{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not help the cause of the fishermen. He is the man who called the European Fisheries Commissioner a thug and an ignoramus. Is that supposed to help us in our negotiations? The Danish fishing community has also been badly affected by the measures. We are well aware of the difficulties that all the North sea fishing communities face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "] I wish the hon. Gentleman would stop posturing. It is important that we deal with the facts. All the decommissioning efforts being undertaken by the fishing communities in the north-east of Scotland have been taken into account in the negotiations. I remind the hon. Gentleman that we started off from a position where, come 1 January , we would have seen a total ban on fisheries in the North sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.16.2", "colnum": "16", "heading": "LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jim Cousins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Cousins", "preceding_text": "Happy new year, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.16.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.20.3", "colnum": "20", "heading": "PRIVY COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I arose especially early and completed my breakfast in order that I might give the Lord Chancellor my full and undivided attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.20.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Iraq: Contingency Preparations Update", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the new year exercise that you have given me this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " greater flexibility in grant-making powers. If he wants detailed central control, he will argue for the retention of detailed parliamentary scrutiny of each individual grant, many of which are of very small sums indeed. This measure will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny, because our departmental accounts will continue to be the subject of full parliamentary scrutiny, and it will ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "preceding_text": "efore the House and that my right hon. Friend the Minister is putting it before us. It is anything but boring to talk about business improvement districts, which are desperately needed in areas such as my own. It is also anything but boring to look at the way in which elections impact on people and schools. Holding two lots of elections in 2004 would do a disservice to the schools in my community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "preceding_text": "es on being exciting, although I hesitate to use that adjective in terms of local government. I am concerned about one provision, however, as my earlier intervention illustrated: clause 11 and, in particular, the subsection dealing with capital receipts and debt-free authorities. I represent the new town of Stevenage. I turned 60 on Christmas day and Stevenage is just a little bit younger than me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Turner) , and I should like to begin by dealing with his final point concerning elections held on the same day. The reason why my election to this place was not announced until 2.30 on the Friday afternoon following the day of the general election was precisely because we were trying to hold three elections on the same day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "bate. I have always thought it curious that there is so much objection to the second homes rebate at local council level because it is, in fact, a subsidy from the national taxpayer to those who are fortunate enough to own second homes, but it is no more justifiable for that. I wonder why it is necessary to retain a 10 per cent. mandatory minimum payment for second homes, or maximum payment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "it is the Opposition's job to scrutinise them, not to offer alternatives. If the hon. Gentleman serves on the Standing Committee—I hope that he will, given his knowledge—I can give him the categoric assurance that we shall scrutinise the proposals with all the vigour that we can muster. What we lack in numbers, we certainly make up for in intellectual argument, rigour and vigour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-07", "file": "debates2003-01-07.xml", "sha256": "e5e1e559ab085c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "ng) and for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry) were worried about the provisions. They were queried too by my hon. Friends the Members for Stevenage (Barbara Follett) and for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. McWalter). I shall make three points. First, clause 11 applies only to housing receipts, not to other capital receipts. Secondly, it is principally right-to-buy receipts that will be pooled alone. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-07.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "It is a fact that the atrocity took place 30 years ago, so we hope that the police investigations will be completed reasonably soon and will not take another 30 years. However, may I have the right hon. Gentleman's assurance that, if there is evidence of any sort of cover-up or collusion involving Ministers or the Northern Ireland Office, there will be a public inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "te to him for his consistency on an issue that has been a blight on the community of Northern Ireland for three decades. He has been unstinting in his support for those who have been exiled and for those who support them, and he has been able to help me, the Government and the organisations involved. He can rest assured that the issue will be discussed with all parties in the context of the talks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.162.8", "colnum": "162", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jim Cousins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XMore!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Cousins", "preceding_text": "The difficult year set out for us by the Prime Minister has clearly begun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.162.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XReading!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "When the Worcestershire royal hospital opened last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will recall his meeting in Downing street on 22 January 2001 , when he pledged to the leader of Wealden district council and others that the Government would take action to ensure that the devastating floods of October 2000 would not happen again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.170.5", "colnum": "170", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XFor five years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Actually, under the proposals set out by the Lord Chief Justice, that would plainly be a case in which the person would immediately go to prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.170.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAnswer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me notice of his point of order and for showing me the correspondence to which he refers. Members are entitled to prompt replies from Ministers that address the issues raised. In this case, the hon. Gentleman is entitled to feel disappointed on both counts. I have asked the Secretary of State to review the correspondence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "That is simply not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.189.2", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "That is not what the hon. Gentleman said to the Conservative party conference, unless the Daily Mirror is wrong. I have not yet seen a letter of objection from the hon. Gentleman in the letters column of that newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "spring, as well as issues that he raised in response to my statement to the House on 11 December . First, those NHS foundation trusts will be part and parcel of the NHS. They will provide NHS services to NHS patients according to NHS principles. They will be subject to NHS standards, NHS star ratings and NHS systems of inspection. It is that which the hon. Gentleman completely fails to understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be, but the problem for him is Opposition Front Benchers and, in particular, the Opposition leadership. This is a Labour policy steeped in Labour traditions of mutualism, community empowerment and the history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "No. Putting staff and public in charge of those NHS hospitals will give them the freedom to innovate and develop services better suited to the needs of different local communities. NHS foundation trusts will be free from Whitehall direction and control so that we can genuinely unleash the spirit of public service enterprise, which so many NHS staff share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.194.5", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I am running through the questions that the hon. Gentleman raised. He asked the questions; I am giving him the answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.194.5", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "enefit of NHS patients. They will have freedom to recruit and employ their own staff. However, as I told the House on 11 December , safeguards will rightly balance those freedoms to ensure that NHS foundation trusts always act in the public interest for the benefit of NHS patients. They will operate according to a licence issued and monitored by an independent regulator, accountable to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "I would choose the Commission for Health Improvement's in-depth studies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "enchers. Will people have to sign an affidavit when they change jobs for the perks that are available through local pay flexibility that they have not left another NHS employer or that if they have, they are not doing it for the purpose of benefiting from local pay flexibility? I turn now to the good things about the Government's proposal—well, the good thing about the Government's proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "tivity improvement of about 15 per cent. is needed. Will the Secretary of State explain the difference between the 15 per cent. efficiency gain per pound spent, currently being demanded by Labour masters, and the efficiency gains that he decried when he was in opposition? In conclusion, the Government seek, as new Labour always does, to have it both ways—to be all things to all people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "They may have had a good lunch. It is not quite 3 o'clock, so they are probably still at lunch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.213.5", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might try to contradict me, but, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State pointed out, it is pretty clear from the comments that were made over Christmas that the Conservative party is looking at significant savings in the public sector. I listened with interest to the comments of the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) . He referred to seeing the NHS dismantled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Jon Owen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Owen Jones", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Can you confirm that the Bill is an England-Wales Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "he National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. As originally passed, that Act gave NHS trusts the freedom to determine staff terms and conditions. Furthermore, the notion of some financial control independent of Government was proposed by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) when he was Secretary of State for Health. No financial control was given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XSurely not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "ry proud of that period and will always state that in the House. The idea that something as vital as health provision should be available equally to all fellow citizens on the basis of need, not on the basis of wealth or power, is central to social democracy. For my generation, the operation of the national health service represented social democracy in action. I was four when the NHS was created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XNo it will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "I think it will be taken from my time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-08", "file": "debates2003-01-08.xml", "sha256": "0cf7108020779d02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Foundation Hospitals", "cue_speaker": "Janet Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Janet Dean", "preceding_text": "ion, yet we know that there has never been a greater gap between the philosophies of the two main parties on the future of our universally available health service, free at the point of use. The Conservatives have made it clear that they would reduce public spending and encourage private treatment, paid for by the individual patient or by private medical insurance subsidised by the taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-08.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-09", "file": "debates2003-01-09.xml", "sha256": "75e13abfc5f31003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-09.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have no idea. I remember the phrase from the period in office of the Government of which the hon. Gentleman was a respected supporter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-09.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-09", "file": "debates2003-01-09.xml", "sha256": "75e13abfc5f31003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-09.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "ebrating the genuine educational achievement of schools of all types. There are outstanding secondary modern schools, grammar schools, comprehensive schools and private schools. In each of those categories, however, there are also schools that are less than outstanding and which need serious work. That is why I focus, as will my Government throughout, on the issue of standards for everybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-09.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-09", "file": "debates2003-01-09.xml", "sha256": "75e13abfc5f31003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-09.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": ", there are also schools that are less than outstanding and which need serious work. That is why I focus, as will my Government throughout, on the issue of standards for everybody— [Interruption.] Lèse majesté is a failing of which I am, I hope, not often guilty, Mr. Speaker, but I am on this occasion and I apologise to you for it. The Government whom I am proud to serve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-09.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-09", "file": "debates2003-01-09.xml", "sha256": "75e13abfc5f31003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-09.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Health (Wales) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XSit down, then!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sure that hon. Members will be gratified to learn that I intend to be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-09.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.390.5", "colnum": "390", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XAh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "Christmas has come early; that is a second present for me. The hon. Gentleman accused me of being a socialist. I plead guilty. It is bit rich to hear Opposition Members talking about means-testing. This Government are not means-testing; we are targeting poverty, not pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.390.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend remember that however cold the winter months became before 1997, pensioners did not receive a penny, and that since we have been in office, the #200 per pensioner household has been a good socialist move? Why did not the Tories do that? Why were they so mean that they deprived pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "The Government have a strong ambition to eradicate child poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.401.7", "colnum": "401", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "That was always my intention, Mr. Speaker—although perhaps I should ask my hon. Friend to repeat it, as I cannot remember it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.401.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.408.4", "colnum": "408", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "There are two issues. First, the Government have for the first time launched a pre-retirement guide to help older workers to plan their retirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.408.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Criminal Justice System", "cue_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XRight hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Criminal Justice System", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Home Secretary is not to blame for that particularly lunacy. I suspect that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.414.5", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Criminal Justice System", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ary or gun crime? Very little. The point of those eye-catching initiatives is to sound tough, and the tragedy is that in sounding tough the Home Secretary has succeeded in being illiberal without being effective. To be illiberal in order to be effective has a justification; to be liberal, admitting that one may be ineffective has a justification, but to be illiberal and ineffective is inexcusable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.414.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Criminal Justice System", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Yes, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Criminal Justice System", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "e would reverse the trend, and that the incidences of robbery and snatch theft would fall. They have, and they are. The statistics that we published last Thursday showed a 10 per cent. drop in robbery figures. So the straight lies that were being told last week, and reiterated and perpetrated, for instance by the leader of the Conservative party on XThe World at One\" on Friday, when he simply lied", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Criminal Justice System", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " right whatever to take us to task. We have reduced crime, reduced burglary, reduced robbery and reduced street theft and we have turned around a system in which there was no Youth Justice Board and no programme of long-term investment in reducing young people's reoffending. We have turned around young people's reoffending by 14.6 per cent. That is an official figure, which is on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Criminal Justice System", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "o do the work on the ground, thus releasing the police for other activities. That means that we are more effective across the board. Although I have argued about powers, I have always supported the family of the police. It is important that we do not change Ministers every two seconds and I therefore hope that the Home Secretary remains in post for the remainder of the Government's term of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Criminal Justice System", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ber for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) and the leader of the Conservative party were—he used an unparliamentary expression—being misleading, so what on earth are we to make of a Prime Minister who, 24 hours after the Home Office had corrected a wholly mistaken impression, decides to reinforce that impression in the House because he believes that that will make good copy? That was a disgrace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.476.6", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Drugs Policy", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XMore!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to mention the severe problems of binge drinking among the young. We need to think again about how we can prevent the habit from becoming widespread. There is no doubt that it is associated with being dragged into the drugs culture as a whole. I am outstaying my welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.476.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.480.4", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Drugs Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "The comments on the Conservative party paper are a little more scathing than anything that has been said about the updated drugs strategy. DrugScope has not said things in such strong terms in response to our updated drugs strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.480.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-13", "file": "debates2003-01-13.xml", "sha256": "7e64e6afb18857e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Drugs Policy", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ess that has been achieved in Sweden. The hon. Member for Newport, West (Paul Flynn) always makes the same point about Sweden, but if I may I shall lay one canard to rest. He says that one effect of what happens in Sweden is an increase in drug deaths, but we were told firmly by all the experts whom we met in Sweden that the simple explanation is that they measure their statistics much more fully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-13.505.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Keep taking the tablets.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "I shall stick with Question 11, Mr. Speaker, which the Secretary of State has not begun even to address. He has merely lumped three questions together and answered them according to a query that he has imagined. Will the right hon. Gentleman say precisely how much the foundation hospitals will be able to borrow from the private sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I was not aware that the hon. Gentleman had taken over your role, Mr. Speaker. Heaven help us if he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker, thank you. I wanted to reinforce the point made by the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) and ask you, Mr. Speaker, to use your good offices to ensure that the House has an opportunity to vote for or against action before it is taken and not simply for it to be a mater for an Adjournment debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Education (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. Trimble) said that neither the Executive nor the Assembly would have made that decision, and I take his word for it. I also understand why the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) urged caution. I must tell them that we did not want devolution to be suspended, but it happened, and I do not think it would have been appropriate for an incoming home rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.616.7", "colnum": "616", "heading": "2012 Olympics Bid", "cue_speaker": "John Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Greenway", "preceding_text": "egy-driven.\" He has made that point previously. However, surely any long-term strategy should be ambitious and aspirational. If we want our athletes and our teams to win more often in international competition, the strategy for sport should include the aim of hosting international events such as the Olympics, World cup and so on. Again, I pray in aid the Labour party's pre-election document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.616.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.616.7", "colnum": "616", "heading": "2012 Olympics Bid", "cue_speaker": "John Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Greenway", "preceding_text": "th him on that, but if we want to learn the lessons of these problems, we must first understand that they occurred under this Government. We also need to decide what we think is more important. It is perhaps tempting to argue that we should not make promises and enter into commitments that we cannot deliver on, and that is certainly one lesson of the bid for the 2005 world athletics championships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.616.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "2012 Olympics Bid", "cue_speaker": "Alan Keen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Keen", "preceding_text": "t Committee on Culture, Media and Sport. I will not prejudge the issue; I will listen to the evidence tomorrow and to this debate. However, I am also chair of the all-party football group, one of the vice-chairs of the all-party sports group and joint secretary of the Lords and Commons cricket team, so I should at least express an opinion. It will not be surprising if I say that I support the bid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "2012 Olympics Bid", "cue_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "preceding_text": "tical clout on the world's sporting bodies, and we need to get it back. I repeat that we should consider putting an ambassador specifically for sport in our embassy in Berne. On the question of the best site, I take a deep breath and suggest that there is perhaps an alternative site. If the Government tick the idea that we should bid, I hope that they will allow an alternative bid from north Kent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-14", "file": "debates2003-01-14.xml", "sha256": "83bdd56f23533911", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "2012 Olympics Bid", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": " my constituents, as a Member of the UK Parliament I would support a bid for this country to hold an Olympic games. Several people have been mentioned during the debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Sittingbourne and Sheppey (Mr. Wyatt) mentioned Sir Steven Redgrave in his very clever little name-drop during the debate. Well, I want to drop in a name that many people may not have heard of before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-14.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.670.4", "colnum": "670", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I agree. We are therefore working hard with the Assembly and the SRA on the passenger service requirement to provide the extra services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.670.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the Prime Minister what the right hon. Lady said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "is quoting my right hon. Friend selectively, because if he looks at other parts of the interview he will see that she made it clear that she did not want to confine herself to a second UN resolution, but of course we want a second UN resolution. The point is that we have gone down the UN route very deliberately. That is because it is best that this were done with the maximum international support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.682.2", "colnum": "682", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ing weeks in relation to the United Nations. I will tell him why I think that it is right that we are prepared to take action if necessary in respect of Saddam's regime. It is right because weapons of mass destruction—the proliferation of chemical, biological, nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology along with it—are a real threat to the security of the world and this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.682.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Greater Manchester Police Incident", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XWhy\"?", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am deeply sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has chosen to attack the record and actions of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Greater Manchester Police Incident", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am deeply sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has chosen to attack the record and actions of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary—[Hon. Members: XWhy\"?] He inherited a system that was on the verge of breakdown. I, at another time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Missile Defence", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "s open to the Opposition to use the time that they have available to debate the question as soon as next Monday, which is the next Opposition day. He and other Opposition Front Benchers can use that time to debate the issue in the way that he suggests is so important. I anticipate that he does not really regard the matter as so important; otherwise, he would use the time as he has advocated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Missile Defence", "cue_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XYou tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Keetch", "preceding_text": "gramme? Will they be participating? Have the Danes agreed that their site should be used? How much does the UK need to invest to be able to keep the option of participating in the future? What could be achieved by spending that money on other defence issues? Is there a risk of further terrorist attack at Fylingdales? Will extra security be required there? In short, is this a good deal for Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Missile Defence", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "To be fair to the hon. Gentleman, he is not noted for the kind of bluster that we have just heard from him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-15", "file": "debates2003-01-15.xml", "sha256": "c3b53dfe633f3826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can help the Minister. No, I did not use a clipboard, because I try to distance myself from the Liberal Democrats as much as possible. Directors of social services were telephoned in their offices, and they provided the information. I put it on a piece of paper and added it up, and I got a total.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-15.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XHear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": ". Friday 24 January —The House will not be sitting. The provisional business for the week after will include: Monday 27 January —Second Reading of the Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. Tuesday 28 January —Second Reading of the Railways and Transport Safety Bill, followed by motions relating to the establishment of a Select Committee on the Lord Chancellor's Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. Gentleman back and wish him a happy new year. I assure the right hon. Gentleman that the Government stand firmly against premature expostulation. It was widely known that the Secretary of State for Defence was going to make a statement to the House. From the moment such information is known, all sorts of people begin to speculate about the content—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XOh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "rivatisation that has given rise to this appalling situation on our railways. While having to spend seven hours getting here last week, instead of the usual three and a half, I found myself standing next to a former British Rail manager, who confirmed in absolute terms that it was the previous Conservative Government's failure to invest in the infrastructure, combined with their privatising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.830.1", "colnum": "830", "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 sound bite, but I cannot congratulate him on his responsibility. It is a cheap and irresponsible form of politics to try to label all asylum-seekers as if they may be terrorists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.842.2", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Church of England (Pensions) Measure", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": " dealing with one of the interstices in the Church-state relationship, but that relationship is a matter for another debate. I am always willing to listen to contributions on that subject. I welcome the contribution of the hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) . If I may paraphrase the words of a famous former Prime Minister, I assure the hon. Gentleman that his wife's pension is safe in our hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.842.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.863.3", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "Most of the interventions have been from the Scots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XBenighted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "The Minister rightly says that decommissioning money can be provided, and that money is already available to help communities adjust to economic problems. What discussions has he had with his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, who told my hon.—and beknighted—Friend the Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Sir Archy Kirkwood) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "h, and he leads us to believe that that is a significant step forward and real progress. Presumably, that is what he has done. How did this sorry situation come about? I come to the real charge that I make of the Minister. The situation came about because of the hesitation, prevarication and poor negotiating skills of our Government. He will know that the bullying and arm twisting of the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: X30-year rule.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": " the Leader of the Opposition had not raised fishing in Prime Minister's questions, the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings said that that was a cheap remark. However, if fishing were the priority that those on the Conservative Front Bench claim it is, he would have raised it. The Conservatives still need to explain why, according to records made available under their 30-day rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "ayes) did not satisfy us on how things would be different in the Conservative party of 2003. The hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) was kind enough to explain that the evidence shows that if a country makes fishing a priority, it is able to extract concessions for their industry. Every other nation emerged from the Brussels talks with their industry intact although not totally undamaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.897.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Fish!", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "e, crude and unfair\"—but there are other similarities. In the Scottish Parliament today, the SNP tabled a motion on Iraq, and I am advised that the Liberal Democrat amendment is no different in substance. Perhaps a new coalition is emerging in Scotland between the Liberal Democrats and the SNP. That means that the Labour party in Scotland could be in trouble, and we all look forward to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-16", "file": "debates2003-01-16.xml", "sha256": "7e22d9864906a10f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.905.2", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "arliament is holding a summit on fishing. He is working with fish scientists throughout the Community, the fishing industry and the processors to devise a resolution to present to the Commission and hence to the Council, demanding #100 million from the EU in compensation. It is interesting that the Prime Minister has invited fishermen to No. 10 on precisely the same day. Is there some coincidence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-16.905.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Firefighters' Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "To be honest, that could only come from a military mind. That is an anomaly, as the hon. Gentleman properly points out. If it is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "e observed over the weekend the many demonstrations, not only in this country but throughout the world, against a possible invasion in Iraq. Tomorrow, there will be lobbying of this House by people who are deeply concerned about a possible invasion and our participation in it. Today, yet again, a Secretary of State refused to say whether we could have a debate in the House and indeed a vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.53.3", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Occupational Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "The disincentives to save—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.53.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Occupational Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "e, we as a Government need to think carefully about the issue and to take account of the views put to us in the consultation process before we act. Throughout the process so far on the minimum fund requirement, we have sought to get consensus from all those involved. That is important on such a complex issue. The hon. Gentleman condemned the Government's proposals for the minimum fund requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Occupational Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that I ever discussed those regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.66.5", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Occupational Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "ver many years. I assure him that next time when I speak in a debate in the House and he is present, I shall give him the first chance at my neck. There is a rash judgment if ever I heard one. Opposition Members hint and wink about some issues relating to pensioners, giving the impression that they are prepared to consider a consensus. As a consensus and bridge-building politician, I welcome that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.66.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.103.6", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": " an important gain. The directive must be implemented by 31 July this year. Draft regulations have been prepared and are out for consultation. The first effect of the directive, on labelling, bites on 1 August 2005 . Reports of the imminent withdrawal of swathes of products are misleading. I am concerned that, in the motion, the Opposition talk about 300 products being taken off the shelves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.103.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "he consultation period on the herbal directive. It was not an achievement to extend the consultation period; it happened because the Government were behind the game. That was the problem. On 18 June , the Minister appeared before the Standing Committee and had a pretty rough time of it. It was only then that we saw some action. The Minister has given a typically upbeat, new Labourish presentation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": " we are considering through the motion are borderline products and the combination products of herbs, vitamins and minerals. The Minister made much of the positive lists, which she says are still open, but she has said little about the costs that manufacturers will have to incur if they are not on those lists. Even if they are on those lists, they will still have to produce complex dossiers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "cience about offering such criticism. We have all called for simplified procedures, and we want vitamins, herbs and minerals to be sold in this country as they were in the past. This has been a bone of contention, and although the Minister says that everything is wonderful and that they have been on top of the situation the entire time, that simply is not the case. She must accept that fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "poken in a very good debate on this very important subject. We have heard some excellent speeches delivered with passion and conviction. In particular, strong speeches were made by my hon. Friends the Members for Nottingham, South (Alan Simpson), for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) and for South Derbyshire (Mr. Todd). The debate started with the speech of the Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "That is not ludicrous. We are considering public safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "ions on that, but few were forthcoming. There are serious issues to consider about herbal remedies outside Europe. There have been unfortunate instances of contamination, for example, metal and other substances have contaminated Chinese and Indian medicines. The hon. Member for Bosworth (Mr. Tredinnick) made a rambling contribution in which he made familiar points about his favourite single issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "issues to consider about herbal remedies outside Europe. There have been unfortunate instances of contamination, for example, metal and other substances have contaminated Chinese and Indian medicines. The hon. Member for Bosworth (Mr. Tredinnick) made a rambling contribution in which he made familiar points about his favourite single issue. [Interruption.] Indeed, he took 10 minutes to say little.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": ". Yet bizarrely, several members of the Labour party actually voted against the early-day motion that they had put their name to in the House. We do expect Members to act consistently, although we understand that all are free to change their minds. However, would it not be only honourable for Members who have actually voted against their own early-day motions now to withdraw their names from them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-20", "file": "debates2003-01-20.xml", "sha256": "c3c092086aa99209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Food Supplements Directive", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Perhaps I can answer the point of order, if the hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mrs. Gillan) will allow me. As the hon. Gentleman said, hon. Members are free to change their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-20.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Global Terrorism/Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And a vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "inister hinted, surely a formula could be found to inform the British public of their nature and imminence? Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that there is nothing more dangerous in these circumstances than obfuscation or mixed messages? Can he drum that latter point into his divided Cabinet colleagues? Is there not now a compelling case for a further debate in this House in Government time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Global Terrorism/Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "r it has failed the second test set by the second limb of operational paragraph 4. We in the international community will be in a better position to assess that after next Monday's discussion in the Security Council. The right hon. Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram) said that he heard me say that my patience was running out. In fact, I said that the international community's patience was running out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Global Terrorism/Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It will be a defence debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ous Government, but the right hon. Gentleman knows and accepts that we cannot publish intelligence if the result would be to compromise the source or to end the flow of intelligence. I suggest that those two factors must remain, for the time being, the more important considerations. The right hon. Member for Devizes asks about further debates. Yes, there will be a full day's debate tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Global Terrorism/Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And a vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There are five defence debates a year. Of course I accept that there should be maximum parliamentary consideration of this crucial issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Global Terrorism/Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with my hon. Friend. Frankly, she is wrong. The UN Security Council, including Germany, Pakistan and Syria, unanimously said yesterday that \"there is a growing and serious danger of terrorist access to and use of nuclear, chemical, biological and other potentially deadly materials, and therefore a need to strengthen control on these materials\". The only way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Global Terrorism/Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Of course not exclusively in Iraq, I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Glenda Jackson) . I have already dealt with the issue of North Korea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Very rich.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "concerned a mixed membership of elected and appointed Members. I offer some comfort to those who are troubled by the idea of a mixed membership. As the Joint Committee observed, the House of Lords has always had a mixed membership. It has happily rubbed along with a mixed membership of hereditary and life peers for half a century. The current House of Lords is a rich kaleidoscope of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.241.2", "colnum": "241", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "If we create the nonsense of a massive democracy, with all kinds of governance, there will be less and less power to share around. We also have to ask about the cost. Surely we are all aware that although we do not have elected assemblies in England, we have regional government and it is costing a fortune. We know that an elected House of Lords will cost a fortune, and it will be a total disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but what good will come from the reform? What damage are we doing to the House of Commons? If the hon. Gentleman is a real democrat, he should be worried that the views of his constituents do not have the slightest effect on most of the decisions that we used to make. He knows that is a fact because of the European factor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": "d enough to get in here. Those elected will get ideas above their station. They will want secretaries, researchers, salaries and office costs allowances. Soon they will want a pleasant building with an atrium and rented trees suitable to their status. They will then, heaven forbid, begin to clutter up the Pugin Room, where they will give their constituents tea. We will not be able to get in there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.247.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-01-21", "file": "debates2003-01-21.xml", "sha256": "e1290e03779f28b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " later than one hour after commencement of the proceedings on the first Motion; such Questions shall include the Questions on any Amendments selected by the Speaker which may then be moved; and the Questions may be decided, though opposed, at any hour and the Orders of the House of 28th June 2001 and 29th October 2002 relating to deferred Divisions shall not apply to them.— [Mr. Jim Murphy.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-21.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-22", "file": "debates2003-01-22.xml", "sha256": "074f572370cec87d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": " for food aid to Malawi. The other aspect of the situation there is the terrible scourge of HIV/AIDS, with 1 million orphans already. Does the Secretary of State agree that the international community must make a qualitative response to the huge number of AIDS orphans in Africa? Countries such as Malawi simply do not have the sustainable capacity to respond to the needs of their own orphans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-22", "file": "debates2003-01-22.xml", "sha256": "074f572370cec87d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Phyllis Starkey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phyllis Starkey", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the concerns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-22", "file": "debates2003-01-22.xml", "sha256": "074f572370cec87d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.290.9", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ask him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "May I tell my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.290.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-22", "file": "debates2003-01-22.xml", "sha256": "074f572370cec87d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "end's attention to concerns about the rising number of attacks on bus drivers in London? A bus service was withdrawn for 10 days from an estate in my constituency following the stabbing of a driver in the hand. Children are committing these crimes. I call on my right hon. Friend to join me in asking parents to exert more control over their children, particularly when they are out in the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-22", "file": "debates2003-01-22.xml", "sha256": "074f572370cec87d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.320.6", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The statement lasted 17 minutes, which is far too long. I am looking for a maximum of about 10 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.320.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-22", "file": "debates2003-01-22.xml", "sha256": "074f572370cec87d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Defence in the World", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We get injury time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "We do not have enough time to take interventions and, to be fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-22.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I have a little list, which I am happy to share with the hon. Gentleman in detail. Some 87 per cent. were met or partly met—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Well spotted\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Leader of the House for that statement, and particularly for the news about the Praesidium, which I am sure excited us all hugely. Today being Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "First, I welcome the hon. Gentleman's support for the measures that we are taking to curb abuse of the right to buy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "First, I say to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Excise Diversion Fraud", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "Parliament immediately; we did so under the procedures established by the House for written statements. Let me remind the hon. Gentleman that the problems with which we are dealing now date to the mid-1990s—frauds that were going on at that time, and investigations that were started and largely conducted then. The hon. Gentleman accuses Customs in the broadest terms off the back of one case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Excise Diversion Fraud", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "6 May 1995; Vol. 260, c. 170 .] I suggest that the hon. Member for Eddisbury do his own research, instead of using The Daily Telegraph leader writers to do it for him. Their reports this week of £2 billion duty loss are entirely inaccurate. The hon. Gentleman asked for the figures. The duty loss in the LCB case was £340 million. The duty loss in the Stockade case was £89 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.481.0", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "I am sure, Madam Deputy Speaker, that you did not say anything in Committee, but it is important to put on record the fact that I certainly recognised in Committee that there are concerns in the peripheral parts of England about the centralising tendencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "iggered, but would be available if people felt strongly. Finally, I shall deal briefly with amendment No. 12, which I would like to support. I know from discussions with local authorities throughout my constituency that there is little likelihood of the south-west going for a regional assembly—I have never met anyone in my part of the region, Devon and Cornwall, who is in favour of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "ch. A 5 per cent. threshold to trigger a further referendum would be unprecedented in our constitution. No other body has a 5 per cent. threshold for a re-ballot. My hon. Friend the Member for South Dorset (Jim Knight) asked the interesting question of whether the Conservatives would apply it to the Greater London Authority. The same could be said of the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-23", "file": "debates2003-01-23.xml", "sha256": "a25fcd04d9700959", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interrupted", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "heir cause, they want to conceal it and suppress the boundary review process until after the referendum has taken place. That is typically inconsistent because new clause 7—also tabled by the Liberal Democrats—addresses what we call the pig-in-the-poke problem by deferring the implementation of the legislation until the power of elected regional assemblies has been set down in statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-23.504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.564.5", "colnum": "564", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "We have sound military advice from those responsible as to how best to configure the force that is being planned to take military action in Iraq, should that be required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.564.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.568.0", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Child Support Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ry of State's estimate, which will enable existing cases to know where they stand? The Department has several major projects on its hands. The Secretary of State is introducing a new system for paying benefits in the spring, the national rollout of Jobcentre Plus, the new pensions service, the new pension credit in the autumn, and all the Chancellor's pet tax credits, which are also being changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": " that it bought SWALEC with an obligation to buy power at a highly inflated price from another generator, which appears in its accounts as an onerous contract with a liability of £200 million. The board of British Energy has made numerous mistakes. Indeed, I could go on citing them, but I do not want to make this debate an examination of why British Energy is responsible for its predicament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "ich amends schedule 12 of the Electricity Act 1989. That provided for financial assistance from the Government for nuclear liabilities, up to a ceiling of £2.5 billion. The Bill will remove that ceiling. I have a couple of questions for the Minister. One concerns a report in The Mail on Sunday yesterday. I gladly admit to my hon. Friends that I am guilty of buying and reading that newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"£1.8 billion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I would not use that description, but I can see its merits. As I said, £1.3 billion was raised. What was the market capitalisation in March 2000? It was £1.2 billion. In 2001, the market capitalisation rose to £1.8 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hamilton", "preceding_text": "That is why we need green coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Madam?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I must tell the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) that if the Whip asks him to speak for 15 minutes, he should not simply speak for 10 minutes. I could see the Whip saying that. Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I must tell the hon. Member for Ynys Môn (Albert Owen) that if the Whip asks him to speak for 15 minutes, he should not simply speak for 10 minutes. I could see the Whip saying that. Madam Deputy Speaker—[Hon. Members: \"Madam?\"] I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "has reduced revenue. The company is failing—indeed, it has failed. We say that that is the working of the market and that the company should go into administration. The Bill is a renationalisation measure. The Trades Union Congress was unanimous, we have been told, in wanting British Energy to be renationalised. Is that the spectre of old Labour coming out from under the skies of new Labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-27", "file": "debates2003-01-27.xml", "sha256": "907f1b351dda3c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.663.6", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "This has been sprung on me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-27.663.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.705.6", "colnum": "705", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about beer?", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Pike", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend come to Burnley at an early date to look at the need to improve the trans-Pennine service that runs via Burnley station, where there is tremendous potential? Everybody in Burnley is hoping that the new franchise will ensure that we get the service delivery to which we are entitled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.705.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ated settlement and are providing more room for that to happen, but those involved will have to see that there is a timetable. If they choose not to do so, I will have to consider the circumstances. I know from my own experience that free people cannot be forced to work if they do not want to do so, but this is a matter of balance. I heard the same argument about prison officers, police and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ers, police and so on. [Interruption.] It did not lead to the circumstances to which he refers, although, presumably, that is what he predicted, as he does from time to time. In those circumstances, a judgment has to be made at the appropriate time. I am still ever hopeful that he will make a reasonable statement to reasonable men, rather than inflaming the situation, as he does from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.798.3", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways and Transport Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "sing capital. Railtrack was able to spend every penny that it could raise. Then we had the débâcle, and now the industry cannot borrow what it needs from the private sector. I hope that the new board will build some bridges to re-establish investor confidence in the railways, so that, on top of what the Government are putting in, it can have a substantial injection of private capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.798.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways and Transport Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "The Government pulled the rug from under Railtrack because they wanted it to fail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways and Transport Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "ash;testimony to the failure of the Government's transport policy. We need an independent rail regulator not only to decide how much Network Rail needs, as he will by the end of the year, but also because he can stand up to the Treasury and reassure passengers as well as those who are thinking of investing in rail. Rail needs massive investment and we need someone who will not be needlessly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways and Transport Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A sedentary position.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "an independent rail regulator not only to decide how much Network Rail needs, as he will by the end of the year, but also because he can stand up to the Treasury and reassure passengers as well as those who are thinking of investing in rail. Rail needs massive investment and we need someone who will not be needlessly— [Interruption.] The Minister of State speaks from—what is it called?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Lord Chancellor's Department", "cue_speaker": "John McWilliam", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That's all right then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John McWilliam", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. The Labour party as well as the Liberal Democrat party is over-represented. However, that happens because the size of the Committees is rounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Lord Chancellor's Department", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "Who represents the interests of the minority parties on the Committee of Selection? Liberal Democrat Members always used to try to represent not only their party but the other minority parties. There is a problem only because it appears that the Liberal Democrats have failed to represent the other minority parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-28", "file": "debates2003-01-28.xml", "sha256": "91a14713a6485095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Lord Chancellor's Department", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "That is a good point and all the big parties should reflect on it. One of the strengths of the House of Commons is that there has always been a place for the minor voice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-28.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.864.6", "colnum": "864", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "say the least. The Minister for Local Government and the Regions said a moment ago that the Government had been generous, but Labour-controlled Lancashire county council says that it does not have enough money and is trying to live within its means. Will the Minister provide my constituents with a cogent explanation of why they face a council tax increase that is three times the rate of inflation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.864.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend feels that firefighters are justified in asking for a 40 per cent. increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend feels that firefighters are justified in asking for a 40 per cent. increase— [Interruption.] Their demand at the moment is for 40 per cent., and I have to say time and time again that, for the reasons that I have given, I do not think that we can afford 40 per cent. The House must make its judgments about these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "illion less than it would be if it received the average percentage increase? Will he reflect on his meeting with the leaders of Essex county council and try, before the final decision is taken, to persuade his right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister to come up with a system that is fairer to Essex and does not mean that Essex has to pay for his party's heartlands in the midlands and the north?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, that is not right. The decisions whether to commit troops on behalf of this country are taken by our Government, our House of Commons, and our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.872.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, that is not right. The decisions whether to commit troops on behalf of this country are taken by our Government, our House of Commons, and our country. [Interruption.] We are trying to put the maximum pressure on Saddam to comply with the UN mandate. We had a report on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.872.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me repeat, as we have said consistently: of course we want a vote of the House of Commons on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is only right to point out that GCSE results are also a lot better here than they were, for example, a few years ago. On the point about selection and grammar schools, I do not believe in returning to a division of children at the age of 11. As for scrapping grammar schools, I point out to the hon. Gentleman that, since we have been in office, we have not scrapped a single one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary is absolutely right: no country has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary is absolutely right: no country has— [Interruption.] Perhaps when the right hon. Gentleman gets to his feet, he can tell us which country has derogated from article 3. No country has derogated from article 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.875.7", "colnum": "875", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ng last year was whether to derogate from article 5 of the European convention. That allows us, if we derogate, to detain without trial people who are suspected terrorists. It was precisely that measure that we introduced in the anti-terrorism measures that came through this House of Commons. However, when we actually introduced the measure, the Conservative party, rather than supporting it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.875.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My briefing very helpfully starts by saying, \"I understand that there are a range of views on this issue.\" However, everyone agrees that the status quo should not remain. Everyone agrees that the remaining hereditary peers should go and, what is more, that the prime ministerial patronage should also go. However, the issue then is whether we want an elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A free vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "rsonally think that a hybrid between the two is wrong and will not work. I also think that the key question on election is whether we want a revising Chamber or a rival Chamber. My view is that we want a revising Chamber, and I also believe that we should never allow the argument to gain sway that, somehow, the House of Commons is not a democratically elected body. I believe that it is democratic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend asks who is next. After we deal with Iraq, we have to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend asks who is next. After we deal with Iraq, we have to— [Interruption.] —yes, through the United Nations. We have to confront North Korea about its weapons programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Excellent—go for it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": " Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) and the hon. Member for Newbury (Mr. Rendel) . It has been an extraordinarily busy year for the Public Accounts Committee. In the past 12 months, we have produced almost 70 reports—probably more than in any one year in our 140-year history. If I were to devote only five minutes to each report, I would have to give a speech of Gladstonian length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "That is a Department that could perhaps do a little better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-29", "file": "debates2003-01-29.xml", "sha256": "b95eaaa062c7c252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "preceding_text": "As someone who has been involved in the public sector, I have made decisions on purchasing and refurbishing contracts. If a contract came that close to the figure, I would have severe doubts about going down the PFI route. The marginal cost of maintaining my staff, expertise and ability to use my staff in future would make me decide firmly in favour of the public procurement route.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-29.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.992.4", "colnum": "992", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "It would be churlish not to welcome the Government's late conversion on livestock movements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.992.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.995.2", "colnum": "995", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not quite right. The Government Green Ministers Committee, which I chair, has published three annual reports that give detailed information on a whole range of indicators on the performance of all Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.997.2", "colnum": "997", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "Mr. Morley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " between the two is wrong and will not work.\"—[ Official Report , 29 January 2003; Vol. 398, c. 877 .] Hold on a minute—I thought that the Leader of the House said that some form of mixed membership was the most desirable outcome. I am worried about the way in which that matter is progressing—or not. At the highest level of government the Prime Minister is saying one thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Future Aircraft Carrier", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ny in the Conservative party who would probably like it to revert to its state before the debate on the corn laws, but unfortunately, when the hon. Gentleman talks about projects for the 21st century, his arguments sound distinctly outdated. The key question that the hon. Gentleman must answer is what would the Conservative party have done differently from the announcement that has just been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Future Aircraft Carrier", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "his arguments sound distinctly outdated. The key question that the hon. Gentleman must answer is what would the Conservative party have done differently from the announcement that has just been made. [Interruption.] In all the hon. Gentleman's rhetorical, anti-European flourishes from the Opposition Front Bench, I heard not a shred of a suggestion as to what exactly he would have done differently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Future Aircraft Carrier", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "nge of British industrial expertise, by refusing to take advantage of the strengths of BAE Systems and Thales UK and the various bids that they made. If he is saying that he would choose one bid or the other, he is actually saying that he would rule out of consideration, and exclude from benefit to the UK's armed forces, the considerable expertise that each of those companies would make available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1030.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Future Aircraft Carrier", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Northern Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's fair-minded support for the project, and for the way in which he has pointed out the wider industrial benefits for Scotland's shipyards, and for companies such as Rolls-Royce that operate in England and Wales as well as Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "at, with the permission of the House, I can also respond to the debate, as my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary is attending her mother-in-law's funeral. I hope that my request will be acceptable to the House. I have to tell the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) that this debate is enormously important and it is overdue, but the sort of petty point-scoring way in which she spoke is regrettable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1052.5", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady can stay seated for a moment while I finish. She started by trying to score cheap points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1058.5", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "hy we are not getting any Opposition day debates at the moment. I shall leave the Secretary of State to draw her own conclusions. The Conservatives have been enthusiastic in their support for the USA's policy on Iraq, exceeding even the enthusiasm of the Prime Minister. I am therefore nauseated by the rows of grey suits on the Tory Benches, all looking concerned and shedding crocodile tears—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1058.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman is right, but that does not negate my point that economic sanctions have stopped the people of Iraq getting the food that they need, and we have taken the blame for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1060.7", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "It is my understanding that there are two reasons. One is that the contracts are so incredibly bureaucratic that the money has been left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1060.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "x on 14 February . War looks more likely than not and no one in all conscience can ever relish the prospect of war, but we are duty bound to assess what it would entail and plan for its consequences. That is exactly what the motion before the House attempts to do. Some of the accusations levelled against us have been out of place, distasteful and unworthy of many of those who have made them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "y. We are also in regular contact with the NGOs we already fund in Iraq. We are planning for a wide range of humanitarian contingencies.\" That was that. I simply do not understand the Secretary of State's petulance. There is no need for it. We have set aside all party consideration in being largely supportive of the Prime Minister and of the Government of which the right hon. Lady is a part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "I asked at the beginning of the debate for permission to wind up, as my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary is at her mother-in-law's funeral. I ask you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for that permission again. After that pompous, smug and self-satisfied speech, let me say that I now understand what the Tory party is trying to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": " and already the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) is heckling from a sedentary position. The Tory party is saying, \"We welcome war, let us go to it. What are your plans to tidy up afterwards?\" They do not appear to understand a number of things that I have tried to explain to them. First, it has been difficult to get all the parts of the international system that must prepare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "m, which is responsible to its members, most of whom do not want to foresee military action in Iraq, has had difficulty getting started on its preparations. Then it started, but it did not want to make public statements about those preparations, because of the amount of seething anxiety across the international system, of which perhaps those Members who are so happy to go to war are unaware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ve Members because they are not thinking through all the agonising possibilities. We have to think through the ways in which we can minimise the suffering of the people of Iraq in terms of the reality of the international system in which we have to work. In addition, the neighbouring countries have not been willing to talk openly about the prospects of war or military or humanitarian preparations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-30", "file": "debates2003-01-30.xml", "sha256": "9ab56eb920edafe4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Contingency Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "nited international community, progress in the Middle East, a crumbling of the regime, minimal military action and Saddam Hussein brought to justice. That is not ruled out. If we examine some of the options, we shall see that we could get there and then minimise the suffering of the people. The hon. Member for North-East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt) asked a question about the Kuwaiti border—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-30.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-31", "file": "debates2003-01-31.xml", "sha256": "7827d0b56c92be69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Co-operatives and Community Benefit Societies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "ty legislation. I am very sympathetic to the changes and the reforms that it is trying deliver, because they are consistent with our aim to support and modernise industrial and provident society legislation, and to strengthen such societies' contribution to social enterprise. I am therefore pleased to say that, in principle, the Government can support the objectives behind the Bill. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-31", "file": "debates2003-01-31.xml", "sha256": "7827d0b56c92be69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "e a sanction, will it be used? On the second point, if there is no expectation that the Health and Safety Executive will use the sanction, will it ever act as a deterrent? If it is not intended to use the sanction, there will be no deterrent. If it is intended to use it more widely, the financial implications of the Bill for public expenditure are rather greater than the explanatory notes suggest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-31", "file": "debates2003-01-31.xml", "sha256": "7827d0b56c92be69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend demonstrates yet again that his contributions to such debates are inexhaustible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-31", "file": "debates2003-01-31.xml", "sha256": "7827d0b56c92be69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1165.5", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "such debates are inexhaustible. [Interruption.] The Minister encourages my hon. Friend to participate in the Standing Committee debates, and I am sure that he is contemplating that prospect as we speak. My hon. Friend makes an interesting point. I am sure that the parliamentary draftsmen recruited by the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby will have a good justification for choosing two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-31", "file": "debates2003-01-31.xml", "sha256": "7827d0b56c92be69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "cuna that requires explanation. I shall not dwell on that point, however, because I am very eager to get on to some other aspects of the explanatory notes that have caught my eye. Paragraph 18 states: \"The Bill will have no significant manpower implications for the Health and Safety Executive\". Why not? If the provisions are going to make everything more effective, might not more people be needed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-01-31", "file": "debates2003-01-31.xml", "sha256": "7827d0b56c92be69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ger to get on to some other aspects of the explanatory notes that have caught my eye. Paragraph 18 states: \"The Bill will have no significant manpower implications for the Health and Safety Executive\". Why not? If the provisions are going to make everything more effective, might not more people be needed? [Interruption.] We are all welcoming the hon. Member for Dismore back into the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-01-31.1181.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Both.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Foster", "preceding_text": ". She will know of my support for Worcestershire county council's bid for a school sports co-ordinator to cover the Worcester city school pyramids, and I hope that her Department will look favourably on that. Does she think that school sports co-ordinators should be concerned with participation in sports, or with the unearthing of talent such as another Beckham, Botham or Paula Radcliffe, or both?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.2.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or Soames!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " my constituency and, indeed, from the United States of America, primarily—sometimes solely—to visit the west end theatres. They see some wonderful shows, but because 37 of London's theatres are either Victorian or Edwardian, they must see them in terrible buildings whose seats were built for backsides of the Victorian rather than the modern era—indeed, rather than for Americans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.16.8", "colnum": "16", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I am happy to say that I also anticipated my hon. Friend's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.16.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "out the middle east peace process? Does he accept that nothing is better calculated to bring the Arab states on side than seeing that a really determined attempt is being made to resolve the terrible problems that divide Palestine and the Israelis? Will he consider taking another personal initiative, notwithstanding that his last one was snubbed, during the next few, what could be perilous, weeks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.36.6", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e process, which is what we are going to do. But we cannot say, as it were, that we will do one, but not the other; we must do both. If we believe that there is a threat in respect of Iraq, surely we are obliged to deal with it. We have tried to do so through the UN process and, if we can do that, it will be far better. As for the middle east peace process, we must make what progress we can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.36.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "I notice that you are shaking your head, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should be delighted to debate on another occasion the role of the Secretary of State for Scotland, her French lessons and whatever else the hon. Gentleman may wish me to discuss, but I want to get back to the matter at hand—the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "t level of representation. This is a very easy question: do Members from Scotland and Wales support the current level of representation, or do they not? Curiously, one argument has not been presented on either side of the House—the argument that it might be in the interests of the Scottish National party or Plaid Cymru for the levels to remain as they are for narrow party-political purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "ing his views, and that that right should be passed on to the Assembly in Gibraltar so that we can hear the views of all its political parties. I am sure that she will pass that on. Secondly, as my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock said, the constituency title, whether it is north-west, south-west, Wales or Northern Ireland, should be a proper statement of the geographical area that it includes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "NHS HOSPITALS (WORCESTERSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Derek Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Foster", "preceding_text": "the trust from the August school. The trust launched a new recruitment campaign in the local media in December. That campaign has continued into the new year. By 17 January , the trust was processing 123 application forms submitted because of those advertisements. That welcome initiative by the trust should be applauded but, unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman did not mention it in his contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-03", "file": "debates2003-02-03.xml", "sha256": "27869c6166ec0740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "NHS HOSPITALS (WORCESTERSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Kirkbride", "preceding_text": "re very fearful, because of the £7 million debt, that those services will be withdrawn and based in Kidderminster and Worcester alone. However, because of their eye problems and inability to see, those people should not have to travel long distances. They should be able to go to local eye care clinics. However, because of the deficit that the trust is experiencing, they might not come about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-03.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.130.4", "colnum": "130", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "The Health and Safety Executive obviously has an overarching health and safety role in Scotland, and discussions with the new regime that will be established under the railways legislation are ongoing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Peter Mandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Mandelson", "preceding_text": "tive second Chamber, it requires a system of election that is based on proportional representation. How long does he believe it will take for it to become clear to everyone that separate electoral systems for the two Chambers are untenable? It is inevitable that a single system of electing Members to Parliament would have to be adopted before long. That system would be proportional representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Let me respond to the other point that my right hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson) made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is a free vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "hall be inviting my colleagues—and, indeed, others—to consider supporting that kind of approach, but on a free vote. I am pretty certain that not all my colleagues will necessarily follow that view, but that is different matter altogether from the Prime Minister of the day and the Leader of the House of the day openly contradicting each other and inviting support from their colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.168.6", "colnum": "168", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": " must confess that I find that the oddest criticism of all. The case for a unicameral Parliament has sound historical antecedents, and there are many contemporary precedents within the UK and abroad. The legislatures of Scotland and New Zealand, and of more than one Scandinavian country, are unicameral, and so far as I can tell, they work well. There is no criticism in Scotland or elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.168.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Noble?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my right hon. and noble Friend for giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "and sovereignty of the party in government, which usually means the Prime Minister. I am not making partisan points. I realise that I often do so, but I do not propose to make many today. I acknowledge that the problem that I have described is of long standing and that the Government of whom I was a member passed a range of measures which in all probability did not enjoy wide public consent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has it with him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend had better read that report again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not this Chamber.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "r to wish to try to achieve by procedural means that which they cannot achieve by electoral means. Because the British people have twice, by large majorities, shown that they do not trust the Conservative party, it does not want to trust the British people. Instead, it wants to put in place structures that it can then try to exploit. In 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, probably in this very Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "hing earlier. I do not know where she got it from. As to other hybrid solutions, or alleged solutions, not only are some of them half-baked, but others are completely unbaked. Just under 30 years ago, when I was first elected to the London borough council of Lewisham, I remember that we had people called aldermen. I am sure that plenty of hon. Members will remember them. They were abolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.196.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "House of Lords Reform", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Appointed.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "ciate my right hon. Friend's support, but I hope there is no more heckling from him. I shall end with the position of the Prime Minister. It has been comprehensively rejected by the Labour party. I have gone through the all the studies and reports, and all the findings from the commissions and policy forums that have been set up. Not one submission called for a wholly elected second Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.208.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM (NO. 7)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Home.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "er, Madam Deputy Speaker. Now that the House has put itself in an interesting position, and the Government in an even worse position, in that the commitments made in the Government's manifesto look as if they are now in shreds, and the option that got the closest vote was my party's policy, can we expect an immediate statement from the Leader of the House as to where he expects us now to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.243.9", "colnum": "243", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM (NO. 7)", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "To be fair, I will take just one more point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.243.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-04", "file": "debates2003-02-04.xml", "sha256": "1390ff21c2b96c71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.243.10", "colnum": "243", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM (NO. 7)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the enthusiasm for my contribution. Further to that point of order, I point out to the House that it seems that the majority of Labour Members have not voted for their policy and the majority of Conservative Members have not voted for their policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-04.243.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.259.4", "colnum": "259", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "cause it has caused so many deaths. The Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, my hon. Friend the hon. Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Mr. Browne) is dealing with these matters and meeting the families. We are considering holding a consultation process on the matter in order possibly to change the law. We also want to ensure that all the agencies involved will act together collectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.259.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.260.6", "colnum": "260", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "at there is grave distrust of the intentions of paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland and that the retention of arms distorts the normal political process on both sides of the electoral divide. On those points, I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. Our whole objective is to take weapons out of the political process in Northern Ireland; all our energies are concentrated on that effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.264.3", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "elivered as a result. Yes, that is true. We will not stand for a 20 per cent. across-the-board cut in spending. As for other countries and the taxes on business, yes, it is true that business, too, will have to pay the 1 per cent. increase in national insurance, but let me say what the alternative is. The alternative is either private medical insurance, which will cost people and businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.264.4", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to Mr. Loughton that he must not shout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.264.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ifferent positions. What I have said to the Liaison Committee, and this is backed up by the evidence that we have from intelligence submitted to me by the Joint Intelligence Committee, is that yes, on the one hand, we do not know of a link between Iraq and the attack of 11 September but, on the other hand, there are unquestionably links between al-Qaeda and Iraq. Just how far those leaks go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to the statement from the Deputy Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "olutely clear that we are not talking about homes anywhere and everywhere. We are talking about homes in sustainable communities to meet the shortfall in supply—not suburban sprawl, not soulless estates and not dormitory towns. I recognise and share the genuine concern about our countryside. May I remind the House that a Labour Government introduced the green belt formulas over 50 years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "are other ways that do not involve the loss of a social home to the community, and I believe that we could make better use of those schemes. That is why today I am asking the Housing Corporation to lead a new home ownership taskforce to advise on ways of helping more tenants into home ownership, using the whole range of existing ownership schemes, but without reducing the amount of social housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "vel by new regional housing boards involving the key partners. English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation will also work together at the regional and national levels so that finding the land is directly linked with providing the housing. This is a comprehensive programme of action for sustainable communities that I hope will command support across the House. Perhaps I am hoping for too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "g the Deputy Prime Minister for making a statement and for advance sight of it. But today's statement is characterised by the amount of it that had already been briefed, leaked and spun to the press before the House saw it. That that strategy is deliberate is clear from the leaked letter from the Deputy Prime Minister to the Prime Minister about the communities plan and his right-to-buy proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "rity, so they do not reduce public housing. Hon. Members may disagree with that, but it happens to be a fact. That is a difference of choice in our housing policy. The right hon. Gentleman complained about other such differences. It is true that the provision of social housing has gone down 1 per cent. every year since 1980; that happened under our Government as it did under other Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "at the time. That, I readily agree, is a difference of choice in our housing policy. The right hon. Gentleman said that no improvements had taken place. He should visit the new deal areas and the coalfield communities. We gave them the money after the previous Administration implemented a vicious policy to destroy the coalfield communities. We invested nearly £400 million in developing them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ple in every region of the country. Why did not he announce the largest campaign ever to end the scandal of empty homes? Would not we make an impact more quickly on the affordable housing crisis, with much smaller environmental costs, by using the homes that already exist? Why does not the Local Government Bill allow local councils to keep the cash from ending council tax discounts on empty homes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "hat figure. He should consider the difficulties of achieving of that. Some areas of the United Kingdom do not have brownfield sites and I therefore have to strike a balance. Nick Scone of the CPRE said on the \"Today\" programme: \"We accept that there's a need for more housing and we accept that some it will have to be in the south-east and we accept that some of it will have to be on green fields.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Sustainable Communities", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ened up to housing development unless there are connections to rail links. As usual, we have to set priorities, because demands are far greater than resources. As my hon. Friend knows, we have established an urban development corporation that will work in those areas with the authorities to achieve the measures that I have announced. As he says, there are a great many brownfield sites in his area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.295.8", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not want to go through the article. I heard the Deputy Prime Minister say that he does not speak to The Sunday Times .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.295.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman explain to the House how it would be possible to increase police numbers while not only making a 20 per cent. cut across the board, but implementing the other policies to which his party has committed itself? It has already committed itself to matching Government expenditure on defence and international development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I shall respond to the debate. I am glad that all those hon. Members who wished to speak could do so and that we find ourselves with plenty of time. I will give the Minister plenty of time, so that he has no excuse not to reply to all the issues raised during the debate. I am surprised that there was rather a dearth of Labour Members speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.360.6", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "There are no assumptions in the system; I have just been saying that. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman has not been listening. We are setting out a system that is designed to distribute grant fairly between authorities. There is no assumption in the system, as there was under the old SSA, about what the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.360.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.361.6", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with education funding in a moment, but my hon. Friend should reflect that in the last years of the Tory Government, Barnet council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I promised that I would give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "The Minister is highly respected throughout the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "My party, unlike the hon. Gentleman's, has always produced costed manifestos and alternative Budgets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "mmy: a council tax rise and cutbacks in care for the most vulnerable elderly. The Government should be ashamed of that. My final point is that the long-term implications of the settlement are worrying. One reason why this year's settlement has been especially contentious is that it involved a major review of the underlying grant formula. I shall not rehearse the Select Committee's arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Second?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "d is reduced. The Government's attitude is particularly hypocritical, because they talk about stability and long-term planning in Whitehall, yet they refuse to give councils the necessary information to achieve that at local authority level. That is a dereliction of responsibility. The Government are not following the best practice that they try to promote. The second issue that concerns me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "practical problems at root level. Kingston alone has lost £329,000 between the provisional and final settlements. In a small authority, that is a lot of money. The Minister must remember that that causes local authorities huge difficulties over a short period. The framework of the review does not seem to be providing the stability that was promised. The final point on long-term issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "outh-east will be taxed considerably more than those in the north. The council tax under Labour is a stealth tax. Now it is not just a straight stealth tax; it is a geographic stealth tax. The residents of Surrey will be expected to find an extra 17 per cent.—17 per cent. more from the taxpayers for county services. They are also suffering from the same issues that were raised earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "HORSE PASSPORTS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " consultation to implement the directive by introducing a compulsory system of passports for all horses, backed by fines of up to £5,000 or six months' imprisonment. Four questions need to be answered. Is a passport scheme necessary, did the Government consult properly, is their proposal on implementing the decision the right one, and have they fully understood the drawbacks of their scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-05", "file": "debates2003-02-05.xml", "sha256": "36713f4d5ca1d243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "HORSE PASSPORTS", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "tation of the passport scheme—it is a bonus. In parallel to implementation, we are trying to work with the industry to achieve a measure that is of benefit to the industry. Conservative Members do not appreciate it, but it is a fact that Ministers get up each day and try to make the lives of our constituents better and to work with industries, such as, in this case, the horse industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-05.416.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.419.7", "colnum": "419", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "hy in schools and in universities. The journalist then asked me what I felt about classics. I shrugged my shoulders and said that I was not so sure about that. I am happy to have the opportunity to make my position clear, because it has been widely misrepresented. I am in favour of the study of classics, I am in favour of studying languages and I am in favour of studying the ancient civilisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.419.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "]. Tuesday 11 February —Second Reading of the National Minimum Wage (Enforcement Notices) Bill [ Lords ], followed by motion to approve the Northern Ireland Arms Decommissioning Act 1997 (Amnesty Period) Order 2003. Wednesday 12 February —Opposition Day. There will be a half-day debate entitled \"The Government's Failure on the Economy and Public Services\" on an Opposition motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " with us? As I reminded the Leader of the House last week, the Treasury Committee said that we should receive proper notice of the Budget date. Am I to assume that the Budget will not even be in March? Is it slipping into April? Will the Leader of the House please give us a clue so that we can all be ready to examine the Chancellor in detail following his Budget statement? Yesterday in PMPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " and the votes on Lords reform? When I read my Hansard , I was astonished to find that the Prime Minister had managed to vote only once on the issue. The one vote that he cast was directly at odds with his own party manifesto commitment, and directly against what the Leader of the House had been urging us to do. Matters are worse than that. The Chancellor did not vote at all. We ought to know why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And to vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Of course I fully understand the gravity of the issue and its importance not only to hon. Members but their constituents. I assure my hon. Friend that there will be opportunities for hon. Members to debate the matter again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Of course I fully understand the gravity of the issue and its importance not only to hon. Members but their constituents. I assure my hon. Friend that there will be opportunities for hon. Members to debate the matter again. [Hon. Members: \"And to vote?