remains. The statutes governing the role of the governing bodies are laid out and they will continue to be in force. So I do not think that the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ually a question of trust between central Government and schools—whether or not we trust our schools to do sensible things with the freedom that we propose to give them. It is impossible and undesirable to legislate for every possible eventuality. It is much better to put in place a sensible framework to manage risks and to leave our schools and LEAs to the task of making the proposals work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ent from their statutory requirements relating to education, and the Minister knows that. He has just referred to the question of what would happen in the future, but he also knows that he has given me no answer at all about whether the question of the application of those statutory instruments would apply to school companies. Furthermore, the Minister may be aware of the article in The Observer .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "olesale teaching.\"—[ Official Report, House of Lords , 23 July 2002; Vol. 638, c. 234 .] But it can. There is nothing to prevent a school from saying to a teacher agency such as Select, \"We want you to provide all the teachers for our school.\" So it was frankly dishonest to say that a company cannot do that. That is why we do not trust the Minister—we are not getting the right answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " legislation should work. It will work only if it commands widespread public approval and is seen to be fair. This is a major step in that direction, and I am grateful to the Minister that, in the light of what happened in the Lords and the serious reservations that were expressed, he has seen fit to introduce this amendment. Before we move on to the other matter that falls to be considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the Minister. That is what I had assumed, and that was how I was treating the matter, but I wanted to make sure that I was not failing to take the opportunity to deal with it. I shall refer to the other amendments in the group that the Minister has spoken to, which relate to the public interest tests that he introduced in respect of investigatory powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "opportunity to deal with it. I shall refer to the other amendments in the group that the Minister has spoken to, which relate to the public interest tests that he introduced in respect of investigatory powers. [Interruption.] Again, the Minister will remember that in Committee we went to great lengths to point out that we did not think that the Human Rights Act 1998 on its own should be relied on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-07-24", "file": "debates2002-07-24.xml", "sha256": "9f2d600a867952c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1053.6", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Proceeds of Crime Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "the amendments tabled by the Minister and his colleagues that have been brought back from the House of Lords. It is sensible to have a £5,000 de minimis level. The Minister neglected to mention that that was in amendment No. 280 that was discussed on Tuesday 4 December 2001 . If I am not mistaken, it was tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Dorset and North Poole (Mrs. Brooke) and me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-07-24.1053.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.9.1", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ns programme.\" They are therefore best placed to assess the situation, and that is why the political emphasis must be on getting the UN inspectors back in. The worry from this side of the Atlantic has to be that, even if that were conceded, it is no longer of primary interest to the United States Government. That must be a deep concern, which we in this House are correct to reflect. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.9.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that I totally followed that, but if the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Britain has one of the most effective and rigorous systems of arms export control anywhere in the world—more effective than any of our European partners and on a par with that operated by the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman were to check what was going on then, he would find that material was made available also by the Soviet Union and other countries in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman that when he and I were covering similar responsibilities, there was, shall we say, a certain reluctance on his part about Kosovo. Let me remind him that his Conservative spokesman said that we should not send a battalion of Gurkhas to East Timor. When it comes to committing military force for clear political objectives, we will take no lessons from the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "No. How do my friends feel having to say that Al Gore is wrong and that George W. Bush is correct?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": " turned elsewhere; and that the Muslim world will be united and will regard Saddam as a hero. Those who saw the reports of the Johannesburg summit will know that evidence of that is already in place, unfortunately. We must consider the fact that oil supplies and international markets will be disrupted and, perhaps most important, that such action will provide a recruiting ground for tourism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "eness and a steady determination not to suffer the sort of horror that they suffered 12 months ago. On my return today, I am therefore disappointed—although not entirely surprised—to find comments being reported in the press from the Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton, in which their leader stated there that there was \"more than a hint of imperialism\" about what America was doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "rence in Brighton, in which their leader stated there that there was \"more than a hint of imperialism\" about what America was doing. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"] I hope that the record will show Liberal Democrats cheering those remarks. Another Liberal Democrat Front-Bench spokesman is similarly reported as having described the United States' democratically elected Government as a \"regime\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Highgate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "gues such as my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr. Davis) , who delivered a characteristically sharp analysis of the situation in which we have been placed. My hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Mrs. Mahon) did fairly well too, although she is not present to hear me say so. So did my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and whatever the other part of the constituency is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "tanks that jam in the sand. If there is to be action, will our troops be properly equipped? We all know that Saddam Hussein is adept at exploiting divisions in the international community to buy time, so the Liberal Democrats believe that we should keep up the pressure on Iraq, but at the same time we must keep the door to diplomacy open. So I say again that the Liberal Democrats are united—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "preceding_text": "scientists in Iraq have been very busy. The dossier has made such information more accessible, but sadly it confirms that the devil has found work to ensure that those scientists have not been idle. It is clear that there are now greater and growing resources of weapons, matérials, know-how and, indeed, means of their delivery. Doing nothing to stem that growth is no longer an option—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " responsibility to our service men. Of course, it is the loneliest and hardest decision for Ministers to make when they determine whether to commit our service men to military action. We share that serious responsibility with them. The hon. Member for Hereford (Mr. Keetch) made a different speech from most others in the Chamber. We perhaps heard today the third position from the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-09-24", "file": "debates2002-09-24.xml", "sha256": "d8f85f2fd9a5eb55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "angerous and unpredictable world than we thought we did and unless we are prepared to respond to those new and clear dangers, we are playing into the hands of those who would carry out further terrorist atrocities. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) said that surely Saddam Hussein would have to be irrational to use his weapons of mass destruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-09-24.145.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr. John Hayes be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Mr. Peter Luff be added to the Committee.—[ Keith Hill, on behalf of the Committee of Selection. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.170.6", "colnum": "170", "heading": "A1", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XThe Liberal Democrats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "not, for example, to the south coast and to Bristol. He is right to suggest that such issues need to be considered, but that will take time. However, in the next few months I hope to make announcements about a number of road and rail improvements. One thing that is striking in the south-west and other areas is that for everyone who wants a road there are rather a lot of people who do not want one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.170.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ut elections in Northern Ireland remaining on schedule for May? Does he mean that those elections will still take place even if there is no Assembly at the time for those elected to sit in? If that is not what he means, will he just elucidate the position to the House? Of course, if he tells us that he is certain that we can return to devolution by that time, we shall be the first to be delighted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "n the Ulster Unionist party who are in favour of those things, but if we are to solve the problem it is right to specify that lack of trust. A third example of lack of trust is that many in the Unionist and nationalist communities wonder in what type of an arrangement two Ministers can have as their policy the destruction of the very agreement from which they derive their ministerial office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " sincerely hope that they manage to resolve the problem. Sometimes, the apparently small things move the process forward. We have spent a lot of time, quite correctly, on the big issues such as Castlereagh, Colombia, and so on, but it should not go unnoticed, for instance, that Martin McGuinness said on Remembrance day that we should all respect the right of the British to remember the dead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "A-level Grading", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "CA, that the other boards failed to do? How does she propose to deal with the 2,000 students who have suffered? She says that students will not be financially disadvantaged. Will she tell the House what the compensation package will cover? Will she also make it clear what she will do for the other 88,000 students who will be feeling angry and disappointed today because they have not been regraded?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "A-level Grading", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "I cannot believe that the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) has just said that he wished that more students had received incorrect results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "A-level Grading", "cue_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Estelle Morris", "preceding_text": "ear about what Mike Tomlinson said. Political interference in the exam system is a serious allegation. I said when I gave my first statement on the issue that not only had no political interference ever taken place under Labour Ministers but that I believed that it had never taken place under any Conservative Minister. Even if the Liberal Democrats were ever to get to be Education Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.211.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "A-level Grading", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Regrade her.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Secretary of State has forgotten herself for a moment. She must use the correct parliamentary language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "g of business being in the hands of the Government, but I hope that you will bear it in mind, given the representations being made to you about the limited time to debate three very important issues tonight, that we are shortly to consider changing the Standing Orders of the House in order that Members can, apparently, swan off to cinema clubs in the evenings. I hope that you will convey to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Corporate Responsibility (Environmental, Social and Financial Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Linda Perham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Perham", "preceding_text": " to establish and provide for the functions of the Corporate Responsibility Board; to require certain companies to publish reports on environmental, social and economic matters; to require those companies to consult on certain proposed operations; to specify certain duties and liabilities of directors; to provide for remedies for aggrieved persons; and for connected purposes In recent years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.225.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Urban Post Office Reinvention Programme", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "preceding_text": " Bill that were considered in Committee, apart from the Third Reading, which is also scheduled for today's Sitting. Those matters may well, therefore, take us until about 10 o'clock, and the very important Adjournment debate on local government finance could get no time at all. This is a serious matter, and I strongly urge you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to support the point put to you by my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Urban Post Office Reinvention Programme", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XIn the Chamber?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "any Members from both sides of the House wish to contribute to the debate. It was necessary for the House to hear the statements that we heard this afternoon, and I do not think that any reasonable Member would object to those statements, which, necessarily, have taken time. We will look for another opportunity to extend the debate that will start tonight so that more Members may contribute to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Public Trustee (Liability and Fees) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "stee Act 1906 in two areas. It removes the requirement for full cost recovery for trust work in order to prevent the large increase in fees that the current provisions would necessitate. The Bill also amends the 1906 Act to make the Lord Chancellor responsible for fees in respect of the Public Trustee's work, rather than the current formula which places that responsibility with the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Public Trustee (Liability and Fees) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Burnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Burnett", "preceding_text": "I should declare that I am a lawyer, although I do not practise as such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Public Trustee (Liability and Fees) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Burnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Burnett", "preceding_text": " Oates, is appointed to both statutory posts. The Minister has assured us that he receives just one salary and that it is paid at the appropriate civil service rates. In other words, he does not get two dollops. The two statutory offices continue to exist separately but are currently held by the same person. I should like the Minister outline to the House—or, better still, write to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought to remember that I answered that question when he asked it at yesterday's seminar, so rather than detain the House now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "twork referred to such discretion in its advice to all Members of the House. It said: XThese top-ups are more susceptible to manipulation, the basic entitlement is therefore a far more equitable means of funding local authority services.\" That is right. One of the most remarkable features of local government finance and involvement from the centre is how little manipulation took place in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend see anything fair in the fact that East Sussex, which is the poorest shire county in England, is also the worst affected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-15", "file": "debates2002-10-15.xml", "sha256": "ac67dd7aa372e4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhat does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I hope that Hansard is available in the hon. Gentleman's constituency, because those words require wide circulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-15.279.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Wednesday 23 October at 7 pm.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " committee unless their petition has been presented within the time provided for petitioning or has been deposited pursuant to Private Business Standing Order 126(b); That, in relation to the bill, Private Business Standing Order 127 shall have effect as if the words 'under Standing Order 126 (Reference to committee of petitions against bill)' were omitted.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.297.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered tomorrow.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr John Hayes be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Mr Peter Luff be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Woolas.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.302.8", "colnum": "302", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "No; the hon. Gentleman is wrong. We have given a clear undertaking that no local authority will suffer a cash loss as a result of the change in formula.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.302.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.304.5", "colnum": "304", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sydney Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "der this matter? I agree with the hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Kevin Brennan) . If someone goes through the procedure of going to the local ombudsman and the ombudsman gives advice and makes recommendations, surely the local authority should implement those recommendations. They usually are implemented but, if they are not, does that not make a mockery of the ombudsman's role if he cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.304.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.310.4", "colnum": "310", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that the United Kingdom must develop as many alternative renewable energy sources as possible? Is he aware of the proposal in Golden Valley in my constituency for what could be the largest UK land-based wind farm, which would put up to 50 turbines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I cannot say to the hon. Gentleman that I am an expert on the Golden Valley wind farm proposal, but I am somewhat helped. Proposals for any such power stations above a certain capacity are considered by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989. However, it says here that no such application has been made to build a wind farm at Golden Valley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "uch application has been made to build a wind farm at Golden Valley— [Laughter.] —so I am slightly at a loss. I assume that the hon. Gentleman knows his constituency better than the people who brief me, so perhaps an application has been made; if so, I will have to write to him to correct what I have just said. Obviously, we are aware of the Liberal Democrats' strong support for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I say to the Prime Minister that when it's wrong, it's wrong and there is no point in trying to pretend that it's right. He has in front of him five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I say to the Prime Minister that when it's wrong, it's wrong and there is no point in trying to pretend that it's right. He has in front of him five years— [Interruption.] —of looking at that examination and all the reports that have come back from teachers and parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.312.4", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " that. However, to say to students that A-levels are not worth the paper on which they are written is totally irresponsible. I will tell the right hon. Gentleman what most parents would fear, and that is what was outlined at the Conservative party conference when it was said that the aim of the party in public services was to complete the Thatcher revolution. That is what would worry most parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.312.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XMore.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Andrew Miller.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.314.6", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAnd Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister to join me and most of the House in sending good wishes to the England team for the match against Macedonia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.314.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XShe is a Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": ", however, the Secretary of State saw the chance for some easy headlines about how tough she is. She must have known that she had no power to back up her tough talk. All that she succeeded in doing was to raise the temperature, so that there is still no solution. Councillor Kay Hammond, who is now responsible for sorting out this mess, summed up the effect of the Secretary of State's intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "ensive, legalistic and take too long to come to a decision. I agree with the National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers that these panels should go. Heads and governors should have the power over discipline in a school. If the heads and governors get an exclusion process seriously wrong, the local education authority should be the appeal point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "rs and the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers that these panels should go. Heads and governors should have the power over discipline in a school. If the heads and governors get an exclusion process seriously wrong, the local education authority should be the appeal point. [Interruption.] Secondly, I offer the Government another of the policies that we unveiled last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady should listen. Of course, we want to abolish appeal panels, but a due process must be operated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.322.7", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "Only if the process is wrong. The right hon. Lady should have listened to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.322.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.322.7", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": " the amount of legal knowledge among Government Members is less than it should be. Like every MP, she should be aware of the powers of people such as ombudsmen, who cannot take hearings of fact but can take hearings on legal processes. The difference should be clear to every Member of Parliament, but it appears not to be clear to Labour Members. I can only assume that none of them has ever —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.322.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The most important long-term measure that we learned about from other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "Rather than bobbing up and down with Whips' questions, the hon. Gentleman should listen to what I just said. I said that the literacy and numeracy hours have done some good. The figures went up from the mid-1990s to 2000. Since 2000, the English figures have stuck at 75 per cent., and the mathematics figures have fluctuated between 71 and 73 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "That is not what my right hon. Friend said. Mike Tomlinson has said that schools are left with no idea of what an A-level is. If this Government believe that they have not damaged the reputation of that exam—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "Methinks the Secretary of State protests too much. That is not what I said, and I do not think that hon. Members understood me to say that. What I am saying to the hon. Lady is that I do not believe that if I went from my headship, which I did on one occasion, and was seconded to another organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) , who usually makes intelligent interventions, may regret those comments. If he does not believe that there is a crisis of confidence in our examination system, he must have been elsewhere for the past two months. We are all united about the need for a new curriculum for 14 to 19-year-olds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.349.2", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "country. I want to know from the Minister why OCR psychology A-level has not been subject to a review of the grading boundaries. How could this have happened? The Minister might want to consider the following point, which is also suspicious. When Fearnhill requested a re-marking of the results, they came back the same. It also asked for the scripts—the coursework papers—to be returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.349.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "There is no difference. I fundamentally believe, as does the Conservative party, including my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) —he set this out at our party conference—that the ultimate decision must rest with the governing body. The governing body and the community that it represents must be the final arbiter. Let us consider the consequences of getting things wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": " our party conference—that the ultimate decision must rest with the governing body. The governing body and the community that it represents must be the final arbiter. Let us consider the consequences of getting things wrong. [Interruption.] It is all well and good Labour Members trying to score points across the Floor of the House. They do not seem to understand the importance of this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "stage of an education debate to read out a script from his Whips Office. He has done it perfectly well, but what he needs to address, what Ministers need to address, and what the Secretary of State signally failed to deal with earlier is the A-level crisis into which the Government have plunged the country. What he has failed to deal with, what the Secretary of State has failed to deal with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "d. That guidance said prior alternative strategies must be tried in respect of teachers who were assaulted or threatened, and the Secretary of State was a Minister in the Department for Education and Skills when it was introduced. The Prime Minister said earlier that independent appeals panels were introduced in 1987 by the then Conservative Government. That is true, but let us consider the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XThat's not surprising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been present for some of the debate, for which I give him credit, but he does not appear to have gained much from the experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "r that many young people rightly feel about the way in which they have been treated this year. In particular, he asked some very detailed questions about the psychology papers of Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations. I cannot answer for the examinations boards and it would be wrong for me to do so, as they are independent bodies. However, I assure him that we will follow independent advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The answer is simple: we did not know that the A-levels were going wrong. If we had known, we would have corrected the error.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Department for Education and Skills", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am very tempted to give way, but I am determined not to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend puts his point well. It has also been made to me by people living in rural Northumberland, who are worried about the creation of a north-east regional assembly, and by people living in rural Cheshire and Cumbria who are worried about the possibility of a north-west regional assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "o have objected to the right to buy in the past has been that tenants had the right to purchase their house but that the money received by the local authority could not then be used to provide additional housing. The Opposition are now committed to a policy that will free housing associations to spend the receipts from the sale of those housing association properties on the provision of new homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the Conservative party has at last woken up to the fact that the rural economy is an important issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "ut let us have no more nonsense suggesting that there was clarity behind the march. In his opening speech, the hon. Member for Aylesbury rightly acknowledged that any sense of grievance is aimed not only at this Government but at all politicians. The real damage to rural economies—as with urban areas—was done in the 18 years of damage and neglect under Margaret Thatcher and John Major.