\"] And to vote on it, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jackie Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jackie Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ther place? In spite of the remarks of the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) , will my right hon. Friend ensure that the Joint Committee considers the position of those 92 peers, because, regardless of whether people want an elected Chamber or an appointed one, I am sure that the majority view is that that remnant from the middle ages is no longer appropriate in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Iraq: Further Contingency Preparations", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his observations. I assure him that the Government will report to the House as and when necessary, in the light of unfolding events. However, I caution him against the insistence on requiring a substantive vote of the House before any military operations are conducted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-06", "file": "debates2003-02-06.xml", "sha256": "737d41f5d7dfa4f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.524.2", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Electricity (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "Rather than answer the Minister's point again, I refer him to the speech that my hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) made at the beginning of the Committee stage. He clearly justified the arithmetic of our case. A careful study of Hansard will give the Minister the answer that he seeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-06.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Russell Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "the history of Sunday trading and what it has meant. Sunday is a special day. Many families chose to spend time together on Sundays. It is traditionally seen as a day of rest by many people. After all, it is the Christian Sabbath and a traditional day of worship. If my wife were here today, she would say that it is a day when she would desire to drag me around stores and especially garden centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman accept from another father that he is letting the side down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.561.5", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "ment to explain why the Bill comes before this House and why those in favour of it argue, \"We need this in Scotland as well as in England\". The website of the hon. Member for Greenock and Inverclyde is quite interesting. In an argument that he repeated this morning his website says about the Bill: \"It is quite simply wrong that shop-workers in Greenwich enjoy rights that those in Greenock do not.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.561.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "ength of the workers that drove their case forward. Many people have talked about the history of this issue and about why we have a particular problem in Scotland. Sitting here and listening to hon. Members' contributions, I have been reflecting on the age of some of us Scots in the Chamber. Probably only those of us who, like me, were born in the 1940s and brought up in the 1940s and 1950s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "o the measure. One therefore assumes that they are content with it. However, it would be difficult to amend the Bill in the case of substantive objections unless the Minister expects the House of Lords to make her amendments for her. If the Minister could give us some answers as to why the consultation is so out of kilter with the progress of the Bill, it would be very useful. I will finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "as from Argos that are really quite comfortable, and other Members probably do as well; then again, perhaps not. I reassure my hon. Friend the Member for Western Isles (Mr. MacDonald) that, in addition to being able to book online with it, Argos delivers to the Western Isles via the fish lorries. I have had sofas delivered to the Western Isles, for which Argos charges a very modest additional sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Sunday Trading (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "MacDonald) that, in addition to being able to book online with it, Argos delivers to the Western Isles via the fish lorries. I have had sofas delivered to the Western Isles, for which Argos charges a very modest additional sum. [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Carmichael) wishes to comment on Argos's trading agreements with Orkney and Shetland, I should be delighted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.579.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Aviation (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Roy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Roy", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman speaks for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Aviation (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosemary McKenna", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Was it you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rosemary McKenna", "preceding_text": " for Motherwell and Wishaw (Mr. Roy) talked about safety zones. Normally, the minute an altercation starts, parents remove their children from the area, but they absolutely cannot do that in an aircraft. The staff were eventually able to calm down those two individuals, with the assistance of a female passenger, who spoke in the most severe terms to those two chaps. They were absolutely terrified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Aviation (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "latively recent phenomenon. I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Mr. Roy) on securing this Bill and on introducing it so eloquently. May I remind the House of my personal interests in aviation? My husband is an airline executive. He is currently with Delta airlines, having spent 34 years in the airline industry. On a personal note, that is a remarkable achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Aviation (Offences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "ation (No. 2) Order 1995, \"acting in a disruptive manner\", which covers the use of threatening or abusive language to a crew member, behaving in a threatening or abusive manner to a crew member and interfering with a crew member in the performance of his or her duties? I thought that the Bill sought simply to bump up the penalty for that to five years so that it would become an arrestable offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.608.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.613.6", "colnum": "613", "heading": "HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK (OFFENCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Friday 7 March .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 31 January ], That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.613.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-02-07", "file": "debates2003-02-07.xml", "sha256": "6be76bd61e9ccc51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.613.9", "colnum": "613", "heading": "CROWN EMPLOYMENT (NATIONALITY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Second Reading deferred till Friday 28 February .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-07.613.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "t that people in my constituency, in the M25 ring and in other conurbations who are saving for retirement are frustrated about the disparity in the services that they receive? That is especially the case for my constituents in comparison with the London boroughs, where there is a concessionary fare pass scheme. It is unfair that in England we tolerate the fact that some people have generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.626.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.637.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "mislead you a few moments ago, Mr. Speaker. The point of order of my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) , to which I listened very carefully, related to part two of the great document in question. I wanted to raise a new matter in relation to part one. At our party conference, in the House and in my constituency I have urged people to trust my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.648.14", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "You mentioned the business of the day, Mr. Speaker. The business of the day is trivial compared to the question of peace and war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.648.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question and offer my sympathy to the hon. Member for East Londonderry (Mr. Campbell) on his mother's illness.I am not sure what paper he means. Is it the Weston Park paper, which I can talk about with confidence because I know what is in it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen McCabe", "preceding_text": "d I understand that he is making a sensitive point. He says that whether the officer is Protestant or Catholic does not matter to him and I have no reason to doubt him. However, can he conceive of a situation where it might matter? For example, it might matter in a society that is perceived to be unjust and unfair and one group appears to be in the ascendancy and dominates certain functions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Burnside", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And a few more from the DUP.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Burnside", "preceding_text": "en report, which is one of the weakest parts of the peace process. It has disillusioned the Unionist community more than any other aspect of the peace process. If I am re-elected to this place the next time or the time after that, I shall look forward to the elective dictatorship here being more finely balanced. I look forward to a few more Conservatives and a few more Ulster Unionists being here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "hether or not it fits in with their own thinking. The elections make it very clear that there is a Unionist majority in Northern Ireland. The census makes it very clear that there will be a Unionist majority in Northern Ireland for a very long time. Instead of attempting to accommodate small political parties in Northern Ireland, it is about time that the Government listened to the voice of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-10", "file": "debates2003-02-10.xml", "sha256": "995d2aab4d7c9969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Taylor", "preceding_text": "nstrument Committee of extraordinary importance. The order was 76 pages long and dealt with energy regulation in Northern Ireland. I had to be there, so it was not possible to be in the Chamber. As a consequence, I am ashamed to say that I missed half of what the Secretary of State had to say and, regrettably, all of what my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies) had to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-10.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.760.2", "colnum": "760", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where has the money gone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman that we need a realistic approach in addressing the problem. In particular, we need to provide local authorities with the resources to be able to support the kind of provision that is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.763.5", "colnum": "763", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that rather general answer, but does he agree that the Staffordshire ambulance service, both in response time and general efficiency, has an exemplary performance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.763.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "North Atlantic Council", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "The North Atlantic Council has been examining the technical procedure for tasking NATO military authorities to undertake contingency planning to deter or defend against a possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.767.6", "colnum": "767", "heading": "North Atlantic Council", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should begin again because I do not know whether the country heard the answer that I was giving to the request for an urgent question. The Secretary of State is on his way to Washington to undertake important consultations with a major ally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.767.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "North Atlantic Council", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "first describes the extreme lengths to which Saddam has gone to hide his weapons and obstruct the inspectors: fact. The third describes the impact of the regime on the Iraqi people: fact. The second section describes the way in which the regime is structured: fact. Some of that is based on a work by Dr. Ibrahim al-Marashi, which, as has been made clear in retrospect, should have been acknowledged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "North Atlantic Council", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "ctly what he meant by that—perhaps he will have the opportunity to clarify his position during another debate. I know that his party is split between those who are anti-war, who will be marching this weekend, and those who are saying, \"Let's not march.\" So they are all over the place on this issue, including the very leadership of the party. He made a typical Liberal Democrat response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.771.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.775.4", "colnum": "775", "heading": "North Atlantic Council", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "lliance; we can hold and articulate different points of view and find a way forward. I think I have already replied on the way forward for the European Union, the European security and defence policy and NATO—they are complementary and NATO remains a cornerstone of our security policy. I do not accept that this situation is a severe blow, because it depends on how one defines \"severe\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.775.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "North Atlantic Council", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misunderstands what I said. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is not going to Brussels to involve himself in the NAC; he is going to meet senior—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.779.3", "colnum": "779", "heading": "North Atlantic Council", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misunderstands what I said. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is not going to Brussels to involve himself in the NAC; he is going to meet senior— [Interruption.] Well, he will go a bit beyond that, but he will certainly meet Secretary Rumsfeld and others to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.779.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-11", "file": "debates2003-02-11.xml", "sha256": "513bc65ace90bc29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "e the House an indication of the significance of the event that he had witnessed involving any weapons being put beyond use. But it was enough for the leader of the Ulster Unionist party who, with the broadest smile that any of us have seen from him in many years, came out to say: \"This is the day some people said would never happen.\" He heralded it as a great day and a great beginning. Now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-11.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.852.6", "colnum": "852", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I am happy to discuss anything with Ministers in the Labour-led Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.852.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": "progress under 18 years of Tory government. However, a couple of cases are still outstanding, mainly due to the fact that the handling agreement between various employers of miners—British Coal, Wimpey and so on—does not work. Will my hon. Friend speak to the Department of Trade and Industry to move things along for the few people who are still experiencing problems with the agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "There is the threat that we have identified in the resolution last year and, indeed, for the past 12 years, and there are two ways of dealing with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ons that, because of the way that Saddam has implemented those sanctions, leaves Iraq in this state: with 130 deaths per 1,000 children under the age of five, with 60 per cent. of the population on food aid, with half the Iraqis in rural areas having no access to safe water and with thousands of people imprisoned or killed every year as a result of Saddam's regime. The fact is that the only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.860.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Glenda Jackson", "preceding_text": "e strike against Iraq with or without a mandate from the United Nations. I raise those issues out of respect for you, Mr. Speaker, and the House and, indeed, as a duty to my constituents to set the record straight. Equally, the Official Report implies that from a sedentary position I said that I was not proud of my party. I am very proud of my party; it is my Government of whom I am ashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.867.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Let me try to explain the matter to the hon. Gentleman in words of one syllable. We believe that a great deal of money is being wasted by this Government, and every day more evidence becomes available that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "In the Chancellor's parallel universe, none of that matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "sent, are queueing up to criticise him. Only yesterday, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Education and Skills held a press conference at which they rubbished the basis of his Social Market Foundation speech. Mo Mowlam calls for him to be moved. Andrew Rawnsley asks in The Observer whether his next Budget might be his last. Peter Preston writes in The Guardian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ition of the new deal and tax credits is a proposal advanced by the Leader of the Opposition in an interview on 30 December 2002 , when he announced that a study was being conducted by the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight) , the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. The study, he said, was \"looking at the target of 20 per cent. savings across the board in Government spending\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not denied my point that he is looking at cuts in the national health service. That is what the Leader of the Opposition said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ng of the G7 countries, as was stated earlier. So despite the events that have brought the first synchronised world slowdown, the Opposition are quite wrong to claim that we are not well placed to cope with it. Only a few days ago, the shadow Chief Secretary said in an intervention that we were facing likely recession and events analogous to the late 20s and early 30s, but I should tell him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ronised world slowdown, the Opposition are quite wrong to claim that we are not well placed to cope with it. Only a few days ago, the shadow Chief Secretary said in an intervention that we were facing likely recession and events analogous to the late 20s and early 30s, but I should tell him— [Interruption.] I ask him this: is he really saying that we face events analogous to the 20s and 30s?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.890.4", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Conservative party has a tiny proportion of its Back Benchers present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.890.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.890.4", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": ".] It suddenly has five, but a moment ago it had three. No doubt the Tory Whips will bring in a few more, but despite the fact that this is their debate Conservative Members have not even bothered to turn up. The hon. Gentleman, who resigned from the Conservative Front Bench in despair over their policies, presumably agrees with much of what I am saying and should perhaps refrain from intervening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.890.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.895.4", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": " as handing down targets to hospital administrators for the delivery of national targets set by Ministers, I realise that they do not understand what decentralisation means at all. Decentralisation is not setting national targets for local delivery, but allowing local people to set their own targets for their hospitals and schools so that they can design the best services for local implementation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.895.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ment understand that a modern economy needs to let vehicle traffic get around as well as railways, until they understand that we need a massive increase in capacity of all types of transport, there is little hope of restoring the levels of growth that the economy once enjoyed, which are now slipping because of the dreadful policies of the present regime. That brings me to the tenth of my 10 points", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "I realise that the shadow Chancellor never really wants to hear anything that I say, and that he has probably been half asleep while I have been speaking. I was saying that we used to aspire to be like countries such as Germany and Japan, but we now fare far better than them. They had the strongest economies in the world, but they are now a long way behind the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.917.9", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "re not worth while? Are the Conservatives seriously saying that civil servants do not do a good job? As an ex-civil servant, I do not think that that is the case. I simply do not believe that the proposed 20 per cent. cut would be aimed only at those bureaucrats. It would have to be aimed at the people who keep the whole system running. It would have to be aimed at the local education authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.917.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "en's accident and emergency department because a shortage of nurses means that it does not open at night. After sitting there for seven hours, we were offered a bed. None was free in the whole of central London; the nearest was in Guildford. Shortage of nurses is the problem in south-east London. The extra money will not work unless we have different rates of pay in different parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Enterprise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "rvices. Let us talk about public services. What is their position? What is their record on the NHS? They opposed the NHS at its inception and they oppose its principles today—the very principles that we are pledged to stand up for. Those principles are stability, enterprise and fairness and they characterise the Labour Government's stewardship of the economy and of our public services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Economy and Public Services", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I will not give way but I challenge the shadow Chancellor to disown his phantom Chief Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "It is part of the project to ensure that the legislation is easier to read, has shorter sentences, is easier to use, and has comprehensive signposts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "s been a useful opening to this important provision, which affects everybody in this country who has income. This Third Reading debate follows Second Reading upstairs in Committee on 16 December , and the formal granting by the House of a Second Reading two days later. I thank the Paymaster General for the lucid and comprehensive way in which she has set this important Bill before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.949.5", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ld like to have been with us today but is unavoidably detained. I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Fylde (Mr. Jack) , who is elsewhere on Select Committee business. These ghastly hours mean that we all have to be in too many places at once. I pay tribute also to the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Plaskitt) , who has dedicated himself with great assiduity to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.949.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Mid-Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "d problem. He is also right about vaccinations, which is why I challenged the Minister on that matter. I know that the Select Committee will look at the question in some detail. My hon. Friend is a notable—some would say inspirational—member of that Committee, and he will bring the diligence that he has already shown in defending his farmers over this issue to the tasks that lie ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Mid-Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "em opaque to those who are not linked to the farming industry, they relate to the heart of the British people's relationship with the land, and to their psyche. To some extent, there still exists in the rural community a whimsical romanticism and a sense of utopia: a sense of man in close relationship with, and being challenged by, nature; a sense of the connection between man and his environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-12", "file": "debates2003-02-12.xml", "sha256": "fa98b35f06cf79cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Mid-Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "Exactly. Even the smallest livestock farmer will be involved in a number of support schemes that have different retention periods and retention dates. We need to move away from that, so that farmers can exploit the inherent entrepreneurship and business acumen that systems have so stifled over the past few years. I want to say a few quick words about modulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-12.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The question is on fair trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "The House should find the Secretary of State's complacency on trade in her answers to my hon. Friend the Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo) alarming. The United Kingdom trade deficit is widening. The overall value of trade is falling. In the fourth quarter of 2002, the deficit in goods reached £10.7 billion. Given that desperate situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Airport Security", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "equipment and training of personnel in key positions, that, although preparations are being made, the pace of action is too slow. When those signs of lack of preparedness are allied to insufficient levels of prevention—for example, in relation to the security of ports and nuclear power stations—one begins to have the uncomfortable feeling that there is a degree of inertia in Whitehall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Airport Security", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " general security and resilience. As I indicated, we have regularly made statements to the House on those issues, as we will again in a few weeks' time, when we debate the renewal of part 4 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. This afternoon, I want to rebut those critical elements that have divided the House in a way that was never the case during 30 years of Irish terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Airport Security", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "responsibility without power. It would mean someone having to answer on areas for which they were not responsible and would detract from the accountability that we all carry as Ministers, including my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Transport and for Health, who are on the Treasury Bench today. The allegation of confusion or mixed messages is entirely due to the misreporting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Airport Security", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I have made the position absolutely clear in relation to the statements that were made and the responsibility that is carried. I say to the right hon. Gentleman's constituents that had we not taken action—had the operational services not taken the steps that were required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "In British history, troops have repeatedly been committed without a substantive vote in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "yesterday? As a result of the Government timetabling a statement—which was an exercise in reheating yesterday's dinner—and two Divisions, there was little time for Back-Bench contributions to the debate. Indeed, the entire Scottish Conservative group was left with only three minutes in which to put his case. Those who supported the Leader of the House—I am included in that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree that the recent experiment in cross-cutting questions on youth issues was a great success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1060.0", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e, that military action can only take place if there is a second resolution, I commend to the House the transcript of his interview on the \"Today\" programme on 27 January , in which he openly admitted that while a second resolution was his preference—he prayed the Prime Minister and myself in aid of that assertion—he then said that we might have to go without a second resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1060.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1072.4", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, I am very much a member of old Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1072.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1074.2", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Education for 14 to 19-year-olds", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "sh thing to do, but I think that we should. Ofsted says that we have the best generation of teachers ever. There have never been so many lessons judged \"good\" or \"excellent\". Test and examination results have never been higher. I remind the House that the Government have put their money where their mouth is with the most sustained increases in funding for a century, including in further education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Education for 14 to 19-year-olds", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "education and guidance— \"provision across all schools, colleges and work-based learning be guaranteed, in the absence of a statutory framework for careers education and guidance? Will it guarantee entitlement to one to one support from a qualified Personal Adviser with career guidance skills for all young people, to enable them to make the best possible choices from the expanded curriculum?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Education for 14 to 19-year-olds", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": " schools in relatively middle class areas will offer modern languages to their children. That will put other areas at a greater disadvantage, especially in some of our inner cities where the basics of a modern language are important. I was disappointed by the Tory response and the comments of the leader of their party. I suppose they can say what they like because they will never be in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Education for 14 to 19-year-olds", "cue_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "preceding_text": "rticular were put off by such an approach. On asking young people what experiments they liked doing best, one saw that they did not want to cut up buttercups. We have all cut up buttercups in our time; it is dreadfully boring. Instead, they wanted to cut up a heart. They wanted to see how their bodies functioned and so on. I understand that. There are many hearts that I would like to cut up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-13", "file": "debates2003-02-13.xml", "sha256": "9c4bd6c8551f8c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Education for 14 to 19-year-olds", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is giving a misleading impression. I concentrated on those points in order to highlight the fact that the Government are wrong to pursue those priorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-13.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-24", "file": "debates2003-02-24.xml", "sha256": "9d45a1fa664bfbb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-24.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "to do with the first, or second and recently approved, Dublin convention. In obtaining agreement with other countries, I must bear in mind the fact that it was his Government who abandoned the so-called gentlemen's agreement by saying that it would fall when Dublin 1 was introduced. If I am to obtain agreement across Europe, as I was being pressed to do a moment ago by the shadow Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-24.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-24", "file": "debates2003-02-24.xml", "sha256": "9d45a1fa664bfbb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-24.13.6", "colnum": "13", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I know that I am in favour of tougher sentences, but I have never been in favour of impaling, so I am okay on the first part of the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-24.13.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-24", "file": "debates2003-02-24.xml", "sha256": "9d45a1fa664bfbb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-24.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "l development agencies or more formal regional autonomy, will not be the answer. We wait to see what will happen, and whether we are to have referendums. That may be successful in the north-east of England, but one of the grave concerns is that it will lead to ever more demand for power in the hands of RDAs and for further financial assistance arising from the Bill and through various other means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-24.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-24", "file": "debates2003-02-24.xml", "sha256": "9d45a1fa664bfbb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-24.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "venoaks rightly said, why will more initiatives now lead to the nirvana of no regional divide in the future? The Deputy Prime Minister's view is that we must tackle the fundamental problem of high demand in the south and the collapse of housing demand in some of our most deprived communities. One is tempted to point out that if central Government relocated to the north, we might see some progress,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-24.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, when I ask the spokesmen for the Scottish National and Liberal Democrat parties what credible alternative they have for dealing with Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction, they do not have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.121.4", "colnum": "121", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": " school in Afghanistan, and half of them are girls. Few schools operated under the Taliban, and girls could not go to them. Steps are being taken forward not only on security, but on education, health and other issues. The position is precarious but the steps forward show the benefit of the steps that the British, American and others Governments were prepared to take in intervening in Afghanistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.121.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "destruction. That is the purpose, but the nature of the regime is relevant in two ways. This is not a regime that has weapons of mass destruction but is otherwise benign; it is—as I hope the right hon. Gentleman agrees—a deeply murderous, barbaric regime that subjects its people to terrible humiliation, and which, every time it has been able to do so, has conducted external aggression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his support and for showing us what we are all missing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.131.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "t there is a very delicate balance about the time, but the danger is that, if we give a signal of division at the moment, it will allow Saddam to go straight back into the game that he has played before, and will allow him to pull the international community into months of delay. Once the international community's attention has gone, he is back, free to do what he has done again. That is my worry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Greenway", "preceding_text": " Committee on the matter, particularly the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford and East Maldon—sorry, Maldon and East Chelmsford (Mr. Whittingdale). We had seven weeks to get that right, but I still got it wrong. In Committee, we sought to persuade the Minister to drop the clause. If I recall correctly, we even had a vote—quite a rare vote—in the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "it editorial independence. The argument that that independence would be compromised—if such an argument is being put forward—simply does not stand scrutiny. Let us consider what the CAG already does. He reports on the Arts Council and no complaint has ever been made by anybody in the Arts Council saying that the National Audit Office has been questioning their artistic judgments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "BBC, whenever there was a threat that somebody might start looking at the books, it was a bit like Saddam Hussein trying to hide things from the weapons inspectors; things would move from one office to another and an exciting time was had by all.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee E , 6 February 2003 ; c. 1063.] That is his account of his experience as a senior employee of the BBC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-25", "file": "debates2003-02-25.xml", "sha256": "d11ad23d67e0be9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.192.3", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Communications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "re related to the new clause, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Minister rightly pointed out the locus of new clause 4, which would allow the NAO to investigate the BBC. I simply mention \"The Great War\" as an experimental programme made by the BBC. It was the first time that a broadcaster—ABC also showed the series—had ever invested in producing a 24-episode series on such a specialised issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-25.192.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "ly to mobilise commitment to an international financing facility that would double the amount of aid available to $100 billion, which is increasingly getting support across the international system. That was the estimate made at the Monterrey conference of the amount needed to support countries to meet the millennium development goals, and we must all work to support the Chancellor in that effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.253.6", "colnum": "253", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The answer is that average household council tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.253.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The simple point is that I would not. If universities are doing that, they are wrong. What is more, people should go to university based on their merit, whatever their class or background. That is what should happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Needle Stick Injury", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "ies at work which carry a significant risk of such injuries and infections; to establish requirements relating to the recording and publication of information about such injuries and infections; to establish standards relating to the supply and use of certain equipment for work which carries a significant risk of such injury and infections; and for connected purposes. I should like to start—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.262.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend checks the resolutions that are already before the House in the Command Paper, he will find that there is plenty of cover in every one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "With due respect to the Foreign Secretary, that is not the point at issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, yes it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I will not repeat what the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary said so eloquently yesterday and today, but I want to put on record that I support my Government—not out of loyalty, although that is not a bad reason, but because I think that they are right, and I want to add a few points. First, supporting the Government today does not mean that one is in favour of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I have seen people march before on Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament demonstrations, including the Prime Minister in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "\"The people are the masters. We are the servants of the people. We will never forget that, and if ever we do, the people will very soon show that what the electorate gives, the electorate can take away.\" Those words were spoken by our Prime Minister when that new dawn broke in 1997. This debate is about one man, and it is not the man they want us to think it is about. This is about George W. Bush.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "fman) said, this is the most distasteful American Administration that he has seen in his long lifetime. This is an American presidency that people on the Labour Benches would not have been seen dead with. This is an Administration who made Texas the execution chamber of the world, who broke all the international treaties, who walked away from every international effort held dear by Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.321.0", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Glasgow, Kelvin on the reason why that argument is central to the Administration. It is due not to a deep-laid plot by George W. Bush, but to the consequences of 11 September and the trauma and fear that has gripped the American people since then. This is not anti-Americanism. America is a country that was founded out of the intellectual strength of the Scottish enlightenment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "I should like to pay tribute not only to the right hon. Member for Swansea, East (Mr. Anderson) whom I follow in the debate, but to the enormously powerful speech made by the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) , who is sadly no longer with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "t generation. Very few of them were killed in action. Some were killed, sadly, by the American air force, and a very few were killed by the enemy. I am conscious of the fact that I am in the company of my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham and Mid-Kent (Hugh Robertson) , who was actually there, but I do not think that any of them who had killed a fellow man approached life in the same way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Robert Walter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Walter", "preceding_text": "d to the speech of the hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) , which was echoed by my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) . The hon. Lady's speech was eloquent and detailed in its account of the torture, abuse and murder conducted by the regime. I have so far been unconvinced by the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, George Bush or others on the Government Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ary socialist has moved to a true left-wing party, but I say to the hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Moore) and to his leader, who deny that he never said no to war, that I made a grave error on that day. I came out of Green Park tube and found myself in the middle of the demonstration. While beating a hasty retreat, I fell upon a discarded poster. It says, \"Lib Dems Say No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.358.5", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "You may not think it, Mr. Speaker, but the Conservative party research department is ever resourceful. I found the Liberal Democrats' poster for the following week. As hon. Members can see, it says \"Lib Dems Say Yes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-26", "file": "debates2003-02-26.xml", "sha256": "e10edbd671c77ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "It is so nice to get from the Liberal Democrats a definite maybe. Such is the hon. Gentleman's position on the fence post—it is like that of his leader—that it will soon have to be surgically removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-26.359.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is she?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Not here. I call Helen Jackson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shadow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is it not extraordinary that, important as the voluntary sector and overseas aid undoubtedly are, the Chancellor ducks responding on the rather more fundamental issues of tax rises and the fall in economic growth currently taking place in this country? Can the shadow Secretary", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is it not extraordinary that, important as the voluntary sector and overseas aid undoubtedly are, the Chancellor ducks responding on the rather more fundamental issues of tax rises and the fall in economic growth currently taking place in this country? Can the shadow Secretary [Hon. Members: \"Shadow?\"] I am sorry. Can the Chief Secretary, the Chancellor's shadow, explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "al services should have a much closer working relationship. In the voluntary sector, those services are delivered by organisations such as Age Concern and many mental health charities. We know that local authority social services are cutting contracts to the core because they can now only afford to commission statutory packages of support. The additional national insurance charge will add to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I thought that I responded to the question in the terms in which it was put to me. I have never got the impression that the right hon. Gentleman would complain about party political knockabout. On the Budget, it is still February, which is early days as far as the Budget is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "h it was put to me. I have never got the impression that the right hon. Gentleman would complain about party political knockabout. On the Budget, it is still February, which is early days as far as the Budget is concerned. [Hon. Members: \"What?\"] Well, I think that I am correct in saying that it is still February. I am always acutely aware of when February ends, because 28 February is my birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ested benefits as a proportion of the total social security budget. Rather than quote to the Secretary of State yet again the notorious commitment by the Chancellor to the Labour party conference 10 years ago to end the means test, I might go back further to an episode described in Alan Bullock's biography of Ernest Bevin, in which Bevin tried to persuade the tinplate workers of south Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "sit\" She also stated: \"The local service is not designed to be a 'visiting on demand' service and we would expect such occasions to be rare.\" Are we, or are we not, able to assure our constituents who want a face-to-face meeting that they will get one with someone who has the authority and expertise to give them proper advice? I know that many hon. Members want to speak, so I shall be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ck Benches have done so anyway. I hope that the Secretary of State will reflect on the matter. I stress that apart from 1 million stamps, virtually no public expenditure would be involved, so he would not be making a public expenditure commitment. It is a matter that unites hon. Members across the House. I do not say that I have an angry woman in every constituency, but something approaching that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "But that is what the right hon. Gentleman thinks will happen; 67 per cent. will mean 1.8 million people who cannot have the benefits about which he boasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "blamed others. I take full responsibility for the information given by the Actuary, but I assume that he will have used his professional judgment. The earnings figure used to calculate SERPS is also increased, but in line with average earnings, and is not subject to a cap. When a person retires who has a contracted-out, salary-based pension, his GMP is compared with his notional SERPS entitlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-27", "file": "debates2003-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e7c8ad1e660df1af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.462.2", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "ing for a fox. It is not there. The hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) asked a range of questions about the lack of numbers on contracting out. I hope that I can give him the right information. If not, I apologise in advance. I am told that the data for the financial years up to 2000–01 will be available by the early summer this year, with an update in the autumn relating to 2000–02.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-27.462.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-28", "file": "debates2003-02-28.xml", "sha256": "e528c88edfe4a29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Fireworks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman. He talks about the general nuisance caused by fireworks, and he is absolutely correct. He mentioned guide dogs for the blind. Is he aware of the permanent trauma that fireworks inflict on them, which costs between £150,000 and £200,000 a year of public money donated to the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association? More to the point, that means that some six blind people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-28", "file": "debates2003-02-28.xml", "sha256": "e528c88edfe4a29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Fireworks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "preceding_text": "he would have to give the date. It is therefore obvious that anyone can make an application. There are no checks that the fireworks will go to licensed premises. We have to address that in this Bill. When preparing for this Second Reading, I wrote to the Serjeant at Arms to ask about the possibility of bringing fireworks into the House of Commons. I was told that I would need a responsible person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-28", "file": "debates2003-02-28.xml", "sha256": "e528c88edfe4a29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Fireworks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "preceding_text": " Bill that went through the House of Lords in 1997–98. At that time, reassurance was sought on the width and scope of the Bill. That convinced the House of Lords to send the Bill back, unamended, to the House of Commons. My Bill will seek to allow the participation of people such as the hon. Gentleman who wish to let off fireworks for their grandchildren—I am sorry, for their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-28", "file": "debates2003-02-28.xml", "sha256": "e528c88edfe4a29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.489.4", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Fireworks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Gateshead and greater Strathclyde. Not only is the noise getting worse, but fireworks are used throughout the year. There are fireworks on 5 February , during Diwali, the Chinese new year, Eid and the new year—who can forget the millennium celebrations three years ago? Fireworks were used to celebrate the Queen's golden jubilee and her official birthday. Of course, we also have 6 May —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.489.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-28", "file": "debates2003-02-28.xml", "sha256": "e528c88edfe4a29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "National Lottery (Funding of Endowments) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Norwich, North (Dr. Gibson) was the promoter of the original Bill— \"is trying to achieve. We may wish to offer technical improvements should his Bill make further progress, but we shall not oppose it today.\"—[ Official Report , 23 March 2001; Vol. 365, c. 621 .] I hope that the Department of Culture, Media and Sport will treat my hon. Friend's Bill in the same way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-02-28", "file": "debates2003-02-28.xml", "sha256": "e528c88edfe4a29d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Marine Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "issue is considered. The promoter of the Bill will have to consider it as well. The Bill consolidates all the existing provisions to issue directions in a single document, and that, too, is welcome. As my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, South-East reminded us, the United Kingdom has suffered three of the world's largest recorded oil spills: the Torrey Canyon—his pronunciation was correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-02-28.553.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-03", "file": "debates2003-03-03.xml", "sha256": "f09337a610ac225b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-03.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I will not descend to the type of language that the hon. Gentleman used to describe the press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-03.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-03", "file": "debates2003-03-03.xml", "sha256": "f09337a610ac225b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-03.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was Bush senior.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Similar tape is produced in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Brent North (Mr. Gardiner) , so I shall be extremely careful about what I say because, I think, President Ford finished off the broccoli industry in the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-03.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.661.4", "colnum": "661", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "We are asking the SRA to make sure that the railway provides the services that we want in this country. There will be no turning back of the clock: we want to turn the clock forward to ensure that the railway delivers the high-quality service that the people in this country deserve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.664.6", "colnum": "664", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State knows that my constituents have recently suffered the body blow of the cancellation of the Bristol to Oxford line and the resulting cancellation of the Corsham station project. Will he confirm the rumours that the service from Corsham through west Wiltshire and into Waterloo is also being challenged by the SRA?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.664.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Allan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Allan", "preceding_text": " the internet, where people in Europe and in the US often represent different points of view. We discussed \"Top of the Pops\" in Committee, and it was bound to raise its head on repeated occasions. I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) for giving us another chance to talk about it. Yes, I freely confess that I was a \"Top of the Pops\" taper in my youth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "om is not going to assume that responsibility, who is?\" That is a good point. Ofcom, whose functions are defined in the Bill, is the ideal organisation to try to produce standards to ensure that digital piracy does not occur. It is all very well for Ofcom to perform that role, but I must enter a great caveat: if it does so in isolation, it will be pointless, as worldwide agreement is needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.754.0", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "I had intended not to take part in this debate, but merely to make interventions, but the hon. Member for North Tayside (Pete Wishart) threw out a line and I bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State may recall—I am not sure whether she was here at the time—that on Second Reading, when we were told that the Bill was already perfect, I offered hon. Members a wager that at least 100 amendments would be tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "e whether she was here at the time—that on Second Reading, when we were told that the Bill was already perfect, I offered hon. Members a wager that at least 100 amendments would be tabled. [Interruption.] I am told that there have been more than 200. Indeed, I was poised to speak on 81 before the guillotine came down—those are 81 Government amendments that have not even been discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "e for Culture, Media and Sport which she is now eager to deny. I had hoped for an earlier opportunity to have a debate with the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and I regret that, even at this late stage, she could not fill many of the gaps that arose in our proceedings. I shall reiterate our procedural concerns. The Bill is wide-ranging and comprehensive, and contains about 400 clauses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "that currently govern broadcasting and other bodies to converge into one overriding body, the Office of Communications. Nevertheless, I have a few caveats. Members will know, because I have reminded them on several occasions, that I used to work in broadcasting, mostly radio, before I came here. When I first applied for a licence—in Brighton, back in the 1980s—it became apparent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-04", "file": "debates2003-03-04.xml", "sha256": "52a93775cb6b5b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Communications Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "ffice of Communications. Nevertheless, I have a few caveats. Members will know, because I have reminded them on several occasions, that I used to work in broadcasting, mostly radio, before I came here. When I first applied for a licence—in Brighton, back in the 1980s—it became apparent— [Interruption.] Some Members heard this during the Committee stage, but it is worth repeating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-04.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I think that the regional assemblies have been quite successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.802.5", "colnum": "802", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "In the event of the eminently sensible people of the south-west wishing to have nothing to do with an elected regional assembly, will the Deputy Prime Minister enact a framework by which we can get rid of the unelected regional assembly and return the money that it spends to the taxpayers of the south-west?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.802.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "I warmly welcome that announcement. Will my hon. Friend ask the unit to undertake further work on the institutional, financial and legal barriers that still face social entrepreneurs who want to set up social enterprises to help in the regeneration of their communities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. The principle is the same as that which led, for example, to there not being a referendum on the Maastricht treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " two weeks, but that figure is now well over 95 per cent. That is where the money is going—on better national health service care. What the right hon. Gentleman has said yet again, in his opposition to what we are doing in April, is that the extra money that we would put into our national health service, he would take out. He would then add to that through 20 per cent. cuts across the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.814.4", "colnum": "814", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As the Secretary of State for Health has made very clear, provided that hospitals meet the criteria, we want as many foundation hospitals as possible. It is right that we have freedom for those hospitals so that they can provide a good service for national health service patients. However, it is not just reform and freedom that they need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.814.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am as concerned as everyone else about the Easter recess. However, the Leader of the House will answer business questions tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am as concerned as everyone else about the Easter recess. However, the Leader of the House will answer business questions tomorrow— [Interruption.] Order. It would be more appropriate for hon. Members to put that matter to the Leader of the House tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is in danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an interesting point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the Minister's body language may tell us more than his words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ry of accusing the Minister of not having written to me, because I did so once before and returned to my office to find the letter on the doormat. However, I have not received a letter, and I have spoken to some hon. Friends who are also not aware of having received one. I see from the body language of the hon. Member for Kingston and Surbiton (Mr. Davey) that he has not received one either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "discussing so that we have a true profile. That information will be important in getting the measure right. It is important to safeguard people's property rights, but it is wrong that there should be whole streets where properties are left empty—there is one such street in my constituency in an area of highly priced properties—when there are such huge homelessness and housing problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "The Minister has just said something very significant. On top of the new council tax band D bills of more than £1,000 that will be imposed, he has just said that he expects a regional council tax precept to be around 5p a week. Is he saying that £25 a year will be added to those huge increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "In an earlier debate, the hon. Gentleman gave us an interesting insight into his mathematical skills by suggesting that an increase of 5p a week was equivalent to an increase of £25 a year, rather than £2.50 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we are all very pleased to see the hon. Gentleman now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-05", "file": "debates2003-03-05.xml", "sha256": "e193ff031060b954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY SOCIAL WELFARE ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Wilson", "preceding_text": "he positive outcomes and impressions to be negated, as my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) suggested, because of a grievance. We all know that there are small historical issues that continue to niggle away. We have tried to deal with them one by one, in a way that is fair and which addresses past problems and past history in the industry. Our position is that £200,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-05.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.953.2", "colnum": "953", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend know the names of the dogs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.953.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.957.2", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "dash;Estimates [2nd Allotted Day]. There will be a debate on the second report from the Foreign Affairs Committee on the foreign policy aspects of the war against terrorism. At 7 pm the House will be asked to agree all outstanding estimates. Wednesday 12 March —Proceedings on the Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Bill, followed by debate on Welsh Affairs on a motion for the Adjournment of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.957.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "e can fully scrutinise the Government and fully debate the business that the Government put before it. That is why it is important that the House should have a full four days for debate after Budget day, as would normally be the case. I would not have thought that Opposition Members would begrudge one day of the recess to allow the opportunity for full scrutiny of what will be an excellent Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what point the hon. Gentleman seeks to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot see any reason for hon. Members to shout at the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.961.4", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Staff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that you, Mr. Speaker, carried the House with you in that customary consensual intervention. I put it to Conservative Members that it is perfectly plain that we need to make sure that the Budget is adequately scrutinised. I really would not have thought that they would object to spending one day of their recess considering the Budget debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.961.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.961.4", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "at it is perfectly plain that we need to make sure that the Budget is adequately scrutinised. I really would not have thought that they would object to spending one day of their recess considering the Budget debate. [Hon. Members: \"Staff.\"] Nor, indeed, do I believe that the staff who serve this place well would wish to see consideration of the Budget skimped so that it is not properly considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.961.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "Plainly, I must spend more time in the Members' Post Office. Perhaps we can have next week's business statement there or in the Members' Lobby. I can only repeat that at present we have no plans to meet on a Saturday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is it not odd that whereas the large majority of our constituents will simply have Good Friday and Easter Monday off, there are complaints when we are to have a recess of two weeks, as my right hon. Friend mentioned? Why do Tory MPs complain time and again that the recess is too long—too short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "International Women's Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "omen must be able to say that if we are sufficiently grown up to be closer to someone than simply sharing a toothbrush with them, we should be prepared to ask, \"What about conception and fertility choice?\" We should stop waffling on about family planning or birth control. After a good party, people are not thinking about planning a family or controlling birth when they get around to having it off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.1028.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-06", "file": "debates2003-03-06.xml", "sha256": "55bbe0d3c39596ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "International Women's Day", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "nstituency, I often think that she talks a lot of common sense. That is good for politicians. We did not agree on signing up to her early-day motion on gender equality in the Church of England, but I was really making the point that the House should not initiate change in the Church of England. Change must come if the Church wills it—we will not get on to disestablishment for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-06.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER'S ABSENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is absolutely no requirement for an explanatory memorandum to be provided for a private Member's Bill. There is nothing unusual about the situation with which the House is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I have a suspicion, which may be unworthy, that the hon. Lady has read neither the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "emove the defence allowed by that section for sex discrimination in annuity rates. It would prevent annuity providers from setting the annuity rate by reference to the different average longevity of men and women. I suppose that I ought to declare an interest as a man—at least, I was a man the last time that I looked. Perhaps the hon. and learned Gentleman ought to declare the same interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"83.1.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct. None of us would have been here, based on what I said. In 1901, men lived to the age of 65 plus 10.6 years, which is 75.6. In 2021, men are projected to live to 65 plus 18.1 years, which would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend makes his point exceedingly well, and if he catches your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, he will be able to develop those thoughts at length. It would be regrettable if the Bill were to reach Committee stage because it requires so much heavy engineering that it would make the railways pale into insignificance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1111.5", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "t suggest that I am veering rather far from the Bill, so although I should be very happy to debate that issue with the hon. Gentleman at great length elsewhere, it is important that I return to the Bill. None the less, the important point for the people of the Rhondda is whether it would be good to remove that money from the Exchequer because it would deliver another benefit to society as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1111.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1113.2", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "Although my hon. Friend will be aware that I have not had the pleasure of visiting his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "ballot on private Members' Bills and checked out his Bill with the Government Whips. Perhaps I should also congratulate the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) on his great ingenuity and stamina. Most hon. Members will be gratified that he did not get his hands on a document that I started reading to keep myself sane during his speech: \"Reinventing Annuities\", by the Staple Inn Actuarial Society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-07", "file": "debates2003-03-07.xml", "sha256": "cd21a8723a63be24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Retirement Income Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": " time preparing for the debate. I know that I am stretching your patience, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I would like to bring my remarks to an end. I am happy to debate these matters but I believe that I am required to draw my remarks to a conclusion, so I will. I know that the Government want to deal with the issue by developing the annuities market. That is their solution to the problem. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-07.1118.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "That is not the case. The present Administration have now brought about fairness in local government financing. We inherited an unfair system of distribution, and now there is fairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ing fields have been brought together in a planning guidance. That guidance, which is very proactive, asks each local authority to carry out a needs assessment of its play facilities. As regards the 202 applications, the hon. Gentleman did not inform the House that those applications are often made in order to build a pavilion or other accommodation that would enhance the quality of the play area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "SPEAKER'S COMMITTEE ON THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "of work on a review of the minimum age for voting and candidacy in public elections in the United Kingdom. The timetable for that review envisages a period of consultation over the summer of 2003, with publication of a final report, with recommendations, in early 2004. The hon. Gentleman may want to make the point that he has made to the House this afternoon in response to that consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Iraq and Israel/Palestine", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "It just happens that in international diplomacy there are some robust discussions. I am willing to speculate that my good friend Dominique de Villepin, who is currently perambulating round Africa, to Cameroon, Angola and Guinea, to take three countries at random—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.29.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Iraq and Israel/Palestine", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": " expects the United States to get a move on and be proactive, as it is not at the moment. Finally, all of us who support and sustain the Front Bench believe in the basic elementary concept in the British constitution of Cabinet collective responsibility, and I hope that he will take that back to his right hon. Friends—there must be no more of the nonsense that we had last night on the radio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.31.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot be so naive as to presume that material produced for teachers is not automatically given to the children. One knows what children are like: even if the teacher does not give the material to them directly, it is likely that it will be left lying around and children will get hold of it. Everybody knows that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "I have made my position clear. I will not vote one way or the other if amendment No. 8 is pressed. I shall vote in respect of our compromise proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.67.2", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I shall give the hon. Gentleman two answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.67.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "There have been some strong and impassioned speeches expressing sincerely held views. It is clear that the House will be asked whether to retain section 2A. If it votes to retain the Bill as it emerged from Committee, without section 2A, it is clear that some safeguards are needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " No. 2 has attracted the signatures of what I can describe only as a wide cross-section of opinion in the House, ranging from my hon. Friends and I to Labour Members who are not normally noted for their inclination to agree with Conservative Front Benchers on many issues. I have made it clear that, through tabling the amendment, we intend to allow proper consideration of the Government's guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.94.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-10", "file": "debates2003-03-10.xml", "sha256": "15087ab0a5471032", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Local Government Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for his explanation. I raised the matter on Second Reading, and we think that there could be an element of unfair competition affecting private sector companies facing publicly subsidised councils carrying out their own functions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-10.115.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-11", "file": "debates2003-03-11.xml", "sha256": "5f63e899fbc467a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "One of the aims behind the move to the new banking system is to end financial exclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-11", "file": "debates2003-03-11.xml", "sha256": "5f63e899fbc467a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.158.7", "colnum": "158", "heading": "PRIVY COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "I assure the Leader of the House that he is wrong on that. It is curious that there are not even enough seats in the Chamber to allow every hon. Member to be here at the same time. If there were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.158.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-11", "file": "debates2003-03-11.xml", "sha256": "5f63e899fbc467a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "PRIVY COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am saying that precisely because that is what Parliament itself agreed to last October and, certainly in the case of Tuesday sittings, by a very large majority indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-11", "file": "debates2003-03-11.xml", "sha256": "5f63e899fbc467a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Specialist Schools (Selection by Aptitude)", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "Indeed, and in the borough of Trafford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.170.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-11", "file": "debates2003-03-11.xml", "sha256": "5f63e899fbc467a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2002–2003 — Foreign and Commonwealth Office — War Against Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend saying that, because the United States may have vetoed some resolutions, we must say that we will not seek to enforce UN resolutions on Iraq?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-11.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.271.11", "colnum": "271", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "area. Will she, however, take on board the fact that there is a great deal of concern in Northern Ireland about how the boards have been appointed? Is it the Government's rule that ex-members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary should not be appointed to them? A prominent former member of the RUC—an assistant chief constable—was banned, as was the former chairman of the Police Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.271.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.276.5", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "I repeat what I said to the hon. Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) : the importance of decommissioning in the political process is that it is an essential part of restoring trust and confidence in the politics of Northern Ireland across the board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.276.5", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "I repeat what I said to the hon. Member for Vale of York (Miss McIntosh) : the importance of decommissioning in the political process is that it is an essential part of restoring trust and confidence in the politics of Northern Ireland across the board. [Interruption.] It is a hugely important issue, and it was part of the Belfast agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.277.4", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "Gentleman for his party's support in this matter. The question of exiles was discussed at Hillsborough last week, and the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Mr. Browne) , is dealing with these issues with groups such as Maranatha. The fact that he is also the Minister with responsibility for victims shows that we see a correlation between these different issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that special arrangements for on-the-run terrorists can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Antisocial Behaviour", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "hat we agree that the broken windows theory is correct—that is, that if one does not start by dealing with the activity taking place in the immediate neighbourhood, it grows into unacceptable crime. I had better make it clear, however, that I have not read ex-Mayor Giuliani's book, in case anyone thinks that I have plagiarised him in the same way that the right hon. Gentleman plagiarises me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ducation and fighting crime. Their narrow separatist vision of a Wales set apart from the rest of Britain would divide communities, not unite them, and make Wales poorer, not richer. Take any Labour Government spending commitment and the nationalists would double it—promising the earth and delivering nothing. The people of Wales are tired of such dishonesty, such opportunism, such posturing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ritain would divide communities, not unite them, and make Wales poorer, not richer. Take any Labour Government spending commitment and the nationalists would double it—promising the earth and delivering nothing. The people of Wales are tired of such dishonesty, such opportunism, such posturing. [Interruption.] They know that the nationalists are fit only for opposition, never for government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " the Assembly elections do not matter, or that their vote will not make a difference. Our hard-earned economic progress, the record investment in public services and the partnership between Westminster and Cardiff that is enabling us to work together to tackle crime and poverty—and more—will all be at stake on 1 May in Wales's general election. As for the Welsh Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.323.4", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"National elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "It is good to see Madam Deputy Speaker in her traditional place for this traditional debate. I enjoyed the spat between the Secretary of State for Wales and Plaid Cymru as to who would gain the most seats at the next local elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.323.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tell us more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "I must say in passing that one job lost in Wales is that of Conservative candidate for Llanelli.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.327.9", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is, at least, a recipient of the money. I hope that he received it on time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.327.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "In Monmouthshire, the increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Ribble Valley (Mr. Evans) has taken 42 minutes so far, whereas some of us are restricted to 14 minutes. That is an abuse, especially when the hon. Gentleman is talking about matters such as membership of CND, which has nothing to do with the debate in hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.335.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.335.6", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The record will show how many interventions I have taken, which I have been happy to do. I am coming towards the end of my contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.335.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "It was very well attended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.340.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "been greater than the sum of its parts in that partnership. Sadly, the Secretary of State seems to have left, no doubt to congratulate Mike German on his achievements. It was frustrating to hear him imply—not even imply, but explicitly claim—that all the results delivered by the Welsh Assembly Government in the past two and a half years were a direct consequence of Labour party policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.340.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "veral important innovations made by the National Assembly. Can he tell us whether any of them were opposed by Plaid Cymru? Can he tell us which of them was not in Plaid Cymru's manifesto, or indeed that of the Labour party? Does he realise that Labour Members would drop the much-vaunted partnership on which he relies as quickly as they could if only they could get a majority in the Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": " midwives in Wales. In Swansea NHS Trust, 11.4 per cent. of vacancies are for midwives, and have been unfilled for more than three months. Across Wales, long-term vacancies for midwives account for more than 3 per cent. of all vacancies. That impacts on the care that can be given to women in Wales, and inevitably reduces the choice available to women. Birth is a natural experience for women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": " particularly disheartening when we find that the Labour-created Strategic Rail Authority is taking trains out of service and cutting £312 million from the rail budget. It is time for the Government to take some responsibility for undermining our railways. Everyone in Wales, in some way or other, is a victim of the way in which the Government run Welsh affairs. I wish to turn to crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-12", "file": "debates2003-03-12.xml", "sha256": "0d829c0ec4cd23df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "he next worst affected area. That contradicts the Secretary of State's assertion that the Welsh economy continues to hold its own against the UK regions. Furthermore, the Welsh economy has lost 10,000 manufacturing jobs over the past year. I note yesterday's foreboding of a strong chance of closure of the Corus steel plant in Port Talbot, with the potential for another 3,000 jobs to be lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-12.390.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-13", "file": "debates2003-03-13.xml", "sha256": "f7f5b342afc7c9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.415.6", "colnum": "415", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "I am happy to agree to do that: I, or one of my colleagues, will attend that event. I nominate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.415.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-13", "file": "debates2003-03-13.xml", "sha256": "f7f5b342afc7c9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has been pressing the case for Normanton schools with real passion. Previously, he has put a similar question to my hon. Friend the junior Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-13", "file": "debates2003-03-13.xml", "sha256": "f7f5b342afc7c9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "ouse heard or read the transcript of the very important interview given by the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) , now de facto leader of the Conservative Opposition, on the \"Today\" programme yesterday when he made it absolutely clear that there are precedents, mechanisms and means by which the Law Officers have to give an answer to the House on an issue of such importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.431.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-13", "file": "debates2003-03-13.xml", "sha256": "f7f5b342afc7c9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Flood and Coastal Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to open this debate, which gives hon. Members an opportunity to discuss flood defence, a subject of particular importance to many people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-13", "file": "debates2003-03-13.xml", "sha256": "f7f5b342afc7c9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Flood and Coastal Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "I would like to make progress and do not wish to take up too much time. However, I am glad that we have a little more time for the debate than we expected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-13.456.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-14", "file": "debates2003-03-14.xml", "sha256": "451f01175904a95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-14.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Municipal Waste Recycling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": "ir rubbish. I hope that those will be improved, as some of the bin shelters are a disgrace. We expect that there would be a facility where people would place their separated materials for recycling, and another for their residual refuse. That is the most straightforward way available to people in blocks of flats. However, I know of one local authority in London—I fear my memory is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-14.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-14", "file": "debates2003-03-14.xml", "sha256": "451f01175904a95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-14.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Municipal Waste Recycling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is very interesting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ruddock", "preceding_text": " target that was originally proposed. However, there is a strong argument that the collection of separated waste is but an upgrade of councils' existing duty to provide a collection service. Other arguments have been put to me, particularly about markets. I crave the indulgence of the House; as I have given way a lot, I seem to have been speaking for a long time, but it has not all been my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-14.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-14", "file": "debates2003-03-14.xml", "sha256": "451f01175904a95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-14.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Municipal Waste Recycling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "May I associate myself with the closing comments of the hon. Member for Ceredigion (Mr. Thomas) ? I have not heard a voice of dissent all morning, so I congratulate the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Joan Ruddock) . I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Sayeed) on his thoughtful, sensible and praiseworthy approach to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-14.564.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-03-14", "file": "debates2003-03-14.xml", "sha256": "451f01175904a95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-14.597.21", "colnum": "597", "heading": "CROWN EMPLOYMENT (NATIONALITY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 21 March .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-14.597.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.624.6", "colnum": "624", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "The Government have previously recognised the case for a role for housing benefit sanctions in tackling bad neighbour nuisance. Many of us have constituents who have suffered from the so-called neighbour from hell. However, sanctions need to be workable and capable of being applied decisively—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.624.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "Having accepted in principle the linking of housing benefit to behaviour, why have the Government rejected the Prime Minister's idea of linking child benefit to behaviour? What is wrong with the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.634.4", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": " are suffering this afternoon because of that attachment. The Prime Minister will be sitting in No. 10, not knowing whether he is supposed to come to the House at 7 o'clock or at some later time because of this system, which the Government have gratuitously, unnecessarily and very regrettably taken it upon themselves to introduce. We shall oppose this timetable motion; we always oppose them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.634.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "themselves with, if you like, the two larger community groups, which often are seen to dominate, certainly in the media. I am grateful that the Minister has given that assurance. I was not suggesting that Ministers were being cavalier in their language but the hon. Gentleman would expect me to make that point, not least on behalf of the Alliance party in Northern Ireland. Let me conclude by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "t the hon. Gentleman would expect me to make that point, not least on behalf of the Alliance party in Northern Ireland. Let me conclude by—[ Interruption. ] I am grateful for the attentive support of Labour Members. I hope that this one final assurance can be given by the Minister. The Liberal Democrats are inclined to support the Bill but only on this condition, and it is my final question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to begin by saying that this is my final question, but I shall resist that temptation. May I wish you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and the House a very happy St. David's day? It is good to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "id not mount a legal challenge on redesignation or on the Mallon resignation. Similarly, we did not mount any challenge on the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. The House is sovereign in changing legislation for events to come, but it cannot change events that have already taken place. Historically, those events have already happened. How can the House change a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that report. But the fact that something was reported in The Irish Times does not mean that it is correct. What I have said is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " to devolve responsibility for policing and justice, so no one should represent that to the House as something that emerged from the Hillsborough discussions. It is not. Indeed, it is an aspiration of the hon. Gentleman's party that policing and justice be devolved to Ministers in Northern Ireland in the context of devolution. He knows that fine well and if he is trying to pretend otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "s on that basis alone that I decided to do so. With respect, issues are now being raised with me that ought to have been raised at that time. I am told that there is evidence to suggest that people are being turned away in their efforts to obtain these cards. I should point out that I have no such evidence, but if the parties do have it, they should bring it to my attention as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move manuscript amendment No. 1, in line 2, to leave out from the beginning to the word \"in\" in line 13 and insert— \"In Section 31 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998\". It will assist the House if I say that I do not intend to speak for more than a couple of minutes on the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Of course it would have been better if it had been possible to achieve a consensus in the United Nations for a second resolution, but there is no question about the legality of the action that we propose to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "he told them that 1441 was not a trigger for war. Instead of blaming the French, will the Government reflect on their responsibility for turning a 30-nation coalition that expelled Saddam Hussein from Kuwait into the four countries whose representatives met yesterday in the Azores? Two of them are not even committing troops to the engagement. We are all worried and we all support our troops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.712.4", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "We are not intending to lose the vote tomorrow, although we are certainly not relying on the Liberals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.712.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Want to bet?", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "e of Palestine, the agreement that Iraq's oil should be for the benefit of the people of Iraq and that the United Nations should lead a massive programme of reconstruction and humanitarian support, and the likelihood that we would have got a second UN resolution if it had not been for the French veto, there are now no valid reasons whatever for any Labour MP not to support our Government tomorrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.715.4", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had explained that to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.715.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.718.5", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what the hon. Gentleman is proposing. It is a means not of dealing with the issue but of avoiding the issue, which is exactly where the Liberals are on every issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.718.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.718.6", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.718.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I doubt very much whether that would prove possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.724.4", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "May I add our words to those of the Minister and the shadow Leader of the House in support of the work carried out by the right hon. Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) in his role as Leader of the House? I remind the Minister that the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-17", "file": "debates2003-03-17.xml", "sha256": "cdfc5c1f9b5afc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Applause.", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "entral role in British politics. Nothing could better demonstrate that they are wrong than for this House to stop the commitment of troops in a war that has neither international agreement nor domestic support. I intend to join those tomorrow night who will vote against military action now. It is for that reason, and for that reason alone, and with a heavy heart, that I resign from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-17.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Patsy Calton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In Barnet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patsy Calton", "preceding_text": "May I first pay tribute to Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, who left the Government today? He was effective, well respected and well known to those who work in, and care about, the NHS. The child and adolescent mental health services report zero weeks waiting time—in other words, no waiting time—for first out-patient appointments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.751.6", "colnum": "751", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "an construct the right solutions. But it is possible, working with the pilots that we have announced for the 19 trusts that are devising the cost-effective solutions to the problems that the working time directive undoubtedly poses, that we can construct effective solutions that put the patient first. It is in everyone's interests to do that, and I think that we shall be able to do precisely that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.751.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.755.4", "colnum": "755", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": " biggest increase in investment that the NHS has ever known— a 7.5 per cent. real terms increase for the next five years. I am sure the hon. Gentleman will welcome the massive investment that there has been in his community in the form of the new trauma centre, an increase in prescribing budgets, an increase in money for coronary heart disease and a range of other services in his local area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.755.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The main parties?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "he course that we have set. I believe passionately that we must hold firm to that course. The question most often posed is not \"Why does it matter?\" but \"Why does it matter so much?\" Here we are, the Government, with their most serious test, their majority at risk, the first Cabinet resignation over an issue of policy, the main parties internally divided, people who agree on everything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "\"Why does it matter?\" but \"Why does it matter so much?\" Here we are, the Government, with their most serious test, their majority at risk, the first Cabinet resignation over an issue of policy, the main parties internally divided, people who agree on everything else—[Hon. Members: \"The main parties?\"] Ah, yes, of course. The Liberal Democrats—unified, as ever, in opportunism and error.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "For the very reason that I have just given. If a member of the permanent five indicates to members of the Security Council who are not permanent members that whatever the circumstances it will veto, that is the way to block any progress on the Security Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.766.6", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister says that the French have changed position, but surely the French, Russians and Chinese always made it clear that they would oppose a second resolution that led automatically to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.766.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, but the answer is no. I will not do so because our consistent line is that we do not believe that a case for war has been established under these procedures in the absence of a second UN Security Council resolution. That is our position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.782.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "We do not need moral lectures from the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.784.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.784.13", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.784.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alan Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Howarth", "preceding_text": "or the action that we need. I support the view of the legality of that action on which the Government base their claim. Geopolitics has changed since 1945. We moved beyond the cold war, and we moved into a new period especially after 11 September . Now, we have to act with courage and realism in a world of nuclear powers, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, failed states, genocide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "I rise on this occasion to support the speech of the Prime Minister and my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, but in opening let me comment on the speech of the leader of the Liberal Democrats. If the Iraqi army collapse under fire with the same speed, this will be a very short war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "ary of State for International Development is not here—I have never seen a more spectacular failure to resign than hers over the past 24 hours. Last week, after the right hon. Lady said that the Prime Minister was reckless, it was whispered in the corridors that he would take his revenge in due course. I believe that by persuading her to stay in the Cabinet even for this last 24 hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": " States and the United Kingdom stand alone. In a letter in today's Guardian , a lady wrote that perhaps only Spain and Portugal remained holiday venues for the Blairs. It should be said that Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark and almost all of eastern and central Europe support the Prime Minister, and provide wonderful holiday destinations. We could add North Korea, Japan, most of the Gulf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "I regard that as ineffectual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "Are any hon. Members prepared to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.823.5", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "I would urge my hon. Friend to read the words of the chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, because he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.823.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "John Randall", "preceding_text": " Government. I am not sure at this stage whether I can do that, but I can promise my constituents out there that I wish them well. Once I have said my piece, I shall shut up and let them get on with their job. I hope—I have never hoped this so much in my life—that I am wrong about some of the possible consequences. I will be the first to admit that, if I am wrong, I shall be delighted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Worthington", "preceding_text": "ould report to the United States President. That had been planned without reference to the Secretary-General of the UN or any UN organisation. Stories are now going around that, in fact, the Prime Minister has negotiated the lead role for the UN under a new UN resolution that will be proposed. I am puzzled by that story because it is not in the motion and it was not in the Prime Minister's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Richard Page", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Page", "preceding_text": " and I should like to finish my speech by then. I want to look ahead to the rebuilding. I am greatly concerned that we have not spent enough time considering how to rebuild Iraq. Have the Government thought the process through? What exactly will we put in place? I have heard about territorial protection and the maintenance of borders, but has anyone talked to the Kurds of northern Iraq about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "e UN. We are not dealing with someone who can be trusted. We are dealing with someone who has a track record of betraying his own people and lying to the international community. Take our Prime Minister's track record of doubling international aid, fighting repression in Kosovo and supporting people in Sierra Leone. If I were in a room with Saddam Hussein or Tony Blair, it is Saddam Hussein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.863.5", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Ronnie Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We thought it was the oil industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ronnie Campbell", "preceding_text": "eapons and proliferation is a danger. I have just read a newspaper article on the new smart bombs. It even gave their prices and made me wonder, \"Here are all these lovely smart bombs. They only kill so many people and leave the houses standing, all for £1 million.\" That newspaper article is a shop window for selling arms, and the biggest contributor to Bush's election was the arms industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "y going into Iraq now. It is a great pity that the Prime Minister did not show more resolve earlier on in order to influence a US President to stop where we are now. I accept what the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie) says. Tonight we are on the verge of war. Thousands of our troops will be putting their lives in danger. I salute their courage and professionalism, and I would not thank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Peter Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Pike", "preceding_text": "th birthday. Just as I picked up my present, we heard a flying bomb overhead. We panicked because the engine cut out and we thought it was coming straight at us, so I never saw my present again. After that, we moved north to Burnley, which is why I ended up as its Member of Parliament. Burnley suffered as a result of my evacuation. My hon. Friend the Member for West Ham (Mr. Banks) referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.889.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.891.2", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "cept an intervention from my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) , who would have proved him wrong—not much moral fibre in that. He talked of consistency; his only consistency is his inconsistency. He makes the Grand Old Duke of York look like a paragon of decisiveness. The debate has revolved around a number of key questions. First, does Saddam Hussein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "John Burnett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Burnett", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ocrats are concerned. The hon. Member for Rutland and Melton (Mr. Duncan) asked whether, in view of the hon. Gentleman's statement that he would vote in favour of the amendment, he would, if the amendment were lost, then vote with the Government. This is what the hon. Gentleman replied—I wrote it down exactly. He said, \"I shall make my position quite clear. I shall probably have to abstain.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.897.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "IMMIGRATION STATISTICS", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "dly, to do more both domestically and internationally to help refugees; and thirdly, to tackle abuse in the asylum system and illegal immigration. The hon. Gentleman spoke to me briefly before the debate and said that his main concern was to get accurate figures, but having heard his comments I find it hard to accept that that is his basic premise. He seemed to say that immigration is a bad thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-18", "file": "debates2003-03-18.xml", "sha256": "c50ad6ed0f8485f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "IMMIGRATION STATISTICS", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "even though they are not dependent on the state. Indeed, he criticised anyone who might come here to support our economy. The Government recognise that migration is part and parcel of the modern world. We need to welcome its considerable benefits but, at the same time, be determined to manage it effectively, and to safeguard national security and the economic and social well-being of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-18.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": " are 9 per cent. and 11 per cent. for Blaenau Gwent and Cardiff. What would public services in Wales be like if they were subject to a 20 per cent. cut? Let me tell the House what they would be like. We would have one in five nurses taken out; one in five hospital wards closed; one in five teachers got rid of; one in five police officers got rid of; £155 million worth of cuts in every—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Given that sometimes it is a wonder that we get to London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "d be broadly neutral for business, that manufacturing has, in fact, suffered a £90 million net tax hit, that Wales is particularly hard hit with 28 per cent. of its gross domestic product dependent on manufacturing and, furthermore, that the Engineering Employers Federation's counter-proposals would lead to greater reductions in energy use and a lower cost to business in Wales and elsewhere?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Probably for the same reason that the Conservatives did not have one on Maastricht—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Probably for the same reason that the Conservatives did not have one on Maastricht— [Interruption.] I know that they have changed a little bit in the meantime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.939.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) asked for an urgent question, which I have granted. I am not responsible for the identity of the Minister who comes to the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Aid)", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I apologise on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development, who is doing her job in New York today discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "We will try to keep the House informed. We need to be careful about rumours, because rumours often sweep through. The rumour—and I want to emphasise that it is no more than a rumour at this stage—is from a Bulgarian source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Community Care (Delayed Discharges Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should ask the Secretary of State. My right hon. Friend and I share an understanding that at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.975.4", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Community Care (Delayed Discharges Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Lords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Smith", "preceding_text": "We would have preferred to introduce the measure in April but we listened to what people in the real world said about their worries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.975.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Community Care (Delayed Discharges Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "lp them pay the fines that they will incur if they fail to comply with this law. However, postponing enactment of the legislation beyond the six months proposed by Lord Hunt following the introduction of this amendment would provide a year during which the money made available by the Department of Health could be invested to improve the situation, and to minimise the problems of delayed discharge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-19", "file": "debates2003-03-19.xml", "sha256": "1ad7066632764638", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Community Care (Delayed Discharges Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "w. However, postponing enactment of the legislation beyond the six months proposed by Lord Hunt following the introduction of this amendment would provide a year during which the money made available by the Department of Health could be invested to improve the situation, and to minimise the problems of delayed discharge. [Interruption.] The Minister nods in a negative way. Does that suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-19.980.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "I am slightly disappointed that Mr. Corbett has an extension to his position. He has not been the force that we needed, although I may be in a minority of one on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1074.2", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will know that in Scotland the situation is slightly different, because health is dissolved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1083.6", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "Following the publication of the Womenspeak survey initiated by the Minister, which found that 70 per cent. of women had experienced problems with the Benefits Agency, what discussions has the Minister had with the Department for Work and Pensions to ensure that women who refuse to give the names of violent partners are not regarded as fraudsters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1083.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Julie Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Morgan", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the work of the women's safety unit in Cardiff, a unique multidisciplinary project which has, during its short life, had a considerable impact in reducing the amount of domestic violence in the city? Will she join me in congratulating the unit on obtaining long-term funding from the Home Office and the Welsh Assembly to continue its good work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Iraq (Overnight Events)", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "ainment. It is not designed as a spectacle for people to sit glued to their screens to watch as entertainment. Will he urge upon all commentators and reporters a sense of dignity and responsibility in the way that they report what is going on? Will he urge discretion upon them not necessarily to report every single detail if doing so could cause distress to families or individuals in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Iraq (Overnight Events)", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "Is it not the ultimate in spin-doctoring propaganda for the Minister to be quoting Dr. Hans Blix in aid of his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Iraq (Overnight Events)", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "Is it not the ultimate in spin-doctoring propaganda for the Minister to be quoting Dr. Hans Blix in aid of his statement— [Interruption.] The Chief Whip is heckling me but this is a free Parliament and I will be heard in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1099.2", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Iraq (Overnight Events)", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who is responsible?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am relieved to say, given my other responsibilities at the moment, that that is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1099.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "w that would be done and the factors that I would take into account. I give notice, however, that I cannot do that until the House agrees to those powers, and I am grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's support on that. Time and accountability will be discussed by the relevant people. We shall consider the Bill in due course, although I do not agree that it should contain anti-strike legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1111.3", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The answer is yes, and thank goodness for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Fire Dispute", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ed. I keep the Attorney-General informed of the circumstances, and that is the role that he has explained to me. I do not ask for his advice on these matters; he makes a judgment. That remains the position, and I suggest that the hon. Gentleman pursue the matter through the shadow Attorney-General. If the Attorney-General wants to publish the letters that he has written to me on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1124.2", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Acting Leader.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "Having the hon. Member for Exeter (Mr. Bradshaw) acting as the Leader of the House is a positive advantage, because I am able to read, through the columns of the excellent Express & Echo and Western Morning News— papers that we share—his views on modernisation of the House. Does the acting deputy Leader agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Friday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a point that is directly relevant to her Municipal Waste Recycling Bill which received its Second Reading last Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-20", "file": "debates2003-03-20.xml", "sha256": "e7fb83554898e657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "This year, it will rise to £15 per tonne, and a subsequent £3 per year escalator is envisaged, with an eventual target of £35 per tonne. This rapid rise in landfill tax will further increase the number of landfill tax criminals. They are creatures of the Government—they are the monsters of this tax, which the Government have created—and I have them in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-20.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-21", "file": "debates2003-03-21.xml", "sha256": "0571f287c1c64d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-21.1214.0", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Gilroy", "preceding_text": "ibute to the professionalism and sheer dedication of the men and in sending condolences to the families of those who have been lost. Will he urge that the families get information as quickly as possible? Many families in Devon and Cornwall are anxious. May I share my concern about reports this morning from Plymouth suggesting that the some of the national press are doorstepping the families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-21.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-21", "file": "debates2003-03-21.xml", "sha256": "0571f287c1c64d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-21.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Equine Welfare (Ragwort Control) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "mean that as a criticism. He outlined the problems caused by ragwort and the means of its eradication so comprehensively that I feel no need to repeat what he said. May we take my comments on that as read because I could not disagree with much of what he said? On biodiversity, I do not want the issue to become a butterflies versus horses argument because that is the last thing that any of us want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-21.1236.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-03-21", "file": "debates2003-03-21.xml", "sha256": "0571f287c1c64d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-21.1262.5", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills — CROWN EMPLOYMENT (NATIONALITY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 28 March .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-21.1262.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-03-21", "file": "debates2003-03-21.xml", "sha256": "0571f287c1c64d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-21.1262.8", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POWERS (LIMITATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 28 March .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-21.1262.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-24", "file": "debates2003-03-24.xml", "sha256": "0069eb872b0c1c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Iraq and European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " European Council, which I attended in Brussels on 20 and 21 March , and report also on the conflict in Iraq. This meeting was the fourth of the special summits on economic reform in the European Union but, of course, the summit was dominated by Iraq. I should like to place on the record what I know will be the heartfelt gratitude of the entire House for the valour of British servicemen and women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-24", "file": "debates2003-03-24.xml", "sha256": "0069eb872b0c1c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.54.2", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is pronounced 'wosseling'!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "I was not fast enough on my feet to ask this question a moment ago. Will the Secretary of State say something about wassailing, which is the art of storytelling and a big business in the west country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.54.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-24", "file": "debates2003-03-24.xml", "sha256": "0069eb872b0c1c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Claire Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Ward", "preceding_text": "r whether my right hon. Friend has considered placing a condition on a licence whereby a no-smoking area must be provided within a pub or a club if the licensee determines that a child will be allowed into the premises. People these days are genuinely concerned that children might enter a pub or club in which adults are smoking around them, and that that might encourage more young people to smoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-24", "file": "debates2003-03-24.xml", "sha256": "0069eb872b0c1c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Claire Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Ward", "preceding_text": "moking area must be provided within a pub or a club if the licensee determines that a child will be allowed into the premises. People these days are genuinely concerned that children might enter a pub or club in which adults are smoking around them, and that that might encourage more young people to smoke. [Interruption.] I hope that my right hon. Friend has given some consideration to that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-24", "file": "debates2003-03-24.xml", "sha256": "0069eb872b0c1c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Anarchistic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "preceding_text": "to return to the issue of designated premises supervisors. What is currently envisaged by the Bill is not simple. It is not deregulatory and it is certainly not liberal. I ask the Minister to keep his mind open on that point. I have long taken an interest in licensing regulation and legislation. I am delighted that time is finally being called on old, anarchistic, anarchic and complex legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-24", "file": "debates2003-03-24.xml", "sha256": "0069eb872b0c1c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak for yourself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "preceding_text": "n old, anarchistic, anarchic and complex legislation. [Hon. Members: \"Anarchistic?\"] It can be anarchistic. Those of us who have been there will know—as my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Dr. Gibson) knows—how we would storm out into the night, as soon as the pub closed, to bring forward social and revolutionary change. We have all been there, but we are all modernisers now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-24", "file": "debates2003-03-24.xml", "sha256": "0069eb872b0c1c0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "is to be debated in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe next week. I note that the hon. Member for Manchester, Central (Mr. Lloyd) , the leader of the UK delegation to the Council of Europe, is in the Chamber, as is the hon. Member for High Peak (Mr. Levitt) who is, I think, the only qualified BSL interpreter in the House. I am glad that he is in the Chamber on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-24.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-25", "file": "debates2003-03-25.xml", "sha256": "128e2d2010ef1a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ommended as a backstop power for the Home Secretary. One of the objections made to us was that it may be contrary to the European arrest warrant and therefore out of order. As a good European, will the hon. Gentleman reflect on that possibility and give his view? Mr. Burnett: In Committee, the Minister cursed his misfortune in having drawn the two most Eurosceptical Liberal Democrat Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-25", "file": "debates2003-03-25.xml", "sha256": "128e2d2010ef1a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ment was clear, and I could not agree more: the UK's domestic law should be clear in the future Act. Citizens should not have to refer to the EU document \"sitting behind\" the Bill in order to know what the law is. We should know about the laws that we are passing. My third objection is that the situation is not static. Individual countries can add extra offences in each of the 32 categories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-25", "file": "debates2003-03-25.xml", "sha256": "128e2d2010ef1a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "plain what is wrong with that? I can see only two possible objections. The first is that such a role is not appropriate for the Home Secretary—perhaps because he is too busy. I cannot believe that. Only a few cases would be involved. The Home Secretary should appoint another Minister to replace the right hon. Member for Southampton, Itchen (Mr. Denham) . That would reduce the workload—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-25", "file": "debates2003-03-25.xml", "sha256": "128e2d2010ef1a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "t we have some remaining concerns about the exact role to be undertaken by Customs and Excise in the light, as the Minister will be aware, of the collapse of recent cases involving Customs and Excise on such matters as bonded warehouses. The Minister is aware of issues that have been raised recently in this Chamber, and of the fact that there is an ongoing inquiry into the collapse of those cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-25", "file": "debates2003-03-25.xml", "sha256": "128e2d2010ef1a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": " our view there is much need for care if greater powers are to be used by Customs and Excise officials, given the very strong views expressed by the judge when those cases collapsed. We will continue to scrutinise this issue, and in our view reforms may well be required. This House will have another opportunity to debate this issue when the independent reports on the collapsed trials are received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-25", "file": "debates2003-03-25.xml", "sha256": "128e2d2010ef1a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "he partial abolition of the dual criminality requirement will allow us to do exactly that. As long as the Opposition remain wedded to the idea that there must be absolute dual criminality in the EU, it follows that they are effectively suggesting that people should be able to come here and commit offences such as incitement to racial hatred, or indulge in fraudulent trading with complete impunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-25", "file": "debates2003-03-25.xml", "sha256": "128e2d2010ef1a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "SECTARIAN VIOLENCE (GUJARAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "On the particular issue of whether there has been any consideration of a truth commission in Gujarat, I am afraid that I do not know, but I will find out and write to the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-25.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-26", "file": "debates2003-03-26.xml", "sha256": "07cf0cefe0a0a59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-26.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Solution.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "I was not aware of the particular problem raised by the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-26.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-26", "file": "debates2003-03-26.xml", "sha256": "07cf0cefe0a0a59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-26.276.6", "colnum": "276", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Lady for her reply, which I notice did not answer my question. Is she aware that the Foreign Secretary said last Tuesday: \"we shall propose...that every single cent and penny of those oil revenues\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-26.276.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-26", "file": "debates2003-03-26.xml", "sha256": "07cf0cefe0a0a59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-26.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "That was one of the issues—I think I am being as honest as I can be with the House—that we undertook in response to the Weston Park talks. My hon. Friend's party did not press us on the issue, but Sinn Fein certainly did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-26.383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-26", "file": "debates2003-03-26.xml", "sha256": "07cf0cefe0a0a59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-26.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "GREEN BELT (HERTFORDSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "rateful for his response to this point—along comes the M11 corridor review and the sustainable communities plan. All such initiatives, including the regional guidance for which his Department is responsible, are actually slowing the process. So to suggest that local plans are biding their time and being very slow in the absence of other distractions is a little disingenuous, if I may say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-26.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-27", "file": "debates2003-03-27.xml", "sha256": "0e9e2e4438c40865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "t the briefing was inadequate and that the House was inadequately answered.\"—[ Official Report , 24 March 2003; Vol. 402, c. 40 .] Does the Parliamentary Secretary agree with the analysis of the Secretary of State for International Development? Has he spoken to the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, his hon. Friend the Member for North Warwickshire (Mr. O'Brien) ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-27", "file": "debates2003-03-27.xml", "sha256": "0e9e2e4438c40865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "l give us ample opportunity to analyse the difference in policy between the two parties—between Labour, which wants to invest and reform our public services, and the Opposition, who want to cut 20 per cent. of spending on public services. The shadow Leader of the House also asked when there would be a new Leader of the House. There will be a new Leader of the House when there is a reshuffle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-27", "file": "debates2003-03-27.xml", "sha256": "0e9e2e4438c40865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wireless?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "on constantly advocate flexibility in the workplace outside Government, so they should be prepared to accept some flexibility within Government. The right hon. Gentleman talked of what he called the contempt in which the Government hold Parliament. I simply point out that, earlier this week, his good friend, the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) said on the wireless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-27", "file": "debates2003-03-27.xml", "sha256": "0e9e2e4438c40865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for giving way. Of course, we regret the absence of the right hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. Trimble) , but may I assure her that this House, as far as I can tell, is never happier than when she is here and on her feet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-27", "file": "debates2003-03-27.xml", "sha256": "0e9e2e4438c40865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.476.2", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "not sure that it was necessary to rename the committee the \"special purposes committee\", but I can live with that change. The Chief Constable will be obliged to seek the agreement of the special committee to any summary of the sensitive information going to the board. That is crucial, because we cannot have two levels of people on the Policing Board: those who get information and those who do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-27", "file": "debates2003-03-27.xml", "sha256": "0e9e2e4438c40865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": " families who have lost loved ones are entitled to closure and will feel a sense of grievance. However, it appears to have gone unnoticed that when the police ombudsman's office was set up under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998, regulations—the RUC (Complaints etc) Regulations 2001—were also published. That shows that the name has changed for only operational, not legal purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-27", "file": "debates2003-03-27.xml", "sha256": "0e9e2e4438c40865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "e entitled to closure and will feel a sense of grievance. However, it appears to have gone unnoticed that when the police ombudsman's office was set up under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998, regulations—the RUC (Complaints etc) Regulations 2001—were also published. That shows that the name has changed for only operational, not legal purposes. [Interruption.] That is quite right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-27", "file": "debates2003-03-27.xml", "sha256": "0e9e2e4438c40865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.509.5", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ble part of republican demands during the peace process—the Government seem to agree that it was unacceptable—has been that the Police Service of Northern Ireland should somehow absorb former paramilitaries. We want to make absolutely certain, however, that in the highly charged climate of Northern Ireland, no suspicion can arise that this provision could turn into such a Trojan horse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-27.509.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-28", "file": "debates2003-03-28.xml", "sha256": "8b937ca708cc27fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-28.618.8", "colnum": "618", "heading": "High Hedges (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": " built of brick, the planning authority could do something about it. People do not have an absolute right to do as they wish in their own gardens; for example, they cannot build high walls. Why should they be able to build a high wall in green? Will the hon. Member for Ealing, North (Mr. Pound) give me an assurance? In Oxfordshire or Northamptonshire there is a village called Hinton-in-the-Hedges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-28.618.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-28", "file": "debates2003-03-28.xml", "sha256": "8b937ca708cc27fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-28.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "High Hedges (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "I am responsible for many things in life, but the nomenclature of hamlets in Northamptonshire is not, and please God never will be, one of them. My hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Clarke) speaks for the villages of Northamptonshire, and I am sure that he has heard the hon. Gentleman's point. Returning to holly bush hedges and naturists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-28.619.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-31", "file": "debates2003-03-31.xml", "sha256": "2b3a09d8b6bcc066", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.653.4", "colnum": "653", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "n life.\"—[ Official Report , 20 March 2003; Vol. 401, c. 1087 .] Of course, we have seen examples of that over recent days, including some of Saddam Hussein's paramilitaries operating in civilian clothes and the abuse of prisoners of war. We have discovered stocks of chemical weapons, and other things related to nuclear, biological and chemical threats. A clear conclusion can be drawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-31", "file": "debates2003-03-31.xml", "sha256": "2b3a09d8b6bcc066", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.664.4", "colnum": "664", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "in the naval taskforce across the full spectrum of maritime operations, including force protection, naval gunfire support to the land contingent, tactical lift, search and rescue, medical evacuation, mine clearance, tanker and logistics support, and afloat hospital treatment to allied and Iraqi casualties. In addition, RFA Sir Galahad is delivering humanitarian aid into the port of Umm Qasr—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-31", "file": "debates2003-03-31.xml", "sha256": "2b3a09d8b6bcc066", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Railways and Transport Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "I most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, which is obviously very significant. In Committee, we tried hard to establish circumstances relating to the terms \"accident\" and \"incident\". It must be said that we did so with some support from the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-31", "file": "debates2003-03-31.xml", "sha256": "2b3a09d8b6bcc066", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Railways and Transport Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "ut I dare say that a reading of Hansard would indicate that to anyone who had an interest. If the hon. Lady wants to visit my constituency—to go on the chain ferry or otherwise—nothing that she has said so far now or in Committee has negated that invitation, and she is always very welcome. I saw the chain ferry in my constituency on Friday, and I can assure her that it is working well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-03-31", "file": "debates2003-03-31.xml", "sha256": "2b3a09d8b6bcc066", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Railways and Transport Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Under-Secretary for giving way given that, from a sedentary position, the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) says, \"What about the workers?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-03-31.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-01", "file": "debates2003-04-01.xml", "sha256": "d6d21f12662d5f9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-01.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ten-year plan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "If we looked at the hon. Gentleman's own constituency, we would find that his constituents have benefited from the rural bus challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-01.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-01", "file": "debates2003-04-01.xml", "sha256": "d6d21f12662d5f9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-01.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "at has been generated. The SRA is ensuring that something that was long overdue on the railway network is put in place—proper management. Money is going in, but proper management is essential if we are to have a reliable train service. My hon. Friend is right to say that one pendolino is running at the moment. The operators have been running more trains, without passengers, to test the line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-01.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-01", "file": "debates2003-04-01.xml", "sha256": "d6d21f12662d5f9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-01.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "hat went on in the other place, my noble Friend Baroness Anelay spent a lot of time trying to uncover whatever it may be, but the Government were very reticent. I shall not attribute any nefarious reasons to them for having been so, but we will certainly explore the matter in Committee. If my hon. Friend wishes to join us, I am sure that he will be expert in probing the Government as to why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-01.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-02", "file": "debates2003-04-02.xml", "sha256": "d38e346358d5e840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "And I was about to say to the hon. and learned Gentleman that I knew that too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-02", "file": "debates2003-04-02.xml", "sha256": "d38e346358d5e840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "And I was about to say to the hon. and learned Gentleman that I knew that too. [Interruption.] But look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-02", "file": "debates2003-04-02.xml", "sha256": "d38e346358d5e840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.924.6", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is too late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.924.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-02", "file": "debates2003-04-02.xml", "sha256": "d38e346358d5e840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "he Standing Committee, and I am especially grateful for the contribution made by the hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Malins) , whom we miss today. He clearly stated the arguments for not removing that duty on custody officers. The Minister's argument for doing so was highly pragmatic, focusing simply on reducing the bureaucratic requirements on police officers and thereby simplifying their task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-02", "file": "debates2003-04-02.xml", "sha256": "d38e346358d5e840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "me Secretary's fingerprints are clearly on what would be considered as the same category. As the hon. and learned Member for Redcar said, that is the biggest change. When we vote tonight, we must ask ourselves whether we want juries to think, \"He did it before, so he has done it again.\" That is what clause 85(1)(d) tries to do. I have consulted lawyers about clause 85, and they all point to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-02", "file": "debates2003-04-02.xml", "sha256": "d38e346358d5e840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "I hear the argument that the right hon. Gentleman advances. The conclusion that I draw, however, from the two examples that I have just given is that they make the case for shifting the way in which the system works in favour of an inclusionary approach subject to appropriate safeguards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-02", "file": "debates2003-04-02.xml", "sha256": "d38e346358d5e840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "The honest answer is that I do not know why that evidence was not included, but my hon. and learned Friend's point does not make the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-02.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-03", "file": "debates2003-04-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d026368fba9f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-03.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Ross Cranston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ross Cranston", "preceding_text": "ed that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Skills has indicated that he will work much more closely with the DTI to improve skills levels in the economy. Industry itself can do a great deal. It is in the driving seat. Recently some of my hon. Friends and you, Madam Deputy Speaker, were at the launch of the Black Country chamber of commerce manufacturing support campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-03.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-03", "file": "debates2003-04-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d026368fba9f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-03.1104.5", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Ross Cranston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ross Cranston", "preceding_text": "I agree. Our right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has reduced the number of sources that businesses must access if they want assistance. The West Bromwich centre is a good example of that. I come to the third aspect of my contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-03.1104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-03", "file": "debates2003-04-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d026368fba9f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-03.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Outrageous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "quickly coming to the view that either the House of Lords should be abolished or there should be an age limit on its membership, since my hon. Friend the Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) , I and others led the Conservative party to victory in the parliamentary pancake race, only to find that we were not awarded the cup, which was awarded to the Lords on points because they were older than us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-03.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-03", "file": "debates2003-04-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d026368fba9f55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-03.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " the past, showing the nature of the commitment made on the part of the contractors in terms of noise level, and they are clearly in breach of contract. It was incumbent on them to choose from the menu of surfaces, especially as the issue had been highlighted in the public inquiry, a surface that would meet that commitment. If that is not the case, I want to know, as in any other commercial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-03.1106.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-04", "file": "debates2003-04-04.xml", "sha256": "ca24aec42689be4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-04.1239.13", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POWERS (LIMITATIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 16 May .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-04.1239.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-04", "file": "debates2003-04-04.xml", "sha256": "ca24aec42689be4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-04.1239.16", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "CROWN EMPLOYMENT (NATIONALITY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 13 June .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read. The Solicitor-General, by Her Majesty's Command, acquainted the House, That Her Majesty, having been informed of the purport of the Bill, had consented to place Her Prerogative and Interests, so far as they are affected by the Bill, at the disposal of Parliament for the purposes of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-04.1239.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-07", "file": "debates2003-04-07.xml", "sha256": "4dc6a5926430e3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.9.7", "colnum": "9", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Peter Pike", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Pike", "preceding_text": "When considering international heritage sites, will my hon. Friend take into account objects at the birthplace of the industrial revolution, such as the weaving mill at Queen street in Burnley?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.9.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-07", "file": "debates2003-04-07.xml", "sha256": "4dc6a5926430e3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.16.8", "colnum": "16", "heading": "ELECTORAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.16.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-07", "file": "debates2003-04-07.xml", "sha256": "4dc6a5926430e3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.44.5", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ion of ex-terrorists and the sub-groups, while the devolved institutions have been suspended—while direct rule persists and while there is no Assembly and Executive in Belfast. At first sight, any restriction—which it is—on the Government giving force to those new provisions in present circumstances is welcome. I must say, however, that the restriction is extremely limited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.44.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-07", "file": "debates2003-04-07.xml", "sha256": "4dc6a5926430e3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ies in Northern Ireland, in due time, which must be in their time. However, I was talking about the Government. If they publish the Hillsborough document on Thursday, come to some provisional agreement with another Government—I am thinking, of course, of the Government of the Republic of Ireland—and make a statement to the press, a statement must be made to this House at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-07", "file": "debates2003-04-07.xml", "sha256": "4dc6a5926430e3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "I apologise for my lengthy intervention on the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) . I shall be delighted to give way to him later, and I look forward to him being in government, although I am not sure whether he will be a member of the Liberal Democrats. He will be a member of the Ulster Unionist party, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-07", "file": "debates2003-04-07.xml", "sha256": "4dc6a5926430e3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Bill's object is to enable the Government to spend £3,700 million on pretty much whatever they like. The distorting effect of taking £3,700 million out of the pockets of British industry in the shape of one company to spend it on another is rarely taken into account. The opportunity cost and industrial disruption that high taxation causes are becoming increasingly apparent to business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-07", "file": "debates2003-04-07.xml", "sha256": "4dc6a5926430e3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": " listed in the Register of Members' Interests. We support the principle of this Bill, and we certainly accept the need for some industry-specific intervention—after all, the original Act was ours. I do not accept the comment of my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) —albeit from a sedentary position—that it was among the worst of the legislation that we introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-07", "file": "debates2003-04-07.xml", "sha256": "4dc6a5926430e3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Industrial Development (Financial Assistance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "I will come back to order, Madam Deputy Speaker, but only a staggering 0.5 per cent. said yes, the right hon. Lady did understand completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-07.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "LORD CHANCELLOR", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "r, there were seven magistrates courts closures, but in 1996, the last year of the Conservative Government, there were 21 court closures, including rural court closures in Hornsea, Howden, Market Weighton, Cheadle, Biddulph, Kidsgrove, Bedale, Easingwold, Leyburn, Ingleton, Thursk, Colwyn Bay, Llangollen, another Welsh place that I cannot pronounce, East Dereham and elsewhere. I could go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.123.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I cannot resist giving way because I know that my hon. Friend will want to say something positive about Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do agree—and I was thinking of the Wales that is just south of Sheffield rather than the Wales that is west of the Severn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Stevenson) . The provisions are especially important for areas in which traditional industries have been historically run down and very cheap properties are available. Necessary steps must be taken in such areas to stop exploitation. Part 3 relates to truancy, and I am pleased that my hon. Friend the Minister for Lifelong Learning and Higher Education is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.144.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on, read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "e to ensure that there is no advance on the previous legislation. The group dispersal powers—they were much discussed—in part 4 almost entirely replicate section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986. In case the House does not believe me, I will read the relevant subsection of clause 29. [Interruption.] Oh, all right—Labour Members wish to spare me the trouble and to take it on trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Twice!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the problem is that, in many respects, the Bill is like a clock that is stuck at five to one and is right only once every 24 hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "legislate to ensure that we get legislation right. None of these procedures has been followed. I understand that on the Conservative Opposition Benches and certainly on the Liberal Democrat Benches—if people are honest, I hope that this applies on the Labour Benches—Members feel that there is much in the Bill that should not have legislative effect. That is not surprising. It is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "r that measure someone's previous record of behaviour could be used in evidence against them in the criminal courts. There was a danger, he pointed out, that people's opinions about someone's behaviour would mark them, making it more likely that they would be convicted of a crime. Down that road lies the big brother state. Sometimes I think that the Home Secretary is in favour of that state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.158.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": ") recently went on an official visit to Sweden, where children are normally not regarded as being capable of being put in the criminal justice system until they are over 16. They are seen as people who need help, support and educational back-up. Sweden has a much higher success rate than we do and its approach is much more effective. We must look around us and learn the lessons of other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.160.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "David Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": "rty issues that underlie crime and antisocial behaviour in our communities. Contrary to what the Opposition have said, there has been a dramatic increase in police numbers. I was very concerned, however, that those in the local Conservative group on Telford and Wrekin council are not willing to back the neighbourhood warden scheme that the Labour council is proposing, if it gets re-elected in May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "preceding_text": "n to Bristol. The chief constable has to put resources into Bristol to achieve public service agreement targets. Whatever the increase in his budget or police numbers, the resources go to Bristol to fight urban crime. The Under-Secretary claimed that there were more police, but my area is to get half a policeman. I await his arrival with bated breath. In my area, half a policeman is useless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "ithout any of the measures proposed in the Bill. Despite what the Home Secretary would have us believe, the Government's record so far on police numbers is not so good as he would wish. The reality is that, during each of the past six years, the average increase in this country's police forces has been at a much lower rate than was achieved on average during all the previous Government's 18 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "work. As I have said before in the House, I have a file of what is required for a single arrest and 26 different forms have to be filled in by a police officer. Nothing that the Government have done has reduced that burden. Yes, we need an extra 40,000 police officers, and we will pay for them by reforming the asylum system, as my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Mr. Letwin) has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-08", "file": "debates2003-04-08.xml", "sha256": "5d5fd1586baf686a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friends were not able to participate in the debate because we ran out of time. By contrast, we have had a token presence of Liberal Democrat Members throughout our proceedings. They have made it clear that they do not consider the Bill to be of any importance. They do not plan to vote against it, but they intend to use their friends in another place to sabotage various provisions within it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-08.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.252.8", "colnum": "252", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "thies and prayers are with the family of Lance Corporal Malone and those who have sacrificed their lives in Iraq. We had intensive discussions with the parties last month in Hillsborough, and yesterday between President Bush, the Prime Minister and the Taoiseach. Those discussions have confirmed our belief that there is now a large measure of shared understanding among pro-agreement parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.252.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Between 1 April 2002 and 31 March this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.258.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "In paying tribute to the courage and professionalism of our armed forces, does the Prime Minister agree that we owe it to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "g in the cautious case we have been able to meet all our fiscal rules. Let me provide the detailed figures. Figures for our current Budget for last year, 2002–03, and for the five years to 2007–08 are minus 12 billion, minus 8 billion, minus 1 billion, plus 2 billion, plus 6 billion and plus 9 billion. So we meet our golden rule over the cycle. We will not only achieve a balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS — Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ng that it is right and prudent to borrow at this, the right time in the economic cycle. And adjusted for the cycle we meet the golden rule this year and we meet it every year to 2006. Our second rule—the sustainable investment rule—is that debt should be kept below 40 per cent of national income. Debt this year is actually rising to 42 per cent in France, 46 per cent in the USA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " cost families £300 a year. Higher petrol taxes have cost the average motorist about £300 extra every year. In short, the Government's tax take has risen by more than 50 per cent. since the right hon. Gentleman became the Chancellor. Of all those who have been hit by the Chancellor, there is one group that will be hurt more than most. The savers of today are the pensioners of tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "emember his words. Today, after two years and three consultations, reannouncements and re-reannouncements, the Chancellor decided to announce his child trust fund again. We have more overcomplicated proposals that will do little to help future long-term saving, but they will extend means-testing to even more people. There is only one thing to say about this little scheme of the Chancellor's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "My answer is that what we have proposed at the time of this Budget is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman's interpretation of the policy to which his own party has been a signatory in Scotland. If this is the argument that the Labour party in the House of Commons is advancing, I suggest that the hon. Gentleman have a word with someone called Jack McConnell, because that is certainly not what he is arguing in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "James Plaskitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Plaskitt", "preceding_text": "hrough taxation. Companies also acknowledge the benefits to them of higher Government capital investment under the Labour Administration. Many of them have won contracts related to that investment. They are watching how the Government spend the money and assessing the degree to which it benefits industry, and they see that it does. Companies frequently raise the issue of red tape—frequently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "ds for this year's grant allocation, can see that local authorities in the south of England are being raided, and that the money is going elsewhere. The Chancellor has given us a lot of froth today about assistance for pensioners, but pensioners in my constituency are not concerned about his latest gimmick; they are concerned about how they are going to pay the increase in their council tax bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "its\". The Chancellor has made a lot of noise today about new tax credits, but, as with the minimum income guarantee for the elderly, they prove more elusive when people try to claim them. Nevertheless, The Sunday Times notes: \"If you have children you can offset some of the increase in National Insurance by claiming the new child tax credit\". But not everyone in my constituency has children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.340.3", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "matically improved the quality of life for older people. It has allowed them to enjoy travel in London and visits to their relatives. It has brought about an overall improvement in their social lives. The funding was extended and there is now free travel in London, Scotland and Wales, but only 20 per cent. of England is covered by a concessionary scheme. It simply depends on where one lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "per cent of the population increased its share of personal wealth from 17 to 23 per cent.\" That does not sound much, but according to the next sentence: \"The richest 2.4 million households control wealth of about £1,300bn, while the combined wealth of the poorest 12 million households is about £150m.\" I am no left-wing loony socialist, although I may have been in my student days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-09", "file": "debates2003-04-09.xml", "sha256": "8364f0ac478015d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "Britain will fall to 4.9 per cent., while it remains high in the eurozone at 8.3 per cent. of its work force. I want to point out in passing to those who are rightly concerned about the UK's productivity levels, including the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) , who is unfortunately not in his place and whose speech displayed particular ignorance of the causes of low productivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-09.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ns will be replaced relatively quickly by internal institutions that will be run for, by, and from the Iraqi people themselves. The right hon. Gentleman asked about the reported comment by the President of France. I raised that during constructive discussions yesterday morning with Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, and I was assured that President Chirac had not used those words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.409.0", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " member of the United Nations, to comply with existing UN Security Council resolutions that lay down emphatically the importance of having respect for Iraq's territorial integrity within its existing borders. I shall talk to Foreign Minister Gul again shortly. The right hon. Gentleman asked when the road map would be published. It will be published as soon as Abu Mazen's cabinet is in place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.409.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not? Give a date.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend started well, but as ever— [Laughter.] Of course I cannot give a date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.416.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Henchpeople!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I doubt that there will be a neat moment. Self-evidently, there will not be a moment when a surrender by Saddam Hussein is accepted because he has taken the coward's way out, if he is still alive. Certainly, all his henchpeople have taken that way out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "First, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his very gracious welcome, which I believe is fairly untypical. I will take it as being a new start, and I will respond in as emollient a fashion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" We want Ben!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "in much less strong terms than the right hon. Gentleman's colleagues appear to use to describe him. I have never found the right hon. Gentleman to be those things, however, and I look forward to emollient exchanges across the Dispatch Box. I should also pay tribute to my predecessor, who I know was widely respected on both sides of the House, and to my deputy, who stood in over the last few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.424.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "hat, unlike the past, 98 per cent. of people suffering from cancer now get to see a consultant specialist within two weeks. Literacy and numeracy have both improved significantly since the Opposition were in office to the point where, as I said earlier, the Prime Minister could highlight international reports commending English standards in our primary schools. We are therefore doing better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman) drafted that text, and I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Stalybridge and Hyde (James Purnell) for drawing it to my attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.471.4", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We want him to repeat the mistake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "oing to abolish it. Then, if I remember correctly, they were going to consolidate it in the pension. Then, in abject confusion as the election came upon them and they saw how popular the measure was, they were going to give pensioners a choice as to whether it was consolidated or paid separately. In his own interests, I urge the hon. Gentleman to think carefully and not to repeat the same mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.471.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "ny such assets to others. I am somewhat confused by the argument of the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Mr. Burstow) . I cannot see how some form of local taxation would help the poorest pensioners; in what way would that be better than the council tax, for example? He has completely overlooked the fact that any form of local tax would, in itself, be means-tested; that is the nature of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-10", "file": "debates2003-04-10.xml", "sha256": "697b840efd207bcc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.491.11", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " There has been a huge rise in the number of personal pension plans, but there are problems with that industry, and we may need to regulate it to ensure that pensioners and savers trust such schemes, so that they continue to invest. However, the hon. Gentleman has completely missed the point that the over-80s have had the least opportunity to save for themselves. His argument simply does not work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-10.491.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Colin Challen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Challen", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my right hon. Friend can allay the fears of my constituents who have read scare stories in the right-wing press and are concerned about the level of public borrowing. Will he describe the impact that a 20 per cent. cut would have on the work that his Department is doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "etter from Westminster head teachers, who have written to all parents in Westminster: \"We . . . wish to make it clear that we will be unable to provide effective full-time education for pupils with the funds allocated in the financial year 2003/04. Consequently the targets set in the recent target setting round will no longer be valid and standards will inevitably suffer.\" I shall now refer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": " increase, which has meant many schools having to subsidise their sixth-form courses even more heavily. The changes to local government funding have left many schools facing stark financial choices. The Liberal Democrats appreciate what the Government have tried to do in terms of the reform of local government finances and the grants system, which is ostensibly more transparent than it was before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "h, would have been better off quitting full-time education after A levels, because they have no graduate premium. They have a negative earning premium of between 2 and 10 per cent., so presumably, they should pay no fees at all, according to the Minister with responsibility for higher education, or be given a subsidy to study for their degree. That is the barminess of what was said here yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I am sorry—I thought that he was getting excited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "ifferently from other users of hydrocarbons? The profit margins under which farmers and crofters in my constituency operate—if there is any profit at all—are very tight. There is a suspicious voice at the back of my mind that says that revenge being a dish best eaten cold, the Chancellor is taking some revenge for the role that farmers played in the fuel tax protests of September 2000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Colin Challen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Challen", "preceding_text": "ached to public largesse. How many people, having reached the age of 18, will blow their trust funds on some frivolous item? In 2021 there will probably be more temptations than there are now—temptations backed up by slick marketing campaigns and the fashion of the day—to wrench that money out of the hands of 18-year-olds. No doubt the Labour Government who will be in power then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "David Wright", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "David Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wright", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. [Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"] The reason why I will not is that I can say that with some confidence. I was reading The Sunday Times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-11", "file": "debates2003-04-11.xml", "sha256": "a72a910cdbc0d30b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "r South-West Surrey (Virginia Bottomley) spoke passionately about her local schools, university and those who lead them, but she went on to ridicule our approach to productivity. I was recently talking to one of the regional development agency chairmen—a successful business man in his own right—and he said of the Government's productivity policies, \"You are giving us meat and two veg.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-11.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.600.4", "colnum": "600", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sydney Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "That is all very well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.600.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, Hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Brazier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I have read the Select Committee report. Having served under two distinguished Chairmen of that Select Committee, it is always the first thing that I read at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "We are still grappling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Nick Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may have answered his own question, but he must not talk down his constituency. South-West Devon has a high standard of living, with only 1.3 per cent. of adults in the constituency unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.610.4", "colnum": "610", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "This is an income-tested scheme, but it excludes those with savings of less than £6,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.610.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.610.4", "colnum": "610", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "This is an income-tested scheme, but it excludes those with savings of less than £6,000—[ Interruption. ] We are grappling with problems, but the Opposition are prattling about them. I would rather be grappling than prattling. We are grappling with the issue, and want to increase take-up as much as possible. The system will benefit pensioners. Whereas the previous Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.610.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Smoking (Restaurants) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Hunter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Hunter", "preceding_text": "moking entirely, or having designated smoking areas. Such schemes work perfectly well. They are voluntary and do not need the backing of statute. The hon. Member would be well advised to re-read the 1998 White Paper and the firm conclusion drawn therein that no new legislation was necessary. No one is compelled to smoke in any bar, restaurant or hotel. If people object to the smoking policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "enue structure, involving less than 3 per cent. on income tax, in order to get rid of the council tax. I should remind the hon. Gentleman of the figures. The poorest 20 per cent. of the population currently pay 7.1 per cent. of income in local taxes—there would be a huge tax cut for them—yet the richest fifth pay 1.8 per cent. Such rebalancing of the tax system would be right and fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Taylor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is wrong, and he should check the Government figures. First, in fact, on average Liberal Democrat councils charge less than Conservative ones—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "s to blame for the £350 million-plus spent on refurbishing Departments in the four years to February 2002; for the increase of £3.5 billion, or more than 25 per cent., in the cost of running Departments; and for the fact that there are more bureaucrats than beds in the NHS? When we last debated those issues, in February, the Chancellor endeared himself to some of my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He's there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " the Front Bench, so we ought to give him an opportunity to make the point that he was denied the opportunity to make from the Front Bench. Before we do so, however, it is our duty to draw the attention of the wider world to a particular absence from the Front Bench debate throughout our discussions on the Budget—the absence of the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " embarrassed was Conservative central office by that contribution that it described it as the contribution of a City expert rather than that of a Conservative Front-Bench spokesperson. That does not bode well for his future on that Front Bench, because he was the shadow Chief Secretary who promised 20 per cent. cuts across the board. That is what the Conservatives told us they were studying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "No, not yet. Should I give him his chance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.717.10", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.717.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.717.12", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Twice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Do not worry. You will have your chance. The right hon. and learned Gentleman gave way only once to Labour Members, so why should I give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.717.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-14", "file": "debates2003-04-14.xml", "sha256": "e1fb1302c77392e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "0 years. Today, we have more people in work than ever before. Some 250,000 jobs have been created in the past year and approaching half of them were in the private sector. So much for the suggestion that the growth was all in the public sector and that we are ignoring the private sector. The fact is that Labour is promoting, encouraging and supporting growth across the economy. We also know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-14.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": ", but is that recruitment at the expense of other police forces in the country? Is the hon. Gentleman aware that six police forces—City of London, Merseyside, Cumbria, Staffordshire, Sussex and West Yorkshire—have between them lost 633 officers in the same time, even though their council tax increase this year is, on average, 29 per cent.? Nine forces have had no increase at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.14.6", "colnum": "14", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Huw Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Edwards", "preceding_text": " going to give an immediate prison sentence to Major Ingram and his wife because they had dependent children, yet many working-class women get immediate prison sentences for relatively minor offences when they have dependent children? Does my hon. Friend agree with the Halliday report that there must be more consistency and, if that principle is to be applied, that it must be done so more broadly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.14.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "The railways are better than ours!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.21.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his remarks, and I shall answer some of the specific questions that he asked. On the role of women in any new government whom we assist in creating, we are very strongly committed to ensuring that women play a proper role inside any government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Had?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " Member for North Warwickshire, has already spoken today in Baghdad about the importance of ensuring that there is a proper role for women. The right hon. Gentleman asked me whether I am certain that WMD will be found. I am not certain where they are—such certainty seemed to be the implication of what he was saying—but I am absolutely certain that Iraq had illegal possessions of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.26.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Menzies Campbell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " so that they can make \"real and effective choices\". So how would he answer my constituent, Mr. Bridges, who said: \"I am now facing the decision as to which bills to stop paying . . . to ensure I am able to feed our children\", and that \"getting help from their helpline is like picking the six winning lottery numbers—nearly impossible\"? Another of my constituents says: \"I cannot begin\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Forgive me if I am wrong, but I think that the hon. Lady said that her constituent's payment falls due on 1 May . Today is 28 April , so if her constituent is due to receive a monthly payment, it will be paid this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.74.3", "colnum": "74", "heading": "European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "sonally believe that the provisions are not only perilous but damaging to the democratic process. As we said in Committee and on Report, the anticipated change depends on events that have not yet occurred. The proposal and the mandates are therefore based on a hypothesis. For example, we do not know how many countries will agree to the changes. We do not know whether they will be agreed in Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.74.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "adopted. In sum, this group of amendments are welcome. They all move in the right direction, although some do not go far enough. I fear, however, that that is as good as we are going to get at this stage in the Bill's progress. I shall not recommend that my right hon. and hon. Friends vote against any of the amendments, as there are none with which I disagree; I would simply like a few more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Right hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "I assume that the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.95.3", "colnum": "95", "heading": "European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "or's powers to make provision in exercise of his powers under the Bill. I trust that the hon. Gentleman is suitably enlightened and that if he has any further concerns he will conduct his own research into the Colonial Laws Validity Act. I am sure that he will not only write to me but entertain the House with his views on various historical provisions. Finally, the hon. Member for Wokingham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.95.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-28", "file": "debates2003-04-28.xml", "sha256": "9c551e39f274fef0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "European Parliament (Representation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "sh;the Bill must be referred to petitions and the Select Committee procedure with leading counsel and all the rest of it. I can understand that the Government might be nervous about such a matter. Indeed, I was the legal adviser on the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill in 1977, when we proved hybridity in the Bill. The flagship Bill disintegrated in a puff of smoke and the Government fell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-28.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "Notwithstanding the very real achievements that doctors and nurses have made at the hospital, I am sure that the Minister would wish to say that there are some very real problems at the trust. The district auditor's report identified it as the most expensive in the west midlands, and there are acute car-parking problems and patients cannot make appointments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.139.4", "colnum": "139", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for his answer, although I note that he did not give a figure for finished consultant episodes for the coming year. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State have made it clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.142.4", "colnum": "142", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "s most welcome, but does not the foundation hospital ideology run directly counter to those values? Is not the Secretary of State engineering a US-style system of health care rooted in market morality and private provision that is not old values in a new setting, but a mistake of fundamental historic importance—a Trojan horse for Sedgefield privatisers and Darlington money changers, perhaps?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "What characterises markets—as I am sure the hon. Gentleman understands, given that he is, to use his own description, an unreconstructed Thatcherite free-marketeer—is the ability to charge, which is precisely what he is advocating. It is not what this Labour party or this Labour Government are advocating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "National Community Service", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "enalties and punishment. It is obviously not possible to trace all the causes of the yob culture in a short speech, for they are many and varied; but I believe that they include the way in which our society seems obsessed with material goods and the primacy of what is fashionable rather than what is of abiding value. I have no desire to sound like an apoplectic reader of The Daily Telegraph—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "National Community Service", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "any and varied; but I believe that they include the way in which our society seems obsessed with material goods and the primacy of what is fashionable rather than what is of abiding value. I have no desire to sound like an apoplectic reader of The Daily Telegraph— [Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"] No, I decline the invitation. There has, however, been a marked decline in respect in our society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.162.5", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "to know how good things are in the East Riding of Yorkshire, but does my right hon. Friend realise that, in Essex, the Government are giving away less with one hand than they are taking away with the other through national insurance increases and other costs that they have imposed. There will be teacher shortages in Essex during the next year. In my constituency, almost every primary school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman. If today's Tory party has no memory, let alone a sense of shame for its lamentable record in office, it also has no confidence in the future. The second gaping hole in the right hon. Gentleman's speech was the lack of any commitment to future funding of public services in Britain: hardly surprising given the Conservatives' pledge to cut 20 per cent. from public service spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.167.3", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the hon. Gentleman about funding for Norfolk. When his party was in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.168.2", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "Let me encourage Conservative Members to contain themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "e, but, unlike the Opposition, we in government are proud of our past and present and are confident of our future. They, by contrast, live for today's press conference, afraid to face up to their past misdeeds or admit their plans for future felonies. They have no credible prospects. I can empathise with the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden and perhaps even feel a little sorry for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "roblems in social services. In particular, in residential care homes, 64,000 care beds have been lost since Labour came to power. Even if the Government meet their targets on increasing the number of beds in the NHS, that will still not make up the gap. The Labour Government's spending proposals still mean that there will be fewer hospital and care home beds than under the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.182.2", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "than take on the Greater London Council themselves, they had to use legislation to abolish it because they were not capable of delivering on the streets and in the election booths. I have looked at the wording of the Opposition motion, which I would describe as a \"mum and rotten apple pie\" motion. I could be cynical and suggest that it has some interrelationship with the local elections of 1 May .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.182.2", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "ctions of 1 May . [Hon. Members: \"Surely not.\"] If one tenth of the intemperate—to use the Minister's term—words used in the motion are true, who will vote Labour on 1 May ? Perhaps I should be worried in my swing, marginal constituency that the Opposition might just have a case. I therefore propose to market test the contentions in the motion. I hope that that is not new Labour-speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.183.5", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Martin Salter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Salter", "preceding_text": "nd the town turned away from them. After seven years of Conservative government, they received 32.8 per cent. of the poll at the local elections, and Labour received 36.4 per cent. In 1990, the triumph of the poll tax—we all remember those happy days—meant that it was pretty grim for the Tories. I accept that that was not a typical year: I do not want to be unfair to the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.183.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "ght that, with an increase last year and a more substantial one this year, citizen survey satisfaction ratings would be shooting through the roof, but we have in fact seen a 10 per cent. fall in satisfaction in the first two years of Liberal Democrat rule. Not only are council tax increases going through the roof, but satisfaction levels are steadily declining. I should like to finish there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. You have talked about hospitals, but do you agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak in this debate, even though, at times, it has sounded like a prolonged last-minute leaflet in the local elections. I can only assume from the numbers of Members on both sides of the House who are present—other than the Liberals, of course—that this is a refuge from having to deliver those leaflets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or goodbye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "h better now.\" However, it would be more convincing if it also said, \"Please forgive us for our excesses, for what we visited on you over 18 years and for the legacy of those years, which will take so much time to repair.\" The motion does not say that; it does not say sorry because that is the hardest word to say. Sorry is the only word that the people of Wales want to hear from the Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.218.5", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "atives such as the national grid for learning, which has resulted in the roll-out of information technology in our classrooms. Just over five years ago, they were struggling to get the cash together to buy one Acorn computer, whereas now they have classrooms full of personal computers. We have the new block at All Saints school and the new sports hall at Budmouth technology college. I could go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "ell? When the Deputy Prime Minister has a go at joined-up government, he gets it completely wrong. A series of centrally imposed Whitehall regional initiatives have utterly failed and, even according to the departmental Select Committee, they \"may have contributed to the tensions between communities in the north of England that resulted in the disturbances in 2001 in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Dale Campbell-Savours got it all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Cunningham", "preceding_text": "t, the lowest that it has ever been. Workington is a small town with a population of fewer than 30,000. Since 1997, we have had a brand new bypass, two brand new roundabouts, a brand new police station, a brand new further education college, a brand new town centre and, in the next few weeks, a brand new hospital is about to be built. That is not bad for a small town with fewer than 30,000 people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "of our constituencies, in crisis. Oxfordshire county council has said to me in a letter that the individual schools budget is up by 10.5 per cent., which sounds incredibly promising and appears to be a real increase until we look at the breakdown: £6 million for the teachers pension fund, £1 million to cover the national insurance contributions increase imposed by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Satchels?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "on to schools. The funding crisis of the Government's making is the grossest betrayal of everything that they stood for in 1997 when they promised that \"education, education, education\" would be their three priorities. The reality is that throughout the country our children are coming home from school with letters from heads and governors in their satchels warning of massive cash shortfalls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ers, was opposed by the Conservatives. Even the reduction in class sizes was opposed by them. Excellence in cities, which is now delivering improvement at GCSE at twice the national average, was dismissed by the Conservatives. Performance pay for teachers was opposed, as was reform of the school work force. We propose, they oppose, and standards rise. And what happens? Do the Opposition apologise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": ". Even the reduction in class sizes was opposed by them. Excellence in cities, which is now delivering improvement at GCSE at twice the national average, was dismissed by the Conservatives. Performance pay for teachers was opposed, as was reform of the school work force. We propose, they oppose, and standards rise. And what happens? Do the Opposition apologise? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Do they learn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I can give the hon. Gentleman a clear answer to that. Imagine the row if we had broken the law, broken the purdah and published politically sensitive material before the local elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The Government's investment is evident in every community in the country. There is a record number of police, over 131,000, up more than 4,000 in one year. There are 10,000 more doctors, 50,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is the Secretary of State?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "r. There are 10,000 more doctors, 50,000— [Interruption.] The Opposition say they do not believe it, but it is evident in every constituency in the country. They never visit their hospitals. If they went and visited, they would see the difference. It is significant that the shadow Secretary of State for Education and Skills could not manage to be present for any of the debate this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Survival.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "t fewer; not more police, but fewer; not more teachers and support staff, but fewer. The Conservatives' last education manifesto said that they would match Labour spending pound for pound on education and health. Let us search for that manifesto now; it has even been removed from their website, as they are so ashamed of that commitment. However, the Leader of the Opposition has a new policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": ". Members: \"Survival.\"] Indeed, he has two new policies, one of which is to survive. He referred to a target of \"20 per cent. savings across the board in government spending\" and said: \"We are beginning to come up with figures\". We are waiting for those figures. Cuts of 20 per cent. across the board would cut, on average, about 12 teachers in every secondary school and about 300 staff in each LEA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-29", "file": "debates2003-04-29.xml", "sha256": "46db97dd971b78d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Community Services", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "target of \"20 per cent. savings across the board in government spending\" and said: \"We are beginning to come up with figures\". We are waiting for those figures. Cuts of 20 per cent. across the board would cut, on average, about 12 teachers in every secondary school and about 300 staff in each LEA. [Interruption.] Opposition Members do not like hearing about it because they cannot explain it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-29.258.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I understand why my hon. Friend raises the issue. I simply say that I reconfirm the Wilson doctrine but I do not and will not comment on security matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ion to the fact that the average council tax is lower in Labour areas, let me say—of the local income tax, which is part of the Liberal programme. It states that \"we are happy to say we would expect an average of around 3 per cent.\", in terms of the increase in income tax as a result of that policy. The briefing then goes on to say: \"however, we don't want to be drawn extensively into this\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.293.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "For a very simple reason: four countries were involved yesterday and 11 were not. We are part of the 11.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.294.6", "colnum": "294", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " the others, as the Prime Minister rightly says, is the fact that he started this whole process at St. Malo years ago. He now has seen and will witness the fact that he has become a spectator while others shape the Euro army to break NATO, so he has no one to blame but himself. It is clear from yesterday that the Germans want a separate budget, that the Belgians want a separate headquarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.294.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No. The very reason why the meeting was held yesterday is that those countries were not satisfied with our initiative, which tied European defence to NATO. That is precisely why they felt the need to do what they did yesterday. That is why it was not a good idea for us to be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No. The very reason why the meeting was held yesterday is that those countries were not satisfied with our initiative, which tied European defence to NATO. That is precisely why they felt the need to do what they did yesterday. That is why it was not a good idea for us to be there. [Interruption.] Actually, the right hon. Gentleman agrees with me that we should not have been there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "at those countries were not satisfied with our initiative, which tied European defence to NATO. That is precisely why they felt the need to do what they did yesterday. That is why it was not a good idea for us to be there. [Interruption.] Actually, the right hon. Gentleman agrees with me that we should not have been there. [Interruption.] Yes. So we are in agreement, and that is a very good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.295.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ive, which tied European defence to NATO. That is precisely why they felt the need to do what they did yesterday. That is why it was not a good idea for us to be there. [Interruption.] Actually, the right hon. Gentleman agrees with me that we should not have been there. [Interruption.] Yes. So we are in agreement, and that is a very good thing. [Laughter.] I have been a bit short of that recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.295.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote Labour!", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Sawford", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed that the four Labour-controlled councils in Northamptonshire have set the lowest tax increases this year, and that the three Conservative councils have set the highest? With local elections taking place tomorrow, has he any advice for voters in Northamptonshire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where's the Chancellor off to?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. [Hon. Members: \"Where's the Chancellor off to?\"] The Chancellor of the Exchequer may want to listen to this point of order, of which I have notified him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.305.9", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "at which the Government might initiate the process for a further referendum. That five-year period has always been our policy objective. We were conscious of the fact that the preliminary soundings would shorten that five-year period in practice, so the extension to seven years is designed to achieve the policy effect, while recognising the practicalities. That is an entirely sensible way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.305.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.320.2", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "d involve crossing the Northumberland and Durham boundaries, there could be a wider county, which would cover both Northumberland and Durham. I do not raise that matter to alarm my hon. Friend. I mention it only because that is implicit in the proposals. There are other parts of the country where I suspect that such an outcome might be more likely, so he should be aware that that is a possibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "iance with Conservative peers and bring those proposals back to this House for a further airing. They chose to abandon all those long-held objections to the Bill's structure, including that on imposed unitary authorities, in exchange for Government support for this cynical arrangement, which conceals and will conceal from the electorate the true consequences of a yes vote in a regional referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": ", in the other place there is a real chance to achieve some of the changes that we and the Liberal Democrats sought. There is a real chance to change this Bill and incorporate some of those provisions that we argued for in Committee and on Report. Liberal Democrats know that they had a real chance of securing a Government compromise in the other place because of the self-imposed time limits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Regional Assemblies (Preparations) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ommon-sense, practical solution to a fundamental problem with the Government's original proposals. We have also persuaded the Government that they should use their best endeavours to publish a draft Bill before the first referendum. That is a significant victory. I accept that that is not in the Bill, but the Government are on record to that effect, having been previously opposed to that solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ary to serve on it with him. How can we be sure of the impartiality and integrity of the Committee if members and pseudo-members of the Government serve on it? How can we expect the Committee to examine the relationship between the House and the Government in a proper, impartial and balanced way if at least two of its members are members—albeit one of them marginally—of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-04-30", "file": "debates2003-04-30.xml", "sha256": "02326338ffb6635d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Modernisation of the House of Commons", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "rely share it. Nor do I think that his views on the Modernisation Committee will be widely shared in the House. There will be a constituency for them, consisting of the arch-traditionalist viewpoint, and there is nothing wrong with that. I recognise that a sense of security, comfort and stability derives from that viewpoint, but perhaps it is tinged by the extremist element of traditionalist view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-04-30.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-01", "file": "debates2003-05-01.xml", "sha256": "1bec0586fe31911d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Council. He will appreciate that it is not always possible, even with very important issues, to make time available because of the tremendous strain of business that we have in the House. The House will be aware that my right hon. Friend the Member for Livingston (Mr. Cook) announced a Commons calendar last October that gave precise, though provisional, dates of recesses. I remind the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-01", "file": "debates2003-05-01.xml", "sha256": "1bec0586fe31911d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Broadband", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "dband market in the G7, and in opening this important debate I want to concentrate on those challenges. In our debate on rural broadband in Westminster Hall on 25 March , the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Robathan) , who I am pleased to see in his place, referred in generous terms to a report that I wrote on broadband, which was published in 1987. In that I forecast that there would be 600,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-01", "file": "debates2003-05-01.xml", "sha256": "1bec0586fe31911d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.452.4", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Broadband", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I am sure local govt candidates in the hon. Gentleman's Labour association would have been pleased to see him in person, rather than in e-form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-01", "file": "debates2003-05-01.xml", "sha256": "1bec0586fe31911d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Broadband", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "cise term anyway and is used in respect of anything between 100 kilobytes and several megabytes, as I understand it. Higher bandwidth will be offered, largely because of competition. The process is a continuing one and is increasingly sophisticated. People are investigating compression technology, which could allow fibre-optic cable to be laid from every exchange to the remote concentrating units.