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ality beef-producing area is also a pig area, a sheep area and an arable area. However, beef has been the flagship of the north-east of Scotland, and we are still suffering under export regulations negotiated by the Government to secure the chimera of the legal lifting of the ban, whereas in reality we all know that it is pretty impossible to sell British beef abroad because we are over-regulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-16", "file": "debates2002-10-16.xml", "sha256": "65c2b13c05b69e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Rural Economy", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XMore! More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "ow, having caught a prize specimen fish, had to throw it to a pack of hounds to have it ripped to pieces, and smear its blood on their forehead in the barbaric way in which foxhunters used to do, there is no way that they would ever fish again. Three million anglers in this country will not be conned, either by the Tory party or by the Countryside Alliance. In conclusion, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-16.420.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-17", "file": "debates2002-10-17.xml", "sha256": "151f53e588765a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-17.451.0", "colnum": "451", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "cultural Crops, SCIMAC—the biotech industry—on the basis that they would be sufficient to prevent cross-contamination. In the event of three years of the farm scale evaluation trials, no organic crop has lost its certification as a result of the GM trials, but of course this is a serious issue, which we are further considering. I repeat that #20 million is now going into organic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-17.451.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-21", "file": "debates2002-10-21.xml", "sha256": "2e464eaf646d4e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-21.79.2", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill [Lords] — New Clause 2 — Commission of body to study the effects of Act", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "o reintroduce the Bill that had fallen. He called himself Xthe frail instrument by which we hope to reintroduce the Bill\"—[ Official Report, House of Lords , 2 November 2001; Vol. 627, c. 1647 .] However, his attitude toward progressing the Bill has been anything but frail, and I express my admiration and respect for his tenacity. It goes to show that Liberal Democrats can make a difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-21.79.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.121.5", "colnum": "121", "heading": "PRIVY COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "I am very disappointed by that reply, as I feel that Parliament has been perhaps inadvertently misled on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Firefighters' Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ame time and had also reached a difficult situation—I think that they settled for something like 7.9 per cent. over two years. In neither case did I actively interfere with the negotiations; they were settled between the employers and the employees. The FBU general secretary raised the matter with me on only one occasion. I had a discussion with him in my office, one to one, in August—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Firefighters' Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "e firemen, XWell, we are going to get ready because you are going on strike\"; or should we encourage people to reach an agreement? There are difficult judgments to be made. Should we go to fire stations, saying, XGive us six of your machines. We want to practise on them in the next three months to get ready for you guys when you come out\"? I ask hon. Members to make practical judgments about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is my near neighbour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "No. I shall just finish answering the question. I hope that the hon. Member for North Wiltshire will acknowledge that anyone who is sensible, having reviewed how a policy has worked and its implications and effects, would be prepared to change their mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "No. I shall just finish answering the question. I hope that the hon. Member for North Wiltshire will acknowledge that anyone who is sensible, having reviewed how a policy has worked and its implications and effects, would be prepared to change their mind. [Hon. Members: XWrong.\"] Sadly, that is what the Conservative party is not prepared to do. It is very interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.158.7", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "sis. We have a very significant crisis in affordable homes, and it is not just the homeless, the overcrowded, the poorly housed or the poorly paid who are losing out. We all lose out, because if key workers cannot find housing, the crucial public services on which we all depend will collapse. Everyone deserves a decent home; it is a scandal that not everyone has one. Despite many fine words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.158.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will recall the joy in the country when the Government announced earlier this year that they would do away with families in bed-and-breakfast accommodation within 18 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "e first time—when he said Xregret\". It would be nice to hear a note of regret from the Conservatives. Let me remind them that, between 1992 and 1997, there was a year-on-year decrease in housing investment throughout the country. At the same time, local authorities were prevented from releasing capital receipts to repair council homes, and council rents more than doubled in real terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.163.5", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "May I make a little progress? The new guidelines have introduced a curb on low-density housing in favour of high densities delivered through good design. We have met the target of 60 per cent. of development being built on brownfield land. I am pleased to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.163.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "s that affects all parts of the country. The situation is urgent and serious, and is blighting the lives of millions of people. While we welcome the Government's decision finally to do something to help to resolve the crisis, it is the Conservatives' contention that the Government are doing too little to solve the problem and that some of their proposals may well turn out to be counter-productive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Moran", "preceding_text": "conomics of the Liberal Democrats. What are the Opposition parties' policies? We have heard something of the Liberal Democrats', but all that we have heard from the Conservatives is that they will extend the right to buy. Of course, that is not a new policy—it is a re-tread, a discredited policy. As a former chief executive of a housing association, I remember that, in the early 1980s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "not. That is a challenge for the hon. Member for Cotswold. Will they grasp that opportunity? Perhaps it will be in the manifesto. Perhaps the hon. Member for Luton, South and I will offer that suggestion when we respond to the Tories' consultation paper. It is a policy that would be very attractive to people who have paid over the odds for private accommodation for many years and would love—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Sanders", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHe was here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Sanders", "preceding_text": "link between crime and poor housing—so the social cost of not having enough social affordable housing is great. The hon. Member for Cotswold gave us all the statistics and some of the reasons for the problem. I am surprised that the hon. Member for Totnes was not present for his speech. Perhaps he was watching it on a monitor outside, but I do not remember seeing him here until the very end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Sanders", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWithdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Sanders", "preceding_text": "gh social affordable housing is great. The hon. Member for Cotswold gave us all the statistics and some of the reasons for the problem. I am surprised that the hon. Member for Totnes was not present for his speech. Perhaps he was watching it on a monitor outside, but I do not remember seeing him here until the very end. [Hon. Members: XHe was here!\"] He was not here at the beginning of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Adrian Sanders", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAnswer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adrian Sanders", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend gives a beautiful precis of my answer. The hon. Member for Luton, South (Margaret Moran) spoke well and with passion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "All that the hon. Gentleman offered was an exposition of some sorts on the right to buy, which showed, rather like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XYou.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "All that the hon. Gentleman offered was an exposition of some sorts on the right to buy, which showed, rather like— [Interruption.] I think that I have another 10 minutes yet; you will have to wait and see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Affordable Housing", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": " context of what he says about social housing, I can tell hon. Members how it will not be built. That number of houses will not be built by extending the right to buy in the way that he suggests. If the Leader of the Opposition is a quiet man, the Conservatives' policies on housing offer only deafening silence. It is shameful that they offer such a gimmick. Our policies are clearly laid out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.205.6", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "I said that we should invest in nuclear research, and we would do so with an open mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.212.5", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "The Minister appears to be saying that there should be a fundamental review of the planning system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.212.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.212.5", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "The Minister appears to be saying that there should be a fundamental review of the planning system. [Interruption.] We should have a system whereby we can identify suitable places for renewable energy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.212.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.213.0", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "What we put in place lasts until 29 November . Before then, we must decide how to take matters forward after all the discussions that are taking place with the company. However, to characterise our actions as bailing out British Energy is inaccurate. First, the money is a loan", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "I think that I have said what I had to say on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "That is a fair point. The problems of British Energy are complex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "agreed with an intervention from the hon. Member for Bury, North (Mr. Chaytor) , who said that nuclear power is intrinsically uneconomic. Despite not contradicting such views, the hon. Member for Twickenham did say that he wanted to commit more taxpayers' money to research on nuclear power. At the end of his speech, however, it was still not clear whether he would put in the #650 million of loans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo\".", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the hon. Gentleman's views and although we are under time restriction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "ything for the next 10 years. Anyway, within milliseconds of that statement being made by Mr. Finnie—who, for the benefit of our external audience, is a Liberal Democrat—a press release was issued by the Scottish Liberal Democrat environment spokesperson, a Ms Nora Radcliffe MSP, under the inspiring—inspirational, indeed—headline XSNP scunnered over green energy challenge\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-22", "file": "debates2002-10-22.xml", "sha256": "7720d5c5e9639778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XYour marketplace.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "ccurred because of the market difficulties with electricity, the wholesale price has risen to a point at which British Energy is presumably operating profitably. I agree with much of what has been said on both sides: decisions that are fundamental to security of supply, and the economic interests of the country cannot be left entirely to the vagaries of a marketplace that can produce such a swing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-22.237.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "I hear what the Prime Minister says. I suspect that he would like to re-examine the comments that the Deputy Prime Minister made yesterday. Speaking about the practicalities, he said that it would take three months to train soldiers to use the equipment. That comment led me to ring the Retained Firefighters Union this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.265.4", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "What impact are parenting orders having on the reoffending behaviour of young people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.265.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I find that an absolutely extraordinary thing to say. Obviously, the allegations have to be investigated and, of course, it is right that clinical need comes first. But what the right hon. Gentleman said at the end is extraordinary: that we should scrap any of the waiting list and waiting time targets. He shakes his head, but that is what he just said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "linical need comes first, but I have no intention of getting rid of targets to reduce waiting times and waiting lists because they are important for patients. The vast majority of people, including many who are watching now, will have received excellent service from the NHS and, incidentally, they know perfectly well that the reason why the Tories run down the NHS is that they are against the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " from the NHS and, incidentally, they know perfectly well that the reason why the Tories run down the NHS is that they are against the NHS. [Interruption.] Absolutely. However the problem that many people face is one of access into the health service. They wait too long for their operation, they wait too long to see their GP, and they wait too long in accident and emergency. Setting targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "[Interruption.] Waiting lists and waiting times are down since we came into office. The reason for that is precisely that we are putting in money and changing the system. If the right hon. Gentleman is now saying not merely that he is against the money going into the health service—that we knew—but against the reform of the national health service, I suggest that he gets quieter still.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Todd", "preceding_text": "If I may, I shall speak up first on behalf of my constituents. From my own experience, some of the worst examples of anti-social behaviour are found among tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, I understand that office facilities are a matter for the House, not me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "t, lottery funding should Xadd to, and not substitute for, services already provided by government\". That principle, enshrined in the legislation that created the lottery, is at best being ignored and at worse being abused by such funding. We have a Government who are siphoning off lottery money, which the players think is going to good causes, and using it to pay for their election pledges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give such a commitment, because I would not pass up a chance like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "No, certainly not. In fairness, the Daily Mail has condemned the opprobrium attached to Lady Brittan and does not believe that it is right and proper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.318.4", "colnum": "318", "heading": "National Lottery", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "nd Finsbury (Mr. Smith) when he says that there is a lot of common ground between us on the subject of the national lottery. Tribute has been paid to John Major for his Government's initiative in setting up the national lottery. I think that it was a good idea, and I myself am an investor. Indeed, if my wife is watching now, could she please make sure that she has purchased our ticket for tonight?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.318.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.344.10", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "Once again, I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I want to put on the record what the motion says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.344.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.345.5", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "May I then turn to the issue of suspension, which is in order? Normally, if a motion such as this is not before the House, every Bill that does not complete its passage through the House is quashed as a direct result of Prorogation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": " Friend the Member for Wirral, West adopted the novel concept that we should always reject Bills on the grounds that the next time they come back, they will always be better. If we adopted his approach, it would be rather like Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution: if we keep it going long enough, we will eventually reach some kind of perfect constitutional state. That is a fascinating concept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.373.4", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "That is why I shall not answer my hon. Friend's question, which underlines my point about the unfairness of the procedure that we are considering whereby my constituents, among others, will not have the right to have their point of view aired in this House on such a controversial matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.373.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-23", "file": "debates2002-10-23.xml", "sha256": "8bdc2d15dcdd764a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.374.6", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Wirral, South (Mr. Chapman) referred to the costs involved. Because of those costs, there is a need for sensible negotiations on whether a resolution can be found. That is not possible within the time available to us. My arguments in summary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-23.374.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Monday next.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 16 October ], That Mr. John Hayes be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Mr. Peter Luff be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Jim Murphy.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "hat it will be necessary or desirable to go late into the middle of the night. I have done so on many occasions in my time in the House and, by and large, the House does not do itself sufficient justice in passing important legislation in the middle of the night when sensible people are in bed. The right hon. Gentleman was not in his place for Prime Minister's questions yesterday, as I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "d device answering the planted question. As he is aware, part of the package that we shall be putting to the House next Tuesday is that we do away with the curious requirement that somebody has to ask a question before a statement can be made. After Tuesday, I hope that we will print such written answers in a separate section of Hansard , clearly labelled XWritten Statements from Ministers\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "In the aftermath of the Opposition day debate on sustainable energy, will my right hon. Friend consider allowing time for a specific debate on wind power? I am sure that Members on both sides of the House would like to establish whether there is a single wind power project in the United Kingdom that is not opposed by the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.411.5", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am immensely relieved that my hon. Friend does not lay ministerial responsibility for earthquakes at my door—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman will be aware that the British embassy in Washington has maintained consular interest in this matter and closely followed the case of British subjects at Guatanamo bay. Those who want to see progress will presumably welcome what has been decided in the past 24 hours in relation to the release of some of those there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Paul Truswell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Truswell", "preceding_text": "ing. That is reflected in the consultation document's first resource equalisation option—RE1. However, specific funding is needed from outside the system to achieve fair equalisation; it cannot be achieved with the existing elements. A number of colleagues have mentioned the area cost adjustment. That probably represents the single greatest cause of injustice and anger in the present system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "im or, as I recall, any acclaim whatever, at the time, but it is now a fact and it was brave of the Government to introduce the office. However, they are holding back from making that office truly effective. We in London must have our own revenue streams, free from the dead hand of Treasury control. I have made a number of suggestions recently, which I shall put to the young and handsome Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "No, I am afraid that I do not have the time. The hon. Gentleman has only just come into the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "Mr. Portillo) questioned the guarantee. Of course we hope that we can do better than the commitment so far. Decisions on the levels of floors and ceilings are the next stage in the deliberations. We want to set those at realistic levels, taking into account the grant available and the range of outcomes for individual authorities. We hope that announcements will be made before early December—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Asbestos", "cue_speaker": "Michael Clapham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWHO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Clapham", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Minister approached the matter in a balanced way. He explained that regulation was necessary to give people protection in the workplace. The record should be put straight. The hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) referred to the ILO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Asbestos", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "n is excessive and would involve excessive cost. Thirdly, he adduces the existence of unscrupulous operators who are profiting from a situation that he believes is contestable. I shall deal with those points in turn. I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman's science training is adequate to support some of the comments that he made in terms of the nature of iron silicate and magnesium silicate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-24", "file": "debates2002-10-24.xml", "sha256": "c016d9369ed6ce23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Asbestos", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "leman's science training is adequate to support some of the comments that he made in terms of the nature of iron silicate and magnesium silicate— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman says from a sedentary position that mine is not either. I do not claim to be a top scientist, but I do claim to have a science degree. I have a degree in physiological sciences, as it happens, but no matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-24.501.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed tomorrow.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 16 October ]. That Mr. John Hayes be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Mr. Peter Luff be added to the Committee— [Mr. Woolas.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "inister is right to say that enlargement is a great prize that is worth fighting for. The 10 new countries seeking membership of the EU will bring 70 million customers for British goods and services in a single market extending from the Atlantic to the Baltic. The prospect before us is of a new Europe built on co-operation between stable democratic nations and the prosperity of open markets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "d Germany reached agreement. Well, if ever there was spin to cover failure, that was it. The Prime Minister welcomes a reduction from a position that should never have existed in the first place. If the deal after Friday is so welcome, why was the Prime Minister storming around on the sidelines of the meeting saying that he was furious and angry. Apparently he even insulted President Chirac—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": ", if ever there was spin to cover failure, that was it. The Prime Minister welcomes a reduction from a position that should never have existed in the first place. If the deal after Friday is so welcome, why was the Prime Minister storming around on the sidelines of the meeting saying that he was furious and angry. Apparently he even insulted President Chirac— [Interruption.] Terrible!—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "3 .] The Prime Minister said that reform of the common agricultural policy remains on the agenda. I assume that he means that reform is on the agenda in the same way as his colleague in No. 11 Downing street believes that leadership of the Labour party remains on the agenda for him. Will the Prime Minister tell us what the total cost of the CAP will be after enlargement and how he will pay for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "er not raise the fact that about #3 billion of the EU budget is still wasted in fraud and mismanagement? The Prime Minister has made much of the fact that the British rebate did not make it into the presidency conclusions, yet President Chirac even today continues to state publicly that it is part of the deal. So will the Prime Minister confirm what we believe his Foreign Secretary said last week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "rmer Minister for Europe said that Britain would be prepared to compromise on allowing the CFR to be legally binding. So in the light of the report that was tabled at the meeting on the convention and given at the Brussels council, will the Prime Minister make it absolutely clear that Britain will veto any proposal to compromise and make the CFR in any way legally binding? I have lost track—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "FR to be legally binding. So in the light of the report that was tabled at the meeting on the convention and given at the Brussels council, will the Prime Minister make it absolutely clear that Britain will veto any proposal to compromise and make the CFR in any way legally binding? I have lost track— [Interruption] —of the number of times that the Prime Minister has come to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "nt to make sure that, after the summit, the mid-term review of the Agriculture Council continued. The purpose of the French proposals was to ensure that that review was effectively dead in the water. That review now carries on, and, as the EU Commissioner said in his statement today, it is important that the mid-term review is there, and it should be completed at the earliest possible opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAgain!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "l. In relation to the issues that he raises about leadership in Europe, it is, of course, important that the Conservative party—which, effectively, has an anti-European position—says that Britain loses all the time in Europe. It must say that Europe is essentially something done to Britain against our interests and our designs. The shadow Leader of the House is nodding, unsurprisingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: X They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It was never the case that the nature of reform would be decided at the Council, but it had to remain on the agenda, otherwise the continuing work of the Agriculture Council would have been suspended. Reform is on the agenda. The right hon. Gentleman remarked on the Doha treaty, which is vital. He is right about the Nice treaty. I had forgotten that the Conservatives voted against the Nice treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.550.4", "colnum": "550", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "n the end that Britain being in Europe is a giving up of British national sovereignty. The fact is that Britain gains as a result of co-operating with other European countries. We gain through the single market, we gain through co-operation on issues such as defence, we are gaining on issues such as economic reform, and it is important for Britain to be in Europe and at the centre of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "o do, in my view, was to say that the issue of CAP reform should be taken off the agenda. That is what was prevented at the summit and what is important. Although I understand that it is sometimes difficult to follow such issues all the way through, I emphasise again that the basic part of the French-German agreement on limiting CAP expenditure was a step forward on what existed before the summit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ifficult to follow such issues all the way through, I emphasise again that the basic part of the French-German agreement on limiting CAP expenditure was a step forward on what existed before the summit. [Interruption.] With the greatest respect, it was. Prior to the summit, there was no agreement that there should be any limit on CAP expenditure. There is now a limit on CAP expenditure, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "n do not intend to satisfy ourselves simply by pointing out the Government's errors. We have an obligation to say what we would do if we had those responsibilities now. We would do two things. First, we would pass the Opposition motion tonight. Let me make our position on special status clear. In case anyone needs reminding, let me repeat that we wholeheartedly support the Belfast agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " what we would do if we had those responsibilities now. We would do two things. First, we would pass the Opposition motion tonight. Let me make our position on special status clear. In case anyone needs reminding, let me repeat that we wholeheartedly support the Belfast agreement— [Interruption.] We support the Belfast agreement, and that concession was never required by the agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " our approach. When we called the debate in July to press for the power of exclusion from the Executive, on the very hour of the very day that that debate was timed to start—5 o'clock in the afternoon—we had the IRA apology. This time, within 36 hours of our putting down a relatively robust motion, Gerry Adams has made his most encouraging statement yet—not excluding disbandment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.568.2", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "es to do so later, and I look forward to his contribution. He is right to say that a package approach is required, but introducing into the package an element that was not required under the agreement, such as special status, seems to have been extremely damaging from every possible point of view. The new Labour Government have a vast majority and are protected by their army of spin doctors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "s led to what the president of Sinn Fein said during the weekend. I am sure that that is not so. Withdrawal of the facilities that were accorded at the end of last year would give only further grounds for saying that both Parliament and the Government are unreliable, and that their word to nationalism can never be relied on. Whatever we may think of the merits of that view, it is a widespread one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.583.5", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "t is disappointing that that achievement is apparently being fogged by the party's current move away from his strategy. A cool analysis of the motion reveals an inference that the ceasefire has been breached. Individuals may believe that, but as the Secretary of State clearly stated, there has been no determination that the IRA has breached the ceasefire and it is not helpful to suggest otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.583.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "sent when there was a Conservative Government and, as he said, a so-called bipartisan policy with the Labour Opposition. We immensely resent the suggestion that there has been a breakdown in the bipartisan policy now, whereas it was sacrosanct when there was a Labour Opposition. I should point out to the hon. Gentleman that year after year, when we renewed the prevention of terrorism orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " office and responsibilities. It is a privilege to support him in this debate. The debate has been short. Its brevity has the advantage that we can still remember with clarity the remarkable opening speech of the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies) . It contained an extended cadenza in which he condemned Government policy in Northern Ireland as squalid, egregious and mistaken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.603.0", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Access To Facilities Of The House", "cue_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Are you aware that at three minutes to seven o'clock, four Members of Parliament were seeking to access the car park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.22", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Human Rights Act", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend makes a perfectly good point. It is possible for the House and the Government to find themselves in conflict with the interpretation of the convention by the European Court of Human Rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.22"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.37", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Human Rights Act", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Beaconsfield—I refer to the Anderson case in particular—he referred to the need to preserve the view of the House about the role of Parliament in determining policy on punishment, especially with regard to murders. We cannot anticipate the judgment, but if necessary, we will use domestic legislation to preserve that position. That is the point that hon. Gentleman made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.37"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.40", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Human Rights Act", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.40"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.99", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Human Rights Act", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "is strictly necessary for declarations of interest to be made in a debate on this subject? There are several members of the Bar and solicitors in the Chamber, but we are all taxpayers, too, and we do not declare that we are taxpayers when we discuss the Budget. Although I am prepared to admit that we are members of the Bar, why should we need to declare that when discussing this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.99"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.122", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Human Rights Act", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: X No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "n says. He said that it was a matter of Xa freedom attaching to those who were British Citizens\", not foreign nationals. Not for him, then, any concept of a common humanity regardless of birth or beliefs, or any recognition that people in other countries have rights, too. The logical extension of what he and the hon. Member for Beaconsfield have argued is that we should pull out of the convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.122"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-28", "file": "debates2002-10-28.xml", "sha256": "229201992230cfc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.133", "colnum": "604", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. SITTINGS IN WESTMINSTER HALL Ordered, That, on Thursday 7th November, there shall be no sitting in Westminster Hall.— [Jim Fitzpatrick.] COMMITTEE OF SELECTION Ordered, That Mrs Jacqui Lait be discharged from the Catering Committee and Mr Peter Atkinson be added to the Committee.— [Mr. John McWilliam, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Questions, and Amendments to Standing Orders not later than Ten o'clock, and such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; the Questions may be decided, though opposed, after the expiration of the time for opposed business and the Order of 28th June 2001 relating to deferred Divisions shall not apply to them.— [Jim Fitzpatrick.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-28.604.132"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.663.3", "colnum": "663", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed tomorrow.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 16 October ], That Mr. John Hayes be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Mr. Peter Luff be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Woolas.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "as with a rurality problem and to other areas with a labour market problem. I say in all candidness to the hon. Gentleman that we can redistribute resources only if we raise resources. The problem for the hon. Gentleman and for other Opposition Members is that they are now committed as a party to not matching the levels of resources that the Government are putting into the national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.667.4", "colnum": "667", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "ces through the private finance initiative and through public-private partnerships to improve the primary care estate. We will not get GPs, district nurses and other primary care staff into these communities unless they are working in decent premises. The state of some of the premises that I have seen in the east end of London is pretty deplorable. That is not surprising because for decades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.667.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "Question Time would not be Question Time without the hon. Gentleman. He is a ray of complementary therapy himself. As for primary care trusts and their freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.689.5", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "a number of proposals to improve scrutiny. I want to start with the measures to make Question Time more relevant and more topical. I congratulate the members of the Procedure Committee, and particularly its Chairman, the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) , on a thorough investigation and a radical set of proposals, nearly all of which have been accepted by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.689.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.691.4", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "These are matters for the House authorities, whom we will consult. Indeed, we have offered them the services of the e-Envoy so that we introduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.691.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XMacclesfield.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Leader of the House carries us all with him when he proposes to reduce the length of time for tabling oral questions from 14 days to three. That would obviously improve scrutiny. In the same mode, I assume he agrees with my hon. Friend, whose constituency I cannot remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a fair point, and I join him in deprecating any early release of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "sides of the House find the argument about so-called family friendly hours a bit bizarre, when many families live in constituencies very far from Westminster. The sad truth is that this is rather an Islington argument. It has a certain appeal to those fortunate enough to have homes near the House. Even Mrs. Forth occasionally expresses enthusiasm for the idea that she might see me in the evenings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "Far be it from me to comment on the hon. Lady's stamina.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "Far be it from me to comment on the hon. Lady's stamina. [Interruption.] I do not believe that such a consideration should be a principal determinant of the hours that we sit. When I came here in the 1980s as an obscure Government Back Bencher—admittedly as a much younger man—I was here very late a lot of the time, and I adapted and adjusted to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": " and I shall vote with enthusiasm for them. Indeed, I shall support all the proposals except those that would allow the House to knock off at 7 o'clock on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. My right hon. Friend said in his opening remarks that his sole purpose was to make Parliament more effective. I cannot for the life of me see how cutting three hours off the parliamentary day will make us more effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.724.8", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "I have a life, actually. Are we supposed to go on cultural outings? Perhaps the theatres and art galleries of the west end will be full of newly liberated Scots and Welsh Members. Somehow I doubt it. If I were a spouse living several hundred miles away, I would prefer to know that my other half was snug in the warm bosom of the mother of Parliaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.724.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will forgive me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "ous chairman, for reasons of which we are not aware, insisted that the committee's hearings did not start until 4.45 pm. This timing made giving any media coverage to all but the most sensational proceedings of the committee very difficult as often the hearings did not end until 6.30 or 7.00 which is far too late for routine stories to be filed and used prominently in the next day's papers\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": " start until 4.45 pm. This timing made giving any media coverage to all but the most sensational proceedings of the committee very difficult as often the hearings did not end until 6.30 or 7.00 which is far too late for routine stories to be filed and used prominently in the next day's papers\"— [Interruption.] I am determined to get to the end of my speech, with the House's permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.734.4", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Tapsell", "preceding_text": "entered the House. A holder of the Victoria Cross, commanders of cruisers and brigades, major trade union leaders, chairmen of great companies and editors of great newspapers then sat in this House. All that has gone, and it is not going to come back, but we must not produce a way of life in this place that is attractive only to retired polytechnic lecturers. What are we all going to do after 7pm?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.734.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": " constituents, I do not believe that defending some of the traditions of the House speaks for them. When they come up to me at constituency meetings, they ask, XStephen, how often are you down there? You work through the night, do you? You are there till 10 o'clock.\" They do not mean, XYou're my hero, you're fantastic, what stamina you must have, I voted for you because you're a muscle man\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "The shadow Leader of the House says XCome on\", but let us think about dragging ourselves into the 21st century. My main point is that if we do not reform ourselves, we do not make ourselves relevant to members of the public outside. I want to argue that point particularly in relation to female representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.752.9", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "Why does the right hon. Gentleman make a male chauvinist representation on all these issues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.752.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "he reforms that have taken place since 1997 would not have happened, because there is no question but that a Modernisation Committee and the proposals in this package of reforms that the Conservatives agree with simply would not have been on the agenda had they won that election. I want to refer to a right hon. Member, but I cannot remember his constituency. He is the tall one who rides a bicycle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XYou are a stooge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "n assure them that the very opposite is the case. The limited opportunity for Members to speak—particularly for those from the 1997 and 2001 intakes—is a source of continuing irritation to those on both sides of the House. We have all seen stooges be occasionally wheeled out by those on both Front Benches to shut up a particularly awkward Back Bencher. That has certainly happened to me", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-29", "file": "debates2002-10-29.xml", "sha256": "0cd5fd5abef011d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": " the Speaker and I am sure that he has heard the strong views of many Members on both sides of the Chamber on this issue. Much has been said about the length of speeches. The hon. Member for Lichfield (Michael Fabricant) railed that 10 or 12 minutes was not enough to allow him to make the points that he wanted to make. I believe that I could have condensed what he said into about 37 seconds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-29.782.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed tomorrow.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 16 October ], That Mr. John Hayes be discharged from the Committee of Selection and Mr. Peter Luff be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Ainger.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I do not need any lectures from the hon. Lady about farming in Wales—there are a number of farmers in my own constituency. The key point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.859.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: X Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to have to tell the right hon. Gentleman that the Government stand together on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman, I have already answered. There is a serious issue about university finance for the future. There is an issue about freedom for universities, which is important, and an issue about how we ensure that British universities, which are among the best in the world, remain in the top 10 universities—and more—of the world. However, there is also an issue about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "iversities are able to compete with the best in the world. I should have thought that he would agree with that. He will see also that the Government will increase the amount of money going into higher education so that, irrespective of their social background, our young people will get the university education that they need. The Leader of the Opposition asked me a question, so let me ask him one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister said a moment ago that the issue was not top-up fees. Is he saying that he rejects the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "On the particular case of the hon. Gentleman's constituent, of course, I cannot comment, but I am perfectly happy to look into it. However, on the general point about the national health service, of course the Conservatives will say that it is getting worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Of course I do. That is why it is important to realise that, as part of the proposals, we will put additional sums of money into higher education. That is the position of this Government, who want to invest in higher education. The Conservative party is, of course, committed to cutting the education money that we have got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.930.4", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Gentleman for suggesting that he was supporting his Front-Bench colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.930.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-30", "file": "debates2002-10-30.xml", "sha256": "f5d7e11fe594a0ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Enterprise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": " parties. Ten or more people might witness a verbal agreement. They are honest citizens who are not going to perjure themselves. They would have heard the agreement made, but if this amendment were accepted, the agreement would be outwith the scope of the Bill, and that seems rather odd. The Minister dismissed this amendment as being technical, but we are seeking to make this a unique area of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-30.956.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "The one thing on which we can agree is that there will not be 3,000 windmills around Highgrove. I also have a lot of sympathy with my hon. Friend's wider point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "It was carried to acclamation, may I tell the hon. Gentleman, with a just majority that any of us would settle for. I am now announcing for the first time a Commons calendar for a whole year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1001.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ar. [Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"] I am grateful for support on both sides of the House. We plan to rise for the Christmas recess on Thursday 19 December and return on Tuesday 7 January . For the half-term week, the House will rise on Thursday 13 February and return on Monday 24 February . I am grateful for the attention of the House; I do not usually encounter such silence when I address it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1001.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "he debate in the Chamber today because, under the present agreement, we are obligated to have five days for defence debates in the House each Session, and we must get it in this week if we are to meet that obligation. We will try to avoid such a coincidence in future. I warmly welcome the fact that his observation on Westminster Hall is the kindest that he has yet brought himself to make about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1003.0", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "iew that the first call on any Secretary of State must be to be in the House to answer questions here, and I think that that will remain the case. I cannot exclude the possibility that, from time to time, there may be occasions when the House would recognise that there may be other competing calls—for instance, the necessity sometimes to represent Britain's case in European Council meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1003.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that I am deeply disturbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1014.6", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1014.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "police activity tonight, particularly to do with trick or treating? An extra police burden is created by children who terrorise older people by ringing their doorbells and throwing eggs. There is also a risk to young children who wander round the streets knocking on the doors of strangers. Will the Home Secretary look at Government policy on that? What advice is given to the police and to schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I must confess that it had slipped my mind that tonight was Halloween, or I would have worked it into a reply earlier on. Halloween is an opportunity for hundreds of thousands of children up and down the country to indulge in innocent and friendly behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1017.4", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Leader of the House's time is up, and we have moved on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1017.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Annabelle Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annabelle Ewing", "preceding_text": "We are talking about recruitment. Is the Minister worried about the impact on recruitment of young people to the Army as a result of increasing public concern about circumstances surrounding the deaths of four young soldiers at the Deepcut Army barracks, including that of James Collinson, whose family live in my constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1026.3", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "So my hon. Friend does not accept that I am constrained while waiting for the outcome of the police investigation. I thought that he accepted that that was the correct approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1041.3", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "That is a classic Liberal Democrat attack. The package for married quarters was introduced by the last Conservative Government. There is no secret. I do not know where the hon. Gentleman has been—I know where he was before he became a Liberal Democrat: he was in the Labour party, so I suppose his policies will have changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1041.4", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XGo on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the signal was sent to the Conservative party, XSimpson is back\" to help a deeply demoralised party facing a major crisis. When the hon. Member for Mid-Norfolk (Mr. Simpson) referred to who is in charge, I must confess—no, I should not say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1041.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) suggested to the hon. Lady that she was in favour of virginity, but not all the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "I shall not intrude on past sadness. Sadly, we did not share a tent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-10-31", "file": "debates2002-10-31.xml", "sha256": "eebd4c0d5c7da1c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XShame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "I shall not be bullied by my right hon. Friend. That shows that I have done well to cope. He famously said, XOne woman down, one to go.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-10-31.1070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that our medical reserves are overstretched, but I certainly accept that, as a result of the disastrous decisions of the last Government about medical support for our armed forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "No, I do not take the view that that is sensible because we do not want to appear as though we are always prepared, rather than forced, to participate. There is also the problem of skill fade. A sizeable number could be trained for an eventuality, but it is 25 years since the Green Goddesses were last called out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.22.3", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) , the Secretary of State for Defence used the words Xwell-established procedure\". May I, through you, ask the Clerks to identify that well-established procedure, because I suspect that it was used but once, at the time of the Korean war, by Herbert Morrison in trying to manipulate his colleagues? Could some research be done on the matter, because some of us think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.22.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "I certainly am not, and for the hon. Gentleman to make that suggestion is outrageous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is indeed a loving and caring person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": " people oppose the proposals. The most recent polling data that I can find are from MORI in September 2002. They show that 44 per cent. of people supported the right of same-sex couples to apply—the hardest case as regards popular opinion—while only 36 per cent. opposed that right. I have never held the view that we should go by popular opinion in matters to do with human rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "If I may finish the point, I shall be delighted to give way to the hon. Gentleman. I did that many times in Committee, and he often returned the favour. Under current law, anybody, in principle, can apply to adopt, but if two people want legal ties to the child, they must have legal ties to each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": " yes. I do not, however, see any reason why one of those people should not adopt the child. I should have made it clear when I answered the question of my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham earlier that my first choice for adoption would always be a married couple. I accept the principle of the occasional gay adoption, but only when there is no one else available. Hard cases make bad law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.100.4", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "We come to a group of mostly minor and technical amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "the mastery of their briefs and to thank them for their courtesy. I even extend my thanks to the Conservative spokesman, the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) , who has occasionally been courteous to me and was, no doubt, very courteous to my hon. Friend the Member for Romsey (Sandra Gidley) . She has been promoted out of this portfolio, but wished me to pass on her thanks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-04", "file": "debates2002-11-04.xml", "sha256": "4a3d423145855f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Adoption and Children Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "en its natural meaning—the child's birth parents, or, in the case of adopted children under special guardianship orders, their adoptive parents. I hope that Members will recognise that that addresses the concerns underlying the original amendment and the need to make a technical correction to it. In case this is the last time that I speak in the House on the Adoption and Children Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-04.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-05", "file": "debates2002-11-05.xml", "sha256": "cb83eca4467d366f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.136.4", "colnum": "136", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is of course right, up to the point when he said something that had to be withdrawn. The Brussels process, which he had in mind when he made his remarks, was initiated by the Government of the then Mrs. Thatcher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.136.