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-01", "file": "debates2003-05-01.xml", "sha256": "1bec0586fe31911d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "t their nomination papers in by Tuesday? Or are the Government saying, \"Because we have a 200 majority in this House we can do anything—we can roll over Parliament and simply change the dates retrospectively whenever we feel like it, so don't bother to put your nomination papers in\"? Which is it? Perhaps the Secretary of State will answer that, because people require guidance before Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-01.460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.532.4", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "e diverted from our priorities of record investment in public services, achieving full employment and tackling child and pensioner poverty—building a Britain of economic strength and social justice. In the past, in less severe world downturns, as a consequence of the short-termism and economic mismanagement that, I fear, characterised the economic stewardship of the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.532.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.532.4", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": ";building a Britain of economic strength and social justice. In the past, in less severe world downturns, as a consequence of the short-termism and economic mismanagement that, I fear, characterised the economic stewardship of the Conservative party—[Hon. Members: \"Oh no.\"] Ah, yes—Britain was first into recession, last to come out and suffered a deeper depression than other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.532.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "leman peddled his wares as a researcher and Conservative party activist—we have got a note of his record on that matter, and it should be made more widely known—inflation reached almost 10 per cent. He well remembers the time. Today, we have inflation at its lowest level for 30 years—averaging just 2.3 per cent. since 1997. Under the Conservatives, interest rates hit 15 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.543.4", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "e Budget confirmed that that would continue to be our policy. The 1 per cent. increase in national insurance that was announced last year and will be paid from April will go entirely and directly to the NHS. Consequently, by 2008, there will be 80,000 more nurses and 25,000 more doctors than in 1997. The shadow Chancellor described the increase in national insurance contributions as a tax on jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.543.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.546.7", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shouts that out, but he really ought to reflect on his own Government's record in this area. The fact is that when the Conservatives had the opportunity, they did absolutely nothing at all to ensure modernisation and reform of stamp duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.546.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.546.7", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "usiness. There are new duty differentials for sulphur-free fuels and bioethanol, and a new, low-carbon band of vehicle excise duty for the lowest CO2 emission cars, which will allow motorists to save up to £110 per year by choosing such vehicles. We are listening to the calls for an increase in the landfill tax rate of £1 per tonne for this year and next, to provide business certainty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.546.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.555.2", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "ea and commute to London. I asked a well-known economist, who has participated in the deliberations of the Bank of England, for an opinion on the Finance Bill. The comment that I received was that the micro-measures in the Finance Bill were typical of the economic distortions that third world economies pursue, of which it is the job of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to get rid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Beard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Beard", "preceding_text": " strategy, but perhaps all will be revealed when the hon. Gentleman speaks. We on the Labour Benches must not let the intellectual incoherence of the Opposition lull us into any complacency. Harold Wilson's Government of the 1960s was blown off-course by international financial speculation, and the Callaghan Government of the 1970s had to trim policy to accommodate the International Monetary Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "Some schools have done well, and some have done a bit better. However, if the hon. Gentleman examines the overall record, he will see that the health service has gone backwards and that more people are waiting longer in pain without the treatment that they want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Roger Casale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Casale", "preceding_text": "I am keen to make progress, so I shall not give way at this stage. However, I shall see how I get on and if I have a bit of time later I will give way to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "bout how people earn, and we can then look at how they spend their money. My constituency has a close relationship with the textiles industry. Recently, we had one steel business, but, sadly, Bekaerts, the Dutch company concerned, decided that the underwiring for ladies' undergarments did not need to be made in Britain. I am afraid that ladies will no longer be able to buy British underwired bras.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": " the beginning of the election campaign, as it was, we knew precisely that it would have been impossible to have set up an Assembly that could have produced an Executive? What would have been the point of that? In exactly the same way, what would be the point of returning Members to this House of Commons when we knew that could never produce a Government? That is the issue. But a Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "actly the same way, what would be the point of returning Members to this House of Commons when we knew that could never produce a Government? That is the issue. But a Government— [Interruption.] Let me qualify what I have said to Opposition Members. Does the hon. Gentleman think that the Assembly in Northern Ireland is the same as an Assembly in any other part of Europe? Of course it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of the Government stopping and going, but of the process stopping and going. That above all else is what matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": "n a post-election period? Given my concern about his statement and answers to subsequent questions, will he reaffirm that the Good Friday agreement and the joint declaration of the Governments are not negotiable, and will not be frustrated by IRA paramilitarism or Ulster Unionist party intransigence? It was nothing else but the withdrawal of the UUP from the Government that caused the suspension .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-06", "file": "debates2003-05-06.xml", "sha256": "014fa7279e148c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, they are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend would not expect me to comment on issues that are clearly matters of national security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-06.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": "Afghanistan is not worse, as I made clear. If the hon. Lady reads the briefings, the details make that clear: people are being fed, children are in school and being immunised and people are back at work. The position is not worse, but the country was wrecked by 20 years of warfare. It is desperately poor—one of the poorest countries in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "I have just returned this morning from a visit, with the British Limbless Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.682.5", "colnum": "682", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "This morning I met the Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. I know that the whole House will want to welcome him to the Palace of Westminster today, and I am delighted to pay tribute to the brilliant contribution made by Australian forces alongside British and American troops in securing the liberation of Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.682.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I shall give way shortly, but I have given way many times and many other colleagues want to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hon. Gentleman has been present for most of my speech. Perhaps he was asleep for part of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "re to make structural changes that might make the implementation of Conservative policy easier, I would welcome those changes. I find it sad, however, that rules and regulations that might accompany such organisational change will move in exactly the opposite direction from that favoured by Conservative policy. On 10 April , I asked the Government about potential privatisation plans. I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.716.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.718.5", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.718.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "constituency\". The public constituency may include members who are eligible because they have attended an NHS foundation hospital as a patient or a carer. No time limit is specified in the schedule. Schedule 1 also requires foundation hospitals to have a board of governors. Paragraph 7 stipulates that the public and staff constituencies should elect representatives to the board of governors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "mary care—have to wait 12 weeks, as they do not qualify under that policy. Potentially, that is killing patients, and the Secretary of State must say whether he will stop the star rating of quality assessments if he is given clinical evidence that it damages patient outcomes. It is a simple question: if he is shown evidence that targets kill patients, will he stop insisting on those targets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "ificant parts of the Bill, particularly in respect of the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection and the foundation hospitals proposal. We look forward to working in Committee on those aspects of the Bill about which we agree, but I hope that the Government will change significant parts of it. We will oppose it on Second Reading because there are certain measures in it that we are against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "himself a target for what he has done since he took over from the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) , who made a very interesting speech. When the right hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras spoke, Labour Members fell quiet. They seem to remain quiet when one of their number makes a speech that is anti-Government but when a Conservative does so there is some noise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "d mentioned four points from the Health Committee's report. If hon. Members do not have time to read the whole report, there is a one-page summary. The whole all-party Committee agreed the report and our concern about the outcome of the Government's proposals was obvious. We all applaud the national health service, but the idea that the Labour party invented and continues to sustain the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell me whether those on the Opposition Front Bench support the concept of mutuality in health?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "st words, and I was checking what he had said. My answer is that I strongly and passionately believe in a health service free at the point of use for all—a service that provides the greatest improvement in health care for all the people in this country who are eligible, so that they have access to NHS care locally with the minimum of waiting either to see a consultant or for their treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "se the inequalities within health care. Rather interestingly, the hon. Member for Wallasey (Angela Eagle) evoked the spirit of Nye Bevan. I have read the speech that the Secretary of State made last year, in which he managed to invoke the image of Nye Bevan, as if to give respectability to what he sought to do, no less than 17 times in 35 minutes, and I have often mused about what Nye Bevan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-07", "file": "debates2003-05-07.xml", "sha256": "fff6056393620dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.807.9", "colnum": "807", "heading": "HOUSING (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Llew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Llew Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is highlighting the bigotry that prevails in the nationalist community towards people coming into Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-07.807.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-08", "file": "debates2003-05-08.xml", "sha256": "00229f139b2839fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am deeply touched and moved by the congratulations on my birthday. I shall try to learn from the example of my older colleagues in the House about how to conduct myself when dealing with the grave issues that come before us. The right hon. Gentleman's last point was about Scottish Members. It is part of my job, as Leader of the House, to ensure that every hon. Member has the same rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-08", "file": "debates2003-05-08.xml", "sha256": "00229f139b2839fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.841.0", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "It would be nice to see the shadow Leader of the House in a jumper in his bonding session. As there is a growing movement for the removal of wigs in court, is there not a case for the Modernisation Committee to consider the removal of all forms of ceremonial dress—gowns, wigs, swords, gaiters and so on—to bring the Chamber up to date?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-08", "file": "debates2003-05-08.xml", "sha256": "00229f139b2839fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.846.2", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "Notwithstanding the fact that the Leader of the House has announced a debate in Opposition time on education, may we have a debate specifically on money that is being held back or otherwise by local education authorities? We understand from a letter from the Secretary of State that the reason why teachers are being made redundant is that LEAs are holding money back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.846.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-08", "file": "debates2003-05-08.xml", "sha256": "00229f139b2839fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " Gentleman mentions, but the disbursement of money from the centre via LEAs to a myriad schools and other educational institutions is a complex process. Some of the things that he mentions could be the result—I merely speculate—of changing school rolls, changing numbers of teachers and the pressures created by increases in pensions. I am glad to say that the terms and conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-08", "file": "debates2003-05-08.xml", "sha256": "00229f139b2839fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Fire Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You have to be working to go on strike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "But sometimes their constituents dispense with their services. It is the other way round—a consumers' strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-08", "file": "debates2003-05-08.xml", "sha256": "00229f139b2839fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Fire Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I have said that that criticism could be levelled at all our solutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-08.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.4.2", "colnum": "4", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "akes two foolish points; given more time, he would probably have made more. So far as his apparent criticism of open-ended commitments is concerned, I invite him and other Members sitting behind him to think for a second about whether they would want to put a specific date on the conclusion of British military operations, given what has been achieved so far. He is simply making silly points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.4.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "May I say that I share the Foreign Secretary's view that we have lost a redoubtable Secretary of State for International Development? I served as her deputy for four years and she will be missed in the job. However, she has a worthy successor in Valerie Amos, who was a brilliant Minister in the Foreign Office and will do a tremendous job, whichever House she stays in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "On the appointment of my right hon. Friend Baroness Amos, I think that everybody in the House recognises her exceptional qualities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clare Short", "preceding_text": " had been made. I had throughout taken the view that it was necessary to be willing to contemplate the use of force to back up the authority of the UN. The regime was brutal, the people were suffering, our Attorney-General belatedly but very firmly said there was legal authority for the use of force, and because the official Opposition were voting with the Government, the conflict was unavoidable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "I shall enter the Division Lobby against the guillotine motion, which is an outrageous example of the House being brought into disrepute by the charade of our lawmaking process. It is the ultimate example. It was within the competence of the Government to have accorded some extra time for the Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "he realised that he had screwed up: he did not mean Thursday and it was, in fact, published on Friday. The reason it was published on Friday is that it is a complicated Bill and the parliamentary draftsmen did not have enough time to complete it sooner. It is all right for the Government to have as much time as they need to prepare for a complicated Bill, but it is of no consequence to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.69.5", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "There is a net gain. That is the point that I am making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.69.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.69.5", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "There is a net gain. That is the point that I am making. [Interruption.] Obviously, I do not have the figures and the detail with me, but the hon. Lady knows as well as I do that Northern Ireland has the fastest growing economy of all the regions and nations in the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.69.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "I shall come to one or two of those points, if the hon. Gentleman allows me to do so. First, I shall make a general point. As the hon. Gentleman knows—he has been a Member of this place for a very long time—when the House is dissolved, Members of Parliament cease to be Members of the House and cannot continue to use the title MP, but they still get paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "As one member of the Law Society of Scotland to another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "make up my mind as to the insights that the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State may have had. If the IRA had said that there would be no more of the activities in paragraph 13 of the joint declaration, would the Ulster Unionist party have agreed the joint declaration? I do not know the answer to that, although I would dearly love to know it. Maybe we will get an answer at some stage tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": ". Let me say this to him with all seriousness, however, and I want him to listen carefully. There is not a single word of truth in any of it. The next time he feels like repeating those sentiments, he should bear in mind what I have said tonight. If, knowing the truth, he proceeds to say something that is not accurate, there is a term that will clearly apply. Let me make another thing clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "I want to make something else clear, which refers to comments from the same quarter. My colleagues and I have no fear of an election or of its result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.99.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": ". That is precisely the position that those who are opposed to the agreement want to produce. I do not want that position to arise and, although I do not like elections being postponed and I accept that there is a good argument for saying that they should not be postponed, I would rather the measure went through so as to save the agreement. I hope that in so arguing I am not being anti-democratic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "tantly. Clause 6 also provides, however, that if that is not expedient the procedure does not have to have the affirmative resolutions of both Houses of Parliament. The Bill as drafted allows a Secretary of State to alter by statutory instrument, without reference to Parliament, any aspect of the Bill. He can add, retract or amend after Royal Assent. That makes a mockery of our law-making process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-12", "file": "debates2003-05-12.xml", "sha256": "c903f5d19cd3b2e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeffrey M Donaldson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeffrey M Donaldson", "preceding_text": "hat they would use it. In the end, the decision will come down to the parties in the Assembly and to whether the SDLP is prepared to work with Unionists in such a situation. These are serious issues. I regret that the House does not have more time to consider the Bill in detail—we should have that time. We are being denied elections and the right to scrutinise the Bill much more effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-12.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-13", "file": "debates2003-05-13.xml", "sha256": "43486e34c94e8b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "h Historic Vehicle Clubs. I am sure that a number of Members are interested in motor vehicles, and I should declare an interest as vice-chairman of the all-party group on classic cars and vehicles, as well as the proud owner of a defunct and yet to be restored 1954 Ford Popular. I am also on the hunt for a 1952 Austin K9 ex-Desert Rats signals lorry. Both those vehicles run on leaded petrol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-13", "file": "debates2003-05-13.xml", "sha256": "43486e34c94e8b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " tabled an amendment to delay the implementation of some of these proposals; that was a particular concern of the industry. Nevertheless, that does little to help smaller bingo clubs in particular. I end my contribution by pointing out what the Bingo Association itself had to say: \"Bingo clubs and players want fair play. They want to be treated in the same way as those who bet and play the pools.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-13", "file": "debates2003-05-13.xml", "sha256": "43486e34c94e8b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "ng—abolishing bingo duty and moving from a turnover to a gross profits tax. That was the main purpose of our consultation last summer. As a result we have been able to deliver reform in the Budget in a way that both modernises the tax system and gives real financial support to the industry. Although the hon. Member for Moray (Angus Robertson) has just taken his place, I will give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-13", "file": "debates2003-05-13.xml", "sha256": "43486e34c94e8b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.257.4", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "hat the input tax incurred on the purchase of that asset is deductible, but that the business must account for an output tax charge arising over the lifetime of that asset. This treatment is known as the Lennartz approach, after the Lennartz case, the details of which I shall ensure are placed on the record. The case is known as Lennartz v. München III, case C-97/90, reported in 1995, STC514.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-13", "file": "debates2003-05-13.xml", "sha256": "43486e34c94e8b06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "certainly not received one when he raised the issue on 7 May . That begs questions as to why we are addressing this issue but not that. I dealt with this matter at length Upstairs, and although it is tempting to rehearse it in the Committee of the House, it is more important that I have had a response, as I am trying to move the argument on. I have had a response from the Economic Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-13.263.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "In Redhill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.300.8", "colnum": "300", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I am always a little suspicious of polls and I prefer to look at the evidence of individuals who have responded. The hon. Gentleman will probably be interested to know that we have so far had 2,535 responses from the north-west region and 1,530 of those come from his county of Cheshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.300.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that other people often undertake similar exercises. For example, the Liberal Democrat party and its Focus leaflets will probably get a derisorily small number of responses, compared with what we are receiving. Getting 2,500 responses from people represents a very good level of response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It may have escaped the Prime Minister's notice but the reason why I want a referendum is that the British people can say no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What is very clear, as the right hon. Gentleman has just admitted, is that he wants people to say no to European enlargement. That will mean that those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Therefore, the idea that it somehow changes the nature of this county's foreign or defence policy is simply wrong. The truth is that, after a time of very wise silence on the issue of Europe, the right hon. Gentleman has decided to put the Conservative party back in the position of being opposed to Europe, and it is now opposed not just to the single currency but to accession by the 10 new states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.308.6", "colnum": "308", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that we will not be following that policy decision for the simple reason that it would mean an immediate £500 million loss of income to universities in this country. Nothing could be more unfair or more disastrous for universities. It would mean literally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.308.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I cannot comment on what the hon. Gentleman knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The Daily Telegraph are better than mine. In relation to the documents, as the hon. Gentleman knows, the building in Baghdad was not in the British area of control, but the instructions given to coalition forces from the US and the UK were identical. As far as I am aware, every effort was made to secure the documentation and to secure those buildings. Even two days after the fall of Baghdad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "I personally have not made any assessment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "tleman himself and the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. If I were to engage in propaganda devised by the Labour party, I would opt for something more spectacular—but I do not need to, as I can merely report the words that have come from the hon. Gentleman's mouth. I shall now deal with the points raised by the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) . He asserted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.332.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.368.8", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Burnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Burnett", "preceding_text": "I know that would be welcomed by many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.368.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and his party are introducing a new clause. If they want to persuade hon. Members throughout the House, they might find it more constructive to introduce their arguments in a more consensual and less nitpicking manner. The Conservative credentials on Scotch whisky are there for all to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. We have the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, the hon. Member for Stirling (Mrs. McGuire) in her place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "s, we are committed to delivering a fairer balance in the burden of taxation falling between different alcoholic drinks and different types of drink producer, and we have consistently done so, as I said, Budget by Budget, since 1997. The hon. Member for Moray describes the UK duty regime for spirits as discriminatory. On the contrary, we have one of the least discriminatory regimes of any country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-14", "file": "debates2003-05-14.xml", "sha256": "4221dadc8739ea7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections and Periods of Suspension) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "I want to make a few brief comments, as several of the issues have already been dealt with. I reiterate the comments of other hon. Members about the disgraceful proceedings that have accompanied the process governing this legislation. Frankly, for Members of this House to have no opportunity in Committee or on Third Reading to move amendments or to speak is disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-14.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Burnside", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burnside", "preceding_text": "May I declare an interest? I have a pond on my farm in County Antrim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Burnside", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burnside", "preceding_text": "May I declare an interest? I have a pond on my farm in County Antrim— [Interruption.] —I will invite the Minister there. At this time of year, I go to Movanagher fish farm to buy brown trout to stock the pond. All year round, I never see a cormorant, but within 24 hours cormorants come in and eat every one of those trout—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Sayeed", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Sayeed", "preceding_text": " Waste Recycling Bill proposes recycling targets to be achieved by 2010 that would require, in the Minister's words, \"an increase in the level of kerbside collection in the order of 45 to 50 per cent.\".—[ Official Report, Standing Committee B , 10 April 2003 ; c. 238.] Do the Government intend to support those targets or will there be yet another example of when new Labour talks dirty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.455.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.463.2", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "be interesting but are not comparable with the powers of Parliament. I am surprised because the right hon. Gentleman is normally the arch defender of the rights of Parliament rather than the arch exponent of passing major decisions out of Parliament. Secondly, in Britain, Parliament ratifies treaties. We do not hold referendums on them, although that happens in Ireland and several other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I will not respond to the last comment. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman was not drawing any comparison between the way in which we conduct business and the way in which Saddam Hussein conducted business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Of course we will take your strictures to heart on this matter. However, I hope that you will understand that it is possible to give notice of a statement days or months in advance, but not to decide its exact terms until the Cabinet has discussed the issue. We have collective Cabinet discussions of issues, in the course of which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Olympic Games 2012", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "n 2012. This morning, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister telephoned Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, to inform him of our decision. He has told Mr. Rogge that the Government will back to the hilt the efforts of the British Olympic Association, to which I wish to pay tribute, alongside the Greater London Authority, the London development agency and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "dence to back that up. He had not spoken to a single local authority to get the details. His statement was predicated on returns from 70 local authorities, which he made up to get out of the conference with his life. When the Secretary of State attended the National Association of School Teachers and Union of Women Teachers conference, at which the hon. Member for Ashford and I preceded him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. We are used to such behaviour from every Minister who appears. They attack people without proper evidence, yet it is a different matter if anyone attacks the Government without evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": " have made the most sustained investment in our schools for a generation. It is worth remembering where we were, and where we would certainly have remained if we still had a Conservative Government. Some might say that that would be a miracle, but it is no miracle that we have seen a transformation since 1997. Before then, our children had to use the most basic facilities, such as outside toilets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "ite, thanks to £1.3 million of investment from this Labour Government. We are seeing such improvements throughout the country. A redundant and inadequate Victorian village school in my constituency is being replaced by a beautiful, shining new school, thanks to £1 million from the new deal. Indeed, the Tory education spokesman from Kent county council took part in the opening ceremony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": " get a more detailed opportunity to discuss the hon. Gentleman's views on top-up fees, I will happily engage him in debate on that again. I may be one of the very few Labour Members who were enthusiastic about the notion of top-up fees, and I am unrelenting in my support for the concept. That exchange was a distraction but it is important, because it shows that whatever the Tories say today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "at patently did not work. Secondly, after making that miscalculation, we saw the Government make what has been their continual error: after making a mistake, they never admit to it. They make only a desperate attempt to cover it up and then blame somebody else. On this occasion, their failure to admit their error led to local authorities being blamed. There are two sides to the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "stand that a single teacher redundancy resulting from the school funding crisis is significant? One teacher losing her job is more significant than one Minister losing his. My hon. Friend the Member for Ashford said at the outset of our debate that the Minister for School Standards should consider his position. He has now had three hours to do so, and we look forward to hearing his response—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "he is off—there will be a celebration in staff rooms throughout the country at that news. This morning, the Secretary of State denied that he is proposing a quick fix. He may be right about that because a quick fix is the last thing that schools will be able to achieve if all their maintenance budget is used elsewhere. As Doug McAvoy of the National Union of Teachers said this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "n, just a refusal to acknowledge the obvious. The Government has got its sums wrong and schools are suffering as a result.\" The funding crisis is so bad that, in my constituency, the head teacher of the Bollin primary school, Mrs. Marilyn Downs, and a colleague have been pushed to the point where they are prepared even to jump out of an aircraft to raise sponsorship for their school's core budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "join me now in pledging to sponsor Mrs. Downs in her efforts. He can respond when he comes to the Dispatch Box, or later on. I should like to put this question from Mrs. Downs directly to the Minister. As she said to me: \"Isn't it appalling when we have to keep our schools going through sponsored events like this?\" Well, isn't it? Ministers will be judged not by what they say, but by what they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valuable point, and in doing so he praises what is obviously an excellent newspaper that is doing an excellent job in holding the Secretary of State to account. Will schools such as St. Marylebone Church of England school in London still have to ask parents for £100 donations to stave off the need for redundancies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "School Funding", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "reased pressures. Of course there are, and let us look at them. There are increased pressures for money, teaching staff and support staff. The money is promoting recruitment and retention in our schools. New teachers are 70 per cent. better paid, in real terms, than in 1997. We say that that is good. Experienced teachers are 22 per cent. better paid, in real terms, than in 1997. That is also good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-15", "file": "debates2003-05-15.xml", "sha256": "abdfb3a496135ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "National Skills Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": " 2, a \"first\" level 3 or a \"first\" level 4 qualification. That means abolishing fees for part-time and full-time HE students and for part-time and full-time foundation degrees. The Liberal Democrats have been at the front of the campaign to abolish tuition fees, and although we welcome the Tory U-turn this week, I suspect that the Tories' conversion is more to do with vote catching than principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-15.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-16", "file": "debates2003-05-16.xml", "sha256": "c9b0df11d0ebf7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Sunday Working (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "porary issues as national insurance contributions and pensions. I was wondering how she could get the euro, my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Clare Short) and whether Celtic or Rangers would win the premier league into her speech. I look forward to hearing whether the hon. Member for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (Mr. Duncan) is backing Celtic or Rangers for the title—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-16", "file": "debates2003-05-16.xml", "sha256": "c9b0df11d0ebf7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Sunday Working (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "re people in work today than ever before, the economy—which is under the excellent stewardship of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—is growing at a faster rate than that of any other G7 country. However, there may be a relative shortage of available labour, so I take the hon. Gentleman's praise of the Government's economic policy in the spirit in which he offered it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-16", "file": "debates2003-05-16.xml", "sha256": "c9b0df11d0ebf7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.601.2", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Sunday Working (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": "r has had a dramatic effect in driving the Scots economy, which has been all but stagnant for the past 18 months. How much worse matters would be without a thriving retail sector that includes not only conventional businesses such as Marks and Spencer in Braehead but the sale of football tickets in retail outlets across Scotland and the retail exchange of sterling and the common European currency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-16", "file": "debates2003-05-16.xml", "sha256": "c9b0df11d0ebf7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Sunday Working (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "ed members of Congress. One of the ways in which they refer to themselves is as lawmakers, which is also what the press and the body politic call them. Perhaps we do not think of ourselves in that way. We certainly do not use that term when we describe ourselves. As a proud Back-Bench Member of a party that has formed an outstanding Government, the opportunity to initiate legislation is curtailed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-16", "file": "debates2003-05-16.xml", "sha256": "c9b0df11d0ebf7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Marine Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "in, this is an essentially laudable measure in what it seeks to achieve and, secondly, I declare that I have something of a constituency interest, which I shall explain for the benefit of the hon. Member for Bolton, South-East (Dr. Iddon) , the Member in charge of the Bill. On the River Crouch, which is part of the northern border of my constituency, there is still a wharf in commercial operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-16", "file": "debates2003-05-16.xml", "sha256": "c9b0df11d0ebf7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Marine Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "I have not seen such analysis, and my hon. Friend is correct that we have a responsibility to the taxpayer at all times. I should have thought, however, working purely from first principles, that this might be the kind of example in which the Government could compensate from the contingency fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-16", "file": "debates2003-05-16.xml", "sha256": "c9b0df11d0ebf7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Marine Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": " Friend's helpful intervention. I recognise the tremendous role that shipping plays in this country; after all, Great Britain is an island nation. Ninety per cent. of our overseas trade and 7 per cent. of our internal trade is carried by sea. As the Minister is aware, I am particularly wedded to the concept of short sea shipping. That, too, may be worthy of mention in his summing up of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-16", "file": "debates2003-05-16.xml", "sha256": "c9b0df11d0ebf7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Marine Safety Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "rchant shipping issues are reserved in Scotland, but the legislation is UK-wide, as that is necessary for the international nature of merchant shipping. However, fire service issues are devolved, and the Bill's fire provisions apply only to England and Wales—the geographical area covered by the Fire Services Act 1947. I hope that is helpful for the hon. Gentleman. As for naval vessels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-16.653.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-19", "file": "debates2003-05-19.xml", "sha256": "9ffc81b69c17ba2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"21st.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": " hear that my hon. Friend is so enthusiastic about those projects, which are very important. I heard some sneers from the Opposition Benches as he spoke, but the creative industries in this country are responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs and for earning billions of pounds of revenue. Opposition Members might sneer at that because they are living in the 19th century, not the 20th century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-19", "file": "debates2003-05-19.xml", "sha256": "9ffc81b69c17ba2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Thank you. That was an excellent book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-19", "file": "debates2003-05-19.xml", "sha256": "9ffc81b69c17ba2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.739.7", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Still does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The defendant, of course, is claiming that he has nothing to do with the jury or the nobbling, and let us assume that they have nothing to do with him at all. However, in the real world, some people engaged in criminality have a great deal to lose from the way in which a trial proceeds. I think I am right in saying that the right hon. and learned Gentleman used to practise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.739.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-19", "file": "debates2003-05-19.xml", "sha256": "9ffc81b69c17ba2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "al matters. It matters because of the structure of justice in its relationship to the citizen, and this is the beginning of a slippery slope away from it. Perhaps it is more than the beginning. The next stage of my argument is also simple and clear. We have to ask whether any great gains will result from this great step. If the proposals were to result in great gains in the cause of justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-19", "file": "debates2003-05-19.xml", "sha256": "9ffc81b69c17ba2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.753.8", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "oks after Middlesex Guildhall, Blackfriars and the old Knightsbridge Crown court, which has moved. It opened its doors on a Saturday recently to explain to the public what happens. It had mock trials, mock pleas and quizzing of judges. It is hugely important that the public feel that it is their place. There were queues at the door to go in, to people's surprise. The public have an interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.753.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-19", "file": "debates2003-05-19.xml", "sha256": "9ffc81b69c17ba2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "Indeed; in fact I was about to quote Kipling in that precise respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-19", "file": "debates2003-05-19.xml", "sha256": "9ffc81b69c17ba2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "When we debated this issue in Committee, I got the distinct impression from the Minister present that the form of words that this Minister wants to jettison was regarded as one of the really important and essential safeguards to prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-19.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He hides it well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is very clever, isn't he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": "e Vatersay Boys are turning the town over. On behalf of every Member of the House, we hope that all the 50,000 Scots who have travelled to Seville, fishermen or not, have a very good time. If I may echo the words of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, I hope that the Celtic team bring back the UEFA cup and that the Vatersay Boys have a very good time convincing their Spanish colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "LORD CHANCELLOR'S DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "Frankly, the hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense. He should consider history. I know that he enjoys discrediting the history of Conservative Governments, but his previous party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Disgraceful!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "I was a member of the Standing Committee on the Criminal Justice Bill, which was one of the most excellent Standing Committees on a Bill that I have ever had the privilege to serve on. The Bill is now back before the House yesterday and today, and, unfortunately, about half of it is new to the House and to members of the Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "Many of the changes to that Bill came out of the 32 Standing Committee sittings to which my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Primary School Tests and Targets", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Let us start with the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.853.4", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Primary School Tests and Targets", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "Having spoken to several primary school head teachers this morning, may I pass on to my right hon. Friend their congratulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill — [3rd Alloted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I have to say that I think the hon. Gentleman is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill — [3rd Alloted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I said yesterday that I wanted to say a word of thanks to the Minister of State, Department for International Development, my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, Central (Hilary Benn) , who was my colleague as Under-Secretary at the Home Office until last week. I wish to repeat that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.966.4", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill — [3rd Alloted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I said a moment ago—the loudness of the hon. Gentleman's voice must have clogged up his ears—that I would deal with the issue, and I shall. I have all sorts of problems in my life, but not fulfilling promises is not one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.966.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill — [3rd Alloted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "rd Falconer—we are very grateful to both. I also thank the Conservative spokesmen for their collaboration—we all tried to work constructively, and succeeded in doing so. As a result, there was much more light and, I hope, less unproductive heat. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) who shouldered with me the burden of a rather long Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-20", "file": "debates2003-05-20.xml", "sha256": "12b2a1ef9a1fad75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill — [3rd Alloted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "It is a pleasure to follow the hon. and learned Member for Redcar (Vera Baird) . I might not have agreed with everything that she said in Committee, especially her comments about the Queen sitting on a jury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-20.976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "e available over the coming years. As a Government, we are committed to ensuring that we have a growing manufacturing sector and a growing service sector in Northern Ireland. As the process of Northern Ireland's returning to be a normal region continues apace, I am sure that the manufacturing sector will continue to survive and thrive. It has already grown by 15 per cent. over the past five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1002.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1004.4", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "So the Prime Minister is not denying that the Chancellor is politically obsessed and outmanoeuvring him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1004.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1004.8", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "st dwell there for a second. Perhaps he will recall saying of the European Union: \"We'll negotiate a withdrawal from the EEC\" because it \"has drained our natural resources and destroyed jobs\". Those are the words of the Prime Minister. I warn him, therefore, that if he wants to get into the past, he should remind himself that, when it comes to Europe, he has done more U-turns than a dodgy plumber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1004.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1008.5", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "up cutting: tuition fees, crime, asylum, bureaucracy—and the Government at the next election. But instead of arrogantly trying to say what we will do, why does he not offer an explanation to the parents of the 700 children who will be on the streets this afternoon? The problem is not just happening in Croydon. Up and down the country, schools have run out of money and teachers face the sack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1008.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1011.2", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The issues to do with the rate of exchange will, of course, be discussed at the time when the assessment is made .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1011.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1011.6", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "that treatment. The vast majority of people get their operations on time, in the NHS, in this country, but, for the first time, if they are unable to get that treatment within a specified time, we are prepared to pay here, abroad or wherever to reduce their suffering. However, all that, including that constituent's operation, could not take place without the investment in the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1011.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "No, and the practice has been unsatisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "es that is being discussed within the Convention is to ensure that there is a two-way street in terms of subsidiarity. There is an important proposal, which I hope will be supported by the whole House, that where the Commission puts forward draft proposals for legislation and that is objected to by a third of national Governments, those proposals must go back to the Commission for reconsideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "tell us that they do not have the capacity for such an extraordinary undertaking. Unless we do something practical about that, power will shift to a centralised Brussels Commission. That will happen if we do nothing. Some people claim that we should have voted against the Nice treaty and that we should now hold a referendum on the Convention. For them, the point of a referendum is to say no to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1034.6", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I will. Ten years ago, I was against all referendums.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1034.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1034.6", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I will. Ten years ago, I was against all referendums. [Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] Yet, since 1997, we have lived in an age of referendums. The question that the Foreign Secretary refuses to answer is: why, if we have a referendum on everything else, can we not have one on the European constitution? As for the Foreign Secretary's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1034.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1040.6", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "of the accession countries can be better recognised and met. In a European Union with new members as diverse as Estonia and Cyprus, not only is conformity ludicrous; it makes flexibility essential. The Europe of the Convention and the constitution is anything but flexible. We are seeing the building of the new superpower to which the Prime Minister referred in his speech in Poland in October 2000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1040.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Francis Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Francis Maude", "preceding_text": "eems to be coming to a conclusion so quickly, as it seemed that it would be protracted forever. I have some history in this matter—the Berlin wall came down and the liberation of east and central Europe from the Warsaw pact took place while I was the Minister with responsibility for Europe. I do not claim all the credit for it—I concede that there were other factors at work, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It still is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "how constitutionally devastating these matters will be, so it is premature to say that we should have a referendum. I have voted against holding referendums in the past, and because of comments that have been made in this debate, I shall share with the House something that perhaps ought not normally to be shared. By the way, in the past, it always used to be \"referendums\", rather than \"referenda\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "stendom. I do not happen to agree. It is absurd to say to the Bosnians, whom we made such a huge effort to defend, that they have no European destiny because they are Muslims. That would be wholly wrong. I do not know whether any hon. Members are foolish enough to oppose eventual Turkish membership of the European Union. If so, I ask them where they think Europa was when she was raped by the bull?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1080.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "including provisions on vote re-weighting and Commission size. But the current Nice Treaty is mainly about political integration, and we cannot support that. Indeed it will make enlargement more difficult, not easier. Furthermore a Union genuinely preparing itself for enlargement would be tackling its biggest obstacle—the CAP.\" That is enough quotations from the Conservative party's history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "to every hon. Member in case they would like to present it themselves to one of their local schools to get over the message that on enlargement the House speaks as one. It is also a great pleasure for me personally to wind up this debate on what might be a rather small Bill but which represents a very big moment in the history of Europe, not simply because it happens to be my birthday today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-21", "file": "debates2003-05-21.xml", "sha256": "f3448b47479276e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "the question of the euro and, of course, the question of the Convention. A number of remarkable allegations have been made about the Convention—some that we have read in the papers and others that we have heard in the debate this afternoon. I think that the right hon. Member for Wells said that the European Union was about to abolish trial by jury. I can assure him that that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-21.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful question. My hon. Friend the Minister of State has met colleagues from Croydon, and will continue to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1137.5", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "mation is not getting through to students, as the Minister admits. That is because the way in which she answered the question was about as clear as mud. Why is she spending so much time and money setting up all these complicated schemes that no one understands, when the simple solution is so obvious? My hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) announced our policy to great acclaim last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for giving us the business. It will not surprise you to know, Mr. Speaker, that I have brought with me an extract from the New Statesman that I think will interest the House. If I may, however, I should like in that context to do something that you know I am very reluctant to do—that is, quote myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"PMPs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": " authentic, however, will the right hon. Gentleman tell us, or will we now get the full advice given by the Attorney-General at each stage of the Iraq episode? I should like the Leader of the House to provide some time for the Prime Minister to come to the House immediately after the recess to give some explanations and, indeed, apologies for the following matters. First, in PMPs on 14 May —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "en part of the enlargement process itself . . . The Convention and its outcome are not prerequisites for accession, the sole legal basis for which is the Accession Treaty.\" The Prime Minister was wrong—plain wrong, factually wrong—and the House of Commons Library says so. Will the Prime Minister come and make another apology to the House for being completely wrong again? It gets worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "litary and, moreover, to their families. I hope that we will be kept fully informed, within the constraints of time and the coming recess. There is another question that affects the Ministry of Defence: what is happening in the Congo? If there is a possibility of our military being involved in the Congo in any way at all, not least in connection with the European security and defence policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1156.2", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "e predictions of gloom and doom that have been made and that normally accompany the allegations that have been repeated again today. As regards Europe, I am sorry that I was not here last night to note the exception that proved the rule on Europe—the Conservatives attempting to prove, in a completely engineered Division, that they had moved forward some decades in their view of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1157.1", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman nods again. He wants me to stand here and say things such as: \"With hindsight the European Union is not acceptable since we joined . . . the whole thing was probably a mistake.\" Those were the right hon. Gentleman's words in his address to the Anti-Common Market League on 21 January —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Adjournment (Whitsun)", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "fleet, Hadleigh castle, overlooking the magnificent Thames estuary, and the wonderful Dutch cottages on Canvey Island. Castle Point people are wonderful. They are hard-working, self-reliant, enterprising and energetic. They deserve a decent environment in which to live, and that is a problem; they do not have one. They are plagued by bad smells—by an awful odour, which is getting much worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Adjournment (Whitsun)", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "It is the second occasion this afternoon that I shall begin my contribution in your presence with a procedural point, Madam Deputy Speaker. There must be a better way to conduct Adjournment debates on recesses. Colleagues who have sat in the Chamber throughout the afternoon have been cutting down their 10 minute speeches to nine, eight, seven or six minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-05-22", "file": "debates2003-05-22.xml", "sha256": "e40693042bf4194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Adjournment (Whitsun)", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which one are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to speak in this traditional and amiably pointless debate. It is reassuring to see the usual suspects in their places. They are a fairly eclectic group—there are supporters of good causes, espousers of lost causes, local press release junkies, sad whingers and, of course, the mad professor types.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-05-22.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-03", "file": "debates2003-06-03.xml", "sha256": "7957799811b2fbef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.8.1", "colnum": "8", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "to bring its large cumulative deficit back into balance. On three occasions, Ministers have refused to answer my parliamentary questions on when the hospital trust will be obliged to write off its cumulative deficit. It is important for the doctors and nurses at the hospital to know what cuts in their services might be threatened, in order to bring the deficit down. I would ask the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.8.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-03", "file": "debates2003-06-03.xml", "sha256": "7957799811b2fbef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend and I have discussed previously, the position of specialist hospitals is somewhat at variance with that of most district general hospitals, for example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-03", "file": "debates2003-06-03.xml", "sha256": "7957799811b2fbef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Surely not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "That sounds suspiciously like a return to precisely the centralised control and Government intervention that the hon. Member for Woodspring warned us against a moment ago. The hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) is a member of the Select Committee as well as a Conservative Front Bencher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-03", "file": "debates2003-06-03.xml", "sha256": "7957799811b2fbef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.14.4", "colnum": "14", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "places—not just for radiographers, but for GPs, doctors, nurses and a whole range of services—that took place under the Conservative Government. We are not only turning around those cuts but securing growth in the service.Radiotherapy training places are now up by 55 per cent. from 1997 levels. Furthermore, radiographers are welcoming the new ways in which they can extend their skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.14.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-03", "file": "debates2003-06-03.xml", "sha256": "7957799811b2fbef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.96.6", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "t, without no-strike powers, ensure that the public secure a fully functioning fire service. The Minister has failed to deal with the question of enforcing a settlement, which, to be blunt, is likely to inflame the mood in the more militant areas. He acknowledged that further strike action would inevitably create a greater risk to public safety. I noticed that the Minister carefully avoided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-03.96.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "e of the hon. Gentleman's question, the turnout in the English local elections was only 30 per cent. The Government are planning to hold the European elections and the English local elections, including the Greater London elections, on the same day next June. There is a strong case for doing the same in Wales. On Europe, this Labour Government have held more referendums than any other Government .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "cluding the Greater London elections, on the same day next June. There is a strong case for doing the same in Wales. On Europe, this Labour Government have held more referendums than any other Government . [Interruption.] The Conservatives have never held a referendum on anything. The treaty that will come out of the European Convention will be subject to exactly the same parliamentary procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.142.7", "colnum": "142", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "One of the Conservatives' problems is their inability to recognise that devolution was designed to allow different parts of the United Kingdom to do things differently. That is what is happening in Wales. The hon. Lady does not, of course, advertise the fact that the Conservatives believe in 20 per cent. cuts in health spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.142.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.143.7", "colnum": "143", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Win Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Win Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his answer, but could he be a bit more precise and let me know what criteria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.143.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.144.7", "colnum": "144", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Presumably, exactly the same logic applies to the borough of Macclesfield, where the turnout was just 30 per cent .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.144.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "But the Prime Minister is equivocating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House, in an interview with The Times and on the \"Today\" programme, did not talk about one person, but about a growing number of members of the security services. The Leader of the House made allegations about the security services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.148.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.149.2", "colnum": "149", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The truth is that nobody believes a word that the Prime Minister is saying now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.150.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.150.2", "colnum": "150", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " it would be my Vietnam; that the middle east would be in flames; and—the latest claim—that weapons of mass destruction were a complete invention by the British Government. The truth is that some people resent the fact that it was right to go to conflict. We won the conflict; thanks to the magnificent contribution of the British troops, Iraq is now free, and we should be proud of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "preceding_text": "Yet again, Greenpeace has today highlighted the use by the Government, in the Home Office, of timber from unsustainable sources. Will the Prime Minister accept that the use of unsustainable timber must be stopped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must let the hon. Lady ask her question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ave no doubt that they will find the clearest possible evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. The alternative thesis is that, having for years obstructed the UN, having had 12 years of sanctions, having kicked out the inspectors in 1998, and having invited an invasion by defying the UN, Saddam decided to get rid of the weapons of mass destruction anyway. That is an odd thesis to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e of the discussions we had on the last evening of the G8 was an interesting and frank discussion between leaders about what we do about states that are repressive and dictatorial. It is self-evidently the fact that we cannot take military action against everyone. What is happening in Zimbabwe is absolutely appalling, but I do not think that anyone is suggesting that we take military action there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.185.5", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "It must be obvious to the hon. Gentleman that the Foreign Affairs Committee has a certain level of security clearance, but it is not a level of clearance that is apt in the circumstances with which we are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Forty-five minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his question. Let me deal with the provenance of the dossier. The 45 days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not accept what the right hon. Gentleman is saying. If he has a copy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "n, because one could be forgiven today for thinking that there are many people who opposed the war on one basis two months ago—that they thought more time should be given to the inspectors, and are now saying that they opposed it on a different basis, namely that Saddam did not have any weapons of mass destruction or did not pose a threat to international peace and security after all.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.209.4", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ce soir.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I have the French transcript of the exact words that President Chirac said. Nowhere did he say that he was ready to contemplate the use of force. What he said—I do not refer to the veto reference—was that if there was a majority of nine on the Security Council authorising war, France would vote no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.217.5", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "hin 45 minutes. It would be useful to know the source of the information, and of the assessment that weapons could be put together in 45 minutes. I ask the Minister to publish that at some stage. There cannot be any possible reason for protecting the source. What was the technical basis of that assessment? It is a precise time. Are we talking about a particular warhead being attached to a missile?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.217.5", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "asis of that assessment? It is a precise time. Are we talking about a particular warhead being attached to a missile? [Interruption.] The Minister will be able to make the case when he winds up. What precise technical reasons underlie the assessment that weapons could be put together in 45 minutes? What was the nature of the weapons? Were they biological weapons, chemical weapons, chemical shells?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "Well, the Foreign Secretary used phrases such as that time had run out, and in different parts of the build-up to the conflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Encore.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " pension above the basic pension level but below the income support level—except that that will be called the guarantee credit level, except that, if one does not have a full basic pension, part of one's private pension has to fill up to the basic pension before the 60p in the pound award cuts in, and above income support levels the 40p in the pound taper cuts in until one ends up with zero.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "rly to say how much but it could be up to 20 per cent.\" The Leader of the Opposition was said to be \"relaxed\" about that target. What will the right hon. Gentleman cut? What damage would a 20 per cent. cut across the board inflict on pension provision? Perhaps that is why the Opposition are committed to abolishing contracting out, as the hon. Member for Havant said in his interesting speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-04", "file": "debates2003-06-04.xml", "sha256": "004bab2f6e3e52b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman cut? What damage would a 20 per cent. cut across the board inflict on pension provision? Perhaps that is why the Opposition are committed to abolishing contracting out, as the hon. Member for Havant said in his interesting speech— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff) would stop chuntering, I might be able to conclude my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-04.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "nisters said. In the context of that, can we be reassured that both the Intelligence and Security Committee and, indeed, the Foreign Affairs Committee will consider those serious accusations by former Cabinet Ministers about the conduct of the Prime Minister and the Government in the run-up to the hostilities in Iraq? I hope that the right hon. Gentleman confirms that. On a different matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.309.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "that both the Intelligence and Security Committee and, indeed, the Foreign Affairs Committee will consider those serious accusations by former Cabinet Ministers about the conduct of the Prime Minister and the Government in the run-up to the hostilities in Iraq? I hope that the right hon. Gentleman confirms that. On a different matter— [Interruption.] Well, I can do more if hon. Members want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, next week can we finally have the debate on pensions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In Government time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was obviously so intoxicated with my performance yesterday that he missed the fact that we had a pensions debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Mr. Speaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Services\"— that is, our intelligence services, which the Government are determined to protect— \"or, as the case may be, GCHQ, the Prime Minister may exclude that matter from the copy of the report\"— in other words, after consultation with the Committee itself. I believe that we should have confidence in that Committee to discharge its functions. Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " Government are determined to protect— \"or, as the case may be, GCHQ, the Prime Minister may exclude that matter from the copy of the report\"— in other words, after consultation with the Committee itself. I believe that we should have confidence in that Committee to discharge its functions. Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker—[Hon. Members: \"Mr. Speaker.\"] I beg your pardon, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman said: \"Well\"— The transcript then says \"(pause)\". He added: \"that's a fascinating parliamentary question, and as I come up to celebrating my twentieth anniversary in the House—a great privilege and honour—I can reflect on that.\" I will allow right hon. and hon. Members to decide how high in the league table of robust defences of our leaders that answer comes .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Show?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House has referred to a transcript from the \"Today\" show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that the Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Salford (Ms Blears) launched sure start month earlier this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Jenkins", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that the Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Salford (Ms Blears) launched sure start month earlier this week. [Hon. Members: \"What?] He will also be aware that sure start, which is run by dedicated staff, works in some of the poorest areas in the country and with some of the poorest and most deprived people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Let me ask two simple questions that might help the hon. Gentleman. Does he believe the BBC reporter who says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " might help the hon. Gentleman. Does he believe the BBC reporter who says— [Interruption.] No, he does not—fine. In that case, he does not have to believe that there is anybody in any way connected with intelligence who has briefed the BBC reporter. If, on the other hand, he believes the BBC reporter, by definition he must believe that someone has said something who is connected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "You said earlier, Mr. Speaker, that I may not have been giving an answer of the necessary quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "erished and valuable member of the Commonwealth. We remember it for its bravery in the second world war and it is a considerable economic success story. The Baltic states have their own rich heritage. Estonia is famous for its beauty. What has characterised Estonia above all is its clear commitment to liberal economics. It has reduced taxation and is having to reimpose tariffs and subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "lt between the Slovakian majority and Hungarian minority. Hungary's national spirit was fiercest in the resistance against communist tyranny. It now has a sturdy democracy and a growing economy. Budapest is recognised now as one of the great cities of Europe. Slovenia is an exemplar in a troubled part of the world. Alone of the former Yugoslav republics, it has avoided the horrors of civil strife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Minister for those comments—obviously, what I read in one of this morning's newspapers was not entirely accurate. However, the fact is that Lord Hannay's tenure is coming to an end, and I am very happy to endorse the Minister's comments. Indeed, I did say that Lord Hannay has played an important part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I want to speak briefly about the importance of clause 1 to the Baltic states and specifically to Estonia, for obvious reasons. During the collapse of the Soviet Union, The Irish Times ran a cartoon depicting Estonia as a greenhouse filled with burly Russians chucking the local population around. The caption said simply, \"People who live in glasnost shouldn't throw Estonians.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "ement. I apologise to the hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Moore) that a letter that I sent out muddled his first name with that of the hon. Member for West Suffolk (Mr. Spring) . However, with their support, I have sent an enlargement poster to every hon. Member and I invite those present to take this poster, which is designed for secondary schools, to the secondary schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "y and Austria as a favoured country for immigration is based on polling that has not been updated since 1998. It is thus probable that the UK would be even more popular than the research suggests for two reasons: the prevalence of the English language among younger and more footloose professionals, and the relative economic performance of the UK versus Austria and Germany over the past five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "With respect, I am astonished. That is exactly what I have been explaining for the past 10 or 15 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-05", "file": "debates2003-06-05.xml", "sha256": "aed05f4142a9cc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "European Union (Accessions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "They were, but they were also rescinded early. In the UK, they were not enforced beyond, as I recall, about two years, even though they were lifted after six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-05.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-09", "file": "debates2003-06-09.xml", "sha256": "235bb7a141a2fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.387.8", "colnum": "387", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "Many sub-postmasters and postmistresses have been energetic in promoting the Post Office card accounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.387.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-09", "file": "debates2003-06-09.xml", "sha256": "235bb7a141a2fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Butterfill", "preceding_text": " are now prepared to underwrite this type of business. That situation has largely come about because of no win, no fee and the chasing after business by unscrupulous solicitors. There may be a need not just for adequate risk assessment, but also to cap liability, as has been done in some other sectors, so that those engaged in proper risk management will not incur an unlimited amount of liability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-09", "file": "debates2003-06-09.xml", "sha256": "235bb7a141a2fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.404.6", "colnum": "404", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "Well, of course, we are all working hard, as one might expect, to make up for the work load of my right hon. Friend the former Minister for Pensions, who was well known in the Department for working from noon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.404.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-09", "file": "debates2003-06-09.xml", "sha256": "235bb7a141a2fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.415.0", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "hs 6.89 and 6.92, that fluctuations in the housing market might be damped, and sets out how they might be damped by an increase in stamp duty or by charging capital gains tax on residential property. Perhaps the Chancellor will tell us whether that is what he had in mind. Is he suggesting that the choice for this country, in the euro, would be between even higher taxes and even more boom and bust?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-09", "file": "debates2003-06-09.xml", "sha256": "235bb7a141a2fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "tion the estimates of an increase in output as a result of membership of the euro. He fails to give a balanced account of the national economic interest. The reason for that is that he is against the euro on grounds of dogma, even if it is in the national economic interest to join. Even if it were good for jobs, he would refuse to join. Even if it were good for investment, he would refuse to join.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-09", "file": "debates2003-06-09.xml", "sha256": "235bb7a141a2fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Gentleman was describing events at a Conservative party conference. As far as the exchange rate mechanism is concerned, this has all become a bit much: a Conservative Government took Britain into the exchange rate mechanism. They took the country in at the wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-09", "file": "debates2003-06-09.xml", "sha256": "235bb7a141a2fd68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "\"Stand up, Smith. You've pleaded guilty to drunken driving, you're fined £500 and disqualified for one year\"; and Smith says, \"I'll pay straight away\" and out comes the money. I am not sure that a collection order has been made. I will be corrected if I am wrong. If it has not, is there a discount for such a person? I simply do not know. Funnily enough, I have never been much of a fan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-09.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.524.4", "colnum": "524", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Flush them out!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I will go to the United Nations Security Council for a resolution when I believe that we will win a resolution. What would be a disaster—no doubt under the right hon. Gentleman's diplomacy it would already have happened—is for us to go to the Security Council with the certain prospect that such a resolution would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The appearance of members of the Prime Minister's staff before Select Committees is a matter for the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": ";[Hon. Members: \"And the House.\"] Ultimately for the House, of course, but initially for the Prime Minister, who will clarify the matter. I recall that the hon. Gentleman made a fine speech on 18 March , summing up the resolution that was agreed overwhelmingly by the House. On that occasion he was unequivocal in his support for the military action on the basis of the evidence then available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.527.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.543.2", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill (Carry-Over)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " permit carry-over of a Bill by resolution of the House for an experimental period, but that no Bill should be carried over for more than one extra Session. The Committee argued in paragraph 38: \"If we are serious about providing for better scrutiny then we most adopt a longer time perspective which permits more time and more thorough scrutiny. That can only come from the wider use of carry-over.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.545.3", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill (Carry-Over)", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ble, I have no doubt that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary will be only too willing to discuss that allocation of scrutiny time with Members on both Opposition Front Benches. I see that the hon. Member for Cotswold is nodding. I do not concede that there was inadequate scrutiny in the past, but, if there was, surely we should all welcome the fact that there will be additional scrutiny in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill (Carry-Over)", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I am not sure when the Bill will be printed, but I will find out and pass the information to the hon. Gentleman. I will ensure that the Bill is printed in good time, because I accept his point. I would envisage that the statutory instruments and other elements will be published by September and that all the necessary Government amendments will be tabled then, to allow time for consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill (Carry-Over)", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "ails. The Committee will consider technical amendments and Government concessions, compulsory purchase orders, unitary development corporations and Crown immunity. That is four elements, rather than six, as the hon. Member for Cotswold suggested. It is in the Government's interest that the new elements, which will constitute about a third of the overall package of elements for consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill (ReCommittal)", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "I contend to the Minister that as I have cajoled and pleaded with him in the debate on the previous two motions, the Bill should be recommitted to Standing Committee without any guillotine—let alone the measly and inadequate eight sittings that the Minister is prepared to offer us—I should, and will, urge my colleagues to oppose the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "preceding_text": "I hope that I have made my point, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.633.5", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that the economies of the tunnel do not relate to the users of the tunnel alone? The economies of the tunnel affect people throughout Merseyside and far beyond—people in north Wales, east Lancashire and, in some circumstances, Cheshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.633.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-10", "file": "debates2003-06-10.xml", "sha256": "49142d834e57d32b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.641.6", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "hanism has been devised by the MPTA, in consultation with representatives of my constituency, it is perfectly in order for me to argue in favour of these sorts of delays. One of the documents associated with the Bill—the promoter's statement—includes an interesting graph, showing future traffic growth. Unfortunately, we do not have the facility to display graphics in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-10.641.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is too much noise in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.670.5", "colnum": "670", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We set out the measures that will be taken over the next year, and said that we would return to the assessment in the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.670.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "was he not? This is what it says on its website now: \"Conservatives Against a Federal Europe has closed down and will remain closed while Iain Duncan Smith is leader of the Party.\" In other words, the only reason it has closed down is that the lunatics have finally taken over the asylum. The disaster for British business and Britain is the policy that the right hon. Gentleman actually believes in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend read the Treasury documents on the euro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is that the Convention does not in fact put forward proposals that fundamentally alter the constitution of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dai Havard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give him a job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dai Havard", "preceding_text": "Given that it is the season of reshuffles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Occupational Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Occupational Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": " allows. No one is more seized than I am of the importance of getting on with this. To return to a point raised by the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) about a pensions crisis, I have to tell the House that I would not be introducing these wide-ranging radical measures if I did not accept the scale of the challenge, and the scale of anxiety that is afflicting pensioners in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have some sympathy with the right hon. Gentleman, but the matter should be dealt with through the usual channels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "uropean Union should only be ratified by Parliament once it has received the consent of the British people, democratically given in a referendum. This is a straightforward and democratic motion that I hope will win widespread support across the House. It is also a timely motion, as it is being debated on the eve of the national referendum on a referendum that is being conducted by the Daily Mail .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.705.5", "colnum": "705", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I listen with interest to the right hon. Gentleman's comments. The calling of a referendum has been Conservative policy for some six months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.705.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.716.7", "colnum": "716", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "his is a short debate. Given that the tendency that now wishes to see the United Kingdom gradually forced out of the European Union is now in control of the Tory party, the British people are presented with a clear choice: a choice between a party that seeks to play a patriotic role in the European Union to boost British jobs, British prosperity and British influence; and a party that seeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.716.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "embers, but the system does not work with 15 members and it would be impossible to make it efficient with 25 members. A permanent chair of the European Council would be directly accountable to member Governments and member states and would create greater efficiency and effectiveness on our behalf. I turn to the constitution proposed by the Tory party. I am an assiduous reader of Conservatives.com.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.722.3", "colnum": "722", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "We are an indivisible whole, as ever. With respect, I do not claim expertise on the common fisheries policy but I shall write to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.722.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "descendants of people from the enlargement countries will participate in the first enlargement celebration here in the House of Commons. What a sad message the right hon. Gentleman is sending out. The Conservatives' policy was opposed to the Nice treaty. They wanted a referendum on the Nice treaty. In other words, they wanted to block enlargement. That would have been the effect of their campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": "munity—which essentially allow the Council to do virtually anything in pursuit of establishing the internal market, and go very wide indeed—must be reined in, because although that mechanism has not yet been exploited to the full, it might well be. My sixth point concerns the provision on the right to withdraw. I hope that that remains. That is not to say that I want to withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that we did not play a part in it, but that by a series of salami slices we have come an enormous distance from a grouping for economic purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "European Treaty Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": " Foreign Minister? The proposal, set out in article 127, is something new. What will that Minister actually do? Where will his office be? For whom will he speak? We will also have a European ombudsman. Well, we have an ombudsman in Britain who does not appear to be a wonderful success. What will the European ombudsman do? To whom will he be responsible? How much will it cost? What is it all about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Post Office Card Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "That just goes to show that the system has not been thought through adequately. The system is complex, and it was not advertised properly. Individuals are being pushed away from the Post Office card account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.766.0", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Post Office Card Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I hope to address some of those concerns during my speech. However, the present Government, unlike the previous Conservative Government, have invested record levels in the post office network—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.766.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-11", "file": "debates2003-06-11.xml", "sha256": "a88220e84a4e7138", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.801.8", "colnum": "801", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Order [12th June 2002] relating to the Standing Committee on the Convention be amended in paragraph (4)(b), by leaving out the words 'or be counted in the quorum'.— [Dan Norris.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-11.801.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.814.2", "colnum": "814", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "st few days—comparisons with industrialising areas—is discounted, and it is stated very clearly that there have been gains in trading in the euro area identified by all the studies that have been carried out, which he cannot deny. Of course the issue is sustainable convergence, because we are not going to make the mistakes of the exchange rate mechanism era with which he is associated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.814.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The party that has a problem with credibility on matters European is the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The party that has a problem with credibility on matters European is the Conservative party. [Interruption.] Let us recall the following: interest rates at 15 per cent., 10 per cent. inflation, 1 million jobs lost in manufacturing, unemployment up by 1 million, negative equity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "r cent.—a high level in today's interest rate environment—to 9 per cent. of GDP? On the figures that he has just given, does the right hon. Gentleman accept that if one adds to those the liabilities guaranteed by the Strategic Rail Authority, the figure is 15.5 per cent. of GDP, or 12 per cent. of GDP, which the Government have off balance sheet, resulting from PFI and PPP liabilities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "May I ask the present Leader of the House if he will please give us the business for next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "e for people to discern the difference between the approach to Europe of the Labour party and that of the Conservative party. I do not believe that any Labour Member could quite match some of the views that have been expressed in the Conservative party. As one hon. Member has said, there are millions of people in this country who are white, Anglo-Saxon and bigoted, and they need to be represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "at \"Timothy has put together his amendments and drawn on his discussions with colleagues in the European Parliament\"— Conservative ones, that is. Under article 1-19 of that alternative treaty is included the astounding opening sentence: \"The European Parliament shall, jointly with the Council, enact legislation\". I did not know that this was the Conservative party's policy until I read that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.859.5", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is the mission?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I shall not reiterate the basis on which the multinational force has been put together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.859.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.862.2", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "If the situation changes, the planning changes, and the decision changes accordingly. It is no different from any other mission into which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "it was short, I picked up many important messages from our troops, ranging from senior commanders to front- line soldiers. I was delighted to be accompanied by the hon. Members for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) and for Hereford (Mr. Keetch). However, I must tell the House that I learned from a press release issued by the hon. Member for Hereford afterwards that I had accompanied him on his visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "main battle tank and the modified SA80 A2 rifle. While I am on the subject of equipment, I am pleased that today we have announced the result of a competition to further enhance the precision-guided strike capabilities of the RAF. That £120 million programme will be met by Raytheon's Paveway 4 system. The weapon will be built in the UK and will sustain some 200 jobs around the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ttention to that. The International Criminal Court is an issue now coming to the fore. Will the Minister tell us the Government's view of attempts to haul those responsible for the conduct of the campaign before the ICC? General Tommy Franks is exempt, because the US has not signed up. There is no such luck for Admiral Boyce who was Chief of the Defence Staff when the campaign was under way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": "nt topic of armed forces personnel, although, as is usual with defence debates, it has ranged fairly widely around that subject. I am genuinely grateful to all right hon. and hon. Members who contributed and who turned up. I do not know the reason for the absences on the Opposition Benches—presumably, on the Government Benches, it is because my hon. Friends are sitting by their phones—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-12", "file": "debates2003-06-12.xml", "sha256": "ce717b21a6576585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lewis Moonie", "preceding_text": " ease of access by the families to the advice and information that they most need at the most appropriate time. I should also highlight a change that we have made. In response to immediate concerns about housing, bereaved families occupying service accommodation may now stay for as long as they need to determine their long-term housing needs, and I hope that, like me, the House welcomes that move.