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-05", "file": "debates2002-11-05.xml", "sha256": "cb83eca4467d366f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.136.4", "colnum": "136", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e his remarks, was initiated by the Government of the then Mrs. Thatcher— [Interruption.] It explicitly included the issue of sovereignty. However, my right hon. Friend is too generous to previous Conservative Governments. Documents just released from the Public Record Office show that in 1971, under the Government of Edward Heath, as he then was, supported by all Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.136.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-05", "file": "debates2002-11-05.xml", "sha256": "cb83eca4467d366f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "dard of education that will be inspected by Ofsted and will offer the national curriculum. I draw the attention of Members to the remarks of the bishop-elect of Birmingham, Bishop Sentamu, in a recent radio interview. He said: XWhat is important when you come to a country where you don't speak the language is to learn English, be able to learn properly and be taught, instead of some places\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-05", "file": "debates2002-11-05.xml", "sha256": "cb83eca4467d366f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "It is always a pleasure to talk to the House with so much support from one's colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-05", "file": "debates2002-11-05.xml", "sha256": "cb83eca4467d366f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "e amended or modified, another enactment would, by definition, have to relate to the provisions in this Bill—in other words, to immigration—for it to be consequential or incidental. Those are the terms of the amendment. The order-making power would not therefore allow the Government to make provision that was not purely consequential on, or incidental to, something already in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-05", "file": "debates2002-11-05.xml", "sha256": "cb83eca4467d366f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.231.11", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "It is, and if, on listening to what I want to say, my hon. Friend wants to intervene, I will allow him to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.231.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-05", "file": "debates2002-11-05.xml", "sha256": "cb83eca4467d366f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Enterprise Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. The Government are in confusion over this issue, which is why the Minister tried to deflect my observation with a rather foolish comment that had nothing to do with the matter in hand. However, our exchange must have been in order, Mr. Deputy Speaker; otherwise, you would have pulled me, or her, up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-05.250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.267.4", "colnum": "267", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I must say that I find it very unappetising that the hon. Gentleman is trying to play games with the fate of a country such as Afghanistan that is trying to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.267.4", "colnum": "267", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "t to move to agreement on the formation of a national army. That will mean the warlords having to dismantle their militias in favour of DDR—disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration. There was a massive cut in drugs production because of an eradication programme led by the United Kingdom in the first year after the fall of the Taliban, so the hon. Gentleman is also factually wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ices, I am surprised that he does not know that we have been heavily engaged in supporting the building of intelligence units. Groups in Afghanistan have the capacity to destroy laboratories and stocks, but that will not work without creating a secure country. Afghanistan became a narcotics-growing paradise because it is a completely failed state without any justice. It is run by corruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.269.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the reason was for the congratulations offered to the hon. Gentleman at the beginning of his question. As he is an engineer, he will know a great deal about the provision of water—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have not read the speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "More than that, we have made it absolutely clear that there can be no change in the constitutional position of the people of Gibraltar without their consent. At the moment, there are no proposals on the table. We know what the referendum result will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Foot and Mouth Disease Inquiry Reports", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "k, so I am not being entirely critical, although he is rather asking for it. The fact is that the inquiry reports both said that the 20-day rule should stay in place unless and until the Government have a detailed risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. I accept that everybody would like to have them the day after tomorrow, but, if they are to be detailed, thorough and pertinent, we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.289.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Foot and Mouth Disease Inquiry Reports", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "The scheme is being rolled out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Foot and Mouth Disease Inquiry Reports", "cue_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": "ecially those to do with rights of way, will be welcome. I talk to my farmers regularly. They have expressed concerns about the 20-day standstill, but I believe that they know in their hearts why that is necessary, and why the industry is being asked to play its part. However, other hon. Members will recognise the message that my farmers give to me, which is that the restrictions on imports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": " use local abattoirs and to sell meat locally, but the truth is that the large buyers of meat buy from across the nation. Of course, a religious cull for certain purposes was the biggest single reason for the movement of elderly ewes that occurred immediately before the main outbreak. I have heard the hon. Member for Newport, West (Paul Murphy) several times on the issue. Of course we agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "for certain purposes was the biggest single reason for the movement of elderly ewes that occurred immediately before the main outbreak. I have heard the hon. Member for Newport, West (Paul Murphy) several times on the issue. Of course we agree— [Interruption.] Halal meat is the answer. Most of the old ewes that were brought down to Devon from the north were used for halal meat in Birmingham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "bolic burning of licence forms and applications. Quite honestly, those farmers have plenty to do, so that is an example of the exasperation that they feel over the controls. They believe that there is a disproportionate burden on the livestock industry, because the risk lies not in the industry—this is foot and mouth-clear country—but at the point of entry at ports and airports.–", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHe is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether or not it is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newport, West (Mr. Flynn) , who has clearly missed his vocation. He should have been a 19th-century non-conformist Welsh preacher predicting Armageddon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "al difference—an unprecedented change in the way in which warrants are issued. It suggests that the farmer and DEFRA officials can stand in front of a magistrate and almost have a mini court scene. If there is to be such a facility, people must be given reasonable time to prepare, to make applications for legal aid, and all the various aspects of representation, which is unprecedented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "injunction. Farmers should be able, in a simple and short procedure, to go before the magistrate when the warrant is being applied for and make their case. As I said to the Minister earlier, one could believe this to be a heinous alteration to the way in which warrants were issued if one were talking about big criminals. We would not want to give drugs dealers the right to contest a warrant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-06", "file": "debates2002-11-06.xml", "sha256": "6fcb7514e088d197", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "ter in a much more sophisticated way. We also accept that all contingency planning must be made public. Some Conservative Members were very critical of the Government when we made public our contingency plan for BSE in sheep. One or two of them said that it was a disgrace that we had put our plans into the public domain, because it might affect sheepmeat sales and upset the industry and consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-06.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-07", "file": "debates2002-11-07.xml", "sha256": "529d7dc271ab67aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ms such as those that we see at the moment, and others that can arise from time to time. They will also examine the sustainability of convergence. I hope that my right hon. Friend will agree that this is the most detailed exercise that has been conducted by the Treasury—an exercise that was never conducted when the previous Government took this country into the exchange rate mechanism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-07", "file": "debates2002-11-07.xml", "sha256": "529d7dc271ab67aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "inability of convergence. I hope that my right hon. Friend will agree that this is the most detailed exercise that has been conducted by the Treasury—an exercise that was never conducted when the previous Government took this country into the exchange rate mechanism— [Interruption.] I can find almost no evidence of any work having been done in the Treasury on the economic issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-07", "file": "debates2002-11-07.xml", "sha256": "529d7dc271ab67aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The shadow Chancellor is entirely wrong. The evidence that I put to the Treasury Select Committee says specifically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-07", "file": "debates2002-11-07.xml", "sha256": "529d7dc271ab67aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "evidence that I put to the Treasury Select Committee says specifically— [Interruption.] The shadow Chancellor is asking for this to be one of the tests—in other words, he wants a sixth test. What I am saying to him is that, as part of the five tests, when we consider employment, investment, flexibility and durability, we will be examining the operation of the stability and growth pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-07", "file": "debates2002-11-07.xml", "sha256": "529d7dc271ab67aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon Members: XOrder!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "elect Committee—I see one member of the Select Committee nodding at that, because he knows it to be the case—saying that we would publish a paper on the stability and growth pact as part of our assessment of the five tests. There are five tests, not six, but as part of the five tests, which include employment, investment and flexibility, we shall look at the macroeconomic issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-07", "file": "debates2002-11-07.xml", "sha256": "529d7dc271ab67aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "lennium? According to the organisation Jubilee 2000, the cancellation of debt for the 26 HIPC countries would cost around $6.8 billion over five years for the countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. That is probably less than the US spent on bombing Afghanistan. Will the Chancellor put pressure on the World Bank and the IMF at least to suspend debt repayment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-07.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Wait for it. Eventually, Jenny came to tell me the decision and she was disconcerted that I burst out laughing when she told me the name. My grandson was to be called Blair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ction—a day when Ministers and aspiring Ministers and their telephones are almost inseparable—the phone rang at my home in Ayr. It was someone from The Scotsman, and Jenny answered. She said, XI am sorry. He's not here; he's with Blair all afternoon. Can you phone back this evening?\" I was already imagining The Scotsman sub-editor drafting the headline, XFoulkes for Foreign Secretary\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "or International Development, where I belonged. That brings me to what must be the real reason that I am now on my feet. It goes back over 23 years, to 22 May 1979 , when I made my maiden speech in the Queen's Speech debate. This is a reward—or is it a punishment?—for surviving that long. The Defence Secretary rather ungallantly told me that I had got the old codger's spot today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ope that my colleagues in the Scottish Parliament will not be deflected by any nationalist tendency from applying similar solutions, within the context, of course, of our legal system. It is also particularly pleasing to me that the Gracious Speech includes such a positive reaffirmation of the Government's intention to decide on joining the single currency, once the five tests have been met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Oona King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oona King", "preceding_text": "nts most, and genocide because it is the issue that affects me most, and gives me most sleepless nights. It is apt that just 48 hours ago we commemorated the end of the second world war and the horror of the holocaust. When soldiers returned from the first world war, they were promised homes fit for heroes. I must congratulate the Liberals—I hope my hon. Friends do not lynch me for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Oona King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oona King", "preceding_text": " defence in the circumstances. I was terrified—I distinctly remember asking, XAnyone up for getting out of here while we're ahead?\" No answer—silence. Twenty seconds later, the gorilla charged. I am not joking, and I do not mean it charged in the other direction—it charged towards us. The Conservative Front-Bench spokesman on my left was remarkably cool, calm and collected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Oona King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oona King", "preceding_text": "conds later, the gorilla charged. I am not joking, and I do not mean it charged in the other direction—it charged towards us. The Conservative Front-Bench spokesman on my left was remarkably cool, calm and collected— [Interruption.] He did not faint. Incredibly, however, the Conservative Whip on my right grabbed me by both shoulders, stood behind me and used me as a human shield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ument sent round at the same time, said: XYou can secure support from voters who normally vote Tory by being effectively anti-Labour and similarly in a Tory area secure Labour votes by being anti-Tory\". It goes on: XBe wicked, act shamelessly, stir endlessly.\" That is the Liberal Democrats whom we know and love. The Prime Minister has said that the Government are Xat our best when at our boldest\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.17.4", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman refers to a question that he put to the Prime Minister in Prime Minister's questions. Will he explain why last week he flouted parliamentary convention by failing to notify me that he was going to refer to me and purport to quote me at Prime Minister's Question Time? Why, by selective quotation, did he distort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.17.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.17.6", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Why, by selective quotation, did the right hon. Gentleman distort what I said by omitting my comments on Gibraltar: Xthis House . . . would not accept the sell-out of the Falklands by the Tory Government\"?—[ Official Report , 12 July 2002; Vol. 388, c. 1174 .] Why now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.17.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhat about his grandson?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The House extends its condolences to the families of both Ray and Jamie. I have heard many speeches proposing and seconding the Queen's Speech, from both sides of the Chamber and I have to say that I think the two we heard today were among the best that I have ever heard. I give my warmest congratulations to my right hon. Friend the Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ave improved dramatically, including a 7 per cent. increase in GCSEs. That is a tremendous tribute to the teachers, pupils and parents in the schools in her constituency. She made a marvellous speech that was witty and also contained serious points. She came into the House as one of the youngest Members of Parliament and it is clear that she has a long and successful political career ahead of her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHelp!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker. I welcome the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith) to his first Queen's Speech debate as Leader of the Opposition. It has been a busy few days for him, and we are here to help. We know that he is on XDesert Island Discs\" next week, so I thought that we could help with one or two choices of music. For example, everyone could choose a Beatles song—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "To commemorate his year as Conservative leader, I think XThe Sound of Silence\" has the right ring to it. The other thing about XDesert Island Discs\", which is where we can really help, is that the right hon. Gentleman gets to choose a book, and I have the perfect volume for him. It is a work published by Common Courage Press, its title is, indeed, XUnite or Die\" and its author is one Fidel Castro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hree points ahead of Basil Brush, so there is hope for him yet. The truth about the position of the Conservative party is that its problem is not disunity, but what it unites around. It is policy that is the problem, because the right hon. Gentleman stood up at that Dispatch Box and effectively repeated the Conservative position of opposing investment in the national health service and in schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.20.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ce. Just plainly and simply irrelevant. The Queen's Speech focuses on economic stability, the invest and reform programme in public services, strong civic society based on rights and responsibilities and Britain engaged in the world. Now the right hon. Gentleman mentioned the previous crime Bills. Let me first point out that crime under this Government is down; under the Conservatives, it doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman is absolutely right that that is a problem. That is why we have created a system in which people can get to an NHS dentist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hnology. The communications Bill announced in the Queen's Speech will free up the market in communications and the planning Bill will simplify procedures, but all these things would be put at risk if we returned to the disastrous policies that, under the last Conservative Government, gave us interest rates of 15 per cent., interest rates of 10 per cent. for years or more, and 3 million unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "r. The truth is that on each of these major issues there is a fundamental difference between the two political parties: fundamental on the issue of the economy, fundamental on the issue of Europe, fundamental on the issue of investment for public services, fundamental on the issues to do with reform of public services and fundamental in relation to crime and law and order and antisocial behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "im out because she could not have him living there any more. She is a single parent who works a 12-hour night shift in a food processing factory. Her son decided to seek treatment for his drug problem and he was told that he would have to wait between six and eight weeks before he could be put on a detox programme, a fact which I later confirmed. I spoke to my constituent again this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "n.] It appears that the electricity supply has gone, or at least some of it, but I will not worry; people have never been known to be unable to hear me when I am speaking. Two and a half months ago, her son was awaiting a court appearance, and she said at the time that she could not do anything to bring him back into her home because the old habit of crime and everything else would start up again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.42.2", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I associate myself and my colleagues with the remarks made about former Members of this place. I have been a Member for more than 30 years. I knew the two Members particularly well and I think that the tributes were well paid, and I think that all who knew them would like to pay their tributes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.42.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Clelland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is as ignorant as his leader on regional government. It is not about taking power from local government; on the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.49.5", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Clelland", "preceding_text": "eve that the Government's record stands to be examined on its merits; they have already done just that, in Scotland, Wales and London—and in Northern Ireland, except that we have a bit of a hitch there at the moment. That is the Government's policy: to devolve power from the centre to regional assemblies and to national Parliaments and, let us hope, to regional assemblies in England as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.49.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "h free enterprise. At the risk of not showing due deference to one much mightier than anyone here, I have a suspicion that free enterprise has rather more to do with that particular prayer being answered, but that is all part of the greater scheme. All this will come to pass, even to the hon. Gentleman in due course when he seeks a place far higher than he has already achieved in this mortal life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-13", "file": "debates2002-11-13.xml", "sha256": "d34cedc1048305be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "rly funded public services. They are not particularly concerned about local government gimmicks to do with the possibility of regional assemblies. Banbury has absolutely nothing in common with Brighton. Henley has nothing in common with Hove. Witney has nothing in common with Worthing. The idea that the south-east is a homogeneous entity, which can be brought together in a regional assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-13.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhere are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Chamber and try to ensure that the other statements appear at the House's convenience. However, I robustly resist the perhaps unintentional implication that Thursday is somehow a second-class day in the House's proceedings. I thoroughly enjoy my Thursdays; they are one of the highlights of the week. I therefore have no difficulty in defending the practice of putting down a statement on a Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.134.5", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XYou said four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " particular measure from that Queen's Speech does not mean that it has been dropped from the legislative programme for a full Parliament. I hope that the House will not fall into the trap which so many of those in the media wish to dig for us, in implying that anything that comes in the third Session is of third order priority. It is a full Parliament. Each year, we will have a full Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.134.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ployers and discussing the Bain proposals. Instead, 18,000 members of the armed forces, supported by the police, are on the streets today, taking the place of the firefighters. They are using the standby fleet of green goddesses, and sophisticated rescue apparatus and cutting equipment. I am sure that the whole House will want to express its appreciation for the services of the armed forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The statement of the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) may have satisfied his Back Benchers, but it is not the sanctity of picket lines that governs me, but the sanctity of life. For every day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ccount what the commanders in the armed forces told my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence about equipment. They made it clear that under these circumstances they would prefer to use the green goddesses because the technique is familiar and the same for all of them. The armed forces do not have the training to use the many different types of fire engine vehicle that are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "o use the green goddesses because the technique is familiar and the same for all of them. The armed forces do not have the training to use the many different types of fire engine vehicle that are available. [Interruption.] I have to take the advice of the commanders, whose obligation is to see that their soldiers work in safe conditions. They do not want their men to work with unfamiliar vehicles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "an to say that it is impossible to train a person to do one particular operation, like driving the vehicle, in less time, and that is under way. Before the right hon. Gentleman asked his questions, I had already asked whether vehicles were available at the stations or various centres. The estimate was that there were over 100. There are various estimates. Some vehicles are operating, some are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ying that there are a number of different estimates depending on whether the vehicles are operating, their condition and so on. It is a matter of judgment. There are certainly more than 100. We have made a number of them, and training, available to the emergency command. Days ago they were distributed. I have had responsibility for the fire service for less than 12 months and I am astounded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " more than 100. We have made a number of them, and training, available to the emergency command. Days ago they were distributed. I have had responsibility for the fire service for less than 12 months and I am astounded— [Interruption.] Wait for the point. I am astounded that we have not been replacing the green goddesses with modern machines. For 20 years, the Opposition were in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " [Interruption.] Wait for the point. I am astounded that we have not been replacing the green goddesses with modern machines. For 20 years, the Opposition were in power— [Interruption.]— and if they had replaced the vehicles at a rate of 200 to 300 a year we would have had the modern fleet that we are talking about. That is the reality. We would have had the equipment and the training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ence, to understand what I said. I said that I would take the advice of the military commanders, who say that our responsibility is maximum safety for the soldiers in this difficult situation. They have concluded that it is better for training to take place on the green goddesses than for extra fire engines to be used. Incidentally, 400 vehicles are not available. Some are being taken apart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "the law is—often, lawyers parrot the law and assume that it will solve everything if I go outside and say, XThe law says this and everything is okay.\" Parliament is here because we know the difficulties; people do not necessarily accept those propositions. I prefer the negotiated way. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talks about the sanctity of life. If I avoid disputes instead of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Health and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I am almost deeply wounded by the hon. Lady's accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Health and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": " of reform, and in these exchanges he has given the impression that only his party supports reform, and the Liberal Democrat and Conservative parties do not. I am happy to accept that the onus is on Opposition parties to recognise, as I do, that radical reform of the health service is necessary. Having started with insults, if he remains to hear my contribution, which he does not usually do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Health and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "As I have said, in due course we will present a prospectus that will deal with issues such as that. I can say, however, that if foundation hospitals are part of the NHS family and are delivering services to NHS patients, they must abide by the same disciplines as other NHS hospitals. That means that they will receive ratings, and will be subject to the same inspections as other parts of the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Health and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "as elected in 1997 by looking at its manifesto. Indeed, it is very clear: XNew Labour is a party of ideas and ideals but not of outdated ideology. What counts is what works. The objectives are radical. The means will be modern\". That is the sort of psychobabble that we have all become used to in recent times. The manifesto says that Labour Xwill not return to the top-down management of the 1970s\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.180.