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-12.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-13", "file": "debates2003-06-13.xml", "sha256": "f99ff7512f917a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "on from the new Leader of the House that he would like to come to the House to make a statement today. Yesterday, an announcement of enormous constitutional significance was slipped out on the television news. I do not know whether Her Majesty was informed, but certainly their lordships' House was not informed, nor were we, that the Government intended to abolish one of the great offices of state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-13", "file": "debates2003-06-13.xml", "sha256": "f99ff7512f917a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Fireworks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "0 or 15 years, the traditional British private little firework party will cease and one will not go along to the local Woolworth's to buy a little box of fireworks. May I deal with amendment No. 40? The point about the decibel limit is very serious. As my hon. Friend the Member for Christchurch said, the definition of fireworks is important. I do not think that either of us wants to kill the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-13", "file": "debates2003-06-13.xml", "sha256": "f99ff7512f917a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Fireworks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "preceding_text": " are not a problem. The intention behind the Bill is that fireworks are used responsibly and enjoyably. I am conscious that today is Friday 13—black Friday, as far as many are concerned—and it would be a black day if two Conservative Members were able to destroy the work done over the past few months to reach agreement with all sections of the industry and with voluntary organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-13", "file": "debates2003-06-13.xml", "sha256": "f99ff7512f917a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Fireworks Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " . I know that he has done a great deal of work on the Bill, and we all want it to improve life for our constituents, but that is not to say that it is perfect. We have expressed our concerns before, and the amendments go to the heart of those concerns. We do not distrust the Minister, but as we all know, Ministers, and Governments, come and go. I hope that the Minister is still here this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.946.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-13", "file": "debates2003-06-13.xml", "sha256": "f99ff7512f917a78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.998.17", "colnum": "998", "heading": "DISABLED PEOPLE (DUTIES OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Friday 11 July .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 16 May ], That the Bill be now read a Second Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-13.998.16"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ies from central government and not local authorities. The White Paper said that regional assemblies would make a real difference with powers over economic development, jobs, investment, transport, planning, housing, culture, arts and sport. Elected regional assemblies will bring greater democracy and a new political voice to the regions. They will reduce bureaucracy rather than increase it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "councils that are opposing the proposals—set up a review in their own areas and 70 per cent. of the people said that they wanted a referendum. That is the county councils themselves: they paid for that review and more than 70 per cent. said that they want a referendum, so I am a little cautious when I hear the right hon. Gentleman talking about them. In all these referendums, Cheshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "their own areas and 70 per cent. of the people said that they wanted a referendum. That is the county councils themselves: they paid for that review and more than 70 per cent. said that they want a referendum, so I am a little cautious when I hear the right hon. Gentleman talking about them. In all these referendums, Cheshire— [Interruption.] Well, it was part of the County Councils Network.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.31.4", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I cannot do the quick calculation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.31.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her remarks. The White Paper makes it clear that we wish to achieve proper representation. We recognise that we need a form of proportional representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.33.5", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am just trying to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.33.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.36.4", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I think that the document is available, and the hon. Gentleman can check the validity of my answers. Of course there was a majority in the north-west. The figure was not aggregated in that sense. I have the figures before me at the moment, and they show that more than 50 per cent. of those in the north-west agreed that they should have a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.36.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "This morning on the radio, the Minister for Local Government and the Regions said that if the turnout was derisory in one of the referendums, the plans would not go ahead. Given that in the north-west there was a turnout of 0.0005 per cent. in the soundings exercise, which the Deputy Prime Minister describes as a high level of interest, what is his definition of derisory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Speaker's Absence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to leave the Chair; I say to the right hon. Gentleman that I am very touched by his remarks, but when I was at Rolls-Royce in Hillington, I only had to ask the foreman for a day off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "May I begin by congratulating the Minister on his promotion and change of Department? I see from today's Evening Standard that he has wasted no time in putting the fares up on the railways. Whether he is to be congratulated on that, I am not sure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "ertainment on their premises. That is not the case. When the local authorities look at the operating schedule and what is proposed, they will come round to inspect. In the local authorities that I know, when such people get involved, they then start nit-picking. They will say, \"If you have more than a certain number of people in here, you must put in a new fire door, a new exit, do this, do that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "n number of people in here, you must put in a new fire door, a new exit, do this, do that.\" [Interruption.] I ask the hon. Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) to talk to the publicans in his area. I have talked to publicans in my constituency, and those who have recently applied for public entertainment licences do not complain about the cost of that application, although I accept the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.94.5", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "I do not want to challenge the Minister, but perhaps he will point out the column of Hansard in which the Brecon jazz festival was mentioned in Committee. I do not remember it being mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.94.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "We discussed such things in a debate on an amendment this evening, and the Historic Houses Association has given that exact example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "It is clear that the Government should amend the programme motion to allow an extra hour for Third Reading, as many Members, from all parties, would like to contribute to our debate. May I repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.179.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-16", "file": "debates2003-06-16.xml", "sha256": "a4b13c25d9efa189", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.183.7", "colnum": "183", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 18 June , pursuant to Orders [ 28 June 2001 and 29 October 2002 ]. Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118(6)(Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) ,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-16.183.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.197.2", "colnum": "197", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "One of the reasons for being a Member of Parliament is to have such access to Ministers. Clearly, Members will weigh in the balance how often they need to see Ministers, but I want to make it clear that it is perfectly possible to see us. I think that my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, before he left for Northern Ireland, mentioned something about a meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.197.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "arliament is in charge of health in England, imposing on England a foundation hospital system that was rejected in Scotland, yet no English Member is allowed a say on health policy in Scotland. Another Scottish Member is responsible for transport in England while defending the interests of Scotland, yet is apparently reporting to an unelected English Minister in another place. Last Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.217.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman recognise these words: \"I must accept that we would need a supreme court of the kind that the United States has. I believe that the Supreme Court has served the US extraordinarily well and has, on occasion, been radically and robustly independent from both the Executive and the legislature\".—[ Official Report , 1 February 1999; Vol. 324, c. 653 .] They are his own words from 1999", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.219.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "n by the grinning idiocy behind him. Even Comical Ali would have been proud of that performance. The right hon. Gentleman lashed out wildly, missing his target every time—except when he congratulated me on my wedding; then he was spot on, and I am very grateful for what he said. The speech of the right hon. Gentleman was interesting for one reason. It was all process, and no substance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.226.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment, but I want to make some progress before I take any more interventions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The roles have not merged. I am the Secretary of State for Wales, and there is a distinct Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asked me a perfectly straightforward question; I am giving a perfectly straightforward answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.231.5", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why item 11, Scottish Affairs, on today's Order Paper quite clearly says: \"Witnesses: Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, Secretary of State for Scotland\" and goes on to refer to \"Mr David Crawley, Head of Department at the former Scotland Office.\"? Can the right hon. Gentleman explain who is responsible for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.231.7", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wait for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "hey were before 1999, were going to go on exactly the same as before into the great blue yonder once you had a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly.\" I am a generous man, so let me make one retraction. A moment ago, I said that the Conservative party had opposed all our constitutional reforms since 1997. That was deeply unfair, and I plead forgiveness and your indulgence, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.231.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That really was hard work as a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "nce to the Home Affairs Committee on 17 March 1998 , he said: \"I am wondering whether it— the judicial appointments system— \"could not all be brought more into the open . . . by having a different system for example a judicial appointments commission.\" He has also said: \"I think there is a very strong case for having a supreme court that is in the same position constitutionally\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.236.5", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, Lord Bingham has also said: \"I think there is a very strong case for having a supreme court that is in the same position constitutionally as the supreme courts of every other country in the world, whether it be in the US, Canada, Australia, India or France\". Furthermore, he has said, \"To modern eyes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.239.7", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I never described reform of the European constitution as just a tidying-up exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.239.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.239.9", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Indeed. On the point about crime, my hon. Friend's constituents, like mine, will be more interested in crime and the problems of crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.239.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": " exists and that he is an independent Minister. What are the constitutional implications of the reshuffle for Wales? At present, despite the speculation in the press, they are zero—zilch, nothing. The Secretary of State and the Under-Secretary continue in their roles and, at Welsh questions, the House will have a Welsh Minister at the Dispatch Box. Their staff can sleep secure in their jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "e changes were discussed. They range from the very profound, such as the fact that—as even the hon. Member for Rhondda would acknowledge—the Lord Chancellor's ancient office has attached to it some exceptionally important functions that must be discharged by somebody, to what some would consider trivial, such as who presents the Queen with the speech at the state opening of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I was the party's spokesman on constitutional affairs at that time, and I did not think that the system worked all that well, to be honest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": " placed here—as I was about to mention that point. I was a little critical of the fact that, initially, the situation was—if I am allowed to quote No. 10 spokespersons, as I undoubtedly am—\"a little hazy\". As the right hon. Member for Horsham said, we should be honest and say what we think, and the situation was indeed a little hazy. However, now that it has been clarified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is always an honest performer and would not want to perform a stooshie on the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "r Ribble Valley as the shadow Secretary of State for Wales. Even more ridiculous is having the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) as the shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. What does Beckenham know about Scotland? The hon. Lady may have a Scottish accent and go on occasional day trips to Scotland, but her appointment is another constitutional outrage. That is why we take the stooshie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "d solution with a part-time Secretary of State, Scotland needs that transfer of powers, with the functions of the Scotland Office returned to the Scottish Parliament. That is what I want; that is what we require in Scotland and that is what will enable Scotland to move forward. Scotland's economic growth is half that of the United Kingdom as a whole. We have the worst unemployment in the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": " the Scotland Office returned to the Scottish Parliament. That is what I want; that is what we require in Scotland and that is what will enable Scotland to move forward. Scotland's economic growth is half that of the United Kingdom as a whole. We have the worst unemployment in the UK—[Hon. Members: \"That is not true.\"] We need to transfer powers to Scotland so that we can move forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " of the amendment and one sees all the usual new Labour-speak, which is no more than drivel, and it is supposed to be a defence of the Government position. One looks at expressions such as \"welcomes the Government's continuing drive to modernise the constitution . . . focused on improving the criminal justice system\" and \"consulting on establishing an independent Judicial Appointments Commission\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shadow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": " it is traditional to congratulate those who have taken part in it. In the current circumstances, I wonder whether the use of the word \"traditional\" is correct. We have had a debate that started by pointing out the farce of the Prime Minister's reorganisation but that has descended into tragedy. We started with the part-time shadow Secretary of State for Wales and shadow Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I take back what I said about the hon. Gentleman. I now do not think that he has any chance of becoming shadow Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.279.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.281.5", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, a big issue.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman tell me whether the Scotland and Wales Offices will continue to issue separate departmental reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.281.6", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "To discuss that issue, the Opposition cancelled an Opposition debate on education. I wonder whether members of the public watching our debate will realise that the prospects for a future Conservative Administration hang on the issuing of departmental reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.281.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Government Reshuffle", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "It is rare for the Opposition to clarify their views on such matters in Opposition day debates. No doubt we will have myriad written parliamentary questions from the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) about tea trolley issues, and I am sure that in due course Hansard will be full of answers to those.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.287.4", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Community Pharmacies", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "Good. I shall not make my remarks about her until she arrives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.287.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Community Pharmacies", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "A possible explanation for what happened last week that my hon. Friend might not have thought of is that last week's debate took place just before the reshuffle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Community Pharmacies", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes his point very powerfully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Community Pharmacies", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "alance of attendance in the House, so now is the right moment to draw attention to the fact that, for the time being, the Conservative party has roughly 40 per cent. of the representation that the Government have in the House, but there are four or five times as many Conservative Members as Labour Members attending this debate, which is so important to every constituency represented in Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-17", "file": "debates2003-06-17.xml", "sha256": "0bdda000f7c8ab4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Community Pharmacies", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "attracted any attention. Five of the six Ministers in the Department of Health have been replaced, and I wish the new Minister with the brief for pharmacies well. I looked up the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for South Thanet (Dr. Ladyman) to investigate the history of his interest in health, and found that he had a doctorate in isotopic abundances in soil development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-17.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.338.4", "colnum": "338", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his kind remarks. My hon. Friend puts his finger on an important point. As well as measures to tackle crime, we are introducing measures to tackle the underlying causes of crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I have made it clear that there are a number of choices: regeneration programmes, private finance initiative programmes, stock transfer programmes and ALMO programmes. They all represent different approaches and they increase resources. I am trying to be fair to all sectors of the housing community, which is what the programmes are about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.347.10", "colnum": "347", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will spend as much time on Scottish affairs as is required, as he has already said, but let me point out to the right hon. Gentleman what the Conservative position is on the Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.347.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.347.10", "colnum": "347", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will spend as much time on Scottish affairs as is required, as he has already said, but let me point out to the right hon. Gentleman what the Conservative position is on the Secretary of State for Scotland. [Hon. Members: \"Order!\"] The position on which he stood at the last election is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.347.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.347.10", "colnum": "347", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "n. Friend will spend as much time on Scottish affairs as is required, as he has already said, but let me point out to the right hon. Gentleman what the Conservative position is on the Secretary of State for Scotland. [Hon. Members: \"Order!\"] The position on which he stood at the last election is this—[Hon. Members: \"Order!\"] This is what the Conservative manifesto said: \"We will keep\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.347.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.348.6", "colnum": "348", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "It is the usual story. The Prime Minister is rattling out the same old Labour lie machine, every single time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.349.4", "colnum": "349", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The intelligence that we put out in the dossier last September described absolutely accurately the position of the Government. That position is that Saddam was indeed a threat to his region and to the wider world. I always made it clear that the issue was not whether he was about to launch an immediate strike on Britain: the issue was whether he posed a threat to his region and to the wider world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.349.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.351.6", "colnum": "351", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "hich he may recall, that he published. He said: \"If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.\" We know that the Labour manifesto at the last election did not contain a single word about a European constitution. When will the British people get their say in a referendum? Let me ask the Prime Minister another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.351.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.351.6", "colnum": "351", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "n a single word about a European constitution. When will the British people get their say in a referendum? Let me ask the Prime Minister another question. [Interruption.] Labour Members do not want to hear it. On the back of the book, he made a pledge to the British people. He does not want to hear it, but I shall read it to him. It stated: \"When we make a promise, we must be sure we can keep it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.351.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.353.6", "colnum": "353", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I confess that I thought the Conservatives had now come to accept devolution in Scotland and Wales, but I assume from what the hon. Gentleman says that they have not. All that that indicates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.353.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As we will discuss in a moment, I stand fully behind the changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "e used this reshuffle to sort out the public services. We all know what is needed, and so does he, but the reality is that he did none of that. Instead, he used his reshuffle to charge headlong into change for change's sake, to launch a series of rushed measures that he has now accepted he has not thought through, and which were determined by infighting and refusal by members of his Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " a series of rushed measures that he has now accepted he has not thought through, and which were determined by infighting and refusal by members of his Cabinet— [Interruption.] The Prime Minister has abolished by decree the office of state referred to specifically in statute 500 times and which has vast powers over the daily lives of every single person in the entire system of justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, you are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " ripped up the constitution in a matter of hours, without consultation. He made monumental changes on the back of a Cabinet reshuffle, as though our constitution were the Prime Minister's personal plaything and as though only he had the right to make the final decision. He wants people to believe that this is a fuss about nothing and that somehow everybody else is scared of change, but we are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "king down their old signs but we are not.\" Later that day, the Scotland Office suddenly decided that it existed after all, and changed its statement. It stated: \"Alistair Darling has confirmed the Scotland Office still exists but has been merged into a bigger department. I don't have any more details, we are still trying to get to grips with all of this.\" I tried to get to the bottom of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " still exists but has been merged into a bigger department. I don't have any more details, we are still trying to get to grips with all of this.\" I tried to get to the bottom of the— [Interruption.] Labour Members can shout as much as they like, but they will not escape the fact that this reorganisation is botched, bungled and totally wrong. Today, I went to the Downing Street website—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "une 2003; Vol. 110, c. 237 .] That is yet another change in 24 hours—more chaos, and more confusion. Will the Prime Minister tell the House whom the civil servants will report to? Will the two part-time Secretaries of State report to Lord Falconer? What are the statutory functions of the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs? Where is his budget coming from, and under what authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "tate report to Lord Falconer? What are the statutory functions of the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs? Where is his budget coming from, and under what authority? [Interruption.] Labour Members do not want to listen to any of those questions. They simply do as they are told by their master's voice—any decree, any time, any place will do for them. But there are serious questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "ns of the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs? Where is his budget coming from, and under what authority? [Interruption.] Labour Members do not want to listen to any of those questions. They simply do as they are told by their master's voice—any decree, any time, any place will do for them. But there are serious questions. [Interruption.] Who, ultimately, will take decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "arre that the new Health Secretary for England will push through policies that have been rejected by the Labour Administration in Scotland and which will not affect his own constituents? Is the Prime Minister really telling us that not one English Member among all the lackeys behind him is capable of running the Department of Health? The Prime Minister did not bother to tell his own Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "nd and which will not affect his own constituents? Is the Prime Minister really telling us that not one English Member among all the lackeys behind him is capable of running the Department of Health? The Prime Minister did not bother to tell his own Cabinet— [Interruption.] Well, let me ask him this: when did he discuss the changes with his Cabinet? On what day did he do that, and with whom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": ", let me ask him this: when did he discuss the changes with his Cabinet? On what day did he do that, and with whom? [Interruption.] When did he discuss them? Most of his Cabinet do not have a clue what he said. His own Home Secretary said that he thought that the comings and goings on Thursday and Friday could have been communicated more effectively. What I say to the Prime Minister is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.361.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": " That is the charge. The Prime Minister is guilty of fiddling with the system without consultation. He has sacked his boss, promoted his flatmate and fiddled throughout. The one clear message coming from the Government from last week's botched reshuffle is that neither this House nor the British people can have any faith in the Government. We cannot believe a word the Prime Minister says any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e in both Houses of Parliament about it, so the idea that there is no consultation or chance for debate is plainly absurd. As for the speakership of the House of Lords, again, as we said on Thursday, that will be subject to their Lordships' wishes—it is up to them. I would have thought that they would welcome the chance to have an independent Speaker in the House of Lords, nominated by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "en. All we are proposing is that the other House have charge of selecting its own Speaker as we do here. How that is a move to dictatorship baffles me. The one thing that I never heard from the right hon. Gentleman was his position on the changes. He says that I am perpetrating this terrible constitutional outrage. Does he agree that there should be an independent judicial appointments commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "n on the changes. He says that I am perpetrating this terrible constitutional outrage. Does he agree that there should be an independent judicial appointments commission? [Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"] Let's have some quiet. He said that there has been no consultation. I am consulting—I am asking him now. Does he agree with an independent judicial appointments commission? He cannot tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.362.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More, more!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman wants to fight to the death to keep the Minister in charge of our court system in a full-bottomed wig, 18th century breeches, and women's tights, sitting on a woolsack rather than running the Court Service. That says a lot more about the Conservative party than about the Labour party. If that is the centrepiece of the right hon. Gentleman's electoral strategy, roll on the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y of State for the nations and regions. Of course, that is one possible avenue. The reason I do not think it is the right one, however, is that it would be very odd then in circumstances where, let us say, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House was Secretary of State for the nations and regions, to go up to Scotland as Secretary of State for Scotland, effectively speaking for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we will take that too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.371.4", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is a bit much, when I am giving away the power to anoint—appoint, I should say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Changes to Government Departments", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ncellor, he made many changes in this area, but the point that my hon. and learned Friend makes is right, and it is one of the reasons why things should be transparent and open. Frankly, I believe that that is the way that virtually every other western democracy makes its judicial appointments, so that it is done in an open way. I commend to the Opposition the speech recently made by Chris Patten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "It has done so in respect of trade, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "Yes, but that ultimately strengthens the voice of the nation states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ing in the House of Commons on 18th June, John Redwood said:\". It then sets out what I presume is the speech that he has not yet made, unless I have missed something. Can you confirm that to issue such a press release is to presume that he would catch your eye? I am only a new Member, but he is an experienced Member and such a presumption on his part would surely be to go too far. After all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.438.3", "colnum": "438", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you for your courtesy, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have not presumed; I merely set out some comments for the press. The press release was embargoed and issued only on the basis that I might be called, so I am grateful that I was called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "I would like as good a measure and as much advance warning and opportunity for debate as possible. It would help if this Government's Ministers adopted a practice that I adopted as a Minister—when my colleagues allowed me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "I should be happy to supply the right hon. Gentleman with the Hansard reference. I remember the occasion well; it was when he accepted that his view on unilateral disarmament had been wrong in a particular judgment. We all thought that it was impressive for him to have owned up to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-18", "file": "debates2003-06-18.xml", "sha256": "f802b22730766c14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I promised the right hon. Gentleman that I would give way and I always keep my promises. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) cited a wonderful quote from Mr. Amato, who said that the constitutional conventioneers wanted a boy and ended up with a girl.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-18.464.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "John Barrett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Barrett", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Minister to his new post. I submitted this question before the reshuffle and was told that it might be answered by the Secretary of State for Wales .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.482.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "Sadly, I have no plans at present to visit Aberystwyth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.489.5", "colnum": "489", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I, too, congratulate the Minister on his elevation and you, Mr. Speaker, on your well earned doctorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "A lot of work has gone into making DEFRA an efficient organisation that serves the public interest and is focused on the needs of its customers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "I am more than happy to welcome the Secretary of State for Wales to business questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"PMPs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "I am more than happy to welcome the Secretary of State for Wales to business questions— [Interruption]— and we are grateful that he has been able to spare some time to be with us this Thursday. I hope that we will see him nearly every Thursday—at least for a while. At yesterday's PMPs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For all of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "First, on the last point, I will happily endeavour to protect Opposition time. I realise that that is an issue for the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "uty Speaker later supplied it. Officials appear by special invitation; but it is not simply as it were a sport—a question of any official attending on demand. The matter is handled in the usual way. On the second point raised by the shadow Leader of the House, I can happily confirm what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said. Buckingham Palace was indeed consulted in the usual fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "established with other Bills. The right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst asked about the Wales Office and the Scotland Office. Frankly, I think the issue is running out of steam, but I shall deal with the points that he raised. Of course my deputy in the Wales Office is listed as a junior Minister under the Department for Constitutional Affairs. For the purposes of locating officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " so. The right hon. Gentleman should stop flogging this dead horse and get on to serious business instead. As to why the Scotland Office and the Wales Office were not listed on the official titles of Ministers, I can tell the House that they never have been. The title of Secretary of State for Wales has always appeared in the official list, and that remains the case—it refers to my goodself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The point that the Prime Minister was making to all fair-minded Members was that Ministers are answerable for the conduct of the Government and that the principle of ministerial responsibility applies. Ministers do not dump on our officials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.516.5", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "riends the Foreign Secretary and the Defence Secretary the points that my hon. Friend makes in respect of Iraq and the Congo. I am sure, however, that, as he has indicated, he is proud that we have soldiers serving in the Congo seeking to bring stability to that war-torn and desperate country. He may have been mistaken in hearing me say that there ought to be a private Member's Bill on Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.516.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-19", "file": "debates2003-06-19.xml", "sha256": "ab38c06254cbb2c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.542.3", "colnum": "542", "heading": "ESTIMATES, 2003–04 — Children's Homes (Investigations) — HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": " by asking such questions. Secondly, I am concerned as to whether there is an underlying and subtler point in relation to informers. Many people in prison are police informers or are otherwise compromised, as it were. Are we talking about a way of ensuring that they continue to supply information to police officers, perhaps in respect of other investigations that have nothing to do with sex abuse?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-19.542.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.687.7", "colnum": "687", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his welcoming words. I am very pleased to be here this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.687.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wrong question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "for Kirkcaldy (Dr. Moonie) , both personally and on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, for his excellent work as a Minister, especially his work as the first Minister with overall responsibility for veterans. There are some 54 United Kingdom servicemen and women attached to the Iraq survey group. Over the next few weeks, the UK's contribution of military and civilian personnel will increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.690.6", "colnum": "690", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "ave just returned from the Basra region in southern Iraq, which is largely safe. Does right hon. Gentleman regret the lack of progress made by, for example, the Department for International Development in deploying people there? Does he regret the failure of the Secretary of State for International Development to go there? I appreciate that I may be more expendable than a Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.690.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, let us deal with the common agricultural policy. The right hon. Gentleman says that it was a great failure that the policy was not dealt with at the Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Thank you. That is now the Conservatives' policy, but let me tell them what it says. Let us look at the document that is now being endorsed by those on the Conservative Front Bench. It says: \"We propose to transform the EU into a Europe of Democracies . . . which shall be a treaty association of free and self-governing European states\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e in that way. The right hon. Member for Wells may be right, he may be wrong—many Members are nodding and saying that he is right—but let us be quite clear that that is effectively redrawing Britain's membership of the European Union. If Conservative Front Benchers endorse that policy document, their policy is wholly inconsistent with Britain's present membership of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.711.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Up front?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. Our existing policy is based on what we have done in the coalition in Scotland. We are very proud of our achievement in getting rid of up-front tuition fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.726.3", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Up front.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": " Gentleman makes a fair point. Our existing policy is based on what we have done in the coalition in Scotland. We are very proud of our achievement in getting rid of up-front tuition fees—[Hon. Members: \"Up front?\"] If Conservative Members read Liberal Democrat News as avidly as their Front-Bench spokesman says they do, they will know that no student in Scotland pays tuition fees, full stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.726.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to have difficulty understanding—and I understand that—that there is a fundamental difference between two elements of the university charge, if I may call it that. I will explain carefully. As a party, we have always steadfastly believed that tuition should be free at the point of delivery up to level 4. We accept, and indeed we accepted in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "accept the arbitrary target of 50 per cent., but we have predicated our spending figures on it because the Government have indicated that their spending will be based on it. I say quite straightforwardly that we hope that it will be exceeded; indeed, research presented to the Select Committee last week suggests that by 2010, the Government will achieve their 50 per cent. target with absolute ease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "Select Committee last week suggests that by 2010, the Government will achieve their 50 per cent. target with absolute ease. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale, West (Mr. Brady) says from a sedentary position that this is the first time that we have had that information, but that is what the independent research suggests and I hope that it is right. We must also consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "t everybody, with the exception of the Conservatives, says that the country needs, the investment has got to be paid for. The issue at the heart of today's debate—the stark choice—is: who should pay for tuition, the students or the state? Sorry, I am wrong—there is a third way: the Conservative way, which was devised during a recent bonding session in Chesham, in Buckinghamshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "es, says that the country needs, the investment has got to be paid for. The issue at the heart of today's debate—the stark choice—is: who should pay for tuition, the students or the state? Sorry, I am wrong—there is a third way: the Conservative way, which was devised during a recent bonding session in Chesham, in Buckinghamshire. [Interruption.] I did say \"bonding\", not bondage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.730.2", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Mrs. Browning) is wasted, as ever. It appears that the Conservative policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.730.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "these words myself, but that is neither here nor there. I take full responsibility. I would not be in this post or proposing this policy if I felt that it would damage the ability of working-class kids to go to university. I reject completely the arguments that have been advanced. The ability of working-class kids to go to university has more to do with them attaining the necessary qualifications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.766.2", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Student Finance", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"£1,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " looking forward to my hon. Friend's report. The debate got bogged down for a while on all things Scottish. As great believers in devolution, we accept that different decisions will be made in Scotland and in Wales. A relevant point was made, however, about the comparison of the Scottish grant with the new grant that we plan to introduce, which will be a non-repayable grant of £10,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": " £180 billion through the Ten Year Transport Plan\". However, if that sum was accounted for properly, we would discover that at current prices £180 billion is worth about £158 billion, much of which is used for public resource expenditure, so there is only £103 billion for new investment, of which nearly half—£48 billion—comes from the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.796.3", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "I get the sense that the hon. Gentleman is a little defensive about the running of his Government and the clarity of the decision making emerging from No. 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.796.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman has notified me of a point of order, but will he please let me get the Divisions out of the way? Then I will take his point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. This morning, I expected that the Home Secretary would wish to make an immediate statement to the House on the intrusion into Windsor castle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "is clear to all Members of the House that, had the Home Secretary come to the Dispatch Box at the usual time, the information might not have been available then as it is now. There is no more I can say at the moment, except that I will take hon. Members' concerns to the Home Secretary. I ask the House for patience. Tomorrow is the day when hon. Members can put their concerns to the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " the usual time, the information might not have been available then as it is now. There is no more I can say at the moment, except that I will take hon. Members' concerns to the Home Secretary. I ask the House for patience. Tomorrow is the day when hon. Members can put their concerns to the Home Secretary. [Interruption.] Well, if it is too late, I could always tell the Home Secretary not to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.826.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-23", "file": "debates2003-06-23.xml", "sha256": "b3f0df7fb292cee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.833.5", "colnum": "833", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 25 June , pursuant to Orders [ 28 June 2001 and 29 October 2002 ]. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE Ordered, That, at the sitting on Thursday 26th June, the Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motions in the name of Peter Hain relating to Standards and Privileges, Standards and Privileges: Amendments to Standing Orders and Parliament", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-23.833.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "When I set up the consultation exercise in July last year, the question was not Manchester versus Edinburgh or Glasgow; the question was whether it would be possible or desirable to have a Scottish hub airport. The hon. Lady may know, although perhaps the view from Beckenham is rather different, that that has been a long-running argument in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "That was a very well rehearsed question, but we believe that it is important to take the judiciary selection process out of the hands of politicians. We are going to consult widely on the details, and a document will be published on 14 July . If the hon. Gentleman is seriously suggesting that he wishes to retain the current system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.862.0", "colnum": "862", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "May I first acknowledge the hon. Gentleman's long and admirable record on these matters, especially in his role as Chairman of the Procedure Committee? I should like to discuss those matters with him, and I recognise the points that he makes. Programming is obviously vital—no one in the House seriously challenges that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Windsor Castle", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " the past 18 months, that I do not believe that a new Department is required. What is required is, rather, a centre of energy in the form of a senior Minister, spending his or her whole time energising those responsible for civil protection in Britain. Such a Minister could be located within the Cabinet Office or within the Home Office itself, a Department which, I remind the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Windsor Castle", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"As usual\".", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "d is, rather, a centre of energy in the form of a senior Minister, spending his or her whole time energising those responsible for civil protection in Britain. Such a Minister could be located within the Cabinet Office or within the Home Office itself, a Department which, I remind the Home Secretary— [Interruption.] —and the Chief Whip, who is muttering from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Windsor Castle", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman asks whether we have we taken steps over 18 months to secure the royal family. Yes, we have. At every royal palace, major work has been and continues to be undertaken, including at Windsor castle. When the report comes out, the steps taken, the technology available and the surveillance already in place will be spelt out, along with the detailed investigation of the failures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "There are two issues there. People always want things as soon as possible. They will not know what is in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.900.6", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.900.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.930.5", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "table. It means that, if someone who for no good reason does not like people hanging around at the bus stop, gets into a state about people hanging around the park bench or is troubled and anxious—distressed—because a group of people come with their bikes, mountain bikes, motor bikes or scooters and gather at the village pond or at the bottom of the stairwell, that is sufficient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.930.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.934.6", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "morning at which officers from my local authority were making a presentation on developing the athletics track in Southwark park. One of the people from the national organisation representing athletics said to me—I did not prompt him to do so—\"Go and tell people that the most useful thing that we can do for antisocial behaviour is to provide more sport, such as athletics and swimming.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.934.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "young people. It was Edgar in \"King Lear\" who said, \"stand up for bastards\". I am standing up for young people. We should ask them what they want and whether they think that this would be a helpful power in the hands of the police. We should also ask those people who deal with young people every day and who work for the projects that the Government have funded. They will say that it is a bad idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.940.0", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "ill know full well what the law is, where the relevant locality is and where it is not. The hon. Member for Stockton, South (Ms Taylor) is nodding in agreement, so I hope that she agrees with the logic of my argument, which is to remove the provision on relevant locality from the Bill. What concerns me is that if the police officers come along, after they have gone through the paraphernalia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.940.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-24", "file": "debates2003-06-24.xml", "sha256": "b82b5f9873ebf5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Iraq (British Forces)", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "an incident at the police station in al Majarr al Kabir. I regret that at this stage, I am unable to provide any further details. British commanders are obviously investigating the situation as a matter of urgency. We are in the process of informing the next of kin of all those who have been killed or injured. I know that the House will want to join me in sending our condolences to these families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-24.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1036.5", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right that Sinn Fein is the IRA's political wing and as such the two are inextricably linked. However—it is important for us all to bear this in mind—the Spanish do not regard Batasuna as supporting the peace process. Sinn Fein does support the peace process. Unlike ETA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1036.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "ssment is that two thirds of the organised crime groups in Northern Ireland have links to paramilitary organisations. Clearly, a number of those groups undertake their criminal activities both across and outside Northern Ireland. Good operational links already exist between law enforcement agencies nationally and internationally, as my hon. Friend has good reason to know in his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "h across and outside Northern Ireland. Good operational links already exist between law enforcement agencies nationally and internationally, as my hon. Friend has good reason to know in his constituency— [Interruption.] I will continue to work with Organised Crime Task Force members with UK-wide responsibilities to assist in the fight against national and international organised crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The reasons we went into this conflict are well known, as is the hon. Gentleman's position. He was opposed to it then, and he is opposed to it now. As to the facts set out in the dossier, they are correct. Whatever their provenance, it does not alter the fact that they are correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1046.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "or calling me, Mr. Speaker. I thank the Prime Minister for his warm words of condolence. It was announced within the last hour that the six military policemen who lost their lives yesterday were all from the Colchester garrison. This is the darkest day for the garrison in the past 60 years, and I am sure that the whole House would wish to convey our condolences to the families of those six people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1048.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Historic Counties (Traffic Signs and Mapping)", "cue_speaker": "John Randall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Randall", "preceding_text": " signs, such as the brown and white tourism signs, be placed to mark the county boundaries and a duty be placed on the Ordnance Survey to mark those boundaries on larger-scale maps. Perhaps it is unfashionable to be proud of our past and our heritage. I am self-evidently not cool, and some Labour Members—and even people outside the House—may say in today's parlance that I am quite sad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "hey finish studying, the effects on graduates could differ significantly.\" The document goes on to make the point that the hon. Member for Ashford made in his speech, that the IFS research indicates that what it calls the \"average\" graduate would make loan repayments for seven years under the current system, eight years under the Conservative proposals and 10 years under the White Paper proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1071.7", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Fewer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "re of never and the meaning of meaning, which I look forward to. I shall discuss the meaning of hair and where it is. There is no doubt that under the Conservative party's proposals there would be a significant reduction in the number of students in this country. Professor Barr, whose statements the hon. Member for Ashford does not like, estimated a figure between 79,000 and 150,000 less students.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1071.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1074.4", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should keep his hair on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1074.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": ", that the Government amendment mentions the access regulator, and more than 100,000 children from low-income backgrounds attend independent schools as a result of the scholarships available at them. Under the proposals for the access regulator, the parents of those children have every reason to be afraid of being at risk of discrimination in the future when the time comes to apply for university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1090.5", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "sh;he said that he had never been misquoted—and after the Minister's comments the press reported: \"But after a conversation with Mr Clarke, Mrs Hodge issued a statement saying approaches to widening access would vary from university to university.\" She said: \"That is why an overall target would be inappropriate and we have no plans to introduce one.\" The hon. Lady got into hot water on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1090.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "e of the Government's Budgets, pre-Budget reports and spending reviews, and they have refused to match Labour's spending plans. We all know that the hon. Member for Arundel and South Downs (Mr. Flight) revealed plans to cut public spending by 20 per cent., and the Leader of the Opposition has talked about \"across-the-board\" cuts that would include cuts in the numbers of teachers and support staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot give way because time is pressing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": "d fall, because the increase in drop-out covers the wasted places and any possible run-back in the size of the sector. There was the usual confusion between participation and access. If the Secretary of State spent a moment looking at the figures for Northern Ireland, where there is a primarily selective secondary education system, he would see that participation is more effective in that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " opening, the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) made a number of remarks with which we fully, wholeheartedly, 100 per cent. agree. He said that fair access should be based on merit. That is absolutely true. We have said that over and over again and it is in our document on wider participation. It will not be the role of OFFA in any way whatever to interfere in the basis for access to university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Tuition Fees", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "et they cannot accept Dearing's central proposal, which is that there has to be increased funding, some of which needs to come from the graduate. This has been an extremely interesting debate. We believe that universities are powerful instruments for transforming society and that they are a civilising influence on society. The Conservatives' policy is a triumph of opportunity over integrity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1131.2", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Fair Trade", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "elman) on convincing her party to use the Opposition day for this debate. I know how difficult it can be to convince colleagues that in the long term developing world issues are as important as national issues, if not more important. I congratulate her on her excellent speech, but it is a pity that the Tories' record in government did not match the rhetoric that we have heard this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Fair Trade", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "de. The country is extremely rich in diamonds and in oil. It is not the fault of the British Government that those resources are not being made available to the people, or that, appallingly, one third of Angolan children die before the age of five. I have visited some of the shantytowns in Peru, where the young people said the same as my young constituents: they were looking for job opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Fair Trade", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": ". Oxfam research showed that the falling price of coffee in Kenya forced parents to take their children out of school because they could no longer afford the fees. The price fall meant that parents' income more than halved in the space of two years. Yesterday's The Guardian contained an extremely telling article, which I commend to my friends in the Trade Justice Movement, by George Monbiot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Fair Trade", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "on. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) , the shadow Chancellor and nowhere in the press release on the advocacy fund do the words \"short term\" appear. I appeal to you, Mr. Speaker, that that should be put straight. The commitment is long term and sustainable, to provide expert advice through proper funds to help developing nations negotiate with rich nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Fair Trade", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me deal with the point of order. It is not a matter for the Chair; it is more a matter for debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Fair Trade", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me deal with the point of order. It is not a matter for the Chair; it is more a matter for debate— [Interruption.] Order. I am sure that these matters can be looked at in the fulness of time, when the truth will come out. We now turn to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-25", "file": "debates2003-06-25.xml", "sha256": "6d025e85e94db72e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1167.3", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "PETITIONS — School Funding", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": "I wish to present a petition signed by 320 pupils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-25.1167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Let me say to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "There is obviously a question about debt, as the White Paper clearly states. It is, of course, an issue, but we also say that the main problem of getting youngsters into higher education revolves around the question of aspiration, attainment, application and then admission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I have always taken it. I have even shared the odd glass of wine with Sir Nicholas on occasion. I wish him happiness in whatever his future career or retirement might hold. I am sure that somebody of such talent will not be idle. I note that the shadow Leader of the House has clearly changed his titles and his message. Apparently, I am no longer the part-time Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " not sure whether all the amendments that have currently been tabled will be the end of the story. Further amendments may also be tabled. We will have to see. I have been advised by parliamentary counsel—I am sure that my right hon. Friend will want me to be absolutely open and transparent about this, as I always hope to be with the House—that the Bill may need to be recommitted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1208.3", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that my right hon. Friend said that, as it is surely in his interest and the interest of the whole House to have a good Bill. It may be that recommittal is not necessary. Technically and in other respects, the Bill may be in good enough shape to go to the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friend's objectives, and we all share them as a Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1218.4", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That question comes from a member of a party that complained to the BBC about its local election coverage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1218.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "CAP Reform", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement on the outcome of the final negotiations on the reform of the common agricultural policy, which concluded in Luxembourg at 6.35 am, UK time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-26", "file": "debates2003-06-26.xml", "sha256": "7996c73deb43ac4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1265.0", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "QUADRATIC EQUATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "equations, with their more complex parabolic curves, are taught from late key stage 3 or key stage 4. Factorisation of algebra is a difficult concept to understand and students need plenty of practice. Teaching students to think logically and to analyse different problems is a very important skill, which is not only transferable to other areas of the curriculum but can be used beyond student life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-26.1265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "And licensing. How could I forget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.10.4", "colnum": "10", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": " sense that when the split came with Wales and Scotland and they set up their development agencies, English tourism was left in the Department of Trade and Industry. Recently, we have ensured that tourism comes into the mainstream economic development of the English regions. That is why we brought into play the regional development agencies, which are seen as a major part of the development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.10.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Fire White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Well, I do not know what that \"Oh\" is about. I am just telling the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) what I think is the position, but it is a matter for the House. I cannot decide when the Bill will be introduced, but I am trying to give an honest answer, not that honesty necessarily dictates the right hon. Gentleman's political position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Fire White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "as Bain was quick to point out. We believe that we can achieve safety, efficiency and greater effectiveness, and that is the purpose of the White Paper. With regard to the right to strike and the hon. Gentleman's concern about omissions, I assume that he was referring to gold command. I did not say what the omissions were and I do not readily understand what he meant. Does he wish to clarify that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.28.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Fire White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will be aware, there are two separate bodies. He asks whether we are merging them into one, and we are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Fire White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I own up, I am the establishment. I have accepted that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.34.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Fire White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman gets a chance to look at the White Paper—obviously he has not had enough time—he will find tables that show exactly what it costs to deliver regional services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Fire White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "n may be unhappy with that but there is a need to get some balance, with fire services representing the communities in which they work. Often, it can be a language situation, which can be quite important in the fire service in particular areas. It is important to get that balance into the fire service. It is a public service and it should reflect more effectively the areas and the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.48.6", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "It is obvious that the Government are in something of a mess at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.48.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "It is obvious that the Government are in something of a mess at the present time—[Hon. Members: \"No!\"] Does my right hon. Friend agree that the way forward would be for the Government not to move new clause 13?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.48.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "should also have a decent amount of time to consider. Four or so hours is simply not good enough. I have a practical suggestion—sadly, the Government Whip whose business this is is not in his place to hear it. My suggestion is that the Government abandon the programme motion and lift the 10 o'clock rule and instead go for closure on each group of amendments. It would not take for ever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.49.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "t it, because new clause 13, having been subscribed to by the Government—which I did to keep faith with colleagues who had asked for that element of amendment—must take precedence. All we did was to consolidate that in the programme motion. I understand why those hon. Friends who see conspiracy are concerned, but I can say with my hand on my heart that that was not the intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.60.4", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Gentleman discusses the matter with the police in his constituency he will find out that part of the problem is that the police do not have the tools to do the job. They have to prove trespass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.60.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.71.5", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": " registration process for boar. Neither is legislatively necessary even if they are philosophically necessary for the Government. Under clause 52(2), the commencement could come in at three months rather than at one month as under clause 52(1) to which my right hon. Friend refers. The fact that the Government think money is not worth spending on wild boar registration is not a legislative problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.71.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "Bills in the past and who have supported a ban with exceptions wanted to make sure that they banned all cruelty. That is why I ask the House to support me and to pass the Bill today without new clauses 11 and 14, so that it can complete its passage through the House in time for Second Reading in another place on 17 July and to ensure that we end the cruelty that the House has always sought to end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.73.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Thirteen.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I have not been in the House long, so am I right in thinking that the hon. Member for North Wiltshire (Mr. Gray) should be addressing new clause 12?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is absolutely right. Hunting has been stopped for brief periods on Exmoor, for example during the war, and the herd was significantly depleted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.83.3", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": " for the existence of hunting. They allow the deer to roam and depredate their crops because they like to go hunting and they believe in the cultural and economic upsides of hunting. If it were not for hunting, they would certainly want to go out and shoot deer and perhaps to seek an income from the trophies. That is perfectly legitimate and we see a certain amount of that on Exmoor at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.83.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "All of them.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "I detect in the hon. Gentleman's speech a note of criticism of new clause 13. In an interesting passage, he said that if we introduced registration, a future Conservative Government might be able to use it to restore fox hunting. How many of the practices mentioned in new clause 13 would the Conservatives reintroduce?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.104.6", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "We are debating hunting today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.104.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": " Okay, new clause 11 will never be 100 per cent. enforceable, just as no law in this land has ever been 100 per cent. enforceable, but, by heavens, it is the best that we are ever going to have. What does the Bill do? When my right hon. Friend the Minister introduced the Bill on 16 December , he and others quoted from Burns. They said that the Bill would ban 2 per cent. of hunting with dogs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "be very anxious about the number of votes that I would lose on this issue. I, and many of my colleagues, have signed countless pledges and early-day motions, not to mention voting for a ban on at least three other occasions. No doubt many colleagues have also written letter after letter expressing support for and commitment to an outright ban on hunting with dogs. Indeed, I remind the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "odiversity conservation in Britain. Current debates on the future of field sports in Britain, and similar activities globally, may benefit from considering their utility as incentives to conserve additional habitat on private land\". I should also like to say something about deer hunting. The response of the Exmoor national park authority has been mentioned. I want the Minister to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "may benefit from considering their utility as incentives to conserve additional habitat on private land\". I should also like to say something about deer hunting. The response of the Exmoor national park authority has been mentioned. I want the Minister to understand— [Interruption.] He does not understand, and neither does the Minister for Rural Affairs and Local Environmental Quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-06-30", "file": "debates2003-06-30.xml", "sha256": "54f5dfb18dde6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "r for Worcester (Mr. Foster) , because new clause 13 contains the fulfilment of an undertaking that I gave Members in Committee, especially my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester. It is with his understanding, therefore, that, to make it clear that there is no clever wheeze—\"You see what you're offered; you see what you get\"—it is not my intention to put new clause 13 to a vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-06-30.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.157.6", "colnum": "157", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am going to answer the question specifically in relation to Bedfordshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.157.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "ance of those questions, but as you are allowing them, Mr. Speaker, I shall do my best to respond. The point is that we have negotiated the best possible deal with other European member states, and we have a long lead-in for some of the changes. Many issues have yet to be decided, and I think that we all agree that the only reason to ban any supplements is, effectively, that they are unsafe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.184.5", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Finance Bill (Programme) (No. 5)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": " discussions on our secondary line of argument about getting the programme that we wanted for today. Finally, as the Paymaster General well knows, the important concession extracted from the Government was to get at least some time by way of protected business. That formed a central part of the negotiations. I hope that the record will show that the primary argument is about having two days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Finance Bill (Programme) (No. 5)", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "rd from the Paymaster General does not represent what genuinely took place. The meeting started with a discussion of whether there should be two days of debate. That is all that the debate was about. I personally made the point that we believe that two days are necessary. We discussed that point and continued to do so until she said, in words of one syllable, \"There will not be another day\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "at pledge or guarantee—I fear that she may not—she owes the House and the country an explanation of why the Government have such a downer on savings and savers and why they do not want to have any pro-savings policy at all. The Government have wrecked the telecoms industry with a £22 billion telecoms tax and the pensions industry with a £5 billion a year pensions tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "nued under the old tax system. I can tell the hon. Member for Eddisbury that the industry also projects that this should improve its profitability. I welcome the fact that the Opposition have indicated that they can support amendment No. 4 and the change. I believe that it achieves what their amendment No. 1 tries to do, so it may help if I explain why I would be reluctant to accept their version.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": " commend this worthwhile new clause to the House. I now turn to the Opposition amendments. Amendments Nos. 8, 21 to 51 and 98 to 108 simply attempt to change the name of the tax and would have no effect on its scope or operation. Their aim is clearly to cause unnecessary alarm and confusion among house purchasers and their advisers by suggesting that the Government are introducing a new tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Mr. Osborne) threw at me might have been thrown at my predecessor or the Financial or Economic Secretaries of the time. Of course, what was introduced was a tax on transactions involving chargeable securities, which does not involve the physical stamping of a document, but I cannot remember anyone, whether from the Government or the Opposition, suggesting at that time that the name was misleading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "ebates—as he seems to remember them—that took place in Committee, there were occasions when, among that conviviality, it appeared that there were very large holes in the Bill. These amendments, among the many others, are intended to fill one such hole: the question of how the Government intend to treat off-plan sales. May I be the first to welcome the Government's U-turn on this issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I look forward to having an opportunity to read it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.318.5", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "We have grown very fond of the hon. Gentleman in the course of our deliberations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "tion following recommittal shall (so far as not previously concluded) be brought to a conclusion two hours after their commencement. 4. Sessional Order B (programming committees) made on 28th June 2001 shall not apply to proceedings on consideration following recommital. The purpose of the programme motion is to ensure that the consequences of last night's vote are tackled quickly and efficiently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my hon. Friend has quite understood what happened yesterday. Perhaps a little more history than one day is required. The House of Commons had a choice, and voted. A majority of 209 indicated the nature of the Bill that hon. Members wished to go forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. I made it clear that my target was the cruelty associated with hunting with dogs. I succeeded in designing a Bill that was good and strong, as my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham (Mr. Banks) , who moved the amendment last night, acknowledged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who sometimes speaks for the Conservative party and sometimes for the hunts, says that I ignored it. He knows that that is a lie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will recall that as long ago as last July I took a very high-powered delegation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "There is a further problem. As the Committee is being reformed at short notice, a number of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "There is a further problem. As the Committee is being reformed at short notice, a number of us— [Interruption.] Quite apart from the intellectual deficiencies of Labour Members, a number of us will be attending other Standing Committees, which may preclude our attending the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "I said earlier that I strongly objected to the fact that we did not have the opportunity to vote last night on new clause 13. I wanted the opportunity to do that, and it was a procedural failure that all the options were not available. I suspect that the new clause would have fallen in any case, judging by the nature of last night's debate, but of course we will never know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "3. I wanted the opportunity to do that, and it was a procedural failure that all the options were not available. I suspect that the new clause would have fallen in any case, judging by the nature of last night's debate, but of course we will never know. [Interruption.] Despite the unwarranted sledging from Conservative Members, important matters must be sorted out prior to the debate in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.347.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.352.11", "colnum": "352", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 2 July pursuant to Orders [ 28 June 2001 and 29 October 2002 ] Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118(6)(Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) , That the draft Army, Air Force and Naval Discipline Acts (Continuation) Order 2003, which was laid before this House on 28th April, be approved.— [Margaret Moran.] Que", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.352.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.353.5", "colnum": "353", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 2 July pursuant to Orders [ 28 June 2002 and 29 October 2002 ] Motion made, and Question put forthwith, pursuant to Standing Order No. 118(6)(Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation) ,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-01", "file": "debates2003-07-01.xml", "sha256": "44cf29c6c1837eb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Local Police Stations", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "I have a second petition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-01.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That comes from a party that saw more manufacturing bombed out than under the Luftwaffe in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "The part-time Secretary of State for Wales knows that there has been a net loss in manufacturing jobs. If it were the manufacturing of greasy poles that was in decline, I am sure that it would get the full attention of the part-time Secretary of State for Wales. He knows that there has been a net overall loss in manufacturing jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is far too much noise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "The IT revolution was meant to be the means of ensuring that rural Wales could take part in the economic growth that the rest of the nation enjoys, but rural parts of west Wales and mid-Wales have still yet to receive broadband.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": " growth that the rest of the nation enjoys, but rural parts of west Wales and mid-Wales have still yet to receive broadband. [Interruption.] Will the Minister consider the use of satellite technology to get broadband to rural areas, and particularly to Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, which is in the Liberal Democrat-held constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "ful. We must continue with the discussions and studies that are currently going on and ensure that they are properly evaluated. I urge a further word of caution. I can remember a time when Wales had nuclear-free zones, but such things are often little more than gesture politics. We have to discover what is best for agriculture in Wales and make a proper assessment before making our judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.375.5", "colnum": "375", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " years to put matters right. Everybody agrees about that, but that is investment that we are committed to and he is opposed to. I gave him an opportunity a moment or two ago to say categorically whether he was in favour of this extra investment. He quoted the CBI, which says that it supports the 10-year plan and wants that investment to go in. That is our position, and the CBI position. Is it his?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.375.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.378.5", "colnum": "378", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the point. The reality is that, as I said last time, more than 500 EU advisers swamped all the poorer countries. I understand from what the Prime Minister has just said that he has now agreed to look at the policy that the Conservative party has been promoting for some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.378.5", "colnum": "378", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "t, as I said last time, more than 500 EU advisers swamped all the poorer countries. I understand from what the Prime Minister has just said that he has now agreed to look at the policy that the Conservative party has been promoting for some time— [Interruption.] Oh yes, the Prime Minister has now undertaken to try to adopt our policy because, last week, his own DFID Minister dismissed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.379.6", "colnum": "379", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I will tell the House what I believe. I believe that the best commitment from a Government to our armed forces is not visiting 20 per cent. cuts, which is what was implemented by the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.379.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Minister for Children was, of course, the Minister with responsibility for early years from 1998 to 2001. Let me tell the hon. Gentleman what she accomplished: free education for all four-year-olds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " combination of powers to close down crack houses and take action against juveniles in respect of airguns, spray paints and bicycles, and the ability to use fixed penalty notices without the whole hassle of having to go to court, will make a significant difference to our local communities. Along with the much simpler procedures for antisocial behaviour orders, they amount to a substantial package.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.387.3", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Road and Rail Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": " billion per annum in taxes on the motorist has not been accompanied by any significant upgrading of the national road network; and calls for fair treatment for passengers, motorists and taxpayers alike. I shall begin by setting out a good half dozen policies introduced by the Government or their agencies that we thoroughly support and happily endorse as common-sense measures that should continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.387.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Road and Rail Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State shakes his head, but would he like to come to the Dispatch Box to put it on record?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.394.7", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Road and Rail Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "I am happy to deal with that point, since the hon. Gentleman raises it. As he will know, the RAC and the AA said today that it would be sensible to have a higher speed limit on motorways because nowadays the 70 mph limit is not widely observed, even by perfectly responsible drivers, nor is it enforced by the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.394.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Road and Rail Transport", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman shortly. I turn to the railways. I noticed that on what I take to be the Conservative party's website a press release with a picture of a charming young man beaming out at us—that is, the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale—asks, \"where are all the trains?\" Let me answer that question. Since 1997, there are 1,300 more train services running every weekday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Road and Rail Transport", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "I will not give way at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Road and Rail Transport", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "d to get to that particular one. Interestingly, we gained a slight insight into Tory policy yesterday, when they briefly lifted the lid on it. For a moment, we were able to look into their secret box, but when challenged by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State about the actual cost of such ambitions, and whether a Conservative Government would provide the necessary funds, they said nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Road and Rail Transport", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "e safety cameras on the schemes that we have introduced? On the eight sites, there has been a 35 per cent. reduction in the number of casualties. That means 280 people are either alive or have not been seriously injured because of the presence of safety cameras at those particular sites. If it is now Conservative policy to have more children and elderly people killed and injured on the road—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "o candid as to be worthy of the Leader of the House. I also wonder whether the electors of Leicester may have a say in that matter. Perhaps they will be so grateful to her for the fact that she proposes to postpone not only her own retirement but that of all her constituents that they will regard that as a reason to go on electing her as long as she chooses to honour them with her candidacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "start-up rates are low, we need to ensure that we increase our efforts to support potential entrepreneurs and ensure that they get the help that they need to help grow businesses that will generate wealth in their regions. We also need to reflect on the fact that the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor has found that we do better than many other developed countries in terms of our start-up rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.467.6", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Brian Cotter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Cotter", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be diverted to that subject, although I should be happy to spend longer talking about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.467.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-02", "file": "debates2003-07-02.xml", "sha256": "851b02e94d771bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is not a lord.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": " 3,291, and the figure for 10 years ago is 3,359. The difficulty of starting a company was mentioned, but let me quote a previous, respected figure: \"when this reaches the point where you may need 28 separate licences, certificates and registrations just to start a business, then I say again: this thing must stop.\" That was the noble Lord Major, speaking at a Conservative party conference in 1992.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-02.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "e their own decision whether to pay full contributions or the reduced rate. If they paid the reduced rate, they still receive 60 per cent. of their husband's pension. In today's terms, the husband gets a pension of £77 a week; the wife, having paid no contributions of her own, receives a pension of £46 a week. It would grossly unfair to give someone who had paid no contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ouse. After the performance that we have just witnessed, he will have a lot of minding to do. I hope that the hon. Member for Witney can influence the shadow Leader of the House to look more closely at the reshuffle announcements made by the leader of his party before continuing to criticise the Government's reshuffles. For example, we have heard regular calls from the shadow Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.539.5", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Well, I think that he would find that he faced a revolt on behalf of officials in the House, let alone Opposition Members. I notice that Members on the Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.539.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.542.6", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "orward a massive increase in our overseas aid and development budget and in leading the international campaign to lift the dreadful burden of debt from the poorest countries in the world. Along with many other Members, I received a delegation from the Trade Justice Movement in my surgery last Saturday morning, and I was very pleased to be photographed with them and to identify with their ambition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.542.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Situation)", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "does not say how it will be addressed. He says that Iraqis should run Iraq, but he does not say when or how this will take place. Aspirations are no substitute for a clear strategy. Does this not leave the UK's armed forces in an increasingly invidious position? Yesterday, the nation paid respect to the six gallant men of the Royal Military Police, and we do pay tribute to all of our armed forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.555.3", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Situation)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "tive, will report to the Security Council when the council has been established, after which it will appoint Iraqi Ministers. The second track is to set up the preparatory commission, whose job will be to provide a timetable for the constitutional process that will eventually lead to elections and Iraqi self-government. I accept that that is important, but it is for the commission to decide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Iraq (Humanitarian Situation)", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "r her acknowledgement of the contribution of UK forces, which is felt throughout the House. She is absolutely right about the primacy of security and the rule of law. Clearly, the release of 75,000 criminals has not helped, and I described earlier the steps taken by the CPA to deal with the problem. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, particularly among those who opposed the action in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "orted that he has told the Minister for Children, whom I have criticised for her failure to protect vulnerable children when she was leader of Islington council: \"The only reason the Tories are getting so het up about you is that they were all abused as children.\" That is, at best, tasteless and, at worst, despicable. I understand that my hon. Friend the shadow Secretary of State for Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "y process. Clearly, what is going on Upstairs is not a technical abuse because the House can order its affairs in the way that it chooses, and it has done so, but we are having to deal with a completely rewritten Bill. The Bill that we are discussing Upstairs has very little to do with the Bill that the House considered on Second Reading or in Committee earlier. I accept that the arithmetic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "The Minister says that, but his colleagues behind him are nodding because they know that I am making a serious point. It cannot be brushed aside. If we are to have confidence in what the Prime Minister or the Government tell us about intelligence information in the future, how and why the Prime Minister misled the House on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "The argument is assuming some existential elements. Apparently, we have made progress because whereas previously there was no table, we now have a table that contains no figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "take. At the very least, the work of the two Committees could be complementary rather than competitive, and could inform the work of the House and public opinion, which everyone should welcome. I dare not go into the question of Iraq. Over the past few days, I have told numerous journalists and even parliamentary colleagues that the deliberations of the Foreign Affairs Committee are private—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is your point?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "re just 99 references to the JIC in British newspapers. Even in the 10 years from the beginning of 1992 to the beginning of 2002—which includes the events of 11 September —there were only 431 such references. However, in the 18 months from January 2002 until now—in that year and a half alone—there have been a massive 502 references, of which 347 were in the past six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-03", "file": "debates2003-07-03.xml", "sha256": "eeb5b9f684485f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.628.2", "colnum": "628", "heading": "SCOTLAND OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "i issue, but it is none the less a mystery that has been with us for the past two weeks—that is, the role, function and purpose of the Scotland Office. I welcome to the debate the Scottish and Welsh Members who have stayed behind for an Adjournment debate on a Thursday afternoon. I quite understand why the Secretary of State for Scotland cannot be with us. He has many other responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-03.628.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.766.2", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman this—[Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"] I am answering his question. I will tell him this about the number of new doctors in the health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.766.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "t of operations, as against the cost in the NHS? Can we judge how many people would get operations under the Conservatives' proposals? What would the cost of those operations be? What is the effect of the Conservatives' proposals on administrative waste, and on choice and delivery? I have a document helpfully published this morning on the internet—not a PhD thesis, just a document from BUPA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.771.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The Opposition health spokesman can help us, then. Will the persons who are getting the benefit of that patient passport get free operations in the private sector or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.775.5", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is a grave danger when an hon. Member sits down for too long that it may be believed that his speech has ended. However, I do not believe that the Chancellor has finished his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.775.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " spending reviews, there will also be a review of financial support for 16 to 19-year-olds led by the Paymaster General. The House will know that we commissioned some months ago a review of public sector and civil service relocation as well as a review of efficiency. That efficiency review is examining new ways to provide Departments with incentives to provide opportunities for efficiency savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": " this weekend's edition of The Sunday Times , the Government have misled Parliament about their improvements to public services by overstating the number of targets that they have achieved, according to a memorandum from a Cabinet Minister. That Minister proved to be none other than the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who is responsible for monitoring public service agreements in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "or monitoring public service agreements in the first place. [Interruption.] As this vital issue goes to the heart not only of the Government's credibility but the Chancellor's, perhaps he will take this opportunity to intervene on me—instead of gossiping with other Ministers from a sedentary position—and correct this information, which has been put in the public domain, if it is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "y in public services as it is in areas such as pizza delivery. It is astonishing that, six years into this Government, when we are about to match the longest term in office of any Labour Administration, the Government are backing away from public service delivery, to the extent that we have had a speech from the Chancellor that was entirely content-free in relation to the issue on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "ministration, the Government are backing away from public service delivery, to the extent that we have had a speech from the Chancellor that was entirely content-free in relation to the issue on the Order Paper. [Interruption.] The Chancellor mutters away, but he is not willing to clarify whether he and the Chief Secretary have misled the House on the targets on PSAs from the 1998 spending review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.792.7", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Beard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Beard", "preceding_text": "eved. There will be cases in which those aims are not being achieved, and year-by-year monitoring is the means by which attention is called to those cases so that remedial action can be taken. That ensures that we do not wait five or 10 years before we see that the ultimate target has not been met and then wring our hands. Targets provide a means of making corrections as we go along, year by year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.792.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Richard Bacon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.3", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "If I misunderstood what the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Laws) said, I withdraw my remark, but it certainly applies to the Conservative Front Benchers. Let us ask the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.5", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Ever since the Conservatives voted against a Second Reading of the legislation that established the national health service 60 years ago, we have wondered when they would revert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.7", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I was trying to be emollient, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If you think that I should eyeball the Opposition, I am more than happy to do so. Why are the Conservatives so upset when we make advances towards our targets? Are they really upset because we have 50,000 more nurses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.9", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I can explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.9", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " I can explain by recalling the comments of the hon. Member for Woodspring. He said that the Conservatives' first task is to persuade the public that the NHS is not working, that the second phase is to convince them that it will not work and that it cannot work, and that the third phase is to introduce into the debate themes on how to fund reform. If he did not say those things, let him deny them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.9", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ver wanted to know the true intention that lies behind the synthetic tears of the Conservatives—the intention that lies behind their disappointment at our reaching the targets—they need look nowhere other than to the words of the hon. Gentleman. If anyone in this country wishes to know the intention behind today's debate, they should do what we do in a whodunnit—follow the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.9", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Government Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "t our reaching the targets—they need look nowhere other than to the words of the hon. Gentleman. If anyone in this country wishes to know the intention behind today's debate, they should do what we do in a whodunnit—follow the money. [Interruption.] The Conservatives have made two pledges: the first is to take 20 per cent. away from the national health service, and the second is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.811.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "\"The number of families with dependent children in the United Kingdom in November 2002 is estimated at 7.2 million.\"—[ Official Report , 1 May 2003; Vol. 404, c. 440W .] So we have 7.2 million families with children and 90 per cent. of them are entitled to the tax credits. That makes 6.5 million families with children who should be receiving those credits. That is the basic arithmetic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "d I am grateful to her for that point. If I give the House a short summary of the story so far, it will be clear why our system of tax and benefits has descended into shambles. In the four years since 1999, we have seen the abolition of the family credit, then the introduction of the working families tax credit, the disabled person's tax credit, the child care tax credit and the employment credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "nto shambles. In the four years since 1999, we have seen the abolition of the family credit, then the introduction of the working families tax credit, the disabled person's tax credit, the child care tax credit and the employment credit. [Hon. Members: \"Hooray.\"] Then the Government abolished the married couple's allowance. Then they introduced the children's tax credit and then a baby tax credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Phone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "their benefit; they do not even contain details of the application procedure. A Department for Work and Pensions spokeswoman was quoted as saying that the Department wants to \"minimise the number of paper applications\". I do not know how many pensioners will apply over the internet—no doubt, some will—but that is not the way that most of them want to apply for the pension credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "at these figures belie the persistent criticism that people would not claim, and that those who said that families would not apply for the new tax credits, and that take up would be low, have been proved wrong.\" I am pleased to move our amendment and to reject the claims of the Opposition. Their motion talks about low take-up, yet 4.2 million people are already receiving the new tax credits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman to get on with undermining and trying to destroy the tax credits, without getting caught up in the arguments about the best way to tackle poverty, turn welfare dependency around and support children and families. The shadow Chancellor may not want to address those arguments, but that makes it all the more important for us to spell out why tax credits are the right approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "nt of movement from welfare to work under this Government and the abysmal record of the Conservative party. It is the combination of the new deal help, which it opposed, the minimum wage, which it opposed, and the tax credit system, which it opposes now, that makes the difference. Let us remember that we started with the awful legacy of the Conservative years, inheriting a fractured society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "First, I thank the hon. Gentleman for his characteristically kind remarks. I recognise in him and in the spirit with which he addresses this matter a true one-nation Conservative. If more of his right hon. and hon. Friends would listen to him and to that approach, which is designed to build communality and strength in our society, and communality of interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "thing within the design of the system that allows that to happen or should allow it to happen. Indeed, I know of many instances in which we are operating benefit run-ons to enable people to be assured that they are still getting their benefit income while meeting the costs of taking up a job. We have been turning things round from the devastation and the division of those Conservative years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ll answer my point about childless recipients, because they are the great forgotten people. The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimated that nearly 500,000 childless couples and single people with full-time, low-paid jobs would be brought into the new system for the first time. We have not received any separate figures showing the take-up among those groups—presumably because it is appalling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "overnment policies is accurate—I am prepared to believe the Government's view that the figure is significantly more, but let us give our detractors the benefit of the doubt—that is a record high for any Government. People have previously been lifted out of poverty simply because of economic growth, but that has never happened on such a scale as a direct result of anti-poverty policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.852.6", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was not modest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has mentioned me for a second time, so I am grateful to him for giving way again. We introduced the family credit in 1988. If I may say so, I played a modest role in its creation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.852.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "ech, although it was disappointing that her colleague, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Harris) , was untypically churlish. The way in which my hon. Friend the Member for South-West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous) tried to describe the problem from a constituent's point of view was especially accurate, and we heard a typically loyal speech from the hon. Member for Wimbledon (Roger Casale) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-07", "file": "debates2003-07-07.xml", "sha256": "a94b4e2230a8501d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Tax Credits", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "n £11 million advertising campaign encouraging even more people to call? In a written answer on 12 March the Paymaster General advised me that the Treasury had spent a staggering £53 million just to set up the hotline. That is an enormous amount of money for a telecentre, far more than most large commercial centres. Yet with all that money, it could cope with only 500,000 calls a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-07.857.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Let me make it clear to the right hon. Gentleman and the House. I have already acknowledged in round terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) asks a pertinent question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "House of Lords (Exclusion of Hereditary Peers)", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "ds reform. My objection to the Bill is twofold. First, most of us would agree that the hereditaries in the other place are independent-minded and unpredictable. Both of those are good characteristics. The hereditaries are also wholly unwhippable. I welcome unwhippable members of the House of Commons or of the House of Lords. I want to see thoroughly unwhippable and unwhipped Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.899.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.910.2", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "l choice; it is thought up in No. 12 Downing street by the Chief Whip and the other business managers. It is imposed on the relevant Secretary of State or junior Minister who has to carry that business, and it is then imposed on the House by a compliant and suborned majority. The longer the Government go on like that, the more they will resemble the Government of the current president of Zimbabwe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is always nice to look into the eyes of my hon. Friends when trying to be reassuring and tell them how it is. My only other choice is to look at that lot over there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.944.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister leaves the subject, what is the answer to the question? What is the patient constituency for a hospital such as Christie? The Minister says that the Government would like to consult about that in future. That pinpoints the weakness of the Bill: it is being made up as we go along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.947.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "or reasons that I will give, we believe that the foundation trust policy is deeply flawed, and, having failed to secure key amendments in Committee, my colleagues and I will vote against it. That contrasts with the position of the Conservatives, who will vote against foundation trusts although, as they themselves say, they support the principle. Some may consider that approach opportunistic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.954.5", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": " in his place. I invite the Minister to explain this at the Dispatch Box today: if the total amount of NHS capital is limited and any borrowing by foundation trusts through their increased licence to do so will be taken from that total, how will that not by definition reduce the amount of capital available for the second wave of borrowers—those with less power than non-foundation NHS trusts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.954.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Barking?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to detain the House, but the hon. Gentleman is barking up the wrong tree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "This is the amendment that dare not speak its name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": " and priority, taking that role away from local primary care trusts. Competition and the spirit of competition will be reintroduced to the NHS. All that is being done, we are told, in the name of less Government interference. We do not need to reorganise the NHS or change the law in order to reduce the amount of ministerial interference. All my right hon. Friends need do is stop interfering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.956.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "edia and Sport will convene a forum, comprising representatives of performers, venue operators, local authorities and others, who will have the task of maximising the take-up of reforms in the Bill. Before I go any further, let me mention the exemption for morris dancing and dancing of a similar nature. The Government would have preferred not to introduce such an amendment, but it was clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.1118.2", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Moss", "preceding_text": "e Opposition put our shoulders to a plough which it is obvious, from day one, will not work? The Bill is firmly opposed by thousands of people at all levels of the entertainment business. The question that must be asked, again and again, is: why? Why are we doing this? Why are the Government doing this? Why did they not listen 60 or 70 hours ago to the representations that were being made to them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.1118.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-08", "file": "debates2003-07-08.xml", "sha256": "39656ada08970206", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Licensing Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "ed about its impact. It is beholden on the Government to work out how they promulgate it fairly and straightforwardly so that people are not alarmed and understand how it will affect them. As an average Back-Bench Member of Parliament with 50 parishes, a huge number of village halls, large numbers of churches and a significant number of morris dancers in his constituency, I ask the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-08.1128.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1151.0", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister knows I was given no sight of that dossier. I was not even contacted about it. The first I knew about that dossier in February was when I found out about it in the newspapers, so he can retract that for a start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1151.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Retract!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, my understanding is that the right hon. Gentleman was briefed on Iraq by the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee on 18 September and again on 12 February . I have said to him that the intelligence that we put forward was shared with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Bacon, it is not for you to shout at the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1151.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1151.5", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Up!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " the intelligence on which we based both the dossier and the February briefing was shared with the Leader of the Opposition at briefings on 18 September and 12 February . That intelligence was not, as the shadow Foreign Secretary keeps saying, given to the Leader of the Opposition orally by me; it was given by the intelligence services. Perhaps he would just confirm whether that is right or wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Actually, we have reduced to a third the original number of targets in the first comprehensive spending review. I shall tell the hon. Gentleman about the targets that I would not scrap but which, apparently, the Conservatives would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1153.3", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ting orders, and are trying to make sure by increasing the number of people who receive drug treatment for their drug abuse that we reduce the prevalence of the link between drug abuse and crime. My hon. Friend is right—the link between drugs and crime is hugely important, which is precisely why we are making additional investment in both the criminal justice system and drug treatment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1153.7", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I find it absolutely extraordinary that the right hon. Gentleman should say that Scottish and Welsh MPs are not able to vote on UK legislation passed in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1153.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1157.6", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that 30 Members from all parties have presented petitions on behalf of 1 million voters against the European proposals to ban 300 food and vitamin supplements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1157.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In Cyprus.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is a closed question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Transport Investment", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "leman made about road pricing. Let me plead guilty to the fact that road pricing is not something that the Government dreamt up. Indeed, I am sure that some Conservative Members will recall that, in 1993, an excellent document called \"Paying for Better Motorways\" was published by the Conservative Government under the signatures of the Secretaries of State for Transport, for Wales and for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1196.3", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "es of Sally Clark and Trupti Patel and, as you will remember, about their implications for women who are accused of murdering their children. The cases have generated some interest. He was unable to give me a detailed response at the time, which I fully accept, and twice undertook to write to me. It is now more than a week since I asked the question and I have not received a letter from him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1201.3", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "o table as a Command Paper Parts I, II and IV; recalls that decisions on what is included in any forthcoming Treaty will be made by unanimity by the elected governments of all EU member states; and reaffirms Parliament's role in scrutinising and approving legislation required to give effect to any future Treaty's provisions. I first draw the House's attention to a very serious error in our motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1201.7", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "French constitutional expert, Robert Badinter, who commented in a French weekly, Le Nouvel Observateur , that \"the search for consensus allowed the side showing the firmest will to take definitive control of the game, artfully trading concessions on the inessential to make sure of winning the essential . . . to the extent that we should dub this constitution for the Europe of 25 'la Britannique.'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1201.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I did not say that it was simply another treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "On the question of parliamentary scrutiny and authority, as my right hon. Friend will know from examining the Order Paper, a considerable number of his own Back Benchers believe that for this treaty to have the authority that it ought to have, it should go to a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I will arrange for my right hon. Friend the Member for Neath to give the list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I will arrange for my right hon. Friend the Member for Neath to give the list— [Interruption.] I am sorry, but I do not have the information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "referendum. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister reiterated the Government's position yesterday. If the draft treaty entailed a change in the fundamental relationship between the nation states and the EU's institutions, there would be a case for a referendum, but it does not. To a degree, the draft Convention tilts the balance towards the nation states and the principle of intergovernmentalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " the balance towards the nation states and the principle of intergovernmentalism. [Interruption.] It does, and as such there is no case for a referendum. Given that the whole House takes the question of the content of manifestos seriously, let us make it clear that in our manifesto, we anticipated that there would be an IGC and that it would consider this range of issues. We never suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "uch a Minister would be able to veto my actions, and that the EU would take Britain's seat in the United Nations. The hon. Member for Stone claimed that the document represents a greater proposed constitutional shift \"than any in recent centuries, even going back as far as 1688.\"—[ Official Report , 11 June 2003; Vol. 406, c. 747 .] That was a little over the top. Such comments betray—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1211.5", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am answering. Evidently, the hon. Member for Stone has not read this constitutional text—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1211.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1211.5", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "thinks history stopped in 1688. He has forgotten that it was followed by a century of the most corrupt sort of elitist Government, which required action and agitation by the labouring classes before the universal right to vote was achieved and we secured the sort of Parliament that we have today. Those comments disclose an all-too-familiar mindset. The Conservatives fought the last election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1211.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1234.5", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": " have a referendum. Is there something about this that they can get their minds around that the British voter cannot because it is so complex? This is a patronising attitude. Then the Prime Minister adopted a different approach. Ceasing to argue that it was unimportant or that it was too important, he fell back on the argument that it has the wrong sort of importance. He said that we should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": "That may be so, but the big difference is that the three pillars of the European Community are being merged into one. The two intergovernmental pillars are being collapsed into the pillar that supports the European Community, which means that the European Court of Justice will have massively enhanced powers of jurisdiction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In this debate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "nated by the tabloid press, and as a consequence, we get more heat than light. I certainly think that that is the case in the debate, such as it is, on the Convention on the Future of Europe and the proposed draft constitution. We have heard all kinds of wild statements about 1,000 years of history coming to an end, and reference has been made yet again to square strawberries and straight bananas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1253.2", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "fail to recognise, as has been said, that one country's veto is everybody else's obstacle. There are certain areas over which we do not agree that the EU should have power, either jointly or collectively. In reality, probably a majority of countries—certainly more than enough—do not believe that the right to deploy one's troops or set one's taxes is something that the EU should decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "elieve that there is any victory in pulling the word \"federalism\" out of this document, because Europe is not dealing in federalism. Federalism is various Governments handing over to a central authority what they wish to hand over and forming a federation, but that is not what Europe is doing. Europe claims supreme and total power over us all, and it will give us the handout that it wants to give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "arke) said: \"I think there's no case for a referendum. Parliament's got to be left to do something and if Parliament can't analyse the ultimate version of this long new treaty . . . then Parliament isn't much use for anything.\" Another leading Conservative, who speaks with far more authority than anyone currently sitting on the Opposition Front Bench, Chris Patten, the European Commissioner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1266.2", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "aid of the result. I thought that my hon. Friend the Member for Hornchurch (John Cryer) made an unworthy criticism of my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart) . The truth is that she has held herself accountable to the House constantly, often turning up to Standing Committees on these matters that have been poorly attended. I do not think that she should be criticised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Convention on the Future of Europe", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " Tories were in power, the Government have been confident in Europe, confident in our influence, confident in our arguments and confident of winning a good result for Britain. When the official Tory representative on the Convention, the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) , submitted his alternate Tory vision, he could find only six other Convention members prepared to sign up to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "We are trying to have a debate here, and I will happily give way in a moment, but not while everybody is jumping to their feet all the time, seeking to intervene on daft points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about people losing their livelihoods, but they will also lose their homes. Families with children will be homeless through no fault of their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I should like to make progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1304.3", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "The new deal for young people and work-based learning for adults provide training opportunities for those who want to acquire new skills to let them compete for jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "It would be outrageous for the hon. Gentleman to argue that people can somehow ignore the law. Under this Government, crime has gone down and enforcement has gone up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "that people can somehow ignore the law. Under this Government, crime has gone down and enforcement has gone up. [Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"] I should also point out, because it seems to be news to Opposition Members, that hare coursing has been illegal for many years. It has been impossible for the police to tackle it adequately because of the need to gather evidence and to show evidence of trespass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1324.2", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "Whirter does not say that the Hunting Bill as amended will unenforceable, as one or two headlines have suggested. Quite reasonably, he does point out some of the difficulties and makes suggestions for overcoming them, such as the use of video recording evidence. Since he wrote his original article, recommittal has ensured that the Bill as it now stands will be workable, and he has confirmed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "The Chief Constable referred to the disruption of activities in relation to hunting in the past and the possibility that some people might seek to disrupt other countryside activities. We have no truck with that approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1331.0", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I believe that the Standing Orders demand that a Member who has referred to a document should make that document available to the rest of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1331.5", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Loathe as I am to engage in this process, may I ask that you ensure that the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) is not suggesting that there is any connection between myself and the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Luff) and the BNP?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1335.3", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I can say straight away that I certainly believe that that is true of shooting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1335.3", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I can say straight away that I certainly believe that that is true of shooting. [Interruption.] I do not understand why that would surprise anyone. However, I consider fishing to be different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1337.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it fair that you have called three speakers in favour of the Third Reading from this side of the House and nobody to represent those people in the Labour movement who oppose the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1337.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1342.0", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "day 16th and Thursday 17th July, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Message from the Lords has been received and any Committee to draw up Reasons which has been appointed at that sitting has reported; and (2) at the sitting on Thursday 17th July, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until he has reported the Royal Assent to any Act agreed upon by both Houses.— [Paul Clark.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1341.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-09", "file": "debates2003-07-09.xml", "sha256": "cc8cf22eba3a3b13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1342.3", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That at the sitting on Thursday 17th July, the Motion for the Adjournment of the House in the name of the Prime Minister relating to matters to be considered before the forthcoming adjournment may be proceeded with, though opposed, for three hours, and shall then lapse if not previously disposed of.— [Paul Clark.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-09.1342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I have with me the National Audit Office report, and the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East (Sir Teddy Taylor) was also wrong to imply that that may not have been the Bank of England's advice to us. The Bank of England supported our decision. The hon. Gentleman will be interested to know that the NAO made a study of this. The study is not from a PhD thesis on the internet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1365.7", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "rman of the Public Accounts Committee, forgets is that the French spend substantially more on health care as a whole. Even in the public sector, they spend more than is spent in the United Kingdom. It therefore seems strange that he is also putting forward the proposal that he will not support additional national health service spending here. So far as private medical insurance is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1365.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "lear about this. Page 1—or, in new Labour terms, page 1, clause 1, line 1—of the code states that any error, inadvertent or not, must be corrected \"at the earliest opportunity.\" May we have an urgent debate on the role of the parliamentary ombudsman? There is an article in The Guardian this morning—I have to declare an interest, as I write a column for the Guardian website—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1373.0", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "o the only duty that he has in the House all week. The hon. Gentleman asked a series of questions, the first of which was about the children at risk Green Paper. We are the only Government ever to bring children's policy as it affects all Departments under one Minister. He should welcome that innovative, new and ground-breaking approach to government in respect of children's rights and protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1373.0", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "s he will know, that is a matter of public record anyway. I do not think that it would be a problem to put it all together in the Library, but I shall get back to him on that. On sneaking out last-minute statements, there is always a balance between keeping the House informed—as Leader of the House I am anxious that the Government should do that—and overloading the House with business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1378.4", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's concern about that matter; she has followed such questions closely. However, the Prime Minister has made more statements on the matter than most people have had hot breakfasts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1384.2", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Perhaps there is a Conservative county council somewhere in the country that is not doing that, in which case we should be told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1388.3", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister wrote yesterday to the Leader of the Opposition setting out very clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " rigorous review. That is the best guarantee I should and can give to the British people. The one thing that is absolutely clear—I think it needs to be said, given what we have heard from Conservative Front Benchers today—is that we will not repeat the mistakes that were made in the ERM era. Those mistakes were, incidentally, never to have an assessment, either public or private—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give him a job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "the Liberals here today. Every year they have called for us to join the single currency. His leader has said that it was a total mistake that we did not join in 1999: a decision that would have put the British economy into recession, as evidenced by the detailed assessment that we published. Given that he is the only Liberal who has bothered to turn up; he is not even the Treasury spokesman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right: there is no convergence among the nationalist parties of the United Kingdom. The Welsh nationalist party wants to stay out of the single currency and the Scottish National party wants to join, while the Liberal party wants to join tomorrow, or as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1401.5", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The leader of the Liberal party said that he very much regretted that we had not joined on the first day that the single currency was formed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1401.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1401.5", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "rs, with provision to change the management of the worst performing jobcentres. Thirdly, we propose to strike the right balance between fairness and flexibility in the pursuit of full employment. We have already introduced a minimum wage, which now has all-party support in the House of Commons and a new tax credit system that will soon, I hope, have all-party support in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1401.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not too right-wing for you, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Ronald Reagan, the American President. The problem is that Ronald Reagan is too right-wing for Conservative Members, and they will not adopt the policy of tax credits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1420.3", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "tervention. He and his party seem to have changed their minds about having an independent central bank in this country. It operates monetary policy much more effectively than was the case in the days of the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe and his predecessors. They used to change interest rates every day, week or month, often to suit the needs of short-term party political management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": " in the past couple of years it was evidence that the euro would not be in our national self-interest, he would be laughed out of court. That is not a serious economic analysis. At least the Government have undertaken that analysis, even if the Chancellor of the Exchequer has written in the conclusions for the Treasury economists at the end of the process as a result of a political decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "re outspoken of its members, in highlighting some of the constitutional issues that need to be addressed and dealt with as part of the process of taking Britain into the euro. They have helped to identify some of the public concerns that need to be dealt with before we can win a referendum. My regret is that so many of them insist on doing so from such an extreme and implausible perspective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "ret is that so many of them insist on doing so from such an extreme and implausible perspective—[Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"] The claim made earlier by the right hon. Member for Wokingham that fiscal stability would only mean higher taxes was an excellent example of that perspective. The current leader of the Conservative party offered a further example of that view when he wrote in 1996—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": " us, our house is our home. However, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham rightly highlighted, the document goes on to look at other issues about property taxes and how they could be used to dampen the housing market in raising stamp duty land tax or imposing capital gains tax on our homes. Naturally, many people following this debate will be deeply concerned by those statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-10", "file": "debates2003-07-10.xml", "sha256": "2b9c804065e64fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1479.3", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Economic and Monetary Union", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I shall finish my argument first. No one who has listened to the debate could be in any doubt about the dividing lines on the issue. Some would rule out membership of the single currency on principle, even if joining were in the national economic interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-10.1479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-11", "file": "debates2003-07-11.xml", "sha256": "2d2838b4eea8e95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-11.1520.0", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Ragwort Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ext on the Order Paper are sitting in the Chamber. It was useful to hear the Minister's speech on Third Reading, in which he fleshed out what will be in the code of practice; we look forward to seeing it. The Minister is modest, because he is also Minister for the horse, which sounds like an 18th century court title. That is better than Roman emperors who used to make their horses ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-11.1520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-11", "file": "debates2003-07-11.xml", "sha256": "2d2838b4eea8e95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-11.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Household Waste Recycling Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Wilshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "tend the provision to them. If they say that it is, then far be it from this Englishman to prevent that from happening. However, on looking at the new clause I discovered something quite interesting. Subsection (1) begins with the phrase: \"The National Assembly for Wales may by order made by statutory instrument\". I do not want to start the \"may\" versus \"shall\" debate in the pedantic, legal sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-11.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-11", "file": "debates2003-07-11.xml", "sha256": "2d2838b4eea8e95e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-11.1537.0", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Household Waste Recycling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will know, I cannot comment on any individual councils or their circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-11.1537.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-15", "file": "debates2003-07-15.xml", "sha256": "6065cdfab92b6c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-15.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "s extremely helpful in his opening speech. In response to an intervention from the hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Hinchliffe) , he may have said that he was considering a formulation and that no one would be prosecuted in the circumstances outlined by his hon. Friend. He said, in effect, that he came to the matter with good will, which I know he does, and that he is prepared to consider the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-15.240.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-15", "file": "debates2003-07-15.xml", "sha256": "6065cdfab92b6c7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-15.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, at the sitting on Thursday 17th July, the Motion for the Adjournment of the House in the name of the Prime Minister relating to matters to be considered before the forthcoming adjournment may be proceeded with, though opposed, for three hours, and shall then lapse if not previously disposed of.— [Charlotte Atkins.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-15.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "he sustainable communities plan that I announced to the House a short while ago. We have increased the budget from which local authorities fund improvements to the local environment by more than £1 billion for the next three years. In addition, we have set aside an extra £201 million specifically to help transform our parks and green spaces and to improve urban design and skills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.271.7", "colnum": "271", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, there is a great deal of discussion about the planning changes that are necessary to deal with some of the current deficiencies. Indeed, some of those changes feature in legislation that is currently before the House. As for investment in education, we are putting a considerable amount into education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.271.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.273.7", "colnum": "273", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that no one can believe us about Iraq, yet last year, he told us that he believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction capability and that he fully supported action against Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.273.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, the basis of the call for a public inquiry is that an issue arose in relation to 45 minutes because we had inserted false information into the dossier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.276.5", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman says that these things do not matter, let us just have a look at his own constituency to see what the national health service has been doing as a result of the extra investment there. There has been a 38 per cent. reduction in waiting lists for in-patients and a 73 per cent. reduction in out-patient waiters over 13 weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.276.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Well, it is either there or it is not. I think that Conservative Members should go and have a look. As for believing what I say, we can believe one thing said by the right hon. Gentleman's health spokesman, the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) . This is what he is on the record as saying: \"The first [phase] is to persuade the public the NHS is not working\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "In 1998—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "tnesses, scrupulous with the intelligence material and, if necessary, unsparing in its criticism. I know, too, that—unlike a judicial inquiry—it will be able to deliver its conclusions in a timely manner, not months or years down the line when public interest has waned. A vote for the Opposition's motion would be a vote of no confidence in the Intelligence and Security Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "I accept that. But the first Gulf war was far easier to understand. There was an invasion, so it was easier to see the necessity for recapture. No vote was taken on that war, and most of the debates at that time were held on the Adjournment at the request of the then Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "does not like the Government. He does not like the fact that we did that and he is going to find some reason to oppose it. Earlier, the hon. Gentleman made a disgraceful slur against the patriotism of former Labour leaders by saying that they would not have supported military action. I think that I have to go back to George Lansbury to find a Labour leader who did not support British troops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.322.4", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "e Government were attempting to secure a further resolution after 1441 demonstrated that they were not convinced of the legal basis given by 1441 for going to war. I refute that—that is not my understanding of why the Government were attempting to secure a second resolution. They openly said that it would be politically preferable to have that position explicitly set out in a new resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "wer. I therefore beg my right hon. and hon. Friends to take heed of a quotation from Jonathan Swift: \"Lash the vice but spare the name\". Attack the judgment but do not impugn the sincerity. On this issue above all, let us not undermine the honourable credibility of our position as the Opposition by nitpicking over these matters, which do not affect the material issues that we are discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": "ant us to believe them on an issue like this in future, to let Parliament and the public get to the bottom of this. I agree with the Foreign Secretary that a judicial inquiry is an incredibly laborious and unsatisfactory way of doing that, but there is only one alternative. I put it to him that even now, at this late stage, he should let the Foreign Affairs Committee, of which I am a member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.335.3", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " the slick imagery of Tony Blair. A recent opinion poll commissioned for . . . a . . . satellite youth channel, found that 56% of 18–25 year-olds regard Blair as 'untrustworthy'. They can sense that there is something not quite right about him.\" Allow me a little more self-indulgence: \"What are his dominant qualities? The first is a seemingly insatiable vanity, touching on vainglory.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "ber for Newport, West (Paul Flynn) , who expressed his anxiety about the lack of independence of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Intelligence and Security Committee. However, my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) , who supported the Government in the vote on going to war, voted against the Government at least once during the deliberations of the Foreign Affairs Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "es and so on are also important. That is why the fact that we are training people is important in achieving precisely the end to which the hon. Gentleman refers. The most important allegation that the hon. Gentleman made, which I rebut and is a point of difference between us, is the suggestion that we have done absolutely nothing to implement the Laming report over this period. That too is untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been absent for the debate. It has been serious, and we are tackling the issue of child abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "they can so far. They need to know the Government's response before they can go further. Local authorities are in limbo, time is being wasted and children are at risk. I know that the Minister has been under pressure because of her past record of failure to protect children in Islington. It was, of course, the first London borough to ban fox hunting, but it was not very good at paedophile hunting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": " learned from her past must be that words are not the same as actions, and that producing politically correct speeches does not bring results. That is why she was criticised before, but she is now doing exactly the same things again. The underlying theme of this Government is that image is more important than reality. No wonder no one can trust them. No wonder no one believes a word that they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "d before, but she is now doing exactly the same things again. The underlying theme of this Government is that image is more important than reality. No wonder no one can trust them. No wonder no one believes a word that they say. [Interruption.] I am not scoring political points. I am doing my duty, which is to hold this Government to account for their mistakes, their failures and their negligence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.388.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.391.4", "colnum": "391", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "ight will always be embedded in our minds. The horrific life endured by eight-year-old Victoria Climbié when she came to England stands as an indictment on us all. We must all do all that we can, as soon as we can, to put in place the structures, policies, programmes and people that will ensure that every child in our society is safe and protected from the dangers of abuse and injury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.391.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": " above party politics. I wish that I could be grateful that the Conservatives had recognised how key child protection is and that it was this recognition that had led them to have the debate this afternoon. But no: this debate was put on the Order Paper not because of the Conservative party's interest in children's issues, but because of Conservative Members' crude pursuit of party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.392.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.401.4", "colnum": "401", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 10 September , pursuant to Orders [ 28 June 2001 and 29 October 2002 ].", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.401.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-07-16", "file": "debates2003-07-16.xml", "sha256": "e8277dec4b785058", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.401.10", "colnum": "401", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 10 September , pursuant to Orders [June 28 2001 and 29 October 2002 ].", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-16.401.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "If by the wholesale repatriation of the policy the hon. Lady means that there should no longer be a common agricultural policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "mons consideration of Lords amendments to the Local Government Bill. I hope that the whole House will join me in extending birthday wishes to the right hon. Michael Foot, who will be 90 next Wednesday. Michael remains one of our greatest parliamentarians, who served the House and his constituents with great distinction for 42 years. We salute him and his passion for humanity, and we wish him well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "sider more serious business and heavyweight agenda items for those days. The right hon. Gentleman said that the question of the number of Scottish Members of Parliament had not been properly addressed. That is not the case. There has been much press speculation that the Government intend to delay the reduction in Scottish representation at Westminster, but it was just that—press speculation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "now, Mr. Speaker. We shall see where we are after that. On the question about jury service, there is no proposition by the Government to abolish the right to jury trial, or jury service, as the right hon. Gentleman alleged. Some reforms have been proposed that the House of Lords has voted to block. In the process, it also blocked very important measures in the very important Criminal Justice Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "In that case, is the right hon. Gentleman arguing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.442.5", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "What about the English Tory Members who imposed the poll tax on Scotland? We know all about such behaviour. The right hon. Gentleman also raised the question of the 46 written ministerial statements. I think that it is important that Ministers have come to the House before the recess to bring the House up to date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.442.5", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "What about the English Tory Members who imposed the poll tax on Scotland? We know all about such behaviour. The right hon. Gentleman also raised the question of the 46 written ministerial statements. I think that it is important that Ministers have come to the House before the recess to bring the House up to date— [Interruption.] We have had a very busy time recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.442.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "I am happy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "tary peers, which no one can defend. It is a commitment in the Labour party manifesto, on which we were elected with a landslide victory, to resolve that anomaly. Making the appointments procedure more independent is part of that. We are consulting on that and will come back to the House after the recess to take that forward. I agree, however, that a fully appointed Chamber in the long term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "It was not deliberate. That is another fantasy. It is, frankly, one of those Tory porkies that are spread about Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "This is mischief making again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "This is mischief making again. [Interruption.] Of course it is. It is anti-Scottish. When the Opposition get round to it, it will be anti-Welsh as well. We stand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tibet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "he sincerity of all three hon. Members who talked about Iraq. The hon. Member for Halifax also referred to sleep-related driving accidents, which is another important issue. I have worked with her and the excellent pressure group, Brake. It is a sad fact that 20 per cent. of accidents on motorways are due to sleep-related tendencies. That is serious. I am sure that the hon. Member for Tibet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-07-17", "file": "debates2003-07-17.xml", "sha256": "d8070dc0e7b7aea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.528.0", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": ". Trend) raised the issue of Tibet and I am sure that he has support on both sides of the House, particularly with regard to the cases he raised, such as the horrific execution of Lobsang Dhondup in Tibet. The Government continually raise the issue of human rights in Tibet with the Chinese Government, most recently on 25 June . As the hon. Gentleman said, the Prime Minister will be visiting Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-07-17.528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "May I put it to the Secretary of State that his overlong answer is a good illustration as to why there should have been an oral statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.14.7", "colnum": "14", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is appropriate to draw a comparison between the two medals. The Suez medal is being awarded following consideration by the honours and decorations committee. Action is being taken to ensure that once final decisions are made on the Suez medal, those awards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.14.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.17.6", "colnum": "17", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot have every question coming on to the Hutton inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.17.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "international community. Whatever view was held about the military action itself, there is a determination throughout the civilised world that we must all ensure that the terrorists fail in their objective. For our part, we will not be deterred from our overall goal: to hand sovereignty to the Iraqi people as quickly as possible in conditions allowing them to build a secure and prosperous country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "tally inadequate—a point on which his right hon. Friend was totally silent when he visited Iraq on 27 July ; I checked on Conservatives.com just to see—and that this is a total shambles, is that also a criticism of President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, who have the greatest responsibility for Iraq? I look forward to the right hon. Gentleman making clear at whom his criticism is directed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s be heard very clearly in Washington—whether these criticisms from the neo-cons' friends also extend to the American Administration in Washington. The right hon. Gentleman asked me two other questions. He asked about concrete evidence in respect of weapons of mass destruction. Plenty of concrete evidence of weapons of mass destruction was put before this House in successive documents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": " shall explain why I am opposed to mass medication. Problems may be engendered in Scotland by virtue of the declining population. Given that a diminishing number of people are staying in Scotland, who is to say that, in 10 years' time, if such things are allowed to enter the water supply in Scotland, we will not add a substance such as viagra? Who is to say that that option will not be open to us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "water used by large corporations can be staggering. I came across some figures provided by the BBC, and I am going to use them—not that I intend to knock the BBC; all credit to it for providing the figures. It is interesting to note that last year every person who worked for the BBC used an average of 30 cu m of water. That is a total of 534 cu m—enough to fill 2.7 million baths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "vil liberties in adding a negligible amount of fluoride to water, but if the resulting benefit is improved dental health for a whole local population, most people conclude that it is well worth it. A national opinion poll survey published today by the British Fluoridation Society shows that 67 per cent. of people in Britain think that fluoride should be added to water if it can reduce decay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-08", "file": "debates2003-09-08.xml", "sha256": "b80f3e74403f6c06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "ons for my having a large number of cavities and having to spend a lot of time at the dentist. I make that point to contradict what the hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) said. The examples that he gave were superfluous and quite misleading. We have heard that fluoridation is the best thing since sliced bread, but we must remember that sliced bread is not necessarily the best thing anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-08.120.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.150.4", "colnum": "150", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the Assembly has become a Parliament in the Secretary of State's second Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.150.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Once again, the hon. Gentleman is out of order. The supplementary should relate to the question that was tabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Once again, the hon. Gentleman is out of order. The supplementary should relate to the question that was tabled. [Interruption.] I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not challenging my ruling. He seems to be in an awful state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.155.8", "colnum": "155", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I have to say that I find the Under-Secretary's reply rather complacent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.155.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.166.6", "colnum": "166", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "would not necessarily use the term \"alternative\". People can move between the two occupations, as we have seen recently. But proper remuneration is important, and that will be a matter for the House. On the question of patronage, I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman, who was an excellent Chairman of the Health Committee in a previous Parliament. He gave a very good example of how to defy patronage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.166.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "There is a fundamental disagreement. This House is sovereign and each Member of the House is equal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "EU-IGC", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " and take questions from Ministers rather than House parliamentary representatives, as the Standing Committee did when the Convention was operating. Following a very helpful proposal from my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) , we are supplementing the parliamentary processes on the IGC with an online public debate. My Department has opened an internet discussion forum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "EU-IGC", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "ny of their other areas of insistence. This IGC is an unparalleled chance for the Government to act genuinely on behalf of the British people by fighting integration and resisting the onset of a European state. It is a vital opportunity to put forward a positive alternative vision of a new Europe, a genuine partnership of sovereign nations, as Conservative Members have been doing in recent months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "EU-IGC", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The question of the scrutiny of any treaty proposals will proceed in the normal way and, of course, constitutional matters will be considered in the way that applies to any European Union treaty. I am not going to anticipate the precise nature of the arrangements for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Military Situation in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House takes note of the military situation in Iraq. The motion is not designed to divide the House. It is a sad fact that the debate has been made necessary by a combination of the reluctance of the Secretary of State for Defence to make a proper oral statement to the House yesterday about the military situation in Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Military Situation in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Did not the shadow Secretary of State sit through the Foreign Secretary's statement yesterday, in which he went through plan after plan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Military Situation in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "t halls as the toughest venues anywhere, anytime. I have never heard the Braemar gathering described as a particularly tough venue, except that the Prime Minister managed to get booed while in the royal enclosure of the Braemar gathering this weekend. The police interviewed one of the people who booed him and decided that it was not a breach of the peace; it was a legitimate expression of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Military Situation in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "I point out to my hon. Friend that all the schools were working before we carried out this illegal invasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.240.5", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Military Situation in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "I reject the hon. Gentleman's comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.240.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Military Situation in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "Two things. First, I am not pretending that everything is okay. There is much more work to do. Secondly, I note that the hon. Gentleman does not agree with the leader of his party who said that no reconstruction is taking place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Military Situation in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "Later in my comments I shall turn to the hon. Gentleman's earlier contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Military Situation in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "Thankfully, Government policy is more flexible than that, and I cannot possibly answer that question because, as the hon. Gentleman will accept, we do not know what circumstances may arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I would be pleased to read out a lot more from The Times Educational Supplement if the hon. Gentleman likes. Its headline is: \"Staff cuts running into thousands\", and it gives what it calls the \"critical numbers\", stating that 2,729 teachers and 1,152 support staff have not been replaced because of lack of funding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The Minister also knows that the increase in the school population means that approximately 1,000 teachers are needed to keep pupil-teacher ratios steady and that the Government have failed to do that. Perhaps he will turn to the inside pages of The Times Educational Supplement , which paint an even bleaker picture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": "These are very impressive and helpful figures to learn about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": " as I speak, my hon. Friend is pushing back the frontiers of education in some other place—not, of course, the other place—and I am bereft of his counsel. I feel somewhat exposed standing here without a Dispatch Box or my customary barrier to lean on, and heavily outnumbered to boot. However, as the Government have adopted an anti-bullying strategy, perhaps I can afford to relax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "omise by the Secretary of State to open his coffers, but more an instruction to councils to extract more cash from council tax payers? We will find out soon enough, but we may be back to the old game of standard spending assessments and passporting, which have long since been rumbled and will continue to be so. That may be unkind; the Secretary of State impresses me as a man of natural generosity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.274.4", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Teacher Shortages", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "made twice already during this debate, because Labour Members seem to be experiencing some amnesia about what happened in previous years. They seem to think that everything was always terrible during the Conservative years, but many people have reinforced the comment by Michael Clapham, who represents heads in East Yorkshire, that this is the worst budget that he has had to deal with for 12 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.274.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.290.7", "colnum": "290", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The students are leaving the Gallery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "I celebrate the fact that GCSE results are improving. I want them to continue doing so; as parents, we are delighted about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.290.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-09", "file": "debates2003-09-09.xml", "sha256": "76354ec4281addbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.290.7", "colnum": "290", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": " confusion about whether money has been passed to the LEA and whether it has passed the money to the individual schools, and so that they can look ahead with certainty and confidence. The Government must act to ensure that this crisis is not repeated in future years. I hope that those who vote with the Government tonight will not visit schools in their constituencies this weekend, on Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-09.290.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "ring Commission etc.) Bill next week, will he ensure that the measure requires parties in the Executive to attend Executive meetings and north-south ministerial meetings as part of their duties and to ensure that they assume collective responsibility along with their ministerial colleagues? Will he ensure that the Bill deals with such breaches of rules or will they be put on the long finger again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "The Northern Ireland sea fishing industry continues to land top-quality fish that is much sought after at home and abroad, and I am confident that it has a viable economic future. The Prime Minister's strategy unit is currently undertaking a review of the medium-term prospects for the UK sea fishing industry as a whole, and hopes to report around the end of this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is a measure of the right hon. Gentleman's objectivity that he has decided what the report says before it has actually been published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Claire Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Ward", "preceding_text": "consultations have taken place on the closure of Leavesden Green school and that the last intake of pupils will be in January next year. In fact no formal consultation has taken place, and councils have not even voted on the issue. The community is overwhelmingly against the proposal. This is an outrageous deceit of the community, and an insult to democracy. Will my right hon. Friend ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "What is absolutely clear is that the Prime Minister says one thing to his Cabinet and another thing to everyone else. Whether it is the Kelly tragedy or the TUC speech that he never actually delivered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must allow the Leader of the Opposition to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "he European Community, nor did Margaret Thatcher on the Single European Act, nor did John Major on Maastricht. I repeat that if there were a change in the fundamental nature of our constitution, a referendum would be right, but there is not. My hon. Friend should realise that Opposition Members who call for a referendum want it as the first step in a two-step process to get us out of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hatcher on the Single European Act, nor did John Major on Maastricht. I repeat that if there were a change in the fundamental nature of our constitution, a referendum would be right, but there is not. My hon. Friend should realise that Opposition Members who call for a referendum want it as the first step in a two-step process to get us out of Europe—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Yes, they do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.358.2", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Fairness and Security in Old Age", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "I go by my own figures, although I always stand to be corrected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.370.5", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Fairness and Security in Old Age", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "Well, the hon. Lady has a good degree from a good university, but not everybody is as privileged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Fairness and Security in Old Age", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": " that middle England is extremely affluent, but it is not. Northampton has a high number of people on low incomes. Even if they contributed to an occupational or second pension scheme, those pensions and their savings are now extremely low. I asked a group of pensioners, who were here for the lobby this afternoon, about the rate of their second pensions. They told me what I had heard before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Fairness and Security in Old Age", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ve unkindly suggested that the delay in his attaining ministerial office—his appointment was long overdue, I hasten to add—was partly attributable to the fact that he had a tendency to free-think rather too much. I happen to have with me a copy of an article by the Minister that appeared in the New Statesman a year after the 1997 general election, entitled \"Back to Beveridge's Basics.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Fairness and Security in Old Age", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "l Democrats in one place claim that they would scrap the pension credit, but in Brent, East they claim that it is wonderful. For the first time, I witnessed a political party changing its policy three times in one debate. The hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam began with an explicit statement that the pension credit should be scrapped and that we should give £19 extra a week to people over 75.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.413.4", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Role of the United Nations in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "received in support of what I have said. It says as a postscript at the end: \"I notice that the media is not talking about Dr. Kelly's view that regime change was the only answer in Iraq.\" That appeared in his sister's testimony to the Hutton inquiry, but as you said, Madam Deputy Speaker, we are now talking about the future. Some of the critics ask where the weapons of mass destruction are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.413.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Role of the United Nations in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "all not vote or make any motion, except that any member of the government may move a Motion under paragraph (3)(b). (6) Members of the House of Lords may participate in the committee's proceedings, but no member of that House may vote or make any motion or be counted in the quorum. That this Order be a Standing Order of the House until the end of the next Session of Parliament.— [Joan Ryan.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.435.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-09-10", "file": "debates2003-09-10.xml", "sha256": "0cad5156cc5e1979", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.436.5", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Role of the United Nations in Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr Michael Meacher be discharged from the Environmental Audit Committee and Mr Elliot Morley be added.— [Joan Ryan.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-10.436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I have not read my hon. Friend's letter in The Guardian .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "crutiny. The fact that the Prime Minister asked it to report on the matter is a further example of the importance that we as a Government and I as the Leader of the House attach to parliamentary accountability on such important issues. May I also attack and deprecate the right hon. Gentleman's criticism of the Defence Secretary? We had a mendacious and misleading leak yesterday from the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Saddam regime in Iraq. I just want to say this to the shadow Leader of the House: it is wrong to try to pre-empt an independent judicial inquiry as the Opposition are seeking to do. There will, of course, be an opportunity to put questions to my right hon. Friend the Defence Secretary this afternoon. On the Wicks report, the Government have made it clear that we endorse virtually everything in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " things, and I am sure that everyone would agree that it is sensible for the Government to have reservations about them. One is the number of special advisers. It is not sensible to put an arbitrary limit on that. The other is the right of the Prime Minister to appoint key staff to ensure that directions can be given so that the Government's business is conducted in a sensible and orderly fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ld have thought that they would welcome that and nod it through so that we can get on with it. Subsidiarity was a very important achievement for Britain: it was a British proposal that, for the first time, allowed national Parliaments across Europe to vet any new proposal from the Commission. If more than a third of national Parliaments object, the Commission is obliged to reconsider and withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ments across Europe to vet any new proposal from the Commission. If more than a third of national Parliaments object, the Commission is obliged to reconsider and withdraw. [Interruption.] Indeed—to reconsider. It is inconceivable that Brussels would seek to railroad through a proposal in the face of such national parliamentary opposition, which is likely to reflect the Government's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " the Army. He has signally failed to fulfil the promise in the strategic defence review to increase the size of the Army to 108,500. The spending crisis in the Department is an open secret in Whitehall and among defence contractors. Other problems include the state of the accommodation. I visited Blandford camp last Friday and saw accommodation not fit for a student, with mould on the walls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.509.5", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Bruce George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bruce George", "preceding_text": "or military targets, business is being targeted. It would therefore be prudent to develop better relationships with the private sector to try to achieve better co-ordination and greater involvement. Businesses will not be able to rely on the police, emergency services and military if they are directly or indirectly targeted. Far more attention should be given to my suggestion. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.509.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I must say that I do not know why he was not given the opportunity to wind up in this debate. I note that he calls himself a shadow Minister, but he is more of a ghost Minister, because he does not have a Department to shadow. If he is going to pop up every time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-11", "file": "debates2003-09-11.xml", "sha256": "6af809316cc7ef93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.556.5", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Defence in the United Kingdom", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " is too early to be precise. The hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Conway) gave some figures on shortfalls. I can correct them. For the Navy, the shortfall is 910; for the RAF, it is 750; and for the Army, it is 4,850. In reality, shortfalls have decreased this year, and recruitment and retention initiatives continue to be successful. We are putting a lot of effort into those initiatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-11.556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his Front-Bench responsibilities. I also welcome the cross-party support for the bid. However, it is not the Government's job to appoint the chief executive of the bidding company; that is the job of the bidding chair, and she has that process in hand. She is determined to recruit the best possible person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.607.3", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "perplexity at the allocation of time as between the first three groups of amendments and the remainder. Why the Government could not have allowed us three, four or even five hours to debate the first three groups is completely beyond Conservative Members. The amendment carried by the Lords was originally moved in Committee by my hon. Friends and me and was supported by the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "In Standing Committee, I cited Lord Rooker who said outside the House that it was likely that only one authority—Barking and Dagenham—of the then 34 debt-free authorities with housing stock was likely to be regarded by the Government as in housing need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "se that need and are apparently hell bent on taking such money away from our communities and redistributing it elsewhere. We believe that there is a clear need for that housing investment to take place locally. The proceeds of this tax on local authorities will be used to finance Government dirigisme, channelling development to specific areas. The Minister has already mentioned the Thames gateway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "t when we previously debated this issue in the House, when we proposed to scratch that confiscatory power from the Bill. The Lords have got it right now in deleting from the Bill a power of confiscatory taxation, which we know full well the Secretary of State proposes to use to reduce to local discretion, to fuel the redistribution pork barrel and to reinforce his wider attack on the right to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": " that the Opposition have tested the Government's arguments and thought hard about them. The Minister's problem seems to be that we have reached a different conclusion from him, and I shall set out the principles of why we have done so shortly. The Minister sometimes cites councils and which parties control them. There is almost a scorecard, as though such things will be done by partisan analysis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ls that the Minister mentioned and many more—debated the matter at length before taking its decision. It knew that some councils would win and some would lose, but it wanted to decide on the right principle for the financial mechanism. Another case in point, which the Government have mentioned, is that of Brent. For obvious reasons, Brent has raised its very pretty head in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "overnment say that the Bill is about freedoms and flexibilities for local authorities and that it will empower and free up local authorities. They also talk about new localism. This policy goes completely in the opposite direction. The Government justify that by saying that they have to redistribute, and the two parties do not disagree on the need to redistribute; the question is how that is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "vative Members support the measure—because, in general, Tory councils will benefit from it; it is self-interest on behalf of predominantly Tory authorities. I find it extraordinary, however, that the Liberal Democrats should argue against the interests of many of their own authorities. That is an example of the curious stance that they often take by standing on their heads on certain issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "These Government amendments to clauses 3, 15 and 21 were made on Third Reading in the other place. All three clauses include powers for the Secretary of State to make regulations referring to published codes of practice and requiring authorities to have regard to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "he Commons by the hon. Member for South Ribble (Mr. Borrow) , a Labour Back Bencher. His initiative at that time received support from the official Opposition and from the Liberal Front-Bench team. When the same issue was raised in the other place by Lord Phillips of Sudbury, it was again supported by all sides, and Lord Phillips aptly described the measure as an amendment \"with no enemies\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ve made a difference, and everyone in education knows that only too well. My wife, a teacher, has shown me her new laptop, provided as a result of a Government initiative. That is an interesting indication of the way in which new investment is creating new technology opportunities to improve the ability of, if I may say so, excellent teachers to deliver high standards of education to their pupils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-15", "file": "debates2003-09-15.xml", "sha256": "a057607b12098c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.689.3", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " question asked by the hon. Member for Ludlow (Matthew Green) . That will help. Further certainty will be provided by the commitment of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to continue the standards fund. We have accepted that it will involve the continuation of a ring-fenced grant. That is a concession on our part, because our objective is to reduce the overall level of ring-fencing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-15.689.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has moved from using the language of total politics last week to talking complete rubbish this week. The treatment centre programme will introduce significant additional capacity into the NHS at good value for money prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.710.4", "colnum": "710", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " already paying for private health care. The difference between what we are doing by using the spare capacity of the private sector to supplement the big increases in capacity in the NHS, and what the Opposition would do, is that we are buying in bulk at a price that is near, at or below the NHS tariff and we are providing the service free to everyone. The Opposition would create a position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless managers in Wycombe PCT . . . have taken the lead in discussions with the Department . . . about a cataract surgery private DTC, based on information\" that is erroneous. They say: \"Throughout these discussions there has been no reference to the Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust ophthalmic department\". The consultants in that department were clearly not consulted, and they say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": "The essential point is that, without professional satisfaction, there will be no further recruitment of any staff. When consultants, talking about their patients, say: \"Our ability to manage chronic ocular disease, provide sub-specialty care and an ophthalmic casualty will be severely curtailed\", that is not improving patient care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.715.5", "colnum": "715", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I can well understand my hon. Friend's concern about this matter. I understand that the trust is reviewing the current situation following the appointment of a new chief executive and a new finance director—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.715.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Electricity Supply", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Harry's here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "I thought that it would not be long before the hoary old chestnut of privatisation was mentioned. It would have happened previously had not the Labour Benches been so thinly populated for a debate on an extremely important subject. The disregard of London Labour Members for the devastating effects of last month's power cuts is clearly reflected in the absence of the majority of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Electricity Supply", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "I have an interesting question for the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Electricity Supply", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "te. Like him, I was particularly impressed by the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Crosby (Mrs. Curtis-Thomas) , and by those of his hon. Friends the Members for Croydon, South (Richard Ottaway) and for Reigate (Mr. Blunt). In fact, we have not heard a speech that has been less than interesting. I shall not join in the cracks about the hon. Member for Hazel Grove (Mr. Stunell) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.782.2", "colnum": "782", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.782.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": ";[ Official Report , 10 September 2003; Vol. 410, c. 327 .] I remind Labour Members that that is simply untrue. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Mr. Duncan Smith) said in Prague on 10 July , \"The Conservative Party does not want Britain to leave the European Union. We want to make it work.\" Indeed, the logic of the Prime Minister's attack is mind-boggling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s report in May examined texts to give national Parliaments an effective role for the first time in European Union draft legislation. In commenting on those texts, which were very similar to the final treaty, the Committee concluded: \"it is clear that the balance of power in the European Union is going to shift from the Commission in favour of the Member States if the proposals . . . are adopted\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ing in trying to operate with 15, and would find it very difficult to operate practically with 25. I shall deal in a moment with some of the key arguments that the right hon. Gentleman advanced in pursuit of his claim, but I should like first to pick him up on one comment, which, if it were true, would certainly be an argument for a referendum. We all heard him say that the treaty is irreversible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Deal with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly happy to deal with that point; I have done so in the past. What we have not heard from the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.790.7", "colnum": "790", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.790.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the Act of Parliament through which we joined the European Union was to say—with respect to the 1972 Act—that all future legal decisions of the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "f the Act of Parliament through which we joined the European Union was to say—with respect to the 1972 Act—that all future legal decisions of the European Union— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) needs to listen to what I am saying. All future enactments were given legal effect and recognised accordingly without further enactment by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.795.8", "colnum": "795", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Let me return to another issue raised by the right hon. Member for Devizes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.795.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "n will allow me. It is my belief that, as a matter of principle, a referendum is necessary when a Government bring before the House proposals that involve a major shift in control, any transfer of significant powers from member states to European institutions or any alteration to the existing balance between member states and those institutions. I give way to the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "EU Constitution", "cue_speaker": "George Stevenson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Stevenson", "preceding_text": "I accept the hon. Gentleman's point. We got away with not holding a referendum in 1986 and in 1992. I am arguing as strongly as I can that we will not get away with it again. We have been rumbled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.806.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-09-16", "file": "debates2003-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b76aa5bae851a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.828.5", "colnum": "828", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 17 September , pursuant to Orders [ 28 June 2001 and 29 October 2002 ]. PETITION", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-16.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "It is good to hear from the leader of Plaid Cymru in Parliament. Of course he competes for that position with two other leaders of Plaid Cymru, both of whom hate each other and did not vote for each other, revealing a party that is leaderless and schizophrenic about its leadership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "Wales's gross domestic product—as compared with England's—from 81.3 per cent. to 79.2 per cent. If that trend continues, the whole of Wales will be eligible for objective 1 status in six years' time. Professor Dylan Jones Evans, of the University of Wales, Bangor, has pointed out that \"manufacturing is continuing to decline and we are not replacing the jobs lost with high value\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.846.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The local authorities set the levels of council tax. The question, surely, for central Government is: are we providing them with sufficient money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "rities set the levels of council tax. The question, surely, for central Government is: are we providing them with sufficient money? [Hon. Members: \"No!\"] So it is apparently the position of the Conservative party that the increases that we have given are not enough, which is presumably why they voted even against the increases that we gave them. The truth of the matter is that we have given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Leader of the Opposition must calm himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "of postponing the elections, not least because that increases the expectation in some quarters that, having postponed elections in Northern Ireland once, the Government will find it less difficult to do so again. Perhaps we can return to that matter on Second Reading. In conclusion, the Liberal Democrats have always sought to walk a transparent and honest line in our dealings with Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.918.5", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "-community support within the Assembly will be the day on which the question of pensions to which the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) referred becomes very relevant indeed. That is when the political process in the north of Ireland will have decided that it cannot sustain itself and cannot stand on its own two feet. That is when the test that is in this legislation will be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.918.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.918.5", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": " of Ireland will have decided that it cannot sustain itself and cannot stand on its own two feet. That is when the test that is in this legislation will be used. [Interruption.] I will not lose that confidence because of heckling from the cheaper seats. I shall not lose that confidence in spite of those the Americans would call \"bleachers\"; we might say they were the people up in the stands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.918.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Should not my hon. Friend's words be heard particularly by one or two who can find kind words for the IRA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.923.6", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "I take the hon. Gentleman's point, but the conclusion will have no legal effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.923.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "ograph of the Maze prison small photographs of some escapers along with little notes about who they were and what their contributions had been. The note on one escaper referred to his having been \"at the forefront of the peace process\". Who was that? Mr. Bobby Storey. Since the agreement, Mr. Bobby Storey may have been at the forefront of some things, but they certainly were not the peace process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "ipated. Stormontgate was in fact part of the same operation that led to the Castlereagh raid. There were two manifestations, but both arose from a widespread intelligence gathering operation conducted by the mainstream IRA. To ensure that I do not prejudice future legal proceedings, I shall not mention the person in the IRA who was responsible for directing both Castlereagh and Stormontgate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Burnside", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Burnside", "preceding_text": "Informed sources within Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "On the human rights point, I am intrigued by the fact that this Bill does not carry a statement of compatibility with the European convention on human rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Monitoring Commission etc.) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "t is, it will not affect a Member's rights or his obligations. For example, if salary is reduced by half, a member will remain liable for pension contributions calculated as a percentage of his full salary. Similarly, a 50 per cent. reduction in salary will not affect pension entitlement, which will still be based on full salary should a Member decide to stand down while the reduction is in place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MONITORING COMMISSION ETC.) BILL [LORDS] [WAYS AND MEANS]", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": " current provisions permit the consideration of claims where the allegation is that a Minister has failed to observe any pledge of office set out in the agreement or that a party has not committed its members who are or may be Ministers to doing so. Those in favour of the amendments and new clause 3 would not allow the commission such a remit. We believe that it is essential to cover such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1024.3", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman consults Hansard tomorrow, he will see that what I was saying was that we are keen that there should be arrangements in place that encourage prudent financial management and responsible administration. I said nothing at all about whether that involved the authority being debt free or not. That is an accident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1024.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1024.6", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "On that point, the Liberal Democrats voted for the Bill on Second Reading. We support the prudential capital regime that the Government are putting in place. The Minister knows that the Government have a vehicle for bringing back the legislation if they think that their argument is so strong: the housing Bill, which is in draft form already and will be in the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1024.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "It is possible that the Minister may be able to persuade us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "General taxation in respect of the distribution of Government grant is redistributive by its very nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-17", "file": "debates2003-09-17.xml", "sha256": "aad30deffb0996aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1028.3", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "General taxation in respect of the distribution of Government grant is redistributive by its very nature. [Interruption.] The Minister is attacking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-17.1028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1058.4", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That's five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "Further to that answer, can the Minister confirm that if bank customers are to be able to draw cash across the counter at the post office, their bank needs to have a banking services agreement with the Post Office, and that four of the leading banks—Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Royal Bank of Scotland, Abbey National and HSBC—are refusing to enter into such agreements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1058.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Staff pensions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "tions, Competition and Consumers notice of the matter that he raised. The episode happened in the middle of a difficult time for my hon. Friend, when his mother died. The right hon. Gentleman should not draw conclusions from the individual letter and case about the general pattern of Government. The right hon. Gentleman properly raised the concerns that have been expressed about Members' pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The episode happened in the middle of a difficult time for my hon. Friend, when his mother died. The right hon. Gentleman should not draw conclusions from the individual letter and case about the general pattern of Government. The right hon. Gentleman properly raised the concerns that have been expressed about Members' pensions. [Hon. Members: \"Staff pensions.