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Health and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman asked me that, because we have made it clear that we want council tax to be abolished and replaced by a fair tax. Even if there is a fair tax, such as a local income tax, it is wrong for the Government to transfer responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Health and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "rtue not of a lack of intelligence but, certainly in my constituency, of not having English as a mother language, for example—of voicing their concerns. If there is going to be genuine consultation on the issue, that consultation must enable everyone who will be affected by the creation of foundation hospitals to voice their opinions. I deeply regret allowing the hon. Gentleman to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-14", "file": "debates2002-11-14.xml", "sha256": "032d48dec1481069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Health and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "sure, I think that we have a proud record. I want to speak briefly about the health agenda before discussing welfare reform. On our Front Bench, we have at least one new health spokesman—I welcome my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay (Mr. Baron) to his post—and that shows how much talent we have on this side of the House. We have fresh faces who will carry forward the battle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-14.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-15", "file": "debates2002-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0eb4c389f2ef9996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-15.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Education, Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": " the different programmes and policies of the parties so that the country can understand them. I have put six questions today to the Conservatives. First, how will the hon. Gentleman deal with the statutory basis of home-school contracts? Secondly, would he close 80 sure start programmes? Thirdly, does he agree with his leader when he says that A-levels are not worth the paper they are written on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-15.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-15", "file": "debates2002-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0eb4c389f2ef9996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-15.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Education, Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I would abolish the compulsory nature of citizenship classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-15.279.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-15", "file": "debates2002-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0eb4c389f2ef9996", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-15.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Education, Culture, Media and Sport", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "linson went further, saying: XIt was difficult to know if any students got their just desserts.\" That one subject affected 9,000 students. A similar problem, affecting 6,000 students, arose with the psychology examination. If the Secretary of State can sit on the Treasury Bench saying, XThis has nothing to do with me, guv—those students can go to hell,\" we are in a very bad state of affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-15.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.346.6", "colnum": "346", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Joyce Quin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joyce Quin", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will appreciate that I enthusiastically welcome Newcastle-Gateshead's inclusion in the short list for European city of culture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.346.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Good question.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "In my village, we are aware of the support given by the ECB and by Somerset county cricket club, which has been excellent. However, the key to good cricket is good cricket pitches. What is the Minister doing to encourage the training and employment of good groundsmen in the public sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.361.9", "colnum": "361", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question; it is a pleasure to have him back at Church Commissioners Question Time. In the interests of Parliament, I hope that it is a brief sojourn and that he will not be with us for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.361.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Welfare-to-Work and Benefit Uprating", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "he interviews under the new deal for disabled people. Why will the new interviews be any more successful than those that the Secretary of State has already piloted, launched and, indeed, already evaluated? If people turn up for the interviews, what will happen then? Again, an evaluation has been produced by his own Department. Let me remind him what it found when it compared the pilot areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "raised by the right hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) , Mr. Speaker, will you bear in mind—as I am sure you will—our discussions with your office about the establishment of a joint SNP-Plaid Cymru parliamentary group, the fourth largest parliamentary grouping in this House, and the fact that members of Plaid Cymru can speak on behalf of SNP members as well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Economy and Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ernment's record. The Liberals, of course, continue to attack their record. Home owners and industry have attacked it, and so have the British people. I watched the Conservative party conference, where Tories were attacking it. It was even attacked by the Tory party chairman and the Tory leader, or should I say the current Tory leader? In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph on 6 October —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Economy and Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The question that the hon. Gentleman poses completely misses the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Economy and Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ws that we have made it clear that we would not abolish the minimum wage, and I am happy to confirm that again this afternoon. No one is denying that some of the decisions that the Government have taken on the economy—notably their reforms to the Bank of England—were the right ones. I have fully acknowledged that on a number of occasions. The Government inherited a golden legacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.414.3", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Economy and Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": " be less cautious than the previous assumption.\" That was before the latest figures were produced by the Government Actuary. That leaves us the entirety of the Government's spending plans balanced on a tightrope—the assumption of 2.5 per cent. growth. That brings me to the underlying structural problems that raise serious questions about the Government's ability to deliver their plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Economy and Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that, but one of his colleagues does not agree at all. That is another example of the Conservative party trying to appeal to everyone by having every possible view on every subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-18", "file": "debates2002-11-18.xml", "sha256": "582fb3cb5a921bb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Economy and Trade and Industry", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "o, when confirming the closure of many urban post offices, the Department was busy trailing news of a #450 million plan to help rural post offices, since when there has been total silence. Surely we are due at least a re-launch of the policy. Sub-post offices in my constituency and in other rural constituencies look forward to learning more details of what the Government have trailed in the press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-18.465.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-19", "file": "debates2002-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfeb251440f94d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The consultation is open to everyone in this country, no matter where they live. It is not a matter of spending money, as my hon. Friend claims. It is perfectly possible for him, his constituents and everyone else to make representations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-19", "file": "debates2002-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfeb251440f94d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "Two issues are involved in that question. One has to do with the options in connection with airports, including Luton airport. The other has to do with the financing of the consequences of any decision. The local community has given the proposed expansion of Luton airport very considerable support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-19", "file": "debates2002-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfeb251440f94d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Regions, Transport and DEFRA", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XThat was on Monday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Carlisle (Mr. Martlew) mentioned the Communications Bill, and I am sure that there will be many occasions when the House can return to that subject and debate it. As we approach the first of two Divisions on this Queen's Speech, it is strange that no Conservative Member has mentioned the economy today. Without a strong economy, there is no money to fund the public services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-19", "file": "debates2002-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfeb251440f94d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Regions, Transport and DEFRA", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "As the Secretary of State is saying that the answer to the nation's transport problems is public investment, and as he has just referred to the 10-year transport plan, will he explain to the House why at the end of that 10-year plan—15 years into a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-19", "file": "debates2002-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfeb251440f94d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Regions, Transport and DEFRA", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "As the Secretary of State is saying that the answer to the nation's transport problems is public investment, and as he has just referred to the 10-year transport plan, will he explain to the House why at the end of that 10-year plan—15 years into a Labour Government— [Interruption.]— he will be spending substantially less as a proportion of GDP on rail transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-19a.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is a matter for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.629.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t Ministers on whether more money is available for the strikers, and on the number of fire engines available for training. Only last week, Lord Falconer said that troops would cross the picket lines. Today, that was completely denied by the Chief of the Defence Staff, who said that they will not cross picket lines. Does not the Prime Minister understand that public safety must be guaranteed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.640.5", "colnum": "640", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We hope that in terms of the regulars, the proportion of officers in the police service will be 40 per cent. Catholic over the next 10 years, and we are recruiting on a 50:50 basis. In relation to support staff, I am advised that we have had four competitions on a 50:50 basis, but it is still too early to see the results of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.640.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " a written question to the Department for Work and Pensions asking for information on the position of disabled people in hospital. The written answer stated that the information was not available. As you know, I then used my rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 to obtain internal Department for Work and Pensions paperwork, which demonstrated that the Department did have the information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.645.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ing another remarkably similar speech, in which the speaker also referred to Xthe fracturing of social cohesion\". A press release from the same source on the same date called for Xa new national strategy for crime prevention\", and the same speaker went on to echo the Prime Minister's recent article in The Observer by pointing out that Xit is the weak and the vulnerable who suffer most from crime\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.671.4", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "on will go inside for a period, and that those who commit a different sort of crime will not automatically go to prison. Those should be the presumptions, and the court should then judge each case on its merits and ensure that the punishment fits the crime. I shall not provide a shopping list. We shall have plenty of opportunities to debate those matters when we consider the criminal justice Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.671.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XThousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Rosindell", "preceding_text": "ever, when the Government came to power in 1997, police numbers in Havering stood at 326. By September 2001, following a massive fall to 297 in December 2000, the 326 figure was restored. Today, we have only 320 officers, when the bare minimum it is estimated we need is 334. My borough includes three parliamentary constituencies—Romford, Hornchurch and Upminster—and 240 million people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-20", "file": "debates2002-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7e9e8cc81def5a61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": " shadow Leader of the House, should reply to the debate. With all due respect to the hon. Gentleman—he and I respect each other—neither of us have any illusions about where we stand in the pecking order. As far as I can see, this is the first Queen's Speech for five years not to be concluded by the shadow Leader of the House. That says something about the state of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-20.742.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.785.2", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XGuess!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "tting. The House will also wish to be reminded that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will deliver his pre-Budget report on Wednesday 27 November . The provisional business for the following week will be: Monday 2 December —Until 7 o'clock there will be an Opposition half day. There will be a debate in the name of the Democratic Unionist Party on a subject to be announced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.785.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " armed forces. In the light of that, the Secretary of State for Defence is reported as saying: XI didn't actually hear him say 'extreme concern'.\" Rather than have a debate, perhaps we should offer the Secretary of State an analysis of his hearing capability, because for the two to be at such odds is a serious matter. It gets worse, because at column 639 of yesterday's Hansard , during PMPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.792.4", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman is not working for one of the tabloids because he has managed to over-polarise and over-sensationalise yesterday's exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.792.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "I was actually trying to make a point to unite the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Burnside", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burnside", "preceding_text": "I find it hard to talk about Xdecommissioning\" without thinking about the other form of it. One of the greatest threats is the permanency of the decommissioning of fishing vegetables—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.825.5", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "t, as the debate becomes louder and more widely heard in the next few weeks and months, fishermen will conclude that the only way that we can really offer them a glimmer of hope is by having the courage to take control, rather than having to get involved in these rather grubby deals that are done behind the scenes in smoke-filled rooms without the fishermen being present, as we have already heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.825.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "egy at meetings of the EU Fisheries Council.\" Given that we have little more than two hours left, I shall do my best to be brief. Many hon. Members have a great knowledge of the fishing interests in their constituencies, so it is a pity that a disproportionate amount of time was taken up by the Tory Front Bench. Although I like the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhat was his name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members sat quietly and listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": " example that he set many years ago, when he had the foresight to know what needed to be done. I ask again: are the Government prepared to take the action that I have outlined? Would the other political parties in the House support such a move? I have no hesitation in saying that the Liberal Democrats would not, because their declared policy is unequivocal support for further European integration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "highest since 1976, the whiting spawning stock is the largest since 1991 and everyone knows that prawn stocks are extremely robust. All that is in the figures. Cod stocks are extremely low and extremely vulnerable, but even cod stocks have increased by 27 per cent. on the estimates in the figures compared with last year's total. Furthermore, all the figures that I have read out to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: X120 mm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": " interesting remarks. I am tempted to say that he said he wants to join us, although he was not making a territorial demand. That is my understanding, but he should remember, of course, that if he did so his fleet would be fishing with 110 mm nets with square mesh panels, as opposed to those in waters south of Newcastle where, remarkably, there are small cod and people are fishing with 80 mm nets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blizzard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blizzard", "preceding_text": " multiply that by 18 fishermen in Lowestoft, it comes to a lot of money to keep them going. I can understand people wanting financial support—I would like them to have it. However, we are talking about a lot of money and we would simply be tying up the same number of fishermen who will go out and catch the fish when it is all over. I think that decommissioning makes more sense than tying up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": "ch have sustainability at heart, that there is nothing to hide. I suspect that there is something to hide, however. For example, on the west coast of Scotland the historic deep-sea fishing grounds have been carved up in a backroom deal in which Scotland accounts for only 2 per cent. of the available catch, while 80 per cent. goes to Spain and the rest is carved up between Ireland and France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.880.5", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Committee of Selection", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "ouse if things did not improve even more quickly. I am sorry about that and hope that he will not feel the need to follow through with any of those threats. I wish to quote from a letter that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House wrote in response to a letter that he received from the hon. Members for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) and for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) on 14 November .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.880.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "about that, and we all have a responsibility, especially the Government, to ensure that that does not happen. However, we must remember that we are not yet in a strike situation. Matters are sufficiently serious for me to come to the House to say that a strike is a possibility tomorrow, but every one of us hopes that it will not happen, and that negotiations will continue and lead to an agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-21", "file": "debates2002-11-21.xml", "sha256": "18f3b3e758763be6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.894.2", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not want to give the impression that I am unaware of the situation. The hon. Gentleman is right to say that I did stray into referring to the Army, and that the armed services in general are involved. I properly record this House's appreciation of the work that they have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-21.894.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.4.2", "colnum": "4", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "That is all part of the Green Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.4.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.11.8", "colnum": "11", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "Hi.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.11.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I hope that it is not me who has to reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I myself am visiting all the 10 pathfinder areas before Christmas to discuss those issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.14.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.17.4", "colnum": "17", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "We want to consult on this matter, because the Government have a bold target of eradicating child poverty. Even on the difficult relative measure—it is difficult because we are trying to hit a moving target as a result of economic prosperity—500,000 fewer children are now in relative low-income households than in 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.17.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " has refused to work, so it would be somewhat excessive to take legal action on that basis. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the Deputy Prime Minister said that emergency legislation is a matter for the Attorney-General. That is actually the law: it is a matter for the Attorney-General. The right hon. Gentleman says that the Government have refused to make any preparations for this strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We know what the game of the Conservative party has been from the moment the dispute began: to exploit it for all it is worth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.26.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has said that any settlement has to be fully costed and linked to modernisation. Is he aware that the leader of the employers' side negotiators said at the weekend that the deal last Thursday was costed and that the information was available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "NATO Summit (Prague)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "re not my words but those of his Secretary of State for Defence in a letter to my hon. Friend the Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) . How is the statement that the EU's defence policy cannot be within NATO consistent with what the Prime Minister told the House and the President? The confusion between the EU and NATO is already threatening the coherence of the peacekeeping operation in Macedonia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.42.4", "colnum": "42", "heading": "NATO Summit (Prague)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhere does it say that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "een properly done. Incidentally, that is why every other country in NATO is supporting the concept of getting the agreement. The British Conservative party may have set its face against it, but that is not the position of the American Republican party, never mind any other Conservative party in Europe. The agreement is simply that, in circumstances in which NATO does not want to be involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.42.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.55.7", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " on military action in respect of Iraq, at the appropriate time. As to the appropriate time, I hope that it will be before any military engagement, but as the House has always accepted—and must accept—there are circumstances in which the safety of our forces requires an element of surprise. In those circumstances, it would be utterly irresponsible to come to the House beforehand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.55.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.55.7", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XThey are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " it will be before any military engagement, but as the House has always accepted—and must accept—there are circumstances in which the safety of our forces requires an element of surprise. In those circumstances, it would be utterly irresponsible to come to the House beforehand— [Interruption.] Of course, it would. I hope that Liberal Democrat Members are not suggesting otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.55.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raises that in every debate on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "With respect, I think any country that believed it was under threat would invoke the self-defence provisions of international law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "With respect, I think any country that believed it was under threat would invoke the self-defence provisions of international law. [Interruption.] Any material breach of the provision of this resolution must come back to the Security Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "e United States that simply cannot go unchallenged in the Chamber. First, there is a view, exemplified by the hon. Member for Clydesdale (Mr. Hood) , the first Government Back Bencher to contribute to the debate, that the US Administration are a bunch of cowboys who, in the words of the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson) , cannot wait to bomb the living daylights out of Iraqis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "Regime change was also the policy of the Clinton Administration—I did not hear the hon. Gentleman make the same criticisms of that Administration. People like Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and even Richard Perle, who spoke in the House a week ago, are some of the most intelligent and sophisticated people in the international community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e had a system whereby it was mandatory for the Government to get express backing from the House before military action, I expect that the Government would long ago have come to the House of Commons, in the same way as the President has gone to the United States Congress, and got a blank cheque to take whatever military action was necessary. That is not the constitutional position in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ge in the heat of the moment. I point out to him that passing a resolution of the House would not alter the Crown prerogative. If he wants to change the Crown prerogative he needs to bring a Bill before the House. I suggest that he does that, so that we can have a proper debate about the issue, which he clearly thinks is important. Unlike the hon. Gentleman, I do not mistrust the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "he Foreign Secretary's assurances that he will do his utmost to consult the House on any future military action, and that he would convene the House as soon as possible after any military action if it became necessary to take such military action before the House had been able to meet. I move on to the military affairs that arise from the debate. Last week the Secretary of State for Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "re military action, and that he would convene the House as soon as possible after any military action if it became necessary to take such military action before the House had been able to meet. I move on to the military affairs that arise from the debate. Last week the Secretary of State for Defence— [Interruption.] I shall quote the Secretary of State, so he might listen to the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ty, but clearly we can't perform at the fullest end of our operational capability.\" That bears out the warning that he gave to the Select Committee on Defence on 6 November : XIf there were a medium-sized operation, we would have great difficulty in coping with that.\" That is a savage indictment of Labour's five years in office. The strategic defence review, which everyone broadly supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "1 Gulf war, one minor operation, such as peacekeeping in the Balkans, and continued operations in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and so on. Is it not now abundantly clear that the armed forces do not begin to have the capacity to manage that level of commitment? Are we not now paying the price for a Government who have continued to spend less on defence in every year since the Conservatives left office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XTweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale\".", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ntingency planning by giving information such as that for which the hon. Gentleman has asked. If he thought about it for a few more minutes, he would probably realise that giving such information would not be sensible. The same answer can be given to the various points made by the Liberal Democrat spokesman, the hon. Member for Tweeddale. I am sorry; I cannot remember the rest of his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The contract, for example, for Challenger 2 has now been let, and the work will be proceeding in order to ensure that those lessons are learned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The contract, for example, for Challenger 2 has now been let, and the work will be proceeding in order to ensure that those lessons are learned. [Hon. Members: XWhen?\"] There is no point in hon. Members shouting out XWhen?\", because the answer to that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.133.23", "colnum": "133", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAnd some Labour MPs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Deputy Chief Whip told me to choose my words with care and said, XIt's Denis against 40 Conservative MPs\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.133.23"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-25", "file": "debates2002-11-25.xml", "sha256": "5f41478868b22ce2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.133.23", "colnum": "133", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": " of the interest that Conservative Front Benchers take in the issue I leave to the judgment of the people of Gibraltar. The presence in the Chamber of hon. Members from nearly all parties is a clear sign of their genuine concern for the people of Gibraltar and their future. We all share the concern that there should be a better future for the people of Gibraltar. It is precisely that desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-25.133.23"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.149.11", "colnum": "149", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ward investment in Scotland has fallen by almost two thirds in the first half of this year? I find that extremely worrying, recognising, as I do, how important inward investment is to Scotland. Given the wealth of experience in business that the Secretary of State has had both personally and as a Minister in the Department of Trade and Industry, is it not frustrating that Labour and Liberal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.149.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.151.12", "colnum": "151", "heading": "ADVOCATE-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Lynda Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynda Clark", "preceding_text": "No such devolution issue has been intimated to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.151.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.152.6", "colnum": "152", "heading": "ADVOCATE-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Lynda Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynda Clark", "preceding_text": "On the face of it I am not sure that there are any human rights issues, but I am happy to listen to any that are brought to my attention. This is a devolved matter, and I am sure that the Lord Advocate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.152.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the fire service dispute. As you know, I was available to give a statement to the House yesterday in line with my undertaking to keep the House informed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the fire service dispute. As you know, I was available to give a statement to the House yesterday in line with my undertaking to keep the House informed. [Laughter.] I would hope that the House always feels that Front Benchers should make themselves accountable. In the event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "s and the employees on Thursday night and Friday morning abandoned the essential link between pay and modernisation that has been the touchstone of the Government's approach to the dispute. I met Sir Jeremy again last night. He was working to put together a new group on the employers' side, which will oversee the process of modernisation of the fire service, drawing on the work of the Bain review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "That was a typical cheap contribution from the right hon. Gentleman. The Opposition should reflect on the fact that every day of this dispute causes a threat to our citizens and everything should be done to try—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "flame the dispute, which is what the Conservative Administration always did. It is a bit cheap for the Conservatives to talk about how many days have been lost in the dispute, when we recall the millions of days lost in disputes under their leadership, quite apart from the millions of days lost through unemployment. Is the right hon. Gentleman suggesting that I have to direct the Attorney-General?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "hat we do not want the strike. He should ask his own legal affairs spokesman. I am asked by the Attorney-General whether any action is taking place and what the state of the negotiations is, and I properly tell him that it is for him to make a judgment on the public interest and the safety of the community. I leave that judgment to him and it is not our job to direct him on such matters. If—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "We must accept that the London underground is working very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "We must accept that the London underground is working very well— [Interruption.] It has not closed down. Despite the statements made at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "There was no cost given. Costs were bandied about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I apologise for any insult or offence that I may have caused, Mr. Speaker, but you know that on the last occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I apologise for any insult or offence that I may have caused, Mr. Speaker, but you know that on the last occasion—[Hon. Members: XOh!\"] I am entitled to make a point, even in a modernised House. You know, Mr. Speaker, that there was a requirement that statements would be one hour, and you said to the House that we went longer than that on the last occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "vote against the regions if they do not like all that and if they do not like the local government structure, but they will have the choice. That is what we are providing. We have made our decision, and we did not want to leave any doubt as to whether there would be three-tier government. The House can imagine what this lot opposite would say if we agreed that the county structure was there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I do not agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "s, to use his own word. For that to happen, the proposition has to come before the vote, but with the Bill, it will be vote first, proposition afterwards. The Bill proposes that referendums should be held without voters knowing the structure or powers of the assemblies for which they are asked to vote. Even the Deputy Prime Minister would have a hard job to convince anyone that that is democratic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been around for a long time. To imagine that the Prime Minister's own hand signs off all these documents—what fantasy! What a Liberal Democrat statement that was! In the few moments that are left to me, I want to draw the attention of the House to one or two other things that have been troubling me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "sed to have oversight of all the English regions. Why can we not introduce a system of regional Select Committees, so that MPs like me could meet in Lancaster, Wigan or Manchester—in public and televised—to bring the quangos that we keep hearing about to account? That is a question not for this Minister but for the Leader of the House and others. I shall vote for the Bill this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I somewhat regret the fact that my hon. Friend did not get an opportunity to participate in the debate. His memory is correct. We come from the same region. Obviously, I have enormous affection for him, but our constituencies have little in common. We do not share economic or planning interests. That can be said of constituencies across the eastern region—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ment unemployment has reduced to historically low levels in comparison with all our major competitors. If there is a connection between unemployment and devolution—the principle on which the right hon. Gentleman based his argument—devolution, where it has been introduced in this country, shows clearly that we can take action to tackle unemployment. That is our party's commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-26", "file": "debates2002-11-26.xml", "sha256": "50cdf10ed5da56d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAnswer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had been present throughout the debate, I might have had more sympathy for his intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-26.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is a supplementary question. I cannot allow the hon. Gentleman to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister seek to abandon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "I am not a killjoy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ut so that it is robust so that at all times we meet our fiscal rules. An alternative approach has been put: that, instead of our holding firm to this long-term course, this stage of the economic cycle would be the time to cut spending and borrowing. I have examined such an approach. It would lead directly to depressed demand, rising unemployment, and the old familiar boom-and-bust approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "e support that that would receive from all quarters of the House, and he was absolutely right. We support those measures. I must congratulate the Chancellor on something else. Up to now, he has been overshadowed by the Prime Minister, but at last he has come into his own. He is being paid the supreme accolade of having a song dedicated entirely to him. It is written by Kenny Jones and Robert Hart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ght. We support those measures. I must congratulate the Chancellor on something else. Up to now, he has been overshadowed by the Prime Minister, but at last he has come into his own. He is being paid the supreme accolade of having a song dedicated entirely to him. It is written by Kenny Jones and Robert Hart. [Interruption.] The song is released later this week, and I can give the House a preview.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Jones and Robert Hart. [Interruption.] The song is released later this week, and I can give the House a preview. [Interruption.] It is called XMr. Brown, You're Robbing Me\" and its lyrics include the lines: XGiving with one hand, taking with the other. Shatter your dreams. Then you run for cover\". But the Chancellor has not been able to run for cover today. This is a moment of humiliation for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor say also whether any provision has been made for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "e that the Government have been in a complete mess and muddle on that issue, with the Chancellor, the Deputy Prime Minister and other Ministers all contradicting each other by the hour? This week, the Prime Minister entered the fray. On Monday, he was indulging his thespian fantasies, trying to play Margaret Thatcher. Well, I know Margaret Thatcher, and this Prime Minister is no Margaret Thatcher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ked about the economic mistakes of the shadow Chancellor when in government in the 1990s. XBusinesses,\" he said, Xwent to the wall. We broke our pledge on taxes, there was negative equity in homes.\" This is the current leader of the Conservative party talking about the work of the current shadow Chancellor. He continued: XThe public felt hurt. Then we lectured them, and we seemed arrogant.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not like it either. The Chancellor must answer the questions that he was asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "When the shadow Chancellor refers to his record in the early 1990s, let us look at what he is proposing today. First, on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "When the shadow Chancellor refers to his record in the early 1990s, let us look at what he is proposing today. First, on— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.4", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XMore, more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "tation that is now being carried out on all the other items. On the question of public services, which the right hon. and learned Gentleman also raised, does he not know that literacy and numeracy results, A-level results and the numbers of people who are able to go to university are the best that have been recorded in this country? As for the right hon. and learned Gentleman's other points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.4", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " On the question of public services, which the right hon. and learned Gentleman also raised, does he not know that literacy and numeracy results, A-level results and the numbers of people who are able to go to university are the best that have been recorded in this country? As for the right hon. and learned Gentleman's other points—[Hon. Members: XMore, more.\"] As for his other points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.331.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XYes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "hird quarter of this year and business investment is 25 per cent. up on 1997, but we are facing exactly the same problems that businesses are facing around the world. As for the right hon. and learned Gentleman's further point on crime, he should recognise that crime is down under this Government. As for his point on savings ratios, he should understand that we have the lowest savings ratio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "He said that he would have to make such an assessment. We are not simply considering a world downturn. The scale of our manufacturing problems is unique to Britain and it has been engineered in 11 Downing street by meddling, red tape, tax complication and a lack of action on the exchange rate. Unlike the Conservatives, we do not believe that the Government should cut education and health spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ould carry more weight if he had not left debt at 44 per cent. of GDP and forced us to cut it, and if he had not left an inflationary problem that had to be dealt with by raising interest rates in the first days after we came into government. I must therefore look at his record in the context of high debt, his failure to make the Bank of England independent, and the high inflation that he left us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the Office for National Statistics makes the recommendations about off and on-balance-sheet matters. We have operated in exactly the same way as the previous Conservative Government did. If the shadow Chancellor is accusing us of Enron-style activity, which is a suggestion of corruption rather than of getting things wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "role that he is playing today. So far as the changes since the Budget in April are concerned, I think that he would agree with me that a stock market fall of 25 per cent. in Britain, and a 40 per cent. fall in France and Germany, are significant events that not even he, with his prescience, could have predicted in April. He must realise that those events have a bearing not only on the value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAnswer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "hat the pre-Budget and Budget processes are for. But is the right hon. Gentleman against the 30 per cent. corporation tax? Is he against the 3 per cent. cut that we introduced? Is he against the cut in small business tax from 23p to 19p? Is he against the capital gains tax cut from 40p in the pound to 10 per cent., which is helping many companies with business assets? Is he against those measures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Health (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "to such stress. In waiting for the answer, we may have developed some stress-related disorders. The hon. Gentleman explained on behalf of the Conservatives where the money should come from to improve the health service. In answer to my question to him, we received only one figure: he would save £14,000 by abandoning the logo project. That would pay for almost a year's worth of nursing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-27", "file": "debates2002-11-27.xml", "sha256": "051d0ad8c7dc1247", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Health (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I was not aware of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-27.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-28", "file": "debates2002-11-28.xml", "sha256": "c740820355afeaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "CPS", "cue_speaker": "John Burnett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Burnett", "preceding_text": " implication criticised both the prosecution and the judge in relation to a public interest immunity application. Many would argue that more trenchant criticism was deserved. Will the Solicitor-General confirm that the application should never have been made and assure the House that steps will be taken to ensure that there is no further abuse of public interest immunity by the CPS? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.458.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-28", "file": "debates2002-11-28.xml", "sha256": "c740820355afeaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the reasoned way in which he made his point. My own experience of attending Livingston football matches is in a modern all-seater stadium—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-28", "file": "debates2002-11-28.xml", "sha256": "c740820355afeaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "That is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-28", "file": "debates2002-11-28.xml", "sha256": "c740820355afeaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to one of the revenge of the clones later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-11-28", "file": "debates2002-11-28.xml", "sha256": "c740820355afeaa5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "question. First, I want to reassure hon. Members that the Bill states clearly, in clause 4(4)(b), that a charge would be due only if Xit has not been possible to discharge the patient because, and only because, the local authority has not made available for the patient a community care service which it decided under section 3(3)(b)\"— that is the assessment— Xto make available for him\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-11-28.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": " areas and has received substantial regeneration money, that as well as producing better services such arrangements often have a marked effect on local people who become involved. Like me, he has met many for whom that involvement has constituted a personal turning point, showing them that they have the capacity for more extensive involvement. Dudley, as I said, has received substantial resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "eneration money, that as well as producing better services such arrangements often have a marked effect on local people who become involved. Like me, he has met many for whom that involvement has constituted a personal turning point, showing them that they have the capacity for more extensive involvement. Dudley, as I said, has received substantial resources. [Interruption.] If I may finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.600.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "We of course agree that the special constabulary has a very important part to play— [Interruption.] If Opposition Members want to hear the answer to the question, I suggest that they listen. If they go on making noise, they will not hear the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "mdash;in the champion's initiative, which my right hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Crime Reduction and Community announced 10 days ago. We need to improve the engagement of employers, and to see what else we have to do. The reason for the fall in numbers is a long-standing one, which began many years ago. In many ways, it can be traced back to 1945, and there are many complex reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "roblem. The point that hon. Member for Tatton is, I hope, getting at is that we have to deal with crime and with reassuring the public about crime. That is the role of special constables, but it is only part of the picture. In looking at this issue, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will remember that police numbers as a whole have risen to 188,512, and that we now have the largest ever number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.601.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "CCTV", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "That is the responsibility of the Mayor of London and the Metropolitan police service, as the officers' employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.647.5", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Policing (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "John Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hume", "preceding_text": "eople. That vote sent a clear message to the IRA. Historically, it has always said that it is acting in the name of the Irish people. If it now wants to do that, there must be a complete and absolute end to its violence, which it is clearly working towards, and more importantly, it must end its existence as a paramilitary organisation and devote its energies to building a new and peaceful society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.647.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.647.5", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Policing (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "John Hume", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hume", "preceding_text": " its energies to building a new and peaceful society. [Interruption.] That vote also sent out a challenge to Unionists who oppose the agreement because, also for the first time in history, the whole of nationalist Ireland accepts the principle of consent, which is a fundamental principle of Unionism: that there can be no change in Northern Ireland without the consent of the majority of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.647.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Policing (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "n Fein activity—and, perhaps, those who are sceptical about the amount of back-room dealing by the Government—are satisfied that there is transparency in these matters. It is clear that in their amendment the Government are congratulating themselves on the openness of their dealings. I suspect that many of us feel that there was more going on at Weston Park than there should have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Policing (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "ng the House to oppose Xoffering non-elected convicted terrorists places on district policing partnerships.\" I am curious about their objection: is it to non-elected members, or to people with terrorist convictions? If the latter, I am not sure what position they have taken until now by agreeing to sit with Sinn Fein in the Executive and the Northern Ireland Assembly, and only abandoning it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "Just before my right hon. Friend finishes his very short speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "onger Commission, enforcing the general interest at the centre of Europe's institutional architecture. Only a strong Commission will be able to retain its vital independence, acting in the interests of the EU as a whole, and not subject to political interference or vested national interests. Without a strong Commission driving through change, none of the Council's decisions would come to anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: X Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to my hon. Friend. Apart from being an outstanding Member of this House, he was also a Member of the European Parliament, and his expertise is particularly appropriate. His suggestion is part of the convention's agenda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That is EU policy. Turkey is one of the officially recognised candidates for accession. The president of the convention was speaking for himself alone when he declared his opposition to Turkey's membership. We support the work of the convention because it is the best way to deliver the practical benefits that British citizens want: more jobs, greater prosperity, safer streets, cleaner skies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made a good and valid point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": " the Group do not reflect modifications of substance. On the contrary, they would serve to confirm, and render absolutely clear and legally watertight, certain key elements\". Yet the right hon. Gentleman was talking as though this was a great British triumph and that everything had changed. It is simply not true. The Minister on the working group, Baroness Scotland, should have told him the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-02", "file": "debates2002-12-02.xml", "sha256": "157a9b6af3eee9a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "use of EU instructions, they could not exclude places that were EU overseas territories. That put us in the absurd position whereby individuals living in British Guiana were not allowed to give money to the Liberal Democrats, but people were able to do so if they lived in French Guiana. That was madness, crazy and illogical, but what on earth could we do about it? The answer is absolutely nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-02.706.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.735.7", "colnum": "735", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his comment. He may be aware that I was a clinical negligence lawyer before coming to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.735.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to wait for the guide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.762.4", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Hunting with Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": " a fudge, as it has been described by some. I have put forward proposals, as my hon. Friend will see when the Bill is published, that are based on principles and on evidential tests, and I hope that they will command the support of the House. There is a tendency for people to say either that we should leave things as they are, or that we should have a complete ban. That approach is too simplistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.762.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Hunting with Dogs", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I do not expect that a statement from me will be sufficient to satisfy Labour Members; they will have to look at the legislation. I believe that they—that includes my hon. Friend—are reasonable and sensible people who will ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Tomlinson Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "e changes in these areas, for precisely the reason that I have just given. It is therefore striking that the Opposition spokesman should call for immediate changes in the AS and A2 examination systems, immediate changes in timings in relation to the university year, immediate changes in the burden of school assessment, and immediate changes in terms of the process at issue with universities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "Those are exactly the type of proposals that will be examined in the review of Gaelic broadcasting that is currently under way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I had not expected such generosity from my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": " than 20 per cent. of the national newspaper market owning Channel Five. At the same time, however, they argue that to allow ownership of channel 3 would represent an unacceptable concentration of influence. When the last Broadcasting Bill was introduced in 1996, I argued that the 20 per cent. limit was arbitrary and unfair and that its effect was to punish a newspaper group for its success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Begg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Begg", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland is an exception, because she has a place in Cabinet, but the hon. Gentleman's proposal is equivalent to saying that we want a special seat for a Scot. If anything, the problem is usually the reverse—people from the English regions are always complaining that they do not get a say in anything because the dominant voices are from Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.811.9", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": " of analogue radio channels. I therefore believe that 10 per cent. is a reasonable quota. If the Government claim that a quota is too rigid, why does that argument not apply to television? There should be comparability. If television will have a quota, there should be a quota for radio too. It should be achievable, and I acknowledge that there is more live broadcasting on radio than on television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.811.