\"] I apologise: I mean staff pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That was a good try.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary have dealt with this matter. The Government have never maintained that Iraq was involved with al-Qaeda in respect of the 11 September terrorist attack. However, we have always said that there was always a danger—we are beginning to see this happen—that Saddam Hussein's monstrous regime would link up with terrorists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1083.4", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The Treasury has already done 55 presentations around the country on the euro. I myself chaired—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1083.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1083.4", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The Treasury has already done 55 presentations around the country on the euro. I myself chaired— [Interruption.] Well, I was asked a question, and I am about to give the answer. I chaired a meeting of the Wales euro preparation committee in July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1083.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Constitutional Reforms", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, there isn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": " economical with the truth. The Minister has just said that there was clearly no consensus in Parliament on the way forward. That is only partly true; there is a consensus in this House, although there may not be consensus between the two Houses. The Minister has just said that this House must remain pre-eminent. There is a majority in the Chamber for a reformed second Chamber to be elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Constitutional Reforms", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Constitutional Reforms", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate him on coming up with a solution that maintains the primacy of this elected House of Commons and gets rid of the last vestiges of power of the descendants of robber barons? Will he give me two assurances? First, will the statutory appointments commission be required to take account of geographical representation, particularly Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Constitutional Reforms", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yours didn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": " served in both Houses, so he knows a certain amount but not, clearly, everything that needs to be known about these questions. He expresses his view, and hon. Members on both sides of the Chamber express different views. Some prefer the composition to be more elected and some prefer it to be more appointed. His view did not prevail, however, in the votes that we had in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-09-18", "file": "debates2003-09-18.xml", "sha256": "7f189ff1ea0d7c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1119.0", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Arms Control and Disarmament (Inspections) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "edit. The more the Conservative party shows its obsession and fanatical dislike of Europe, the happier I—and, I believe, the hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Moore) —will be. If the voters of Brent, East are listening to the debate, they will doubtless take account of the Conservative party's obsession with getting Britain out of Europe when they cast their votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-09-18.1119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-14", "file": "debates2003-10-14.xml", "sha256": "97d2ad709c5227d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-14.26.4", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords] — New Clause 1 — Driver Licensing Information", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "As I said, it was realised at a late stage that existing statutory provision was not adequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-14.26.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-14", "file": "debates2003-10-14.xml", "sha256": "97d2ad709c5227d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-14.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords] — New Clause 1 — Driver Licensing Information", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "No, I have answered the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-14.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-14", "file": "debates2003-10-14.xml", "sha256": "97d2ad709c5227d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-14.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords] — New Clause 1 — Driver Licensing Information", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "I cannot deny that the thought crossed my mind, but I am perhaps too nice a person to make such an allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-14.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-14", "file": "debates2003-10-14.xml", "sha256": "97d2ad709c5227d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-14.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords] — New Clause 1 — Driver Licensing Information", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State—an interesting phraseology in the light of the earlier debate—the power \"to give effect to any decision of the Council of the European Union under paragraph 6\". Far be it from me to challenge the hon. Gentleman's European credentials. I read that the Liberal party is rowing back slightly from its enthusiasm for Europe, and perhaps the amendment is an example of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-14.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.102.6", "colnum": "102", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "oked into and they have not been substantiated. In particular relation to the Palestinian Authority, under Finance Minister Fayyad big progress has been made in bringing the finances into shape and improving accountability, so much so that the United States Administration recently offered direct financial support to the Palestinian Authority. That is recognition of the progress that has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I will tell the hon. Gentleman what I think about both policies. In respect of tuition fees, I think that the Conservative policy of taking £500 million out of the university budget immediately would be disastrous for universities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "State Pension Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "One of the best refutations of the Rowntree trust was in that widely read document, \"Opportunity for all\", the fifth annual report that the Government produced only a few weeks ago. Page 200 gives the evidence on the percentage of older people living in low-income households and with persistent low incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "State Pension Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "One of the best refutations of the Rowntree trust was in that widely read document, \"Opportunity for all\", the fifth annual report that the Government produced only a few weeks ago. Page 200 gives the evidence on the percentage of older people living in low-income households and with persistent low incomes. [Interruption.] Well, they say it is out-of-date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "State Pension Reform", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "titude, but as we believe in it in our party, I should share it with him. Reference has also been made to other aspects of the hon. Gentleman's proposals for solving the pension crisis. The hon. Member for Cardiff, West (Kevin Brennan) mentioned the fertility proposals of the hon. Member for Havant. I have been back to the Conservative website to find a rather amusing proposal on that front—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.140.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "State Pension Reform", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Follow that.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "mpared with state benefits, but we got less. Some people say that less is more and perhaps in the language of new Labour—the language of spin—that is the case, but the truth is that this is the failed record of a failed Government. They live in such an unreal world that they believe that failure is the new success. \"New Labour—best at its boldest.\" Bold as brass—brass neck!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "State Pension Reform", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I shall not follow him down that path. We do not want the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) to be referred to as \"two brains and three or more babies\". My hon. Friend the Member for Hamilton, South (Mr. Tynan) made an important speech in which he contrasted the mean-minded means-testing of yesteryear, drawing on his family's past and experience, with the approach to pension credit today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "se aims are shared by Members throughout the House; it is about the means that there is so much debate. The Home Secretary and the Government have adopted a number of means to try to achieve the neighbourhood policing of which I have spoken. For instance, a huge amount of energy has been poured into initiatives, most recently—in the last 36 hours—the initiative on antisocial behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "rsuaded by the power of the purse. I can assure the House that the chief constables' view of the national policing plan is not something that would make happy reading for Ministers. We cannot take lightly the demoralisation that these tactics of excessive bureaucracy have created. The gentleman who is currently the Secretary of State for Education and Skills was once a Minister in the Home Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "r cent. As we go round the country, the reality strikes us over and over again. I hope that the Home Secretary will attend to this; he must know that it is the case. There is intense demoralisation in our police forces as a result of the amount of bureaucracy with which they are faced. The Home Secretary can deny that to himself or deny it in public as much as he likes, but the fact remains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For begging?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "at is the reality. Interestingly, at a recent meeting with a prominent chief constable, some of my colleagues were told—I have heard this over and over again—that there is an increasing disinclination at present even to use stop and search because of the Home Secretary's recent proposals to enforce over-burdensome reporting. On Friday, I was in a police station in East Yorkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.184.5", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "coppers to undertake proper pursuit of serious criminals under the national intelligence model, or to get police on to the streets. There is no solution to that problem, other than to provide them with the resources that will enable them to get police on to the streets. I want to congratulate the Home Secretary, although I hope that he will not object and think it a brussels sprout congratulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I have every confidence that that thesis is gaining ground. I say that because, just a couple of days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "s I said earlier, of consensus. That top-down bureaucracy directing insufficient resources to the police does not work is an emerging consensus among those most seriously involved. A consensus is also emerging that the way forward is a properly resourced professional autonomy subject to local democratic accountability. The Home Secretary is part of that emerging consensus at the level of rhetoric.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ervative party in its new free-nation mode would welcome the ability to act more flexibily at local level, although perhaps, with Charles Moore's departure from The Daily Telegraph, there will be a change in stance on the free-nation front. The police, local authorities and all those involved welcome the new powers that we have given to them to use fixed-penalty notices, which cut out bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Incidentally, if there were sheriffs—here is the rub—they would need information. Even if they were going to approach or e-mail the chief constable to take him or her out to dinner to plead with him or her to do something, they would need comparative information. They would need to know the performance of their own force vis-à-vis other forces across the country. Is that agreed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Yes, there certainly are. To use the New York analogy, unless one can collate the information at the centre—that is what the commissioner in the New York force did from the various units—one cannot make sense of the data and one cannot spread best practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Neighbourhood Policing", "cue_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Bacon", "preceding_text": "the police still face an excessive burden. I went out on patrol with the Norfolk constabulary a few months ago, and before doing so I visited the new headquarters, which is in my constituency, and the local Wymondham police station. The officers there showed me all the forms that they have to fill out; indeed, they spread them out over a huge conference table, which the forms more or less covered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.207.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "RECOVERY PLAN FOR COD AND THE RECOVERY OF THE NORTHERN HAKE STOCK", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 22 October , 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/2003-10-15.230.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-15", "file": "debates2003-10-15.xml", "sha256": "0e2641840aa9ae62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.230.6", "colnum": "230", "heading": "DRAFT GAMBLING BILL (JOINT COMMITTEE) (POWER TO TRAVEL OUTSIDE THE UNITED KINGDOM)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Order of the House of 10th July 2003 appointing a Select Committee to join with a Committee of the Lords to consider and report on any Clauses of a draft Gambling Bill presented to both Houses by a Minister of the Crown be amended by leaving out the words 'within the United Kingdom'.— [Ms Bridget Prentice.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-15.230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "n thriving hitherto. The initiative helps to make conditions better for people who might be tempted into terrorism. Does he agree that more countries should be benefiting? We have to be honest about this. Some people in some countries are not benefiting because their leaders are either corrupt or undermining some of the work that the international community is trying to do. Can we also take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.241.4", "colnum": "241", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is a respected former International Development Minister and he should be listened to because his views carry weight not only in this country but abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful that the shadow Chief Secretary is up to explain how we can create full employment without a new deal and by cutting public expenditure by 20 per cent. As for what business is saying about the Government, I do not think that he would like me to read out what Digby Jones said to the Conservative party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.246.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question!", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows full well that the question that has to be answered is how—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let the right hon. Lady answer the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We had an opt-out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is, I think, referring to the Maastricht treaty. It is clear to everyone in the House who signed the Maastricht treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ailed to deliver or to tell us why he failed to deliver them. We do not really know his views on the United States, as was reported in the press. Perhaps he could tell us—although that would pre-empt the debate for which I am asking. Who drafts the right hon. Gentleman's speeches? Does he read them before he releases them? Does the Foreign and Commonwealth Office block them? We need to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "o for a limited period only. Should we not also look at the value for money that the taxpayer is getting for existing salaries paid to Members of this House who are not Ministers? For example, in the current year, the Conservative Chief Whip is receiving an additional £37,055, presumably to give him the extra expertise to undertake the career development interviews of which we are all aware.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot. The Prime Minister confirmed what he has consistently told the House and what appeared in The Times on 13 October —that he categorically rules out holding a referendum on the EU constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "ar him talk about nuclear weapons and nuclear proliferation. He is out of step with nearly all the main parties, but he has genuine heartfelt views. The hon. Member for South-East Cornwall (Mr. Breed) is standing in for the hon. Member for Hereford (Mr. Keetch) . I trust that nothing has happened to the latter in the Liberal Democrat reshuffle and that he has not been sent into the outer darkness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "aise issues that bear upon some of the areas that I have just mentioned. I would like to deal with those points now. One of the central charges made by the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) was that we have too many commitments and too few resources. I think that that sums up a major part of his contribution. What he did not say, however, was which commitments we should not have undertaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "dash;03 are currently being assessed, and will of course be published in due course. We have made it clear that we are committed to achieving our objectives in Iraq, and the budget and financial support is important in that regard. I turn to the points made by the hon. Member for South-East Cornwall (Mr. Breed) . Other Members have said that he may have been elevated in the recent reshuffle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " before the age of 55. We have to position ourselves in terms of future policy—otherwise, we will have to revisit this issue—and that is the sensible approach to take. However, we do intend to provide a replacement early departure scheme, which will offer similar benefits and structure, and provide support until the preserved pension and tax-free lump sum are paid out at the age of 65.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-16", "file": "debates2003-10-16.xml", "sha256": "90e9178a0c9df763", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "the reinstatement of the land and putting the base to other uses. We operate a good neighbour policy and I give my commitment to working closely with the local authorities and the planning agencies to ensure that we do the best that we can for the community—primarily because of the great contribution that RAF Lyneham has made over the years. Many other issues were raised in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-16.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: XKettering?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "troducing the pension credit. When I have gone around Blackpool to talk to some of my older pensioner constituents in the past two to three years, one issue that has been raised with me concerns those people with very small savings who have not been getting benefits. Will my hon. Friend assure me that, in the process of rolling out the pension credit to an increasingly broad group of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.357.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "hey face. He will be aware of the new deal for lone parents, which has already helped 280 lone parents in his constituency into sustained employment. Programmes such as sure start, and the help available through the Connexions service, can also put young lone parents in touch with the programmes that can help them. This is in contrast to the declared war on lone parents by the Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.368.6", "colnum": "368", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to say that the Child Support Agency works with the Inland Revenue and other agencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.368.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "We have said that we will transfer the old cases to the new scheme as soon as we are sure that the software and the other parts of the mechanism are working properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.369.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement about the European Council, which the Prime Minister and I attended last Thursday and Friday—16 and 17 October . I saw the Prime Minister earlier this afternoon. I am pleased to tell the House that he is in very good form and fully recovered from yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Keep a straight face, Jack.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "already bringing to many Palestinians, it could also make the two-state solution, which is the Security Council's policy, impossible to implement. Let me now return to the question of the intergovernmental conference. We shall work hard to achieve a successful outcome under the Italian presidency this year, and we are very grateful to the leadership of the Italian Government in these negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "ntioned European defence. In February 2001, President Bush told the press that the Prime Minister had assured him that \"the European Defence would in no way undermine NATO . . . that there would be a joint command and that planning would take place within NATO\". Yet in Berlin last month it was reported in Der Spiegel that the Prime Minister had agreed with his French and German counterparts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s. Moreover, again on any analysis, as a former distinguished Conservative Home Secretary, Lord Howe, pointed out in a debate in the House of Lords, the treaty of Maastricht and the Single European Act of 1986 involved far more significant changes than does the proposed draft constitution. The right hon. Gentleman professed shock and horror at the idea of the creation of a European defence policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " is an excellent man. I believe that I probably know more about Mr. Burns' views than does the right hon. Gentleman. I also recall in exquisite detail, as will others who were Members of Parliament in 1992, that the right hon. Gentleman made a terrific speech, banging the drum against a referendum on Maastricht and fully in favour of every last dot and comma of the treaty. The treaty states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.386.5", "colnum": "386", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "als, requires 50 per cent. of member states and 60 per cent. of them by population to vote for it. In any case, that would raise an amber warning. I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman and those on the Opposition Front Bench, but my view is that the concept of federalism in Europe has been and gone. It is very striking that the concept of an ever closer Union has been dropped from this text.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.386.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": " the Bill to include a protection for the independence, integrity and impartiality of the judiciary and of the lay magistracy. Of course, we do not disagree with the Liberal Democrats' new clause 2, but our new clause 4 is certainly more far-reaching. I hope that the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome agrees that either new clause would be an improvement on the Government's current drafting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-20", "file": "debates2003-10-20.xml", "sha256": "a560028224d5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Courts Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is too modest. Far from finishing their tinkering, the Government had in mind wholesale disruption. However, they were dissuaded from that course of action by one simple fact—they could never get it through another place. The Bill would have returned to the Commons as sure as eggs is eggs, and it would have ping-ponged backwards and forwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-20.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.496.4", "colnum": "496", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "The Minister is right to say that the A40 problem has been going on for 20 years. For a short time, I had ministerial responsibility for roads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.496.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.497.3", "colnum": "497", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I never cease to marvel at the Liberals' capacity to demand more spending without supporting a way of dealing with the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.497.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.533.7", "colnum": "533", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "But that is not the general case: it is for a specific reason of incapacity or absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.533.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "There are several ways, and the Minister restricts his approach unnecessarily. For example, it would be possible to hold the entire municipal elections for a year on the basis of a postal ballot. That would provide experience of a nationwide ballot in an election other than a general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "nfluence over the UK's elected Foreign Secretary. Take defence procurement. Here the Secretary of State for Defence is answerable to the House in respect of the purchase of weapons. However, the new armaments agency, which will be set up under the new European constitution, will have an unelected leader, and it will be impossible for people voting in European elections to have any influence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.548.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": ". The council decided that the people of Strathclyde should be consulted, and it organised a postal ballot of every elector in the region. The electorate numbered about 1.5 million people, out of a total population of 2.2 million. The ballot was not an election, and it was not about a major constitutional issue. In fact, given the subject—the future of water services—it was rather dry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What's the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "des to democracy are found among many of the groups that make up our country. I am not certain whether the traditional view is necessarily the only correct one. If, say, a godfather collects numbers from an extended family, or on the basis of comradeship or commercial links, should that be condemned in every case? Are we right to say that there should be individual, rather than collective, voting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": " simple explanation: I always thought that he was one of \"they\". I rest my case. Let me remind the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr. Lammy) , of the saying that we are at our best when we are at our boldest. I hope that when he sums up, he will be a little bolder than his fellow Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley (Mr. Leslie) , who opened the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.584.2", "colnum": "584", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "This is quite an important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "paper trail. Anything else is an invitation for fraud to hackers and virus writers around the world, and could destroy public confidence in our elections. It's always a bad idea to look for technical fixes for social problems. Election turnout would be increased if citizens were convinced that their vote would make a difference. Simply computerising the current system is unlikely to achieve this.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-21", "file": "debates2003-10-21.xml", "sha256": "fca48dca83f6ba2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "r those who may have difficulty at conventional polling stations, for example, the disabled and carers. Although the Bill is small, it is important because it will enable significant scaling-up of electoral pilots, thus extending to millions of people the opportunity to take part in trials of new approaches to voting. Approximately 2.7 million people were eligible to vote in the 2002 pilots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-21.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.624.4", "colnum": "624", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "in power. What the Government are doing is rightly focusing on the real concerns that are felt by many people throughout the country at the unreasonably large council tax increases that have been imposed, interestingly, predominantly by Conservative councils—councils such as Wandsworth, which cut its council tax by 25 per cent. in election year, and put it up by 45 per cent. last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.624.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.628.8", "colnum": "628", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that there is no call for a referendum in the south-east? In addition, what level of increased fraud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.628.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.632.7", "colnum": "632", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Prime Minister's rapid return to robust health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.632.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that the Fireworks Act 2003 is now on the statute book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ee policies are on offer. The Conservative party's policy is to cut the number of students and their funding. The Liberal Democrats' policy is to say that they agree that universities need more money and that there should be greater access, and that the money will come out of a 50p top-rate of tax. Let me explain the problem with that policy. I have been looking at Liberal Democrat policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.635.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.635.6", "colnum": "635", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I could not—it would take too long. In 2001–02, the Liberal Democrats had more than 40 different spending commitments. At their conference last month, they pledged another 30. They run into literally billions of pounds. I shall tell Liberal Democrat Members what misleading the British people is. It is telling them they can get something for free when they cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.635.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.636.5", "colnum": "636", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister rule out completely reports in the press that a Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister should check his own figures. They show that, overall, crime is up under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, I repeat the fact that crime has gone down under the Government, but I accept that violent crime has gone up. However, to go back to the record of the last Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "ted it? If the Government's understanding of what had been agreed was so vague, why did they hype it up and spin up what was supposed to happen yesterday? Has that not made a bad situation even worse? Why get half the world's press corps to go to Belfast to witness what, only yesterday morning, the spin doctors were calling \"the greatest day for Northern Ireland since the Belfast agreement\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.671.4", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Iraq (Judicial Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You said Iran.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "believes that, following the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1511 on 17th October 2003, attention should now be focused on building a better future for Iraq and its people, and on offering full support to the coalition, including British military and civilian personnel, and the United Nations in this endeavour.\" Iran is a subject that should be a matter for vigorous debate in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.671.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.676.4", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Iraq (Judicial Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "pons of mass destruction posing a threat to anybody. The background to the United Nations discussions was surely that the threat of war had been looming throughout the last year, with the United States talking about the need for regime change and threatening to intervene. The other nations voted for the Security Council resolution, as did most Members of this House, as an alternative to war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Iraq (Judicial Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do. I regret the fact that the Iraq survey group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Iraq (Judicial Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I doubt very much whether an inquiry could get to that, and we already know that the documents were forged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Iraq (Judicial Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary has given me his permission to say that the amendment is infelicitous. We shall make a judgment about that at a later stage. The key point is that we have already agreed to two inquiries that were independent of Government and produced substantive conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Iraq (Judicial Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " that. It continues to be relevant because in looking forwards, one has to consider not only the important position in Iraq but the way in which policy will evolve towards Syria, Iran and the road map. We are not considering an ordinary political decision; it continues to be relevant both to whether the House was misled on the basis of our alliance with America and to future middle eastern policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-22", "file": "debates2003-10-22.xml", "sha256": "5013ecb98323a229", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Iraq (Judicial Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "e end of the conflict. Look at the experience in post-conflict situations elsewhere in the world, where it has taken much longer than that. Despite the fact that we are making progress, we are having real difficulty in getting that message across. I am therefore grateful to Jon Snow and \"Channel 4 News\" for their very objective reports from Iraq this week on the real situation on the ground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-22.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "Anyone listening to that rant would believe that the problem was new. It has been going on for years and that is unsatisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "need to remind rural areas—I reminded some of its regional representatives this morning—of the opportunity that broadband gives for commercial activity based in rural areas, which previously could exist only in urban areas. The way in which we are pushing forward the delivery of broadband in rural areas will show us competing successfully with other countries and surging ahead of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "May I urge the Secretary of State to treat with some scepticism the views of the scaremongers, particularly those of ex-Labour Ministers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "dent body that advises the Government on such issues. When we receive it, we shall have to take it into account, along with the other issues. He also asked whether work similar to that undertaken through field-scale trials has been carried out on gene transfer, pollen transfer and so on, and the answer is yes: the Royal Society and other researchers have published such work comparatively recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What has that got to do with next week?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "to his request. The timing will depend on when the Government have considered all the evidence and we will then come to that matter. Finally, I was very surprised that the right hon. Gentleman did not raise the great, important issue of public finances, because I see that the Tory party treasurer is planning to stop his £5 million funding of the Tory party unless there is a change of leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " will then come to that matter. Finally, I was very surprised that the right hon. Gentleman did not raise the great, important issue of public finances, because I see that the Tory party treasurer is planning to stop his £5 million funding of the Tory party unless there is a change of leader. [Hon. Members: \"What has that got to do with next week?\"] Well, I am sure that he will want to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": ". We have increased funding progressively and now propose to introduce a much fairer system of student finance that will especially support those at the bottom of the income range. The Scottish National party, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have no answer to the serious funding gap that will exist unless we allow students to contribute a small amount toward their university education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.800.4", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Secretary of State for Education and Skills will study carefully what my hon. Friend says and reflect on his local experiences. I am sure, however, that he will equally want to put it on the record that school standards have been rising in my hon. Friend's community and across the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "on defence policy, recognising at the time that today's debate on defence procurement would deal in detail with the equipment issues essential to the delivery of our strategic policy aims. I shall, therefore, deal primarily with those issues in today's debate. This is the second procurement debate that I have opened, and I note the poor attendance on the Opposition Benches. I can only guess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "Yes, I shall. I said industry and our organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.808.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer that.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister go further on industrial policy and perhaps learn a lesson from abroad? After going through the defence industrial policy process and considering the four key factors and the seven wider factors, will the Department ensure that the work is always given to a British company, preferably a Birmingham company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-23", "file": "debates2003-10-23.xml", "sha256": "835e05775c32c7be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or at Tesco.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "t contained factual and printing errors, it eventually arrived via the Library. When I turned eagerly, as we all do, to the executive summary and the conclusions, I was thrilled to find that the UK's manufacturing capability presented no barrier to our carrying out final assembly and checkout—I had thought that that was what one did when getting one's coat from the cloakroom attendant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-23.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.10.9", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "licing football matches is a huge burden on clubs, especially a club such as Leicester, which is going through a temporary blip at the bottom of the premiership? Does she appreciate that in some cases the cost is an arbitrary figure that is placed on specific clubs and games? Will she convene a meeting with the Minister for Sport and Tourism to discuss the matter seriously with the relevant clubs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.10.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "IRA Decommissioning", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with the thrust of the point that my hon. Friend makes. It would be much better to go forward into elections in a positive atmosphere. We have done all that we can to help the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "IRA Decommissioning", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "I was simply picking up on the word that hon. Lady used in asking her question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ommitment to the preservation of peace and security in Europe is in their national interests as well as ours, so the north American military commitment in Europe must be maintained. Therefore, the only alliance that can best guarantee security is a transatlantic alliance and, moreover, a proven alliance. That alliance is NATO. Maybe the Secretary of State is with me up to this point in my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "It depends how that basket is constructed and whether that involves duplication and competition with NATO. I hope that the hon. Gentleman agrees with the Prime Minister, who said on Thursday: \"We don't want duplication and we certainly don't want competition with NATO.\" I hope that the hon. Gentleman endorses that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "r, it took four long years to agree the settlement between NATO and the EU. The ink was hardly dry on the paper, however, when the Prime Minister met President Chirac and Chancellor Schröder in Berlin last month and agreed to the very competition that he says he is against. A published communiqué has not been released from that meeting, but there was a leak to a German newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "HAPE, as it is known, provides the best multinational military planning capability in the world. Why would anyone in the EU wish to duplicate that? Can the Secretary of State answer that question? The only answer is that the Government really want to decouple NATO from the EU. Despite what they say, they want competition between the EU and NATO. There could be no clearer evidence of that ambition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "rac is reported as saying in the International Herald Tribune on 22 October when he noted that \"our British friends have reservations about the creation of a planning and operational headquarters . . . But we have decided to pursue this project because we think that there will not be a Europe without a defence capacity.\" It is as plain as day that the EU's defence ambitions will not stop at SHAPE.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "s \"obligations\". If the Minister would like to come back to the Dispatch Box to describe the United Kingdom's obligations to NATO that the treaty respects, I shall listen to him. There are very few obligations under the NATO treaty—it is a commitment, but there is not much of an obligation. Even when article 5 is invoked, it remains essentially voluntary on the member states, not obligatory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "The language is taken directly from the Maastricht treaty. Members sitting on the Opposition Front Bench with the hon. Gentleman voted for that, although he did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.39.4", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman intervened on that point, because article III-282 says: \"The Court of Justice shall not have jurisdiction with respect to Articles I-39 and I-40 and the provisions of Chapter II of Title V of Part III\". It does not refer to or exclude article I-15, which I read out verbatim earlier. Therefore, there is a loophole in the drafting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.39.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman listened to the debate, instead of making such poor points, he would realise that the question of how European nations improve their military capabilities is a serious matter for those nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman listened to the debate, instead of making such poor points, he would realise that the question of how European nations improve their military capabilities is a serious matter for those nations. [Interruption.] He voted in favour of Second Reading of the Bill that introduced the Maastricht provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ch poor points, he would realise that the question of how European nations improve their military capabilities is a serious matter for those nations. [Interruption.] He voted in favour of Second Reading of the Bill that introduced the Maastricht provisions— [Interruption.] He voted in favour of provisions that included the framing of a common defence policy, which might, in time, lead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.4", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. Gentleman is better at law than at history. In fact, I voted against Third Reading of the Maastricht provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.4", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. Gentleman is better at law than at history. In fact, I voted against Third Reading of the Maastricht provisions— [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman asks if I support it, but that is irrelevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.43.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Viggers", "preceding_text": "The Minister corrects me, but let us call the modest percentage 1 per cent. for simplicity. That is less important than Germany's input, which was 1.9 per cent. when I last looked. The Minister may have a different figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "r European allies. Conservative Front Benchers, with their fanatical anti-European opposition, cannot attract any support, even from their own Back Benchers. The debate has been most notable for the fact that more Liberal Democrat Members have attended it than Members from the main Opposition party. The 25 member states of the European Union will be looking at this debate with some interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.74.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.85.2", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": " cancer consultants are, on the surface, laudable and sensible, but they are about gaining access to a consultant in the first place; they say nothing about when a patient will receive treatment. So let us consider what has happened in cancer treatment. According to Department of Health figures produced in September, waiting times for cancer treatment increased in most cases between 1999 and 2002.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.85.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "re. It is an extraordinary statement from any party that claims to have any knowledge of any organisation, public or private. It is ironic that the debate is taking place on the very day that the Leader of the Opposition set Wednesday as a target date for his opponents, who have a target of 25 letters being submitted. It is ironic that today we are debating a Conservative motion deploring targets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.91.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ated by the Conservatives. In this party, we suffer from the great disadvantage of knowing that when our leaders make a promise, they are liable to have to answer, a few years hence, on whether it was delivered. The Conservative party has the good fortune to change its leaders every so often, so none of them can ever be held accountable for anything, let alone promises that they made 24 hours ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Some did and some have come from abroad. Yet as the hon. Gentleman pointed out, we have more vacancies than ever. Let me explain that conundrum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "r nurses and no targets, as the Conservatives have confirmed tonight. There will be no standards by which we will drive our health service. As always, the Conservatives have contrived, after great thought, to abandon their so-called compassionate conservatism—a contradiction in terms if ever I heard one—and return to the old policy for the few to be paid for at the expense of the many.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "esting, reforming and driving the NHS in partnership with its patients and staff. It is to deliver better care, more quality and more operations for more people more quickly than ever before. The Conservative answer is diverting investment from the NHS into the hands of those privileged enough to be able to afford the purchase of priority treatment while extending the waiting times for the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "reality is that I am prepared to trust the patients and the people, and to achieve that through local democracy rather than through the central autocracy proposed by the Conservatives. It is interesting to see that the Conservatives dare to criticise an exposition of Liberal Democrat policy when they did not have the courage to outline any of their health care policies in the debate tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "possibly more, depending on the types of operation done in the private sector under the policy. That is taxpayers' money leaving the NHS with not a single extra operation being performed as a consequence. Where will the extra £900 million come from? Typically for the Conservatives, we have heard no detail, no costings and no proposals for how the policy would be rolled out in practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "rformed as a consequence. Where will the extra £900 million come from? Typically for the Conservatives, we have heard no detail, no costings and no proposals for how the policy would be rolled out in practice— [Interruption.] If the detail exists, I wish that Conservative Front Benchers had taken the opportunity to outline it. It has certainly not been put into the public domain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-27", "file": "debates2003-10-27.xml", "sha256": "9c59b5f8f2e242b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Health Care Targets", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "d from Conservatives today. I am particularly sorry to say that in relation to the hon. Member for Bridgwater. I do not know how many GPs were practising in the NHS in his constituency in 1997, although I know that last year three more joined the NHS there. That is progress. It is not the case that, as the hon. Gentleman seemed to be trying to argue, there has been no progress in his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-27.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You lost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was in Committee with me this morning, when there was a minor disagreement about timing and about when we should conduct some of the debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE AND HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "We know who is running scared at this particular time, do we not? All the Conservative Members are chasing each other, running scared around the place. On the point that the hon. Gentleman raises—I respect his point of view on this and he is right to raise it—the fact is that there is now more scrutiny of the Executive and the Government than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE AND HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is one of the most doughty defenders of the House's independence and of its vital role in our constitution. I acknowledge that very freely, but this is not a question of how the public relate to the Chamber. The House sits for exactly the same number of days as before. We do not sit only in the middle of the week. We sit on Monday and Thursday, and on some Fridays—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Railway Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "country, and that work was not being done in the way that it would expect. In other words, the company—Railtrack—was not being well run. Of course it makes sense to change that. It is interesting that when the hon. Gentleman was listing all the people for whom he felt sorry, not once did the word \"passenger\" cross his lips. That speaks volumes about the Tories' attitude to the railway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Railway Maintenance", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "olumes about the Tories' attitude to the railway. [Hon. Members: \"He did.\"] We all listened to what he said. He seemed more concerned about the fate of Railtrack than about passengers who use the railway. In relation to the hon. Gentleman's criticisms of the railways, we are replacing more track than has been replaced for many years. For example, the west coast main line is being completely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid and useful point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "an impetus to incineration. I simply do not accept that, because in no way does it cut across the policy framework. The authorities must work within the hierarchy of disposal and take into account the various regulations. With respect to the hon. Member for Lewes, who does not normally duck the question, I did ask him whether he was arguing that incineration could not be used in any circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.195.4", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "No; absolutely not. I do not believe that. I was pursuing the point because the hon. Member for Lewes raised it and I was trying to tease out where he stands on this matter; I am still not absolutely certain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.206.4", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": " Committee further noted that it agreed with the assessment of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that UK measures to encourage waste minimisation were very weak. That is interesting. Two Select Committees both used the phrase \"very weak\" to describe waste minimisation measures. Two cross-party Committees, specialists in their field, heavily criticised the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "That is a far better point than any of those made by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "ttempt to deal with the Bill as it has been constructed by the Government. We have tried to be consistent with the existing terms of the Bill. The measure applies to the whole United Kingdom, so that is how we tried to deal with our proposals. If the hon. Member for Caernarfon (Hywel Williams) is suggesting that there should be more devolution to Scotland and Wales, I should not oppose that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-28", "file": "debates2003-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3ab469058cafceff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I shall make a few comments. A few events have overtaken the House tonight. The competition outside the Chamber might explain why attendance has been a little thin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-28.271.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has another question. I firmly tell him that he must use moderate language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that it would be helpful if we knew how much of the weapons and explosives had been destroyed and how much remained? Is that not essential to determine the parties' good faith?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "of raising the top rate of tax, or by means of a local income tax or anything else. I do not know whether the House wants any more details, but I said last week that the Liberal Democrats had 70 commitments. The cost of those commitments would run to literally billions of pounds. It would take too long to go into detail, as we would run over the time available for Prime Minister's questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.296.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ce. My favourite was commitment 65, which stated: \"Funded training for teachers and specialists on sex education, providing them information and material to aid honest, non-judgmental and thought-provoking lessons.\" Let me suggest that commitment 71 should be funded training for Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesmen to aid honest, non-judgmental and thought-provoking lessons on financial discipline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.297.8", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "\"If there are further steps towards European integration\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.297.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have not come across those comments by a No. 10 spokesman. On council tax, as I said in answer to an earlier question, central Government are providing large real-terms increases to local government. What cannot possibly help the council tax payer is the policy of the Conservatives, which is massive cuts in public spending. Those cuts would necessarily impact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "s those comments by a No. 10 spokesman. On council tax, as I said in answer to an earlier question, central Government are providing large real-terms increases to local government. What cannot possibly help the council tax payer is the policy of the Conservatives, which is massive cuts in public spending. Those cuts would necessarily impact—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"] It is what their leader said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Dangerous Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "The message must be clear—cannabis is illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Dangerous Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is on your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I want to continue my speech, as I am conscious of the time that I have already taken up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.338.6", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Dangerous Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " to obtain cannabis in England is through buying it from a person who is, ipso facto, a very serious criminal—the Minister is ensuring that anybody selling the substance is exposed to a maximum sentence of 14 years, making the crime equivalent in its severity to some of the worst crimes currently committed—the Minister is putting young people in touch with very serious criminals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.338.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Dangerous Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I will in a moment, but not until I have finished the logic. The purpose of those serious criminals will be to drag those vulnerable young people upwards from cannabis to the hard drugs in which the money can be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Dangerous Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Vauxhall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I will in a moment, but not until I have finished the logic. The purpose of those serious criminals will be to drag those vulnerable young people upwards from cannabis to the hard drugs in which the money can be made— [Interruption.] Yes, it will. The hon. Lady for some part of Lambeth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Dangerous Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I fear that the person living in an unreal world is the hon. Gentleman. I know that he shares my passion about hard drugs, and if he were to go to our inner cities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Dangerous Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "umber of those apprehended, where will the resources then be spent? In Lambeth, for example, there was a 44 per cent. increase in arrests for cocaine—good news—and a 10 per cent increase in tracking trafficking, good news. If that can be replicated across the country, the policy change will have been a good move. About 85 per cent. of residents in Lambeth supported such a change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Dangerous Drugs", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " and many of its members have no scientific qualifications. It has about 32 members, of whom a substantial number—about 13—are committed to liberalisation of the drugs policy. It has no members from any organisations that have publicly said that they are not in favour of liberalisation. I therefore treat with a little bit of caution the assumption that everything that it says is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.350.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-29", "file": "debates2003-10-29.xml", "sha256": "df6bfa810f34300e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.382.5", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Mersey Tunnels Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": " are broadly for the tunnel to break even—to pay its way, so that eventually the running costs, the debt and other costs are paid off and the tunnels become free. Of course, there is another element of my objection to the re-enactment of section 92, which would provide for the current system and the new system. I look forward to a response, which we did not have in the previous debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-29.382.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-30", "file": "debates2003-10-30.xml", "sha256": "3d080b109890c3c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-30.443.6", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ntleman knows, talks are under way between management and the unions in an effort to resolve the dispute. It is in their interest and in the interest of all of us, that that is done as soon as possible. I understand the difficulty of communications with constituencies. There are, however, two alternatives—e-mail and telephone—with which we can get by meanwhile and on which we can rely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-30.443.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-30", "file": "debates2003-10-30.xml", "sha256": "3d080b109890c3c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-30.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That would be a worthwhile debate. Many members of the state-funded Conservative party said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-30.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-30", "file": "debates2003-10-30.xml", "sha256": "3d080b109890c3c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-30.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Pay for Chairmen of Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "e discussed this matter, a point to which I shall return. However, I should draw to his attention the fact that there are precedents for Members receiving additional salary, over and above their parliamentary salary. I am talking not just about the Speaker and the Deputy Speakers, who, as we all accept, hold very onerous positions. The Leader of the Opposition receives a considerable salary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-30.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-10-30", "file": "debates2003-10-30.xml", "sha256": "3d080b109890c3c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-30.501.3", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Pay for Chairmen of Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may be getting into a mess on this, but it is not of his own making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-10-30.501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": " today, and I hope that he will be able to make a similar contribution from the Dispatch Box in a month's time. But how can he say what he has just said? He has told the House that he wants to support fully the defence programme that this Labour Government have set out, but he said nothing about any of the other programmes, and he said nothing about that in his speech to the Tory party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "he Dispatch Box in a month's time. But how can he say what he has just said? He has told the House that he wants to support fully the defence programme that this Labour Government have set out, but he said nothing about any of the other programmes, and he said nothing about that in his speech to the Tory party conference. [Hon. Members: \"Read it out.\"] I have to watch these things, you know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.527.6", "colnum": "527", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting point. I certainly welcome the recruitment of Fijians to the British Army; they have made a significant contribution for many years, and I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman wants to desecrate that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.527.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.580.2", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Beresford", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that this is the second occasion in a row on which a flawed amendment has been tabled. As the Minister is aware, I first raised this matter in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "that if that point comes after the girl in question attends sixth-form college, there is suddenly something wrong with that. The clause could have another effect because, in practice, the girl could come under considerable pressure. The chap could legitimately argue, \"Come on, if we don't have sex now we can't for the next two years.\" If the girl was wavering, that could affect her decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend misunderstands my point. The clause does not deal with places where men and women have sex together in public, such as in parks, lover's lanes, on trains and on top of buses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Kissing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": " complete abhorrence of any sex other than heterosexual sex in the missionary position, but in general society is much more tolerant, particularly young people. I have to question the slightly muddled thinking, as it could be regarded, of my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon. He said on one occasion that the public have a greater abhorrence of seeing a gay couple speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annette Brooke", "preceding_text": "the phrase \"distress, alarm or offence\" was in the clause, because it would have made it easier to move this forward as a public order offence in the future. I want to put those comments on record. We have heard some reassuring words from the Minister to the effect that there remains the possibility of inserting amendments into other legislation. I hope that this is not the end of the story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-03", "file": "debates2003-11-03.xml", "sha256": "e8d29abe290a7acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": " tries to balance concerns about innocent, consensual sexual activity between under-16s with the need to provide protection for children. My hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster and Wyre (Mr. Dawson) was right to point out the level of sexual assaults carried out on children by other children. In that context, I visited the Haven project in London, one of the sexual assault referral centres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-03.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-04", "file": "debates2003-11-04.xml", "sha256": "9a7f9afeee0daceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Henderson", "preceding_text": "xisting maternity unit is temporarily closed because of the shortage of midwives. To ensure that the new hospital and new maternity unit is a success, will my right hon. Friend do all that he can to ensure that we recruit, retain and encourage midwives back into the profession? We want the investment to make an improvement, which counters the suggestions of failure from Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-04", "file": "debates2003-11-04.xml", "sha256": "9a7f9afeee0daceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Despite the baying from Conservative Front Benchers, that is a helpful question because it is important to have an honest appraisal of where we are with the health service. It is light years better than the health service that we inherited from the crowd on the Opposition Benches, but we still have a long way to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-04", "file": "debates2003-11-04.xml", "sha256": "9a7f9afeee0daceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "f ever I heard a soundbite it was \"soundbites, statistics and complacency\", which does not quite match \"Veni, vidi, vici\" in the resonance of historical sweep. When the hon. Gentleman asked his question, he implied that we had merely promised more \"schools and hospitals\". That was his first soundbite, so he did not like being told about more doctors, more nurses and more midwives. Of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-04", "file": "debates2003-11-04.xml", "sha256": "9a7f9afeee0daceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "es and more midwives. Of course—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] I will, therefore, answer the questions. We have more doctors than ever in history. We have recruited some of them from overseas, not least because under the crowd on the Opposition Benches all the investment in doctor training was run down, unlike the situation under the Labour Government. In primary care, we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-04", "file": "debates2003-11-04.xml", "sha256": "9a7f9afeee0daceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Quality of Life", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": "iform business rate. The car parks of large out-of-town supermarkets are, in effect, untaxed, because the business rate is levied only on the building and not the car park. If we changed the taxation system so that it took account of land value rather than rateable value, supermarkets could be taxed on their extremely profitable large car parks and small shops in towns would pay lower taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-04", "file": "debates2003-11-04.xml", "sha256": "9a7f9afeee0daceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "African Development Strategies", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "l hospital in Shangani, which served 12,500 families, has closed because it has insufficient food to feed its patients. The water supply in Harare was turned off. Elderly people commit suicide because they cannot afford to stay alive and people bury their loved ones but have to keep guard by the graves because people are stealing coffins. How long does that have to continue before we do something?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-04", "file": "debates2003-11-04.xml", "sha256": "9a7f9afeee0daceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "African Development Strategies", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "gain. That is an important argument. We should not be complacent and console ourselves with the thought that those countries are out of the woods and safe once and for all, because often they are not. The process does not cater for that and we should not give ourselves a pat on the back ahead of time. I feel passionately that the Government pay lip service to the people of Africa and its problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-04.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Betty Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Betty Williams", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is high time that Opposition Members of all political persuasions talked Wales up, rather than down? Is he aware that American business people told the Welsh Affairs Committee last week that, of all the regional development agencies, they enjoy the best co-operation with the Welsh Development Agency and the National Assembly for Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.786.8", "colnum": "786", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "If the Richard commission were to propose tax-varying powers—as apply in Scotland, and the Scots held a referendum on that precise issue—Wales would have to hold a referendum. However, I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the Labour Government will not support any increases in taxes of that sort for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.786.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.787.4", "colnum": "787", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, there have been innumerable complaints about the unreliable and shoddy service provided by Shamrock to my constituents in the Cynon Valley—and it also applies to neighbouring constituencies. Given that the company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.787.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.789.5", "colnum": "789", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I gather that this will be the right hon. Gentleman's last Prime Minister's questions, so perhaps before answering that question I may say that whatever our differences—and there have been a few—I wish him well in the future and so does everyone on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.789.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is precisely for that reason that we are making it clear that there cannot be any tax harmonisation or abolition of the unanimity rule on tax. I said on Monday in my joint article in the Financial Times with the Estonian Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "governmental conference. It is not merely us who think that. The House of Lords European Union Committee agreed with our view that \"there is considerable reassurance in the draft Treaty for those who fear that the EU is becoming too like a State\" and repeated its judgment of May this year that \"it is clear that the balance of power is going to shift from the Commission to the Member States\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Regional government or, indeed, the mayor alters fundamentally the basis on which people are governed locally. However, I suppose that the right hon. Gentleman at least is entitled to ask a question about a referendum because he wanted a referendum on the Maastricht treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Duncan Smith", "preceding_text": "And some other people sitting not too far away from the Prime Minister actually did, so he wants to be very careful about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Decommissioning (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the Government's view is that we would prefer the decommissioning process to be transparent. Therefore, it is a matter of regret that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.820.7", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Decommissioning (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "ist party did. My suspicion is that the right hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. Trimble) was put in a virtually impossible position. It sounded to me as though the Prime Minister was implying that he had information that made him confident, but that he was not able to share it with anyone else. The substantial question for the Minister is whether she can clarify the confusion once and for all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.820.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.822.3", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Decommissioning (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "y, I would remind her that the Liberal Democrats have been good friends of the Government on Northern Ireland policy. I do not make lightly the strong criticisms that I have made today, but the bipartisan agreement seems to have gone one miserable step further. It now seems to exclude everyone except Sinn Fein and the Ulster Unionists from the discussions that took place in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Decommissioning (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "preceding_text": "nts made by the right hon. Member for Upper Bann about confusion as meaning that we did not have transparency in the decommissioning process and that people were not aware of what had been decommissioned. I thought that he meant that given those circumstances, it was important for the people of Northern Ireland to know exactly the position to which the IRA had moved on the decommissioning process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Decommissioning (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "d their Government. We are all here to serve and we must all serve honestly and in the interests of those who gave us our positions of trust . . . I believe we should be absolutely clear about how Ministers should account, and be held to account, by Parliament and the public.\" Where is the Prime Minister today? He is not here to answer these questions. If he has a proper and sensible answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Decommissioning (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ions of trust . . . I believe we should be absolutely clear about how Ministers should account, and be held to account, by Parliament and the public.\" Where is the Prime Minister today? He is not here to answer these questions. If he has a proper and sensible answer— [Interruption.] The fact is that the Prime Minister could clear this up, one way or another. Let us be in no doubt about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Decommissioning (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": " It is not likely to persuade any impartial observer that there is any point of substance in the allegations that have been made. I consider this the low point of Opposition tactics in Northern Ireland in the present Parliament so far, and I hope it will turn out to have been the low point of the entire Parliament. I hope that the Conservative party will realise how few favours it is doing itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Decommissioning (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "ntire Parliament. I hope that the Conservative party will realise how few favours it is doing itself. [Interruption.] Conservative Members would do well to listen occasionally, rather than rattling and prattling on. What upsets my colleagues and me most is the danger posed and the damage caused to the peace process, and to the public interest of Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Water Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "Is not Report supposed to be the stage at which those of us who have constituency interests have an opportunity to speak? As a Member with significant quarrying interests in my constituency, I want to contribute to the debate on the quarrying industry. I see clearly from this programme that I will not have the opportunity to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.857.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.861.6", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Water Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": " justice to the importance of the argument. Other unanswered questions left over from the Committee will also need to be debated. The Minister was amenable in Committee, but even he will not have time during the two hours to cover all matters raised. In fact, when we debated fluoridation, the Under-Secretary of State for Health, the hon. Member for Welwyn Hatfield (Miss Johnson) , responded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.861.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Water Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "vernment have decided to take time to put the Bill through both Houses but failed to allow a full debate on all aspects of it. In Committee we hurried through as much as we could and, despite receiving many assurances from the Minister, we are now hurrying through the Report stage as well. It is easy to grow cynical in old age, but the method of legislating is not as thorough as it could be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Water Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "preceding_text": "ents and there will not be much time to debate them. There are strong consumer issues. We have heard about quarrying, which affects many constituents. That is a key factor. Many Members want to make representations about those issues on the Floor of the House, and we need time to consider them. Liberal Democrat Members are tabling important amendments that address some of the key injustices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-05", "file": "debates2003-11-05.xml", "sha256": "16e1b946805b41f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Vocational Education", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "lopment and they will be positively keen and enthusiastic to develop those language skills as they get older. The Tories are fond of citing figures for adult and community learning. Let us be clear that there has been a reduction in enrolment in adult and community education, but the greatest single reduction was between 1996 and 1997 when 170,000 fewer people enrolled in adult education colleges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-05.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "Given that Britain faces more acute competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "David Lepper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Brighton and Hove?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Lepper", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister acknowledge that residents in my Brighton and Hove constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.924.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "The Daily Telegraph : \"the IGC must respond without ambiguities that might, if unravelled, undermine even the best of intentions.\" He went on: \"Indeed our rejection of a federal European state and support for an outward-looking and flexible European Union is not a British obsession but can become, we believe, the settled view of most of Europe.\" I thoroughly applaud what the Chancellor said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "ey and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) is presumably not sure whether this is his last appearance in his current role, I should like to paraphrase Churchill by saying that, if this is his swansong—some swan: some neck. I have very much enjoyed responding to five Leaders of the House, particularly over the past two and half years in which we have engaged in a sort of threesome on Thursday afternoons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "res and Standing Orders. The assertion in paragraph 28 is invalid and untrue. In paragraph 30 the report deals with timing and makes the valid comment that \"points raised during the second reading debate may be taken into account when decisions are taken about how to allocate time to each part of the bill.\" In that respect, I acknowledge that a small concession and a little progress has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, we have introduced debates in Westminster Hall, which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.981.5", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barbara Follett", "preceding_text": "Nor is that just for individual Members to define. Individual Members and the Opposition held members of the National Minimum Wage Bill Committee prisoner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.981.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.982.6", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "t sympathy with what my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) said. I do not think that the Committee works properly. It is neither a Committee of the House, independent of the Government, nor something else. It is half way between. It is ably chaired by the Leader of the House, but it would be better if the Committee looked at the processes and procedures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.982.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "On the contrary, there was deep and widespread dissatisfaction with the haphazard nature of scrutiny. That frustration was the motivation that led to the introduction of programming. In any event, the programming and timetabling of Bills is only one part of the jigsaw of modernisation. I know that the word \"modernisation\" sends the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst into apoplexy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mr. Norman) , who unfortunately could not be present for the debate, has asked: \"Are we just going to get consumed with a rather claustrophobic atmosphere—the in-bred atmosphere of Westminster—and to believe that we are achieving things just by staying up late at night making speeches that nobody ever listens to?\" That is the alternative to timetabling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-06", "file": "debates2003-11-06.xml", "sha256": "0a054d6370c38755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Modernisation", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ed the House, wisely and with great pertinence, especially for newer Members such as myself, of the dangers of not having programming. I respect him for that argument. The right hon. Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) pointed to some improvements that could be made. I disagree with his point about the House of Lords. I shall not delay the House further with long lists of how—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-06.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elliot Morley", "preceding_text": "I accept the hon. Gentleman's assurance that that is his intention, but new clause 12 does not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": " industry? I accept that the Minister is worried about putting the contents of that letter in the Bill, and he made very clear the reasons for his not doing so. However, is there anything more that we can ask him to do to clarify the contents of the letter? I suggest that putting a copy of the letter in the House of Commons Library might be the easiest way of allowing everyone to see its contents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was promoted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "be prepared to surprise us by his generosity and common sense. He is rare among Ministers in this Government: he understands what he is doing, listens carefully to the arguments and has some influence over what the Government do. I very much welcome that in a Minister and wish there were more like him. He is stranded without promotion because he is so much better than those who are promoted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State for Wales, how could I say that I was against proper representation for the Principality on such an important body? I trust that as a party we shall offer support for the proper representation of Wales. I do not find myself in the same sympathy with the Lib Dem amendment, moved without a great deal of understanding or force by the hon. Member for Guildford (Sue Doughty) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "That is so irrelevant to this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.102.5", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Jimmy Wray", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For 40 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jimmy Wray", "preceding_text": "Many early-day motions are tabled. Some get hundreds of signatures, but they never go anywhere. Neither will that one. The jewel in the crown was Birmingham, which has been fluoridated for 30 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.102.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that they left the decision in the hands of the health authorities. [Hon. Members: \"They did.\"] I thought that the decision was left in the hands of the water authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "t point. We have referred to local authorities, but I imagine that the county council would be involved in my area, for example. I have a unitary authority in Herefordshire, but a county council and a district council in Worcestershire, both of which are in my constituency. There are difficulties, but why would strategic health authorities do a better job? They are not accountable and not elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "uthority or people voting in a national referendum, a minority will be forced to accept compulsory medication. My hon. Friend said that 67 per cent. of people in a poll were in favour of fluoridation. That means that one in three people who replied did not want to be force fed fluoride, but in arrogance people who have just come into this House and do not understand the prime responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-10", "file": "debates2003-11-10.xml", "sha256": "da175bb7dd2a37ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "e measures but public health or road safety considerations outweigh that disbenefit. Interestingly, when the group examined the MRC report and heard from the scientists who conducted the review, Dr. Harrison, who led the review, said that he believed that fluoride was safe. It was suggested earlier that there were 15 items that the review found outstanding but our questioning found only one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-10.137.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-11", "file": "debates2003-11-11.xml", "sha256": "b2da7455b8380e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend; I was just about to congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his promotion. I think that the hon. Gentleman makes an important— [Interruption.] My apologies. The right hon. Gentleman makes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-11", "file": "debates2003-11-11.xml", "sha256": "b2da7455b8380e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Identity Cards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "d scheme will make it possible to make all these benefits available to those who might not need, or want, a driving licence or passport and who could not otherwise afford such an identity document. We will provide a free card for 16-year-olds, a concessionary charge for those on low incomes, including those in retirement, and the option of a lifelong card for those renewing at the age of 75—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-11", "file": "debates2003-11-11.xml", "sha256": "b2da7455b8380e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Identity Cards", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Kingdom without an ID card. Does he seriously think that foreign terrorists having to divide their visits to the UK into three-month periods—or, even more simply, having to change their foreign documents every three months—will much handicap them? How does he intend to deal with that? The Home Secretary also mentioned benefit fraud. As a former Public Accounts Committee Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-11", "file": "debates2003-11-11.xml", "sha256": "b2da7455b8380e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Identity Cards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is wild\".", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "hat will be on the chip and on the database. Parliament will determine the civil liberties protections. I have already spelled out the fact that we do not expect the chip or the database to hold more information than is already required for passports and driving licences. One would have to be particularly wild to suggest that passports and driving licences have taken away people's liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-11", "file": "debates2003-11-11.xml", "sha256": "b2da7455b8380e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "United Nations", "cue_speaker": "Michael Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Moore", "preceding_text": "My understanding—I stand to be corrected—was that the EU was approached to carry out its functions in that matter and that it does so under the auspices of the UN.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-11", "file": "debates2003-11-11.xml", "sha256": "b2da7455b8380e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "United Nations", "cue_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Campbell", "preceding_text": " his Government were fully signed up to the war against terror, and were prepared to condemn terrorism without reservation, except in the case of Hamas, which, in his Government's view, was a group of freedom fighters. That underlines the extent of the problem. The General Assembly debate that we listened to made a Labour party meeting on a wet Saturday morning seem interesting and relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-11", "file": "debates2003-11-11.xml", "sha256": "b2da7455b8380e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "United Nations", "cue_speaker": "Tony Worthington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Worthington", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to follow the hon. and gallant Member for Reigate (Mr. Blunt) . I have never before experienced having three gallant Gentlemen sitting on the Opposition Benches and I think that I shall report it to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-11", "file": "debates2003-11-11.xml", "sha256": "b2da7455b8380e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "United Nations", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And gallant\".", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "d about the role of Parliaments in relation to the UN system. Like him, I welcome the observer status that has been given to the Inter-Parliamentary Union; we need to do more to engage parliamentarians in this way. I wholly agree, too, with what he said about the United Nations Association, which is a good organisation and a force for good in all our communities. The hon. Member for Reigate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-11.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "AIDS", "cue_speaker": "Christine Russell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christine Russell", "preceding_text": "May I thank my right hon. Friend for his reply? I am delighted to hear that he acknowledges the scale of the problem. I do not know whether the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.274.4", "colnum": "274", "heading": "AIDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Please allow the hon. Lady to be heard or it is unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.274.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Hall", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that if a political party were to promise patients' passports, pupils' passports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that the hon. Gentleman's council has accepted that a mistake has been made in trying to charge him for a legitimate inquiry on behalf of a constituent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Constitution for Europe (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": "a single state. That is a tenable view and I understand the people who hold it, especially those who are honest about it and advocate it openly. We may see our future as an independent state in a more flexible European Union, co-operating on an intergovernmental basis to advance common interests. However, the issue bedevils British politics. It bedevils politics between parties and within parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Constitution for Europe (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ntical to those in previous treaties, but it is important to scrutinise the document line by line, clause by clause, not simply subject it to a question of yes or no. Although a referendum might be appropriate for \"Pop Idol\" when deciding whether Gareth Gates or Will Young should win, it is unsuitable for examining a treaty. That needs to be done with due diligence and only Parliament can do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Constitution for Europe (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "lause by clause, not simply subject it to a question of yes or no. Although a referendum might be appropriate for \"Pop Idol\" when deciding whether Gareth Gates or Will Young should win, it is unsuitable for examining a treaty. That needs to be done with due diligence and only Parliament can do that. [Interruption.] Referendums in many parts of the world have often left countries and regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Constitution for Europe (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "l subscribe to it. A principal problem with referendums is that, on the whole, people do not answer the question that is put to them. Let us consider the 1986 referendum in Spain on whether it should join NATO. I do not suppose that many Conservative Members wanted Spain to vote against joining. However, many people voted according to whether they liked the Government of the day, not on the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Constitution for Europe (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": " not answer the question that is put to them. Let us consider the 1986 referendum in Spain on whether it should join NATO. I do not suppose that many Conservative Members wanted Spain to vote against joining. However, many people voted according to whether they liked the Government of the day, not on the issue. [Interruption.] I believe that we should hold referendums on only two conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.310.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Constitution for Europe (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More! More!", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "for Stratford-on-Avon tried to tell us that we were going to have a president, and that we would therefore be entering a superstate. Perhaps he studied a little bit of French at school. The word \"président\" in French just means \"chairman\". It is very simple: there is not going to be a president of Europe. The hon. Gentleman is misleading the House. Let us deal with the pro-referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.310.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Fire Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "n interest in that I remain a solicitor in a law firm that practises in industrial law, although I am not taking cases at present. I also spent a year working on it when, some years ago, I was a postgraduate student of Professor Lord Wedderburn, QC. Having completed that postgraduate degree, I practised in that area of law for 20 years, advising the Fire Brigades Union for most of that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Fire Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ngton made this point—that a member of the public might be able to obtain an injunction against the union. One cannot obtain an injunction against the firefighters; this would be an injunction against the union preventing it from calling a strike, as by doing so, it will be inducing a breach of statutory duty. As I said, one has to remember that the Bill does not create new statutory duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I certainly will not confirm that because that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "It is certainly the case that the contract could be restructured so that it would not have to pay that amount of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-12", "file": "debates2003-11-12.xml", "sha256": "b0a2e75639139924", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Taxes", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "ingle transaction into smaller transactions. We do not believe that the change will have any effect on genuine commercial transactions. I turn to the Stamp Duty and Stamp Duty Land Tax (Variation Of The Finance Act 2003) (No. 2) Regulations 2003. The changes to the Finance Act 2003 are contained in the schedule to the regulations and I shall give a brief, non-technical description of each of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-12.341.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-11-13", "file": "debates2003-11-13.xml", "sha256": "4ef4ce9127c14637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Monday 17 November .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " upon the Table of the House a certificate, that such a declaration has been deposited; That in the next session the bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it has passed in the present session, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages.— [The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-13", "file": "debates2003-11-13.xml", "sha256": "4ef4ce9127c14637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "I sometimes wonder whether Conservative Members are living in the real world. As I said to the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Rosindell) , the Chancellor considers representations and makes decisions on tax as part of the Budget process. As for tax rises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-13", "file": "debates2003-11-13.xml", "sha256": "4ef4ce9127c14637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was Digby Jones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "We are not siphoning off funds, as the hon. Gentleman puts it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-13", "file": "debates2003-11-13.xml", "sha256": "4ef4ce9127c14637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "May I begin by paying a warm tribute to my predecessor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-13", "file": "debates2003-11-13.xml", "sha256": "4ef4ce9127c14637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I am happy to support that. Political parties in trouble ought to get all the help they can. On the overall staff figures in the civil service, is the hon. Gentleman saying that, for example, the 4,000 extra staff recruited to tackle the problem of asylum seeking, which the leader of the Conservative party bequeathed to us from his time as Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-13", "file": "debates2003-11-13.xml", "sha256": "4ef4ce9127c14637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Extradition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": " was advised that it was not possible to draft an amendment that restricted part 1 only to terrorism; it was possible only to draft a restricting amendment that would have included part 3 as well, thereby affecting those whom we want to extradite back to the UK. Had I drafted such an amendment, the Minister would have said, \"The Opposition are trying to drive a coach and horses through this Bill.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-13.448.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-11-17", "file": "debates2003-11-17.xml", "sha256": "91867652975805e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Tuesday 2 December .