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "preceding_text": " not like that. Again, therefore, there is an anomaly concerning how we should bring broadband into an area of high rural dependency. Minehead, my other town, has 10,000 people, quite a lot of small businesses—and I mean small—and a busy tourist trade. It has the biggest Butlin's in the country. I spoke to representatives of a company in the town, and they would love to have broadband.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "that the work of the Joint Committee on the draft Bill was extremely valuable. We have heard from several of its members, especially my hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) , and we have benefited from that. The Government were wise to set up that Joint Committee. As we proceed to the Standing Committee, I suspect that the Government will propose yet more amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Of course I do. I also recall that the former director-general, Lord Birt, now works for the Prime Minister in a very close capacity, so I think that shows that we were genuinely impartial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " being seen to be properly regulated and being its own judge and jury. The hon. Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Mr. Wyatt) , who also served on the Joint Committee, made some very sensible points about the BBC. I was interested to hear how we control pornographic spam. I am not entirely sure about the software to which he referred, but he revealed a depth of knowledge, some experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. We have the Communications Bill so that we can communicate better across the border. I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman on one or two things, but it was nice to know that a Labour Member of Parliament is still allowed to refer to Lenin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-03", "file": "debates2002-12-03.xml", "sha256": "c8aa3f5ab4022a62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Estimates, 2001–02", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "That is another powerful point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-03.873.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.894.6", "colnum": "894", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I take the hon. Gentleman's contribution with great interest, as I understand that he is a Welsh learner. I congratulate him on that—llongyfarchiadau. I very much support the Assembly's programme to extend support for the Welsh language, including an action plan announced only a week ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.894.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "e foot and mouth outbreak. Within that spending limit, £21 million has been made available through local authorities to assist small businesses. It is an important contribution to helping small business and the tourism industry in rural Wales to recover. Figures indicate that tourism is growing in Wales post- 11 September and post-foot and mouth. We must do all that we can to encourage that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has said what is clear, but what is not clear is whether he agrees with his right hon. Friend the Chancellor. What is the point of a review, as he describes it, if the Chancellor has already made up his mind? The Chancellor may not have told the Prime Minister, but at a breakfast with The Guardian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.899.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "n, however, that everyone is agreed that we need more money for universities. That should be done in the fairest way possible that does not deter people from lower-income families from going to university. This is an issue that any Government in power would have to tackle. If the Leader of the Opposition wants an example of muddle and confusion, let me tell the House what he said his solution was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " ago, the right hon. Gentleman said: Xwe have a crisis of funding for higher education\". His answer to the problem was: Xthere are lots of ways you need to look at it, possibly endowing them with money from further sell offs, in this case, we are talking about Channel 4\". The Leader of the Opposition's idea is that we are going to fund the whole of university education by selling off Channel 4 TV.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the figures that the hon. Gentleman gives, incidentally. With smoking and in other areas, the Government have made considerable advances. In relation to public health, surely the most important thing is not only the gap between rich and poor, but the overall amount of money that we are putting into the national health service. We are treating more people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhat about the tsar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman that as a result of the extra finance that we are putting into drugs spending, the budget will increase from more than £1 billion to £1.5 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, I would not say that we had better information than FIFA. But leaving aside that incident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister was still a lad, before his tuition-free days at university—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.929.4", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I shall give my hon. Friend the details. I found a small rag, posing as something to wash one's hands on. A pink slip placed on it said that it was Xin need of repair\". I thought that that was an apt analogy for the criminal justice system, and we agree with the Home Secretary that repairs are required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.929.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.935.3", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " will be much more debate in Committee, on Report and in another place, but today's early discussion has already revealed the considerable doubts that must be harboured about part 7. My hon. Friends and I will take a great deal of persuading about it. Interventions from Conservative Members were not confined to my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham, who might be regarded as a louche moderniser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "n of a right to appeal against a decision not to grant a jury trial. I should add, however, that I do not accept—as I have sometimes heard it suggested—that it is necessary to dispense with a jury because the issues are so complex that only a clever lawyer can understand them. It is up to the prosecution to present its case in such a way that ordinary mortals can understand the issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "in 26 people who appeared before the courts went into custody. Now, one in 13 do so—exactly double the number. The same number of people appears before the courts and I cannot believe that is it necessary for double the number of people to be sent into custody now compared with 10 years ago. That happens because fines or alternatives to custody are not considered or thought to be inadequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I did not cite those figures as a criticism; I know that the Government were well intentioned when they introduced the orders. However, the letter gives cause for concern as to whether the system, which was designed to ensure that offenders were kept off drugs by regular treatment and testing, is working. It rather suggests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-04", "file": "debates2002-12-04.xml", "sha256": "ce42f8008dfb2a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "mber for Bradford, West (Mr. Singh) , and I fully accept that crime has become a major problem for our constituents irrespective of whether they live in middle-class areas or inner cities. I assure him that when I open a speech on crime to my constituents or any new audience, I simply highlight the fact that the view that crime has risen exponentially and is a real problem is not some derangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-04.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-05", "file": "debates2002-12-05.xml", "sha256": "eb2784215433b4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend can invite me to visit; I am just not sure where.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-05", "file": "debates2002-12-05.xml", "sha256": "eb2784215433b4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1049.2", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear. Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "y Purchase Bill. Wednesday 18 December —Consideration in Committee of the Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill. Thursday 19 December —Motion on the Christmas recess Adjournment. Friday 20 December —The House will not be sitting. The House will return after the recess on Tuesday 7 January . I commend to hon. Members the handy pocket calendar produced by the Clerks of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1049.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-05", "file": "debates2002-12-05.xml", "sha256": "eb2784215433b4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " Thursday 12 December will be about? So far, we are in the invidious position of not knowing what it will be about. We know that it will be about DEFRA, so can we have a guarantee that it will, at least, cover such vital issues as flooding, CO2 emissions, domestic waste and the like? Can we have clarification; otherwise it will look like just another case of Xdefracation\"? Yesterday in PMPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-05", "file": "debates2002-12-05.xml", "sha256": "eb2784215433b4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1049.3", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "s no reply from the Prime Minister. Matters then got worse. The Father of the House, no less, asked about a curious episode involving the Iraqi football team and FIFA. In his response, the Prime Minister said: XI would not say that we had better information than FIFA. But leaving aside that incident\".—[ Official Report , 4 December 2002; Vol. 395, c. 905-6 .] At that point Hansard records, X", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-05", "file": "debates2002-12-05.xml", "sha256": "eb2784215433b4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I cannot comment on the case of the hon. Gentleman's constituent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-05", "file": "debates2002-12-05.xml", "sha256": "eb2784215433b4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure what point my hon. Friend was making in his closing remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1061.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-05", "file": "debates2002-12-05.xml", "sha256": "eb2784215433b4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Local Government Financial Settlement 2003–04", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XScaremongering\".", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware from correspondence in the local press that there has been a lot of speculation in Norfolk about alleged cuts as a result of the settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-05", "file": "debates2002-12-05.xml", "sha256": "eb2784215433b4ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — VOTE ON ACCOUNT: 2003–04 — Government Drugs Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "ut you can't take heroin one day and suddenly decide to stop.\" Rachel's step-father, Mr. Holcroft, said: XThere'll be a point in a child's life when someone says 'try that'. They'll be put into a circle where they are encouraged to try things and experiment.\" I think that I speak for the whole House when I say that we would all like that temptation to be made as difficult to encounter as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-05.1150.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Education and Skills (Spending Plans)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XChurlish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": " Gentleman confirm that, when the fog has lifted from today's statement, we will see a #400 million deficit on the figures announced in the comprehensive spending review in July, rising to #530 million next year? How much will be cut from the CSR amount in 2005–06? Will the Secretary of State confirm that 9 per cent. of the 7 per cent. increase for schools will be met from council tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Education and Skills (Spending Plans)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XChurlish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "il tax—[Hon. Members: XChurlish!\"]—and that council tax payers will therefore finance a significant part of the settlement? Will he confirm that schools will have to meet the costs of the #600 million transfer of pensions liability from the Treasury? Will he confirm that local authorities will have to meet the entire cost of special educational needs statements for 2004–05—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Education and Skills (Spending Plans)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "he #50,000 entry fee for the specialist programme? Finally, will the Secretary of State tell us why he has refused to accept the activity-led formula, which was agreed by all bodies from Ofsted to the teacher organisations, rather than returning to the historical base for the allocation of resources to primary and secondary schools? Notwithstanding those few deficiencies, we welcome the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Education and Skills (Spending Plans)", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I was having a very serious discussion with my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Derbyshire (Mr. Barnes) , Mr. Speaker. I am not in the mood to be churlish because I went to see a consultant about 10 days ago and I got good news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "for Women, to whom I have given notice of this point of order. There was no sign of any Government announcement on that matter the day before, given that Friday was not a sitting day and, indeed, the answer to a parliamentary question tabled on 27 November gave no indication that an announcement was due. There have been allegations that that announcement was made to dominate the news agenda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "hat the part does not say what the Minister says it means. The second problem is that what the Minister says part 1 means is not acceptable. The third problem is that we do not need part 1 in any event, because part 2 would do the trick perfectly well. The fourth problem is that the only reason for having part 1 is a reason that we do not accept. Other than that, there are no objections to part 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "st time allow foreign policemen—whom the Minister tells us he means not to authorise, but who will be authorised under the Extradition Bill—to enter the country to pursue a villain across our borders. In short, we find ourselves surrounded by a set of minor incursions that are centripetal in their intent. There is a move towards the homogenisation of systems of justice in the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Lucas", "preceding_text": " am glad that I looked out the statement in which Lord Palmerston, in a five-hour address to the House back in 1850, said: Xas the Roman, in days of old, held himself free from indignity, when he could say Civis romanus sum ; so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.85.5", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": " to them that we preserve the distinction and protect the rights of the Spanish paedophile and the English right-wing historian that they are willing to accept that as the price. I doubt whether the average constituent who is not involved in a specific case would agree with that. Constituents who are involved in a specific case will always feel strongly that it is an outrage and should not happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.85.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.99.4", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "tates obviously regarded them as serious. If they could have started world war three, they were certainly serious, but they may not have been so serious as to warrant people being extradited to the United States, perhaps to suffer a harsh punishment. Such matters could have been dealt with easily in the United Kingdom, and that should be considered. There are three other points to be made. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.99.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.17", "colnum": "127", "heading": "THALIDOMIDE TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "he House the decision of the previous Government in 1996 according to the documentation, the basis on which that decision was taken, why we believe that it was correct, and why it should stand. Although a vital piece of the jigsaw was missing from the hon. Gentleman's contribution, it was otherwise excellent, and the whole House will want strongly to add its voice to the points that he made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.19", "colnum": "127", "heading": "THALIDOMIDE TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: X Who wrote this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. In 1974, the tax position was contentious and the Government responded, but by 1996, the position was clear. There is no confusion. Let me remind the House exactly what tax is due. As the trust is a charity, it claims a repayment of the tax paid on its investment income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.19", "colnum": "127", "heading": "THALIDOMIDE TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": " was contentious and the Government responded, but by 1996, the position was clear. There is no confusion. Let me remind the House exactly what tax is due. As the trust is a charity, it claims a repayment of the tax paid on its investment income. [Hon. Members: X Who wrote this?\"] We could ask who wrote the disgraceful contributions that seek political advancement from a sensitive and tragic case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.28", "colnum": "127", "heading": "THALIDOMIDE TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XThat is a disgrace.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman; this is an Adjournment debate. The Opposition invent the facts of the case, missing out the inconvenient ones, and then try—unforgivably—to make political capital out of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.28"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.30", "colnum": "127", "heading": "THALIDOMIDE TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "don (Mr. Djanogly) gave way to the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) . That was his privilege. It is the same for the Paymaster General. The right hon. and learned Gentleman will know that in an Adjournment debate there is an allocated time for the hon. Member who initiates the debate and for the Minister to reply. The Paymaster General has time to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.30"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.34", "colnum": "127", "heading": "THALIDOMIDE TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Member for Huntingdon in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.34"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-09", "file": "debates2002-12-09.xml", "sha256": "6a29c35d61e41891", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.34", "colnum": "127", "heading": "THALIDOMIDE TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XGive way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for Huntingdon in a moment—[Hon. Members: XWhy?\"] It is his Adjournment debate. We stand ready to work with the trust. The Government are also clear that funding for the national health service and for social services, as well as the remarkable increase in that spending, ensures that we can support all those people, as well those in the Thalidomide Trust in challenging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-09.127.34"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-10", "file": "debates2002-12-10.xml", "sha256": "582d5ab410aa1945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-10.144.7", "colnum": "144", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman obviously knows more than those who are a lot better informed than him. It is not clear that there are links between the Iraqi regime and al-Qaeda. We are still examining some evidence that is available to us. We know that al-Qaeda operatives have been in Iraq, and we also know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-10.144.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-10", "file": "debates2002-12-10.xml", "sha256": "582d5ab410aa1945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-10.153.4", "colnum": "153", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XMombasa.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "There was no specific intelligence of an attack being planned in Bali—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-10.153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-10", "file": "debates2002-12-10.xml", "sha256": "582d5ab410aa1945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-10.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "west is the most obvious candidate. I agree that it has the strongest case of any of the contenders. I accept that Northern Ireland has historical links with Gibraltar, but Navy ships travel between the Plymouth dockyards and Gibraltar, so the south-west option makes sense. Sir Francis Drake's connection with Spain has been mentioned. I am not sure that that is the best reason for alignment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-10.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "she aware that last year, Britain recruited 2,114 nurses from South Africa, compared with the 393 who were recruited from there in 1997? According to the BBC, 38 nurses came here from one Johannesburg hospital alone. Is she not concerned that the Government's code of practice, which in any event is observed by only about a third of the private recruitment agencies used by the NHS, is insufficient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I greatly admire the right hon. Lady's integrity, forthrightness and courage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.243.5", "colnum": "243", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Pike", "preceding_text": "the townships in Harare, in Zimbabwe, is that the position is extremely critical and getting worse all the time. They believe that there will be serious problems within the next six months if action is not taken. They believe that the UK and South Africa in particular must do something to end the present situation to ensure that food gets to the people in Zimbabwe who need it so desperately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman is actually referring to is the pension credit, which will help many pensioners who have made savings but are on lower incomes. It is important that we ensure that those people have more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I believe that the Conservative Government of the time were right to pass that legislation because the abolition of the common fisheries policy—I understand that that is now the Conservative party's official policy—is not the answer to the problem. It would be a disaster if we withdrew from the common fisheries policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The Tory party is now against PFI too, is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The Tory party is now against PFI too, is it? [Interruption.] I certainly will answer. We are absolutely committed to the PFI programme. School buildings and hospitals are being built around the country as a result of it. That is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Bali: ISC Report", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n Mombasa. First, I am glad to say that there were no British casualties in Mombasa. In a letter to him, I said: XNo information was available to the UK, US or Australia which could have prevented the attacks which took place in Mombasa.\" As Alexander Downer, the Australian Foreign Minister, said: XAustralia had no specific information about the timing, location or method of the possible attacks.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "New NHS Resources", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Secretary of State for his statement and for his courtesy in making it available beforehand to the Opposition. It is really two different statements rolled into one, so I hope that the House will understand if I deal with it in two parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "New NHS Resources", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "y in all candour to my right hon. Friend that there are two lines of objection to these proposals, one of which involves an absolute objection in principle. I have listened carefully to what he has said, especially during the debate on the Loyal Address, when he argued cogently that one way forward was to trial and pilot these trusts, so it does not seem to me that he objects to them in principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Sir William McKay KCB", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "bate—top-up fees in the university, perhaps? For my part, I shall prepare for my surgeries in Foggieloan with considerable care, never knowing who might appear and demand an answer on the issues of the day. I have one final remark. When Members come to the House, they often believe that the Clerks and the machinery of the House are somehow an adjunct of the Government or the Executive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Before I could comment in more detail, I would, as the Speaker says when he tells us that he is putting the Queen's Speech in the Vote Office, need to send out for the full text in the interests of greater accuracy. Meanwhile, however, I refer my hon. Friend to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 27 October 1997 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ker says when he tells us that he is putting the Queen's Speech in the Vote Office, need to send out for the full text in the interests of greater accuracy. Meanwhile, however, I refer my hon. Friend to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 27 October 1997 . [Interruption.] I know it almost by heart. Enlargement is not just a matter of historical obligation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "rests of greater accuracy. Meanwhile, however, I refer my hon. Friend to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 27 October 1997 . [Interruption.] I know it almost by heart. Enlargement is not just a matter of historical obligation. [Interruption.] I ask the Whip to bear in mind his obligation to his bank balance—we give him a cheque and he stays silent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAnswer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "What I am saying to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "not to have the transitional arrangements with the enlargement countries? Germany has secured the full seven-year transitional arrangements and every other major European economy has such arrangements in place. Why have we, in what is an overcrowded island, decided not to give those arrangements effect? The Foreign Secretary has mentioned independent studies that justify the Government's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.335.5", "colnum": "335", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "n recommend a move to an even more candid style of discourse. For example, let us apply those two principles to the euro, setting aside, for the sake of argument, the Chancellor's five economic tests. For debating purposes only, let us assume that the tests could be met pretty much at any time and that the real political dynamic is not about the five economic tests, but about winning a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.335.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-11", "file": "debates2002-12-11.xml", "sha256": "0b4e4798ceee8c2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "fficient way. One can always pick up a megaphone and shout across the channel, but I am not sure whether that is the best way of advancing the cause of Britain, Scotland and the fishermen. None the less, I promise to keep in the closest touch with hon. Members from Scotland about the issue. The hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff) , who is not in his seat, made a very constructive speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-11.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-12", "file": "debates2002-12-12.xml", "sha256": "34af802495681040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.396.2", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "ry rightly points out: XMinisters' ownership of one or more family homes has never been seen as creating a conflict of interest\". As for the allegations in The Scotsman , I am sure the right hon. Gentleman is aware—although he did not mention it—that Carole Caplin made a statement this morning rebutting some of them, and I understand that the others are being rebutted even as we speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-12", "file": "debates2002-12-12.xml", "sha256": "34af802495681040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "I know that you are a keen reader of the Bible, Mr. Speaker, so I rest assured that, one day, the last will be first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-12", "file": "debates2002-12-12.xml", "sha256": "34af802495681040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "t her writ does not run to other Departments? There have been massive increases in carbon dioxide emissions from the transport sector and this week's statement from the Secretary of State for Transport does nothing to help. There is a huge subsidy for nuclear power and nothing for renewables. Does not the problem arise from the fact that the right hon. Lady cannot deliver across other Departments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-12", "file": "debates2002-12-12.xml", "sha256": "34af802495681040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": "Is not the problem with the Rural Payments Agency that it is acting as judge, jury and executioner and behaves as if farmers are guilty until proved innocent? By contrast, the Inland Revenue would assume that someone was innocent until it found evidence of wrongdoing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-12", "file": "debates2002-12-12.xml", "sha256": "34af802495681040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "ington) called the Government motion Xself-congratulatory\". The hon. Member for Sherwood (Paddy Tipping) , some 30 minutes ago, called it Xambitious\"—a very creative term in the circumstances, if I may say so. The picture painted in the motion is perhaps not quite so blissfully wonderful as he might think. If I may be slightly rude to the Minister, the word that springs to my mind is Xsmug\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-12", "file": "debates2002-12-12.xml", "sha256": "34af802495681040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.470.2", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "n Europe. Farmers hear Ministers refer, as they do in the motion, to Xa vibrant food and farming sector\", but the Government appear unwilling to support it. I know that Labour Members will not like my next comment, but I must refer to a very small incident that was of nevertheless of huge importance. The Secretary of State went to Paris to promote the export of British beef, but refused to eat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-12", "file": "debates2002-12-12.xml", "sha256": "34af802495681040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Environment, Food and Rural Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": " sustainable development. We led the way on the agreement on water and sanitation. That is valuable in terms of international development and an example of where the Department has been leading from the front. We are the European leader in agri-environment schemes and the application of them. We have had great success in reducing fuel poverty, which has been acknowledged. We have introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.496.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-12-12", "file": "debates2002-12-12.xml", "sha256": "34af802495681040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1993", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 18 December , pursuant to Orders [ 28 June 2001 and 29 October 2002 ]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-12.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ed a side to the Franco-German axis with which the Prime Minister is also becoming all too familiar. Back in October in Brussels, he was outflanked by France and Germany when they delayed common agricultural policy reform—a move that will greatly increase the cost of EU membership to accession states and to existing member states alike. Last week in Copenhagen, he was again outflanked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Where does one begin, Mr. Speaker? First, for the right hon. Gentleman to say that the enlargement process has been a great setback for the European Union is bizarre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "he family of European nations? May I ask the Prime Minister whether he will now ensure that the United Kingdom Government and those in our commerce and industry go on an offensive to ensure that we get in on the markets of the new member states? Under the Labour Government, Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry have been insufficiently in attendance in those countries, and I hope that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.545.6", "colnum": "545", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister accept whatever share of the credit is his due for the success of the Copenhagen summit? Will he agree, however, that probably the lion's share of the credit should go to the Danish President of the Commission, who is, I believe, the political ally of the British Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.545.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.549.2", "colnum": "549", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ys. It was not only France and Germany that took the position to which he referred. That may be common myth, as many of these things are. In fact that position was taken by France, Germany and probably a significant number of the other countries. It was we, along with the Italians, the Spanish and the Greeks, who argued for a more forward position for Turkey. Those negotiations are two years away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.549.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ged Europe will change their ways and buy British goods? Our manufacturing industries have been going to the wall throughout that period. A fortnight ago, the balance of trade deficit was the largest ever. At some point, that must end. All I say to my right hon. Friend is that the summit can be historic in many ways, but it ain't been all that good for people here who are working at the sharp end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.551.6", "colnum": "551", "heading": "European Council (Copenhagen)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course NATO has played a part, but the European Union has too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Bain Report", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "t transitional funding? Does he agree that there are varying practices up and down the country and that many brigades have implemented changes such as community fire safety? The Kent brigade has been in the vanguard of reducing the number of deaths and house fires. To assist with the negotiations, can I ask for clarification, because some of the language used has been misunderstood by FBU members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.572.11", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": " comes to the House with reasoned conclusions. The principles that I explored with all the campaigning groups during the hearings in Portcullis House in September were those of cruelty and utility. The approach adopted in the Bill is challenging, but it is the way to make good law—law that is Xtough and fair\", as The Guardian said in a leader that called on MPs and peers to support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.572.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.578.9", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XGive way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "Those who oppose hunting should be satisfied that it will be allowed only where it is necessary and that the alternative methods would be more cruel. Some colleagues have asked why Parliament should hand over its prerogative to an unelected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.578.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "losed for exit and entry. In view of the fact that the Sessional Order that we passed on 13 November lays down that entry by Members of Parliament through New Palace Yard and in other ways should not be interfered with, if it has clearly been broken, can Mr. Speaker be notified so that action can be taken and those responsible detained not by the police, but by the authorities of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.588.6", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ay from the Bill by interventions about game shooting and angling, will he make it quite clear that, although there will be some people—including, probably, some in this House—who would like to ban angling and game shooting, there is not a majority in the House to get such a provision through? There are probably some people who would like to ban the Tory party as well, but there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.588.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.591.6", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "out that. I do not altogether agree with them, however, as the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) inadvertently made a rather good speech from an anti-hunt point of view. He said why the Bill should be given a Second Reading and why it should be unamended. I do not happen to agree with him, but he made a good case suggesting that the Bill could—just could—end hunting altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.591.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend, and as Conservative Members know, a range of views exists among them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "bour peers in the other place, and among Liberal Democrats. If we see this as a moral issue, it is right that we have a free vote on it. We will doubtless rehearse many of the arguments that we have had many times before, but I am looking forward to getting down to the nitty-gritty of the Bill itself. I hope that the hon. Member for West Ham is right in saying that amendments will be tabled to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "In my 20 years as a Member of Parliament, it has been my privilege to speak in every debate on hunting. However, I do so today with a genuinely heavy heart as, despite all the Government's protestations to the contrary, it is clear that they are determined to destroy hunting and following that, both shooting and fishing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.600.4", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": " people removed their headdress as a mark of respect and gratitude to those who died in two world wars for the cause of freedom. Although I do not expect Labour Members to understand the concept, it must be true that all those people who gave their lives would wonder today whether the pursuit of liberty and their final sacrifice for the defence of freedom against tyranny was worth dying for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": " on the march found that 82 per cent. of them were Conservative voters and that 9 per cent. were Liberal Democrat and 4 per cent. Labour voters. The hon. Gentleman supports an amendment tabled by his Front-Bench colleagues that includes the incredible hypocrisy that the Bill Xwould rob British citizens of their livelihood\". The Burns report, which the hon. Gentleman described as Xexcellent\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman said that the report was excellent, so his hon. Friends should argue the point with him. The report states that 700 jobs are directly connected with hunting, yet the Conservatives believe that at a time of ultra-full employment those jobs should be sacrosanct. Between 1979 and 1987, the Conservative Government reduced the number of coal miners from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": " employment those jobs should be sacrosanct. Between 1979 and 1987, the Conservative Government reduced the number of coal miners from—[Hon. Members: XAh!\"] Yes, coal mining is a countryside industry; it is a rural industry. The Conservatives reduced the number of coal miners from 232,000 to 17,000, but the Countryside Alliance did not march for the coal miners; it marched for cruelty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "hich many people, including many on this side of the House, wished to enforce their own sense of repugnance. I find it repugnant that people voted in favour of saving foxes when, only a few days earlier, they voted on killing babies. Although I find that repugnant, I accept that, in this topsy-turvy world, it is possible to kill babies and call that moral and yet call the killing of foxes immoral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "unted field. The price of that Xfun\" is that many hounds are run over on roads or even hit by speeding trains after straying on to railway lines. Others become injured on barbed wire fencing or get lost from the pack for days. There are numerous reports of hounds being electrocuted and killed. In one case, the New Forest Foxhounds trespassed on a railway line, resulting in the death of six hounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " knows anything about shooting foxes with a shotgun knows that when they go away wounded, they suffer a long, lingering death. Mostly they go to ground, unfound and unseen, but they live in their earth for a long time before they die, and very painful it is too. The third alternative is some form of running snare that is legal. Again, however, unless the running snare is inspected every day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.626.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.640.6", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It takes only one objection, and the Minister does not have a right to speak again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.640.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.640.9", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Parliamentary rules say that the Bill is an Order of the Day, therefore neither the Minister nor any Member has the right to address the House on two occasions if there is one objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.640.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "Both of us support that early-day motion, which my hon. Friend initiated, and have supported earlier early-day motions on the same subject. Does he agree that the Bill gives us the first chance that we have had in our generation to end hunting with hounds? Does he also agree that, whatever its defects, it is an entirely welcome development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.642.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must withdraw that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must withdraw that remark. [Interruption.] Order. That term should not be used. I call on him to withdraw his remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I am being encouraged to withdraw the Xneo\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.643.4", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Of course, I withdraw, Mr. Speaker. The fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.643.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. COMMITTEES", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "cellor's Department (including the work of staff provided for the administrative work of courts and tribunals, but excluding consideration of individual cases and appointments) 11'; and (2) the Order of 5th November 2001 relating to Liaison Committee (Membership) be amended as follows: Paragraph (2), after 'International Development' insert 'Lord Chancellor's Department'.—[ Mr. Jim Murphy .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-16", "file": "debates2002-12-16.xml", "sha256": "a090acca60f1f515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "COALFIELDS (EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Jeff Ennis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeff Ennis", "preceding_text": "debate. I can tell the House that I have been trying for at least a year to secure this debate. Before turning to the issue of education in the coalfields, may I be the first Member to congratulate the Minister for School Standards on the recent football award that he won for scoring a goal at Newcastle? I am sure that he will enlighten the House further when he comes to reply to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-16.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.682.4", "colnum": "682", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "Richard Branson gets a lot of stick from us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.682.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Occupational and Private Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "irations for retirement; but the success of that approach rests on the information and understanding that people have, and the clarity of the options open to them. The approach will fail if the complexity of products and the cost of financial advice deter people from saving. Since 1997 we have taken action to rebuild trust in the financial services industry, to clear up pensions mis-selling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Transport Investment Plan", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "f the roads that are being completed now were actually planned during the time of the previous Tory Government. However, it surely follows that one reason why fewer roads are being completed now is because of decisions that were taken 10 years ago, when, as a result of the economic crisis that the Tories ran into, they had a spot of bother with public spending. The point of the 10-year plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Roche", "preceding_text": "I understand the concern, which applies in areas such as mine. Clearly, officials understand the planning system and the guidance. It is therefore important that the messages from our discussions of the planning process in the past year stress the importance of continuing education for councillors so that they have confidence that they are making the right decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that. I am not saying that we cannot amend the Bill in Committee or that it cannot be improved, but I do have to say that the hon. Gentleman, perhaps due to his experience in Sheffield, is looking at the legislation through rose-coloured spectacles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "preceding_text": "antageous to their region. My personal view, as the hon. Gentleman knows, is that whether that will finally result in a body covering exactly the boundaries of the south-east region and having full regional accountability is a matter for further discussion, but the principle that democratically elected regional assemblies will come to England over a relatively short period can certainly be argued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "rding to the PPS Group, the consultation specialists who conducted the survey of 129 planning officers across the country. Stephen Byfield, of PPS, said: 'The government has promoted the new bill as the way to streamline the planning system. Our research shows that the people who actually make the decisions—planning officers— believe the precise opposite will happen. The system\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "wall, the Cotswolds and anywhere else that anybody would like to name within reasonable commuter distances of towns and so on. The problem with properties that are used as second homes is that they undermine the viability of villages. I can speak of a village called Rhyd in my constituency, where only one or two local families are left all year round and the village shop and post office have gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-17", "file": "debates2002-12-17.xml", "sha256": "3909e5cef90f4445", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-17.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.829.7", "colnum": "829", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "gion, Your Choice\", but it is clear from the two Bills already before the House that the Government intend to remove the planning powers from county councils, whether or not there is a referendum and irrespective of the result of any referendum. Why are the people not being given a say in this vital aspect of local government? Should not the White Paper have been entitled XYour Region, No Choice\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.829.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.836.2", "colnum": "836", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "On Iraq, apart from welcoming the apparent conversion of the leader of the Conservative party to the arguments that Liberal Democrats have been advancing here for a long time, may I ask the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.836.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, on pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, on pensions—[Hon. Members: XAh!\"] I am sorry; the right hon. Gentleman made a remark about pensions, so I will deal with that first. These are the facts on pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.841.4", "colnum": "841", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y, which is that Saddam must give up those weapons. There are real issues concerning weapons of mass destruction and if, at this moment in time, we were to allow Saddam to breach the UN will and did nothing about it, the consequences would be felt not just in respect of Iraq. We would send a message across the world that this was a serious issue, but one about which we were prepared to do nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.841.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.841.4", "colnum": "841", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "cerning weapons of mass destruction and if, at this moment in time, we were to allow Saddam to breach the UN will and did nothing about it, the consequences would be felt not just in respect of Iraq. We would send a message across the world that this was a serious issue, but one about which we were prepared to do nothing. [Interruption.] Conservative Members shout, XWhat has it got to do with us?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.841.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Scottish Parliament", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": " a general welcome to the statement, which I believe is courageous? It shows that she has considered the problem seriously, and proposed a considered and constructive solution to the problems set out in the consultation paper. It also has the advantage of being in line with the recommendations made by my party in Scotland and the only Deputy First Minister that the Scottish Parliament has enjoyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Scottish Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "The Scottish Parliament is a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom and is essential to the maintenance of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Scottish Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "ving political parties, the churches, voluntary organisations and the trade unions. The Scottish Conservative party decided not to be part of that constitutional convention—as indeed did the Scottish National party. The Scottish Parliament grew out of that consensus. I shall seek to build on that consensus. That is what the Scottish people wanted and they are entitled to have what they want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.879.6", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill (Programme)(No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "We have heard much synthetic indignation from Conservative Members. The arrangements have ensured full and proper scrutiny of the Bill, which has been the subject of detailed consideration over several days Upstairs. It is a matter of agreement between the usual channels that one day should be allocated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what a review would look at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "itional amount of public expenditure. Amendment No. 54 would change the opening lines of the preamble to deal, in part, with the point raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) . The words inserted by the amendment would say explicitly to the elector, whom the Government would like to mislead by saying XYou can help to decide whether there should be an elected assembly\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XSir Nicholas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "nd; I should not dream of doing otherwise—I want people to have the chance to choose. I am sure that the vote will be overwhelmingly against it, but we should let people have the chance. What is wrong with asking two questions when the alternative is the interesting preamble to the referendum question set out in clause 2(2)? I want to make some points about the preamble, Mr. Winterton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "mment—at slightly greater length, if you will forgive me, Sir Nicholas—are those relating to the preamble. The right hon. Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) , in particular, questioned the need for a preamble. I have the greatest respect for the right hon. Gentleman. He will be delighted to know that this time next week, I shall be celebrating Christmas in his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has drawn attention to a hugely important issue—the appointment of members of regional development agencies and the oversight of their work. Their work is crucial to economic development in regions, and we are giving the elected regional assemblies that role and responsibility as well as oversight of a number of other areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "No, I have no time. By contrast with amendment No. 11, the Liberal Democrat amendment No. 31 would remove the preamble altogether. That is a curious proposal, as I have already pointed out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " No. 48 would amend the franchise for the referendum as it is defined in clause 3. At first glance, the clause might appear unexceptional. Subsection (1) states: XA person is entitled to vote in a referendum held in a region . . . if on the date of the referendum he is entitled to vote at the election of councillors for any electoral area in the region.\" In other words, the local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman is aware that there is a need for a maximum length for the campaign. Has he not noticed that people are already campaigning? Indeed, the whole process of taking soundings is, in itself, a surreptitious campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "If only I had time to detail what we learned about the hon. Gentleman in Committee and his history of fending off allegations of rigging ballots in Scotland. I know that he was given an honourable discharge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-18", "file": "debates2002-12-18.xml", "sha256": "f3b378746bd2d00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ter's appalling recent local government settlement. My hon. Friend the Member for New Forest, West raised the important question of the circumstances in which it might be appropriate for the Minister to propose a period longer than 10 weeks or shorter than 10 weeks. The Minister could speculate endlessly on different scenarios that might or might not arise in relation to any particular referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-18.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-19", "file": "debates2002-12-19.xml", "sha256": "cb2a418a76eb2cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.989.3", "colnum": "989", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "For once, I am in entire agreement with the hon. Gentleman. He is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-19", "file": "debates2002-12-19.xml", "sha256": "cb2a418a76eb2cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his crash course in politeness and good cheer. Plainly, we can put that down as another success for Labour education policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1008.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-19", "file": "debates2002-12-19.xml", "sha256": "cb2a418a76eb2cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "r cent. usage rate. On the future of the facilities, we are in the middle of examining proposals for a new visitor centre. A feasibility study has been proposed. Our comments on it include the suggestion that we should examine options off-precincts as well as on-precincts. A visitor centre that provides interpretation would help immensely to improve the educational value of a visit to Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1017.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-19", "file": "debates2002-12-19.xml", "sha256": "cb2a418a76eb2cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend can speak for himself. If private enterprise companies are prepared to support the Liberal Democrats I would not stop them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-19", "file": "debates2002-12-19.xml", "sha256": "cb2a418a76eb2cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": ", such questions should be answered. To hide behind the Data Protection Act is absolutely absurd. I want the answers to those questions for the benefit of my constituents. I represent them and they send me here. I hope that the Department of Health will take notice of that. I wish to raise the local and national issue of medals for the servicemen and women who served in Suez between 1951 and 1954.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2002-12-19", "file": "debates2002-12-19.xml", "sha256": "cb2a418a76eb2cc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "es to the asylum rules; and in drawing on his great length and breadth of experience, my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Dudley, North (Ross Cranston) made some very interesting points about corporate governance. I will ensure that all those issues are drawn to the attention of the Departments concerned, and I hope that Members will forgive me if I have not managed to answer them in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2002-12-19.1099.0"}
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