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " upon the Table of the House a certificate, that such a declaration has been deposited; That in the next session the Bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which is has passed in the present session, and shall be recorded in the Journal of the House as having passed those stages; That no further fees shall be charged to such stages .—[The Chairman of Ways and Means.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-17", "file": "debates2003-11-17.xml", "sha256": "91867652975805e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.471.5", "colnum": "471", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John MacDougall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John MacDougall", "preceding_text": "eed, such as Central Fife, where we had a strong influence in traditional industries and manufacturing industries, which have suffered badly. What special efforts are the Government making to tackle such areas? Can he give a reassurance to the House that we will not return to the days when, under the now Leader of the Opposition, we had the longest continuing increase in unemployment of any—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-17", "file": "debates2003-11-17.xml", "sha256": "91867652975805e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.477.6", "colnum": "477", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "n now choose how to apply for pension credit—by filling in the application form, by ringing the freephone number, by visiting the advice surgery or by having a home visit. That is a great advance. In October alone, in the hon. Gentleman's constituency—I am sure he knows this—91 home visits were made, 173 people dropped into local surgeries, and there were 16 surgery appointments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.477.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-17", "file": "debates2003-11-17.xml", "sha256": "91867652975805e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.493.4", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We have just been speaking about farming matters. The farmers in Scotland often say that the cares of tomorrow are for a day still to come. We will worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-17", "file": "debates2003-11-17.xml", "sha256": "91867652975805e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-17", "file": "debates2003-11-17.xml", "sha256": "91867652975805e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Anti-social Behaviour Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "gislation, and may not be one of the great moments in legislative history or one of the high points of the parliamentary record, but it will make an enormous difference for the better for a large number of people. Can we ask more than that, when we come to the House, we do not do harm but good for some people? Tonight, we have the opportunity to bring relief to many who have suffered for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-17.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.600.8", "colnum": "600", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Ooh!", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a good point. The first stage of the channel tunnel rail link was opened in September, and I am pleased to tell the House that today the Under-Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, East (Mr. McNulty) , was able to present a bouquet of flowers to the millionth passenger to use that service since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.600.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "First, let me welcome the hon. Gentleman to his new post. We had expected to see the hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) , who we were told was in charge of both transport and the environment. I can only conclude that she must be dealing with the environment this morning, and therefore cannot be with us. It is nice to see the hon. Gentleman, though.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.615.3", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I will be at a state dinner tomorrow night but it would be inappropriate for me to say anything other than, \"I am very pleased to meet you, Mr. President.\" I think that I can anticipate what the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) would like to say. The hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) is not speaking for the whole House in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.615.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Grammar Schools (Ballots and Consultation)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "take away that ladder from the best and most able in our society. That is madness. Grammar schools provide an excellent academic environment, which affects not only those who attend them: they pull up the whole education system. It is no coincidence that even non-selective schools in the London boroughs of Kingston and Sutton do better than the comprehensive schools in their neighbouring boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Sexual Offences Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport has been exercised by the problem of the newspapers, particularly the tabloids, paying journalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is an annual figure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " most telling remarks that the Home Secretary made during his somewhat un-put-together defence of this part of the Bill his reference to £9 million? When my hon. Friend and I have asked him about the number of juries that have been nobbled he has not been able to provide us with an answer, yet he has come up with the fact that a trial is costing £9 million to protect. Frankly, so what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.663.6", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "have drafted the amendment—it includes the word \"sure\" and relates to a great risk—would help to achieve that. I turn to applications by the prosecution for a trial to be conducted without a jury if there is a danger of jury tampering. The Home Secretary expressed surprise that our amendments were differently worded, but that is because they address two completely different situations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.663.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " the King concerned the fact that he was \"depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury\". That concern resulted in the right to trial by jury being protected in article III.2 of the United States constitution. I am not aware of any circumstances in any of the jurisdictions in the United States in which defendants in serious cases can be denied the opportunity to trial by jury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "essure in terms of turnover and disposal rates. They are almost certain to think that they can try cases just as well as a jury, so why should they not exercise their right to decide that they will do so? And what about the little cases—those that are just a few pounds' worth—that find their way to the Crown court, in which the defendant wants to opt for trial by jury? They will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": " just as well as a jury, so why should they not exercise their right to decide that they will do so? And what about the little cases—those that are just a few pounds' worth—that find their way to the Crown court, in which the defendant wants to opt for trial by jury? They will— [Interruption.] Does my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary want to intervene, or just get in the way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-18", "file": "debates2003-11-18.xml", "sha256": "de548eb9e52caf76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.709.2", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman is not terribly interested in the practical consequences of such Bills, but we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-18.709.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " areas that are in massive decline. But I believe that people in the south have a right to live there if they so wish, and that there are sufficient resources, such as land, to provide for that. We have already established a programme to deal with antisocial behaviour. Is he saying that the £96 million that we have just awarded to south-east Essex and to his own constituency is unacceptable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I did say that we had just seen the right hon. and learned Gentleman in his statesman-like mode—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I did say that we had just seen the right hon. and learned Gentleman in his statesman-like mode—[Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] He cannot resist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "er this Government. It welcomes the low inflation, low interest rates, low unemployment and high levels of employment. It welcomes the fact that we have been through the recent downturn better than any other country in the G8. I think that business remembers, too, that when a certain Opposition party was in power, it had 15 per cent. interest rates, 3 million unemployed and double-digit inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister suggesting that this is not a matter on which he should be held to account? He may care about vulnerable Ministers—we care about vulnerable children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister suggesting that this is not a matter on which he should be held to account? He may care about vulnerable Ministers—we care about vulnerable children. [Interruption.] Is not it the case that the Government always bully people who get in their way? The 94-year-old Rose Addis, lying on her hospital bed, was described as a racist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.769.6", "colnum": "769", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Now we see the right hon. and learned Gentleman in his true colours. If he wants to talk about vulnerable children, let us have a look at the record of the two Governments on vulnerable children. Let us remember that when he was a Cabinet Minister in the previous Government the number of children in poverty trebled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.769.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "If we want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.770.4", "colnum": "770", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That includes the Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Oona King", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Oona King", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that unemployment, glass ceilings and the pay gap keep women out of the job market; unfortunately, out of Parliament; and, it seems, off the Opposition Front Bench? Does he agree that, in a democracy, it is really important that we have women not just in the Government, where a third of Ministers are women, but in the Opposition, where, unfortunately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Local Government Finance Settlement 2004–05", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": "spirational. It led to the biggest council tax increases for a decade, and a campaign by the Secretary of State for Education and Skills and the Minister for School Standards—the Laurel and Hardy of the Government—to blame everybody but themselves. The settlement is a panic-stricken and desperate attempt to repair last year's damage. The watermark right through the settlement is panic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Local Government Finance Settlement 2004–05", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": "r on year, remorselessly, relentlessly and unremittingly, under this Government, council tax bills soar. Every year, Ministers recite the same old litany and say that the Government's proposals are fair, realistic and even generous. I have the speeches, which are a sort of black Gregorian chant. Each year, however, the inescapable arithmetic reasserts itself—bigger bills or reduced services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Local Government Finance Settlement 2004–05", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": " it, but the council tax is the tax from which it cannot hide. If I leave a rake on the floor of my tool shed and step on it, it will rear up and smack me in the face. Labour council taxes are that sort of tax; they are straight, up-front, in-your-face, cash-on-the-nail taxes, and as we all know, they hit the worst-off first. There is no escape. When services are delivered by local councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "First Aid Training in Schools", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ther Liberal Democrat sort of way, that the details of all this will emerge. In other words, yet again, we are being asked to sign a Liberal Democrat blank cheque: \"Let's legislate now, because it sounds good, and let's not worry about the details because someone else will fill them in.\" That is simply not good enough. An hon. Member cannot come to the House and say, \"I've got a jolly good\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether my hon. Friend meant this, but I would not, with due respect to the other place, ever draw comparison between our democratic methods inside the Labour party and the inherited privilege vested in the other place. He will have noticed that I voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "t because they want to improve the national health service more than us, because that is one of the great promises—such as, \"I will love you all the more for it in the morning\", or, \"I'm a Conservative and I love the health service more than you do\"—that we have come to look at askance. They oppose the plans because they are frightened of the political consequences of the improvements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": ". Friends will remark on the discipline that has been imposed in the attempt to inflict a defeat on the Government tonight. Perhaps they will bear that in mind. I am afraid that I have to correct the hon. Gentleman factually. It is not necessarily the case that foundation hospitals will implement \"Agenda for Change\" prior to everyone else. We are working on the guidelines on that point at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "It is true, to name a few, that the British Medical Association, consultants, the House of Lords, the Tories, the Liberal and Democratic party and some of the royal colleges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend said at many stages in Committee, he would see that my hon. Friend was pointing out exactly the areas where the policy is going wrong. The Secretary of State's failure to persuade people of the merits of the Government's policy has cost his right hon. Friend the Minister for Sport and Tourism a chance to support England's splendid rugger team in Saturday's world cup final in Sydney.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.834.5", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "on, especially as, by definition, it is the weakest hospitals that will do so. Therefore, under the Secretary of State's plan, the hospitals that most need new investment will be the last ones to get it. Another serious flaw in the clause concerns the nature of the foundation trusts that the Bill will establish, if it is passed. I have a long-standing interest in the role of independent hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, given the time that I have got—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.838.3", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "I would say what I have said on many occasions, which is that every patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.838.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to have made a speech, and I commend him for taking that opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "nning the precursors of NHS trusts. I wanted the most successful parts of the service to have the freedom to borrow and raise capital so that they could respond to rising demand. The Treasury turned me down. When I got to the Treasury, as Chancellor, I found that the Government were so battered over reform that no one wanted to change the system any more, so I was not able to reverse the decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The House has just approved a measure the impact of which will be felt exclusively in England. The Government's greatly reduced majority has been obtained through Scottish Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "as been obtained through Scottish Members of Parliament— [Interruption.] What advice do you have for those of us whose constituents will regard this as a constitutional outrage? Will you now allow the Secretary of State to make a statement, and to consider my offer to him to enter into immediate talks on how the Bill can be improved, so that its passage through both Houses can be guaranteed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.856.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "rings together an enormously eclectic number of people in order to judge their fellow citizens. The idea that they are not capable of doing it is an insult to them and an insult to us. We are an extraordinarily eclectic group of people. The days when the squirearchy came here to sit on the Tory Benches and to patronise the representatives of organised labour on this side of the House are all gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": " of the Home Secretary. My concern is that although I have listened to such debates recently and when we previously discussed these matters, I have never heard a proper argument that stands up, and the people outside have never heard such an argument. That matters more than anything else, as British justice works because the British people believe it to be just. The jury is a crucial part of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " chosen. Of course, it is inconvenient for the Government. Of course, it is expensive and, of course, the Treasury will apply pressure on the Lord Chancellor's Department, or whatever it is called nowadays, to increase the rate at which trials are conducted so that they are more economically efficient, but it seems that that conflicts with the principle of whether, by removing trial by jury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.905.5", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "That is not what my right hon. Friend said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.905.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. There can be no negotiation with unelected Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. There can be no negotiation with unelected Conservative—[Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"] I am not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.906.4", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think it is clear to the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan that the Minister is not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.906.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "ld say to the hon. Gentleman and all his right hon. and hon. Friends, is that the Bill as a whole stands before the House tonight. Of course it is true that these amendments are about part 1, but the Bill as a whole is one piece of legislation, and I have made it very clear to the hon. Gentleman and the House that the whole Bill stands before us tonight and we have to make a decision on that Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.914.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer him!", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "nment's plans, because the overall public expenditure ceiling cannot be breached. Every single addition, every single success scored by a foundation hospital, will be compensated for by a failure by another hospital. It is no good the Secretary of State pointing at his head. He and the Minister of State have had debates this afternoon and this evening to answer that point, and neither has done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I have a considerable respect for the right hon. and learned Gentleman, but there is one significant difference between the position that he faced and the position that we face now, which is that there is an increase in investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The Treasury insisted not on a cap, but that any borrowing made by the foundation trust counted towards the general envelope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The Treasury insisted not on a cap, but that any borrowing made by the foundation trust counted towards the general envelope. [Interruption.] That is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "That is not an individual cap for a hospital; it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-19", "file": "debates2003-11-19.xml", "sha256": "1047358a2fc28639", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.928.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "MMR VACCINE", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "e is used in a wider population, which is precisely why we have the monitoring arrangements that we do. To turn to the monitoring arrangements—the yellow card scheme—I cannot go into all the detail in the time available to me, but as soon as the strain was identified, vaccines were withdrawn. That demonstrates clearly that if we identify a problem, we are able to act and respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-19.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.938.3", "colnum": "938", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "e constructive ones—it would help if the hon. Lady were occasionally to do the same. If she is repeating her call for our withdrawal from the common fisheries policy, that is a foolhardy suggestion, because she knows very well that that would mean our withdrawing from the European Union. If she thinks that she could renegotiate a better deal with all the countries that she had annoyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "The rural White Paper is being reviewed by officials in the light of what has been delivered. I am astonished to hear the hon. Gentleman's rant about how terrible everything is in the countryside. I do not know how he has the gall to talk about rural transport when, since my Department was launched, we have spent £25.7 million on rural transport with a further £20 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Gentleman raised this yesterday, and was given a very clear answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " entirely contrary to the usual conventions. On the \"Today\" programme this morning, the hon. Member for South Suffolk (Mr. Yeo) argued that the Lords were justified in objecting to Government Bills. He highlighted \"crossbenchers in the House of Lords who've been crucial to the outcome of the votes there\" . Actually, it was quite the opposite. In the votes, Cross Benchers were evenly divided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That is curious behaviour from the shadow Leader of the House with pretensions to be in government—he thinks that there should be free votes on key flagship Government legislation. What a shambles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The shouting in the Chamber is so loud that sometimes I cannot hear the hon. Members who are speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Groveller!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": "As one of the nobblers who voted against the Government, I promise the Leader of the House that I will not vote against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the hon. Gentleman that we cannot debate the Bills now: there is a motion before us. I advise right hon. and hon. Members to examine the terms of the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Leader of the House is not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.970.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.976.5", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "In a moment. The offer that has been made on foundation hospitals would allow the whole Bill—the GP contract and all the other measures that I could list—to go through. What we do not want is a two-tier system in our country—a half-baked solution that simply will not work. We are entitled to negotiate and discuss. The other place was giving us that opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.976.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I think that the one Liberal Democrat Member we have here is quite a good one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Before an attempt at rescuing the shadow Leader of the House is made by his predecessor, will you rule that any listing of the titles of the 393 clauses that might be envisaged by the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) would be ruled out of order as tortuous and unnecessary in relation to the debate on the matter before us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.979.4", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And Treasury questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "Give me a moment, because I want to make the point that there is a good reason to have Home Office and Department of Health questions next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "ho would seek to influence me not to vote on, for example, Northern Ireland matters—particularly, if I may say so with respect, if those people represent the Conservative and Unionist party—should recognise that they are playing right into the hands of the separatists. On the point made by my hon. Friend, I have not always supported the Government; I opposed them on incapacity benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.983.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Dragged?", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "tleman, urgent questions can be allowed in any event by application to Mr. Speaker on the day. We have established that new procedure, and there is no reason why the position should be any different under the amendment. Urgent questions could be taken, just as the Home Secretary was dragged to the House yesterday to answer an urgent question about the breach of security at Buckingham palace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: What has that got to with the motion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": "87 manifesto. It was already in the process of being delivered in Scotland owing to the difficulty of dealing with its rate revaluation—the reason why the policy was conceived in the first place. It is notable that the Government are encountering similar difficulties as a result of loading such a weight on to the council tax, which is a curious hybrid of rates and the community charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask you whether you have had any indication from the Secretary of State for Health that he intends to come and tell the House that, in the wake of the decision by the House of Lords not to insist on its amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "the House of Lords not to insist on its amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill—[Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] Wait for it. Does the Secretary of State intend to tell us about the fact that, none the less, he or his Department, acting on his behalf, had sent to potential foundation trusts a draft press release saying that, even if he were to lose on the legislation, he has powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1021.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell us!", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I wonder whether you can help the House. I was delighted to see the shadow Home Secretary on television a few moments ago saying exactly what had happened. Should the House not be informed, as well as all the television viewers? I knew what had happened, and I supposed that everyone else did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-20", "file": "debates2003-11-20.xml", "sha256": "7cb39ea08a02a971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1025.4", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "onsulted with the spokespeople for the two main parties. I have not been able to reach agreement yet with my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews) , who forms almost a party of his own on these issues, although I know he has been consulting regularly over the last 48 hours with the Opposition parties, so he will be familiar with the issues that we have been debating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-20.1025.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.8.2", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "orld cup, beating the then mighty West Bromwich Albion 4–1 in the final. I am told that that was an even more convincing victory than the only other time a British team won this particular competition, which I believe was around 1966. Recently, however, a third world cup has come Britain's way, and I am sure that the House will join me in congratulating the English rugby team on their—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.8.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I am very, very sorry that the hon. Gentleman was unable to enlighten us about his position on top-up fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.18.6", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "d of themselves. We shall oppose any legislative provision that seeks to give effect to this despicable proposal. I have no doubt that when we do so we shall be joined in the Lobbies by the many Labour Members who, unlike the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary, retain their self-respect. Now, what about pensions? The pensions Bill will do nothing to tackle the main causes of the pension crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.18.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You've said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "overnment just give us top-up fees. We need safer streets, but the Government abolish the Lord Chancellor. We need improved hospitals but the Government give us legislation on the euro. The Prime Minister and the Government are simply unequal to the task. They have run out of ideas, they have run out of money and they are running out of time. All they have to offer is open wallets and empty minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ade an immensely engaging and witty speech, as we anticipated. I thank him in particular for his kind words on Northern Ireland and all that we have done over the past few years. I can assure him that we will carry on working for peace in Northern Ireland to the best of our ability, both now and after the elections today. My hon. Friend is the well-respected chair of the Treasury Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ow about previous convictions—he has got form as long as your arm. In fact, on almost every occasion when there was a serious crime against this country, the right hon. and learned Gentleman was on the scene. Who was the Environment Minister who personally brought in the poll tax? He was. Who was Home Secretary when police numbers were cut by 1,000 after he promised to increase them? He was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Labour isn't working.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "at it was the most predictable speech that we could have heard from the right hon. and learned Gentleman. He may want to pose as the nice Dr. Jekyll, but we know that, deep down, he is still the same old Mr. Howard—utterly negative. The NHS is apparently hopeless. The schools are all failing. The economy is on the road to ruin. It was straight out of the Saatchi book of negative campaigning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " apparently hopeless. The schools are all failing. The economy is on the road to ruin. It was straight out of the Saatchi book of negative campaigning. [Hon. Members: \"Labour isn't working.\"] Oh yes, they are remembered for saying, \"Labour isn't working.\" That was when unemployment was 1 million and then the Tories trebled it—not once, but three times. This Queen's Speech, by contrast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We are improving cancer services throughout this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Martin Smyth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Smyth", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You may not have heard it, but the Prime Minister said that this was about England, not Scotland. I understood that the Queen's Speech dealt with the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.28.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On the domestic agenda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.31.8", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No. Sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.31.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "rse that feeling—that mentality—that many people share in this country. Indeed, it was reported a number of years ago—I do not know whether it is true, but it had the ring of truth about it—that former President Clinton once remarked to our Prime Minister that, whatever else he did, he should not make the mistake that President Clinton had made, which was to squander—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read the Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is making assertions about what is and is not in the Queen's Speech. In this case, he is talking about asylum seekers. Does he not mean failed asylum seekers? Would it not help the debate if he got his facts right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.76.5", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "know what it is likely to mean to a certain extent—less good pensions. I declare an interest because, like my hon. Friend the Member for Newark, I receive an armed forces pension. It is not great, but when I was serving and stuck in some dump for six months, living in a tent or a hole in the ground, I knew that, although I might not be earning a great deal, I was running up a decent pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.76.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "of race, creed and finances, should be given the opportunity to make the most of their God-given talents. That is why what this dreadful Labour Government are now going to do about tuition fees is so hypocritical. When I was given the opportunity to go on to higher education, my parents did not earn enough to make any contribution to the grant. I was one of those lucky individuals on a full grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-26", "file": "debates2003-11-26.xml", "sha256": "438a6e245e189ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "rtunity to go on to higher education, my parents did not earn enough to make any contribution to the grant. I was one of those lucky individuals on a full grant. [Interruption.] There is no doubt—this is why Labour Members are embarrassed—that once the tuition fees kick in, they will definitely be a penalty against children of working-class parents who want to go into higher education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-26.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shadow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ve no plans for such a referendum this side of a general election? Surely, the Bill should have been for a referendum on the Euro constitution, especially in the light of recent information that Britain would lose the right to determine its own foreign policy. Would the right hon. Gentleman like to contemplate his previous remark that that was merely a tidying-up exercise? The shadow Leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "n asked about the Government's great conversation. He knows the protocol that has been adopted with regard to programmes such as \"Newsnight\" by Ministers of all parties over the years. Frankly, the idea that, when we engage in debate, as I am doing now, with Conservative Members, the Liberal Democrats and other Opposition Members, we are afraid of debating or having a conversation with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "otocol that has been adopted with regard to programmes such as \"Newsnight\" by Ministers of all parties over the years. Frankly, the idea that, when we engage in debate, as I am doing now, with Conservative Members, the Liberal Democrats and other Opposition Members, we are afraid of debating or having a conversation with them— [Interruption.] —the conversation—is ludicrous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "sition parties do not seem to be interested in the future. The issue of student fees will doubtless come up, as it did in some of the interviews and conference calls that I did yesterday on the Queen's Speech. We need to engage people in a debate about the future of higher education. The Liberal Democrats' alternative method of funding higher education is more tax increases across the board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "International Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "overdue promotion to the Front Bench. May I say, without a word of hyperbole, that faced with the choice of two days in Naples talking about the finer detail of the Convention text and listening to the hon. Gentleman's speeches, I would go for the latter any day. Even more important than that, I am having to miss, I think for the first time in 24 years, the annual dinner of Blackburn Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "International Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ntial today because of the active and engaged foreign policy of the Government. I was struck by a recent poll published by a German magazine, which showed that the German population rated Britain as the most influential nation in Europe, above France and Germany itself. Furthermore, the rating was seven times greater than when the last such poll was taken, when Britain's score was only 4 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.151.4", "colnum": "151", "heading": "International Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " a recent poll published by a German magazine, which showed that the German population rated Britain as the most influential nation in Europe, above France and Germany itself. Furthermore, the rating was seven times greater than when the last such poll was taken, when Britain's score was only 4 per cent. [Hon. Members: \"When?\"] It was in the last full year of Conservative Government in 1996—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.151.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "International Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "etween flights, before he heads off again this afternoon. It was a little unfair of my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) , who has left the Chamber, to talk about doughnutting. I thought it was rather touching to see the affection that Labour Members feel for the Foreign Secretary; on his rare visits to this place, they like to surround him with close protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "International Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "We did not need one because we understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "International Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "le for the hereditary peers, but the Government had an easy option open to them to make the 90 remaining hereditaries life peers. That seamless arrangement would have got the Government what they wanted but would not have insulted many of the most hard-working and effective Members of the House of Lords. The Government have again approached constitutional change with all the instincts of a vandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.224.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "International Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": " the process of engagement with the EU that the Government are setting out, we are capable of improving European military contributions. Without that, NATO itself will be weakened. I simply invite Opposition Members who have criticised the EU's involvement to recognise the need to engage European nations, through whatever mechanism is appropriate, in the improvement of their military capabilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-11-27", "file": "debates2003-11-27.xml", "sha256": "502c768914571200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "International Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I do not necessarily disagree with the hon. Gentleman, but he is missing the point that I was making. It is a matter of improving European military capabilities and the various ways in which that can be achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-11-27.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: That means no then.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "h management organisations recognises that local authorities can, if they wish, borrow money and keep housing under their control. In the case to which my hon. Friend is referring, the housing stemmed from the coalfield communities and the coal industry and, as he knows, we are discussing with the council a number of options for meeting the capital requirements necessary to improve the properties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ictability of planning decisions and speed up the handling of major infrastructure projects, and not before time. I am sure that the House will also be pleased to note that the Bill removes Crown immunity from planning control, and it will now apply to planning as to everything else. On planning obligations, the Bill contains provisions to deal with abuses of the planning system by business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "We are having a conversation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman mentioned that perhaps the referendum Bill or the regional assemblies Bill does not appear in the proposed legislation. He must be well aware that I have promised that after the referendum takes place a Bill will be brought before the House that spells out the proposed powers. That is the proper way to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": "e unwilling or unable to meet those new standards. There is a serious risk there. We must also consider whether there might be some perverse deterrence risk—will the provision catch people it was not intended to catch? For example, some parents buy property in university towns when a child is going to university. They rent the spare rooms to colleagues of their children. Will they be caught?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "thing less. Moreover, it does not take an expert to see that this is an instrument designed for that very purpose. It is designed to transfer our sovereignty on criminal justice and much else from our Parliament to expensive, corrupt, wasteful and out-of-control Brussels bureaucrats. It would do much more than allow the entirely undemocratic and unaccountable bureaucrats to remove our sovereignty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Love", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Love", "preceding_text": "That would sit much easier with the hon. Gentleman's argument if he could point to any positive contribution to solving the housing crisis that the Conservatives made during their 18 years in government. The reality is that, when I look at homelessness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "In that case, Madam Deputy Speaker, you have saved the next bit of my speech—albeit an unwritten one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-01", "file": "debates2003-12-01.xml", "sha256": "e36d340fcc762550", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Local Government, Environment and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Maidenhead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Member for Maidstone to her new role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-01.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "BCCI", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "There is absolutely no evidence to underpin the hon. Gentleman's statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend sums things up admirably: the past is the past, and the future is the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "are that, of those who voted, 70 per cent. voted for parties and politicians who are committed to the Good Friday agreement. If demolishing the agreement is an objective of the official Opposition, I hope that their Leader, who has graced us with his presence this afternoon, will intervene—snarling, scratching and biting, as he did last Wednesday—to tell us what his policy actually is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "We are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I would be careful if I were the hon. Gentleman—he will get into the bad books of the Home Secretary, who gets very upset when one does not read his press releases and statements. On 24 November , the Home Secretary was talking about where the Government could find a place abroad as part of reviewing the whole question of asylum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "n—he will get into the bad books of the Home Secretary, who gets very upset when one does not read his press releases and statements. On 24 November , the Home Secretary was talking about where the Government could find a place abroad as part of reviewing the whole question of asylum. [Interruption.] Yes, he was. Last week, the Government boasted that the number of asylum seekers had halved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "onstitutional change from what we need to do on the Floor of the House and elsewhere with the modernisation of this place. If we compare the House now and in 1979, when I became an MP, we can see that it is radically different and, in many ways, much better. The Committee structures work better and Westminster Hall, to which I can claim to have given birth, if that is the appropriate phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "ldren are suffering or are in need, particularly whether they have financial needs. Does the Home Secretary accept that usually when social services get involved to try to help a child in such circumstances their initial response is to try to find financial support for that family? By taking away that financial support, which is what he is doing, he is creating a problem for social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I could be slightly cruel and point out that, in 1989, the Home Secretary himself voted against a Tory private Member's Bill involving the introduction of a personal identity number in an attempt to tackle fraud. I shall not go down that line, however, as I suspect that he has better researchers than I have and could probably come back at me with things that I have done in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.427.4", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Derek Conway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Conway", "preceding_text": " programme has enormous pitfalls with which the poor Whips on the Treasury Bench will have to cope. The Government were elected full of promise and full of promises. They have failed on the first and not delivered on the second. I have to be careful because if I comment on individual Bills as a member of the Chairmen's Panel I might not be able to play my part in their scrutiny subsequently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Derek Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Conway", "preceding_text": "That is very kind of my hon. Friend. In addition, my electorate may or may not, in the fulness of time, have elected peers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it will happen that quickly. We did not have a referendum on Maastricht and there is no need to have a referendum on the European constitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "p.com if they want further explanation. When the measure comes before the House, hon. Members in all parts of the House will no doubt table a huge number of amendments. The Scottish National party, which obviously has something better to do today, will undoubtedly produce a plethora of amendments, probably focusing on full fiscal freedom or any other alliterative—if I can say the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "One reason why I probably shall not be a success in the House is that I thought that I was debating the motion that the House should adjourn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-02", "file": "debates2003-12-02.xml", "sha256": "3c6fa7176986368a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Home and Constitutional Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I was opposing that motion, Madam Deputy Speaker, and explaining why it was inappropriate for the Whip to move it and for the House to agree it without debate. Today, Back Benchers' speeches were limited to 10 minutes. The Minister had 35 minutes available to him. A number of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-02.474.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Burnside", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Burnside", "preceding_text": " different points of view, we both admire that noble animal, the Irish hare. Why is she using her personal prejudice, as hare coursing is muzzled in Northern Ireland? No animals are killed and a professor and a doctor of biochemistry from Queen's university, Belfast say that \"hare coursing clubs benefit the Irish hare population\". The Minister is showing personal bias against country people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.494.6", "colnum": "494", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friend precisely that assurance. She will know that the way in which the Good Friday agreement was created, and the reason for its success, was that everybody was involved in the discussions and negotiations. All parties in Northern Ireland will have that opportunity to discuss among themselves, with me and with the Irish Government how we restore devolved institutions in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.494.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.498.4", "colnum": "498", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have not got the European constitution yet. As the right hon. and learned Gentleman may have noticed, it happens at the end of this month. If he wants me to deal with hospitals, let us deal with hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.498.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.498.4", "colnum": "498", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have not got the European constitution yet. As the right hon. and learned Gentleman may have noticed, it happens at the end of this month. If he wants me to deal with hospitals, let us deal with hospitals. [Interruption.] Oh yes, we will deal with hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.498.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "But we do listen to people. We listen to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "rtant thing between now and the vote is an argument about the alternatives. We have had the alternatives from the Conservative party. It would be terribly unfair and regressive to cut the number of people able to go to university. What is the right hon. Gentleman's alternative? His alternative is to raise the top rate of tax to 50 per cent. That is completely unfair, because there is no way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "want to expand the numbers going to university and if we believe that universities are underfunded—apparently, that is now the consensus among Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat Members—there are only two ways of paying for that. It either comes out of some form of contribution from students, as well as the additional investment from the state, or it comes from general taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.509.4", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "han 24 hours before the patients are due to go into theatre. It is no wonder that the number of people forced to pay for operations out of their own pockets has increased threefold since 1997. Is that what the Prime Minister had in mind when he claimed that there were 24 hours in which to save the NHS? I readily acknowledge that much that goes on in our education and health services is good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.509.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "I have never had a role speaking on education issues from the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "I have never had a role speaking on education issues from the Front Bench—[Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] Five years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "I have never had a role speaking on education issues from the Front Bench—[Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] Five years ago— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman will have to reference his allegations. Is the Secretary of State now clear about his own policy? Each time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it would help the House, Mr. Speaker, to say that the source is Hansard on 20 December 1988 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.11", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "In a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.11", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "In a moment— [Interruption.] Debating the Government's policy on top-up fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.511.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Are the hon. Gentleman's comments on the NHS a result of his personal experience of life? Does he use the NHS? I know that none of his children uses the state system of education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "It is because of my children that I know rather a lot about the NHS. They were both cancer patients in NHS hospitals and, for the most part, received excellent treatment. I have also been the chairman of a hospital that treats very sick children, so I speak on the issues with experience and, I hope, authority. The hon. Gentleman's intervention was not worthy of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.520.5", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman has been able to make a correction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.520.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "inside or outside the House, suggested to my right hon. Friend that we end the variable fees that have always been charged to part-time undergraduates, postgraduates, undergraduates studying directly in further education colleges, undergraduates on courses franchised by universities to further education colleges and students on any other course in further education colleges? If not, why not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I am arguing that the impact of tuition fees since 1998 has been to reverse the trend that was at least going in the right direction, especially after 1989 and after the incorporation of the universities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "vatives in the development of their higher education policy. The proposals in the White Paper, and those that will be in the Bill, are classic 1980s thinking from the Thatcher-Joseph school of social justice, the only difference being that Baroness Thatcher did not believe that she could get the proposals through her party. That shows how far we have come in the juxtaposition of two great parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "e from poorer backgrounds. There is clear evidence that debt deters students from poorer, non-traditional backgrounds, yet student debt will increase dramatically if top-up fees are introduced. The Secretary of State poured scorn on the figure of £33,708 as the average debt in 2010 and said that it did not come from a reliable source. I presume that Barclays bank is now an unreliable source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "8 as the average debt in 2010 and said that it did not come from a reliable source. I presume that Barclays bank is now an unreliable source. [Hon. Members: \"It is.\"] I hope that hon. Members do not bank with Barclays. However, they will admit that one of the most valuable sources of statistics on student debt has been the Barclays student survey. Without it, we would be all the more impoverished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.543.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-03", "file": "debates2003-12-03.xml", "sha256": "b49a5a7211960ee0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Public Services, Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "nt out to my hon. Friends—of all persuasions. The Opposition attempted to attack my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education for his conduct in 1998. They said that he voted for legislation that he did not like, and then wrote to express his reservations. That is far from grounds for complaint; rather, his action constitutes the perfect role model for a loyal Government Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-03.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was here in 1998 when the House debated the School Standards and Framework Bill, which specifically excluded debate on new grammar schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.641.4", "colnum": "641", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about cleaners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that in order to get the extra money into universities, the principal alternative to the Government proposal is an increase in general taxation on the public, 83 per cent. of whom did not go to university? Many of them—people such as waiters and chefs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.641.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.649.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "uncil tax average 13 per cent.? Despite Ministers' attempts to deflect criticisms of the increases, which pushed band D rates in some places over £1,000 for the first time, the report concludes that town halls that received bigger Government increases had smaller council tax rises and those with smaller grant increases had higher council tax rises. It also states that Government grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.649.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "y Purchase Bill. It is a matter of great concern that such a large number of amendments have been tabled by the Government to introduce a fixed tariff payment system for planning gains, despite the fact that the Government are currently consulting on that very issue and that the consultation does not end until 8 January . Yet we are supposed to debate the Bill and table amendments by this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "efficiency in the distribution system. The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill, as the hon. Gentleman understands, is designed to speed up the planning process and free up opportunities for enterprise and business to regenerate local communities, especially in deprived areas, which will, in addition, increase flexibility in the economy and help to boost prosperity. On the big conversation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.655.6", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. My hon. Friend is right that I voted with him and others for an elected second Chamber but our position was defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.655.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the chance to reply to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "hes. Today, the same newspaper contains evidence that the Chancellor's best value has meant no value. Comprehensive spending has meant comprehensive waste. We all remember Picketts Lock, the dome, and the Scottish Parliament building. We also remember the Passport and Records Agency fiasco, the armed forces asset management project and the renegotiation of a failed plan to link magistrates courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "16.7 billion, an increase of 19 per cent. on the previous March, and then asked Parliament to approve an additional £763 million by the end of the year that he had not thought of at the beginning of the year. By today's standards, that was still very modest. In March this year, the Supply estimates allowed for £20.6 billion of Government administrative expenses and the additions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.674.2", "colnum": "674", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ere mooted as plans to tax primary residences. That would be the death knell of this Government. In the NHS, where the Chancellor has said that \"the consumer is not sovereign,\" there are more administrators than beds. There are still nearly 1 million people on waiting lists and 24,000 more administrators not looking after them. As a consequence, although the Government's latest figures show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Blow me down—the hon. Gentleman has made a constructive contribution to the debate. He has asked a perfectly reasonable question. The problem that pensioners face today is that they cannot choose a hospital within the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ded. The Chancellor has made a colossal structural mistake. His recent utterances about reform serve only the purpose of masking that mistake; they do not remedy it. In the Queen's Speech, there should have been bold moves to turn the public services round so that they become responsive to their users rather than the bureaucracy—the very point I was making earlier. However, to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.678.0", "colnum": "678", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " which I shall return. Secondly, he has admitted that he would reduce public spending to 35 per cent. of national income. That is an £80 billion cut in public expenditure, which would be the equivalent of wiping out most of the health service. Thirdly, he has admitted that under his proposals, the pensioner who has an operation in the private sector would have to pay several thousand pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.680.8", "colnum": "680", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "It is right for Governments to borrow at a time of a world downturn. The right hon. Gentleman will know that the American deficit is in the order of 6 per cent., and that the German and French deficits are in the order of 4 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.680.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a minute, but not now; I am making progress on the new deal. The new deal has proved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.687.4", "colnum": "687", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "atients compares with 5.3 million now. The 11.6 million consultant episodes then contrasts with 12.8 million now. Ambulance services dealt with 3.5 million people when we came to power, as opposed to 4.9 million now. There were 473,000 magnetic resonance imaging scans, but 786,000 now. With ultra-sound scans, 4.8 million compares with 6.6 million. The 166,000 cataract operations have become—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.687.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "a piece of legislation which all parties agree is absolutely essential to safeguard the safety of workers? We shall probably support the Government on the referendum Bill in relation to Europe. Why now? The reason is that the Government have made it clear that they do not intend to act on it in this Parliament. It is an important initiative. It is important to sustain some of the confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "ittee on European Scrutiny the other day, creating more functions leads to more costs and more requirements to pay them. The European constitution must then be re-examined and it states that the Union has to provide the means to support the objectives. The money will come from taxation. The European constitution will have an upward effect on our tax system. Let me deal with asymmetric socks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.729.2", "colnum": "729", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Archie Norman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Archie Norman", "preceding_text": "d structural problem in their policy? The answer appears to be to produce more Soviet-style proliferation of public targets and to do nothing to address the problems of public sector management. The chairman of a well respected NHS trust told me a couple of weeks ago that the problem with the Government was that they thought not that the Soviet Union was wrong, but that it did not try hard enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-04", "file": "debates2003-12-04.xml", "sha256": "3d8ce32f4ca4f6cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "e the right hon. Gentleman on his appointment. He has the endearing characteristic of saying out loud what is in his mind, so we often get a more honest account for what passes for Conservative policy from him than we do from his colleagues. From a sedentary position a few moments ago, he committed the Conservative party to reintroducing the dividend tax credit at a cost of £5 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-04.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-08", "file": "debates2003-12-08.xml", "sha256": "8ae7166a2fb3ec99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.759.6", "colnum": "759", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Baron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Baron", "preceding_text": "s risen by nearly two thirds. Home Office figures for last year alone suggest that, in my area, robbery was up by a third, burglary was up by a half and violence against the person more than doubled. When will the Government stop their gimmicky initiatives and go to war against the criminals by introducing much stiffer court sentences and a massive increase in the numbers of police on the streets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.759.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-08", "file": "debates2003-12-08.xml", "sha256": "8ae7166a2fb3ec99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.774.4", "colnum": "774", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "I do not accept for a moment that ASBOs are failing. The hon. Lady should take a look at Leeds, where 66 interim ASBOs were obtained over the course of a weekend to reclaim an estate that was completely out of control. She should come to my Salford constituency, where we now have more than 50 ASBOs, 25 of which were obtained on conviction after the new powers were brought in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.774.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-08", "file": "debates2003-12-08.xml", "sha256": "8ae7166a2fb3ec99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill — [Ist Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "oposal would go some way towards solving the problem postulated by my hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings, but it would not solve—I am sure that it was not intended to—the more serious problem of what assurances the Minister is giving us. The Minister laughed merrily when I asked rhetorically whether there had been discussions with the National Assembly for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-08", "file": "debates2003-12-08.xml", "sha256": "8ae7166a2fb3ec99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill — [Ist Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "iend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings. If we are entitled when we introduce legislation to know the direction in which the Government intend to proceed in respect of England, surely we are entitled to know the direction in which the National Assembly for Wales intends to proceed in respect of Wales. Our decision on whether to vote for or against the new clause may hinge on that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-08", "file": "debates2003-12-08.xml", "sha256": "8ae7166a2fb3ec99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill — [Ist Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "d be generous to describe as suburban. The problem does not manifest itself only in the physical division of land but in the division of ownership. Maintenance of agricultural value and maintenance of landscape are much more difficult to enforce, even in an area of outstanding natural beauty, where ownership is divided into penny packets, so that is another reason to deal with that mischief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-08", "file": "debates2003-12-08.xml", "sha256": "8ae7166a2fb3ec99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.878.4", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill — [Ist Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "r, the Minister rejected what the hon. Member for Isle of Wight was trying to say. She said: \"It also would be contrary to the principles of administrative law, which require a decision maker to have regard to all relevant matters.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee A , 23 October 2003 ; c. 330.] I would not try to argue legal points—my background is in architecture, not law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.878.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-08", "file": "debates2003-12-08.xml", "sha256": "8ae7166a2fb3ec99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill — [Ist Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that local authorities may, especially in respect of complex developments that require compulsory purchase orders, allow consents to run to five years or longer. Would not strong guidance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-08.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-09", "file": "debates2003-12-09.xml", "sha256": "ebf3001d13b11fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.896.6", "colnum": "896", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "If teeth whitening were for purely cosmetic reasons it would not be available under the NHS, which is purely for clinical procedures, unless there had been a recommendation that it was necessary for clinical purposes. I agree with my hon. Friend about the policies of the Opposition; not only will the patients passport undermine the NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.896.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-09", "file": "debates2003-12-09.xml", "sha256": "ebf3001d13b11fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.897.5", "colnum": "897", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "r. I am sure that she is aware, because she gave me the information, that in 1999 41 per cent. of adults in my constituency were registered with an NHS dentist. That figure has now slumped to 30.6 per cent. I have raised this matter with her predecessor. My PCT chief executive tells me that the Department of Health counts the Isle of Wight as \"amongst the twelve most challenged populations\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.897.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-09", "file": "debates2003-12-09.xml", "sha256": "ebf3001d13b11fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "I am surprised at the hon. Gentleman and his constant attacks on Criminal Records Bureau checks. If we ever needed any confirmation of why such checks are necessary, we saw it recently in the \"Panorama\" programme. That is what the Government have implemented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.905.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-09", "file": "debates2003-12-09.xml", "sha256": "ebf3001d13b11fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " he were minded to accept it. We shall come to that a little later, but although I suspect that he is not minded to accept it. Nevertheless, I have carefully studied the Minister's remarks in Committee during the previous Session, and I have redrafted my proposals in light of the criticisms that he made then, so I hope that new clause 19 will meet with his full approval and that he will accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-09", "file": "debates2003-12-09.xml", "sha256": "ebf3001d13b11fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "e subject to an independent examination. I envisage that under my system, the plan, which sets out the overall strategy for the area, might remain in place for 10 years. The analogy in relation to my system is that the plan is the filing cabinet and the documents are the individual drawers or files within it. The plan might therefore remain, but the documents, which cover all sorts of areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-09", "file": "debates2003-12-09.xml", "sha256": "ebf3001d13b11fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.984.4", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "y of those on the Opposition Front Bench. I suspect that he does not, but I am prepared to answer his question. The smiling contours of his face suggest that he does not agree with his Front-Bench colleagues, and that he agrees with other, sensible Conservative Members—that the Opposition policy of withdrawal from the CFP would be an absolute disaster, not least for the fishermen of Brixham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.984.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-09", "file": "debates2003-12-09.xml", "sha256": "ebf3001d13b11fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I am aware of dissident scientists and dissident science—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-09", "file": "debates2003-12-09.xml", "sha256": "ebf3001d13b11fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.989.3", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to him three times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-09.989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Barnett formula has now reached its quarter century, and its eponymous creator has said that it has become terribly unfair. Does the Secretary of State agree that that deeply unsatisfactory way of distributing Government grant should be replaced by a needs-based formula throughout the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1048.5", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that very illuminating answer. May I draw his attention to the fact that the district auditor said recently that all police authorities are being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1048.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1051.5", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Surely, the issue is what is the right policy for the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1051.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1052.3", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let us indeed debate taxpayers' money. There is a very simple choice on student fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1052.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1052.7", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is nodding in agreement, but he is out of order. I have told him not to shout—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1052.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, because Parliament will make its decision. The question is what is the right decision for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As I constantly try to say to the right hon. Gentleman, if I had to read out his spending commitments, we would need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I will justify it. The plain fact is that the rate would not be 50 per cent. for those above £100,000, because the right hon. Gentleman's commitments total far more than any sum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "plain fact is that the rate would not be 50 per cent. for those above £100,000, because the right hon. Gentleman's commitments total far more than any sum—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Let me read some of his commitments. He cannot be saying that the only spending commitment he has is on student finance. He also has a commitment on the national health service, on the basic state pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.5", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "At the moment, I am answering it in the Liberal Democrat way, because I am reading out spending commitments. There is a £2 billion extra commitment for railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.5", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "At the moment, I am answering it in the Liberal Democrat way, because I am reading out spending commitments. There is a £2 billion extra commitment for railways. [Interruption.] They either have these spending commitments or they do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": "According to figures from the House of Commons Library, by next year, and since the Prime Minister's Government came to power, the total tax burden will have risen by a staggering £172 billion. That means that every man, woman and child in this country is paying an average of £3,000 a year more in taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1060.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "e stamp spirits bottles. If, after discussion with the industry, there is still no workable alternative proposed, we will legislate. If we have to impose stamping, the Economic Secretary will discuss with the industry the most cost-effective scheme and I will then consider extending the freeze on the duty on whisky and all spirits, not just for one year but for every year of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1070.0", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "h;except, of course, on amateur sports clubs. The Chancellor's best defence against the accusation that he has taxed, spent and failed is that he has counter-balanced that with success in monetary policy. The Chancellor has built his reputation on the framework for monetary policy that he put in place in 1997. I have congratulated him on that in the past, and I do so again today. But I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1070.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The main feature of the Welsh economy on which I thought the hon. Gentleman would congratulate the Government is the big rise in employment that has occurred in the past few months. I believe that 100,000 more people are in employment in Wales than were when we came into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Richard Spring", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Spring", "preceding_text": "es anyone think that those who favour an independent EU defence capability coupled to a common foreign and defence structure will rest content? Of course not. The Times on 1 December reported the comment of Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel that \"We can say that the embryo of a European defence is under way and that it's an irreversible process\". I would prefer to believe the sentiments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "support. If the SNP takes the view that the hon. Gentleman has just expressed, it may find itself voting against a variety of proposals that it previously supported with some enthusiasm and which the people of Scotland might well regard as being substantially in their interest. If I may say so, it is idle to speculate on how one would vote on a document that is not in final form and not before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "First, I should like to reply to the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Mr. Campbell) . If he had been in some of the numerous committees at the intergovernmental conference and at the Convention itself, he would have heard many such comments over the past nine months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heathcoat-Amory", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that. The document is called a constitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-10", "file": "debates2003-12-10.xml", "sha256": "45a6e2e0898677fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "sibility, they will find themselves, as they inevitably do in such situations, very much in the frame. We do not want clubs selling individual rights in this country, as our football would be changed absolutely, utterly and for the worst. We would end up seeing countless matches involving Manchester United playing Manchester United reserves or Arsenal playing Chelsea. That is not what people want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-10.1142.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-12-11", "file": "debates2003-12-11.xml", "sha256": "f70a5d9046093f4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-11.1198.4", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "away, and it now deserves to be addressed and answered. Will he find Commons time to debate our sensible suggestion that you, Mr. Speaker, should use your good offices to assess legislation that is put before the House? If it is assessed as affecting England only, with no consequences for Scotland, it should be referred to the English Grand Committee. That would be fair to Scotland and to England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-11.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-11", "file": "debates2003-12-11.xml", "sha256": "f70a5d9046093f4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-11.1237.4", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day, 1st Part] — Department for Work and Pensions — Child Care for Working Parents", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "that much pre-school provision is being driven in an increasingly academic direction. As a result, it is providing a different kind of environment for children from the one that they enjoy at home. Children do need to play before they go to school. My concern is that child care provision for the children of working parents should enable such play to develop. It is through play that children learn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-11.1237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-11", "file": "debates2003-12-11.xml", "sha256": "f70a5d9046093f4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-11.1249.2", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day, 1st Part] — Department for Work and Pensions — Child Care for Working Parents", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": " now paid to the main carer. I can tell the hon. Member for Romsey that we are consulting on the proposed extension of such care early in 2004, and we would welcome her comments and those of other hon. Members on the appropriate form for that. Her point about au pairs is principally a matter for the Home Office, but I am sure that my colleagues in the Home Office are listening to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-11.1249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-11", "file": "debates2003-12-11.xml", "sha256": "f70a5d9046093f4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-11.1287.5", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Department of Trade and Industry — People, Post Offices and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I will respond in a manner in keeping with the genuine spirit of constituency involvement that Members on both sides of the House have shown. I am grateful to the House and to the Chairman for accepting the reasons why the Minister for Pensions has been unable to attend today; I am really pleased to be here in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-11.1287.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1303.4", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "No, and no, and I have just given the answer to a previous question about the NAO report. Everything that I said was absolutely consistent with its conclusions. I am disappointed that right hon. and hon. Members have simply dealt with the detail rather than the overwhelming success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "nt's major equipments . . . contributed significantly to overall military capability and the success of the Operation\", and that they were also supported effectively. That is the overall general assessment of an extremely detailed examination of a huge logistical effort. I sometimes wonder what is in hon. Members' minds when they raise these questions. Are they trying to talk success into failure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1318.11", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ng terms that each country would have after enlargement. In the end, it was on that issue that agreement at the weekend proved impossible. However, a great deal of progress has been made, and I pay an unqualified tribute to the Italian presidency whose skill and tenacity made that progress possible. Prime Minister Berlusconi was able to sum up at the end of the meeting that while, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1318.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister Berlusconi was able to sum up that, while, of course, in formal terms, nothing is agreed until everything is agreed, there were some 82 points where consensus was close. Those included key changes on very important issues for the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "d he attacks us for it. Let us deal with some of the facts, not the myths. In respect of tax, social security, defence and foreign policy, we have made it clear—and there is now a consensus for this in Europe—that all those issues should remain by unanimity the province of the nation state. I shall quote to the right hon. and learned Gentleman from a member of his shadow Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "on. That is why the absurdity of his position is this: he has said recently in interviews that he would seek to renegotiate the whole of the constitution even if it was ratified. Right. Let me put to him the point that I put to his predecessor and to the predecessor before that: name me one other country in favour of renegotiating the very principle of a European constitution. There is none—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1327.3", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "wards it. All that the Leader of the Opposition got was his opt-out on the social chapter, which simply meant that British workers did not get the same rights as European workers. I do not know when Conservative Members will learn from their experience. The last time they were in power, they did not stand up for this country's interests. Britain became a laughing stock in the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The problem is that Conservative Members do not like the answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "habby offices on the fringes of Westminster; when it held a seminar last year on the child trust fund proposals, it took place at No. 10 Downing street, no less. What was said at that seminar? That may give us a clue about the thinking behind the Bill. The Financial Secretary knows, because she was there and said much of what was said. I know, too, because I have got hold of a copy of the minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " people rightly complain about that. The Government have discouraged people from making small savings. What message does the Bill send out about savings? I suggest that it will turn people against the savings culture. The Government have discouraged savings and I understand that the savings ratio has halved under the Government and is now only 4.5 per cent. compared with 9 per cent. in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "terest in the Bill, I have difficulty declaring it at the start of my speech because it has already been declared for me. My hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) made it clear that he, I, the Financial Secretary and the Chancellor—and, indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) —have, or are expecting to have, children who will qualify for a child trust fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-15", "file": "debates2003-12-15.xml", "sha256": "8eb6b3d06cc30af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend find it surprising, as I do, that the speeches I have heard in the Chamber and on the monitors from Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-15.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1437.0", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " Can he confirm that he is announcing no improvements to public transport to bring that about? The Eyre airports inquiries 1981–83 reported on a possible second runway at Stansted, concluding that it \"would be an unprecedented and wholly unacceptable major environmental and visual disaster\". Is the Secretary of State now reversing that judgment and, if so, what has changed to make him do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1437.0", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "airports inquiries 1981–83 reported on a possible second runway at Stansted, concluding that it \"would be an unprecedented and wholly unacceptable major environmental and visual disaster\". Is the Secretary of State now reversing that judgment and, if so, what has changed to make him do so? [Interruption.] On page 115 of the White Paper, the Secretary of State said that Stansted enjoys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1438.0", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members are unfair to the hon. Lady. She is entitled to put her case to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "In 1985, Stansted was used by a very small number of people, and I do not suppose that the inspector, Mr. Eyre, could possibly have foreseen that Stansted would this year handle 19 million passengers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "opportunities—let us put it no stronger than that—for fraud and malpractice. I am particularly grateful to the hon. Member for Braintree (Mr. Hurst) for his comments. I was slightly concerned when he said that the hotbeds of personation are cathedral cities and ancient universities. Having been brought up in one and having attended the other, I feel personally indicted by his comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": " for it. We are delighted that the Electoral Commission has come to that conclusion, because all the evidence of technical people that e-voting systems are not secure reinforces it. We want to make clear our complete opposition to e-voting being included in the Bill. It would demean elections to start treating them as though people were voting in a television game show such as \"Big Brother\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1484.0", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "aper trail. Anything else is an invitation for fraud to hackers and virus writers around the world and could destroy public confidence in our elections. It's always a bad idea to look for technical fixes to social problems. Election turnout would be increased if citizens were convinced their vote would make a difference. Simply computerising the current system is unlikely to achieve this\". —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "But the Electoral Reform Society came out in favour of Scotland by saying that it should be a pilot area for the simple reason that it has only one election on that day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I cannot understand what the hon. Gentleman is talking about. No one is deprived of such a vote—every single elector in his constituency, if they wish to do so, can vote by a postal ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "ostal ballot. [Interruption.] He says that they will not, but why not? They have the opportunity to do so. It is not a question of depriving people of a vote. If that is what he really believes, he should not support the Bill. Instead, he should introduce a private Member's Bill that would establish all-postal ballots on all occasions in all areas at all times. That is the only logical conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "I think that the Minister is doing exactly the right thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1515.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2003-12-16", "file": "debates2003-12-16.xml", "sha256": "fa00e0cb5b6e5909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1544.11", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred until 12.30 pm on Wednesday 17 December .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-16.1544.11-1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1564.3", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "entleman talks about the pre-Budget report, which I have read. It shows that, as opposed to 3 million unemployed under the Conservatives, 1.5 million extra jobs have been created under Labour; as opposed to interest rates of 10 per cent. and 15 per cent., they are now at their lowest for decades; and as opposed to double-digit inflation, we have the lowest inflation for ages. Let us look at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1564.5", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman wants to compare the past with the present. He has apologised for the poll tax, but is he sorry about his opposition to the minimum wage? Is he sorry that he increased unemployment by 1 million? Is he sorry that he cut police numbers when in power? He is not sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1564.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1566.0", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have already said why I think it is fair to have a graduate repayment system. In relation to the 70 spending commitments that the right hon. Gentleman has made, I shall be happy to return to the House on the next occasion with the details of those commitments. I shall give the House a few examples now, however. There is a commitment to spend £2 billion on the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1587.3", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ve and concern. Our hearts go out to them this afternoon. I shall lay a statement before the House and, in conjunction with the Opposition spokesmen, take steps to initiate an investigation into some of the events that took place from 1995 onwards. I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I understand that the shadow Home Secretary is ill, and send him our best wishes for Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1588.2", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I authorised it to be placed in the Library this morning, so I apologise to the House if that has not been done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary said that there was evidence to support the view that 3,000 clandestines were prevented from coming into the United Kingdom each month, and I should be grateful if he would substantiate that claim. Will he also clarify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "esult of their actions—we have to take steps. In the domestic situation—and I am familiar with the legislation—section 1 of the Children Act 1989 enables social services, in extremis, to intervene financially. What we are saying is that we are prepared to intervene financially: we are prepared to pay the fare and provide support to those being returned to their country of origin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1605.3", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention, and I pay tribute to the work that he has done on his constituents' behalf in respect of the proposed accommodation centre in his constituency. He has worked tirelessly on their behalf. No, we are not in favour of large accommodation centres being established in the wrong places, and we were backed up in that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1608.0", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman criticises the Government for the level of removals, but is it not true that the level was not much higher under the Conservative Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "tive Government did not remove every failed asylum seeker, but she should not forget that the problem is getting worse. I hope that she understands that there are tens of thousands more failed asylum seekers than there were seven years ago. Let us have a look at the comments of the Select Committee on Home Affairs. It was three years ago, I say to the hon. Lady, if she is prepared to listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1608.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "nd the UNHCR every year, so that we know when they arrive that their arrival has been agreed, and they are to be welcomed. Under that quota system, if anyone else sought to claim asylum on these shores, they would be removed to a safe offshore haven. I am using my words carefully here: they should be removed to a safe offshore haven—forget the island—where their cases would be decided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1610.5", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": " lives and under the cosh of the gangs, in order to make their claim, so there is much to be said for the proposal that every year we take a quota of refugees who are officially recognised by ourselves in conjunction with the UNHCR. There is also a great deal to be said for moving as rapidly as possible to an offshore processing system, which would be a much more efficient way of handling matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1610.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1611.8", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "That is a good line. I shall remember that. Let me just tell the hon. Lady that at those offshore bases and centres there would be a proper judicial system, with legal advice and the fullest possible help given. Part of the purpose of that policy is that if we send a message throughout the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1611.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "preceding_text": "for Members on both sides of the House. We have heard utter confusion from the Conservative Front Bench and I appeal to Conservative Back Benchers, over the heads of their Front Benchers and the crocodile tears of their leader, to vote with their consciences this evening. The Whips should have no sway over the issue. I am confident that even they might examine their consciences in this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "ents on those children. On the \"Today\" programme yesterday morning, the Minister said that she did not expect any children to be taken into care because parents would comply if threatened in that way. Does she stand by the view that she does not envisage children being taken into care because people will comply? I believe that is the Minister's view—that children will not be taken into care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "en by the British Government or by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In my view, it is appropriate that people in those circumstances should be confined and not able to move out into the community. One way of doing that is to put them at some distant place offshore. That may be a British dependent territory, or there may be other territories where those arrangements could be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1673.0", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": " perhaps he was not listening for a moment, because I said that there would be more time in Committee for Ministers to explain the detail, which has been fully worked out. Indeed, we have involved the judiciary in that process, as he would expect. Hon. Members have identified the quality of decision making at both stages, the initial decision and the appeal, and I agree that that is crucial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-17", "file": "debates2003-12-17.xml", "sha256": "f4afa57018f15167", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1673.2", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": " a matter of detail for the Committee. I acknowledge the concern of the many hon. Members who raised the issue of clause 7; I shall not take up time naming them all, because it involved nearly everybody. This is a difficult issue, and I repeat that our intention is not to put children into care as a result of this measure, contrary to the deliberate misinformation put out by some newspapers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-17.1673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-18", "file": "debates2003-12-18.xml", "sha256": "d28eca059e919683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1704.2", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "In a spirit of Christmas cheer, I congratulate the Chancellor and the Government on their job creation efforts, which have gone well—there is no denying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-18", "file": "debates2003-12-18.xml", "sha256": "d28eca059e919683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1709.2", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I am happy to give my hon. Friend that assurance. He describes the policy of the Conservative party, which in office failed to invest sufficiently in the health service and ran it down, so that in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1709.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-18", "file": "debates2003-12-18.xml", "sha256": "d28eca059e919683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1709.6", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Just look at the facts. Out-patient attendances in 1997–98 were 11.53 million, whereas in 2003 they were 13.03 million. Elective admissions were 4.46 million, and in 2003 were 5.32 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1709.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-18", "file": "debates2003-12-18.xml", "sha256": "d28eca059e919683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1716.0", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "If we were faced with the spending level proposed by the Conservatives, with public expenditure pegged at 35 per cent., we would have to sack most of the 50,000 nurses, the 20,000 doctors, the 20,000 teachers and the 90,000 classroom assistants who have been employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-18", "file": "debates2003-12-18.xml", "sha256": "d28eca059e919683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1737.2", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ement setting all these matters out. I am sure that he will also recognise that we have a very impressive record of extra investment in rail services, local transport schemes and extra bus provision, especially in rural areas. As a result of that investment, 1,500 new trains have come into service since we have been in power, and there has been a 20 per cent. rise in rail passenger journeys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-18", "file": "debates2003-12-18.xml", "sha256": "d28eca059e919683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I know of the right hon. Gentleman's close constituency interest in the defence industry, and the long and expert interest he has taken in the issue of defence. I am sure that he will be pleased to know that his request will be accepted. The Secretary of State for Defence plans to have a debate on the White Paper as soon as it is possible to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1739.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2003-12-18", "file": "debates2003-12-18.xml", "sha256": "d28eca059e919683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1801.0", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) for his typically polite, kind and open-minded remarks in winding up the debate. It is a particular pleasure to wind up this Christmas recess debate. I find myself in the perhaps enviable position of being the only person standing between the House of Commons and a drink in the bar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2003-12-18.1801.0"}