{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "It would be impossible to meet the 410 licensing authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Tynan", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for his comprehensive response. It would have been appropriate to have some discussions, because there is concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.15.4", "colnum": "15", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Sydney Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sydney Chapman", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister tell the House whether the Church insures its buildings against acts of God?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of great regret that the Second Church Estates Commissioner is unable to be with us this afternoon, but I hope that the hon. Gentleman will convey to him my congratulations on his well-deserved knighthood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.18.6", "colnum": "18", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest as chairman of Worcester cathedral council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.18.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister has not been in touch with me", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I cannot imagine why the hon. Gentleman should be worried about the Bill taking powers away from the Mayor of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "int. Mr. Speaker has selected the reasoned amendment for debate, and I would like to say a word about that before I turn to the third part of the Bill, which relates to street works and permit schemes. The amendment states: \"street works . . . cause only 10 per cent. of delays\". I wonder where the hon. Member for Maidenhead and the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) got that statistic from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "r hospitals. In addition, an underlying point is too often ignored by those who subscribe to the easy thesis that more roads mean more traffic and more traffic inevitably means more congestion. Car travel has increased in recent years not because of any sudden desire among the population to make unnecessary journeys but because of an increase in the numbers holding driving licences. In 1976—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The Highways Agency, but we want to encourage as many people as possible to take the responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The criteria are sensible, but there is a lot of evidence that the cameras are not in the right place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": " year. Although the figures are dropping, they are not dropping nearly far enough, and they represent something that destroys people who are involved in such incidents. I am concerned about the fact that we are creating a structure with a narrow base. Everybody would cheerfully accept the theory that the work of traffic wardens in towns should be expanded. No one can object to the principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.75.4", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ny places where the maximum speed limit for the road is thought inappropriately low by most of the road users. That is where those cameras become ways of taxing or frustrating the motorist. I often seek to come to London by car because I normally stay several nights in London and my local train station will not allow me to park my car for longer than a day. Therefore, I cannot come by train—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.75.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am happy to have this opportunity to speak on an important Bill. As my hon. Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso) said earlier, I shall—unsurprisingly—concentrate on matters to do with London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ntleman made a thoughtful and considered speech. I agree with many of the specific points that he made, and I shall return to some of those proposals. The third bugbear is inconsiderate parking, often of single vehicles. As I was coming from Bermondsey this morning, a vehicle was parked just after 7 o'clock in the inner of two lanes, so everyone had to go from two lanes to one for about 200 yards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "iew that such people should always be employees of the state or of the local authority. Contractors working for private companies on a profit-making basis should not be able to enforce the criminal law. I have a clear view about that and it should apply on motorways as well as on trunk roads and London roads. If I am responsible for such matters next year there will be no such private contractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "ribly as though we are not going to make any progress and the whole thing will fall apart. Just before Christmas, I had a word with both Under-Secretaries, who have attended assiduously throughout the debate, and I know that they are happy to look at the matter. Having been in their position, I do not believe in conspiracy theories; but I do believe in cock-ups, and I think that this is a cock-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-05", "file": "debates2004-01-05.xml", "sha256": "a1958031c56881a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "igures are available said that, in 2002, the number of fatalities had increased in four areas, notwithstanding the presence of a safety camera partnership, and had decreased in the other four. That conclusion is not the same as the Government's spin that such partnerships always result in a reduction of fatalities. The Secretary of State said that he was concerned that the safety cameraship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-05.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-06", "file": "debates2004-01-06.xml", "sha256": "59cbe0ae4c4919c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "It is significant that the hon. Gentleman did not mention the camera in his own area and its success in reducing the number of people killed and seriously injured. He may want to talk to some of his councillors in Ashford, who apparently are campaigning to have cameras fitted where they do not meet the criteria that we set out. He mentioned the camera on the A45—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-06", "file": "debates2004-01-06.xml", "sha256": "59cbe0ae4c4919c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Sky Marshals", "cue_speaker": "John Greenway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Greenway", "preceding_text": "Having suggested this proposal to the former Home Secretary more than two years ago, I welcome what the Secretary of State has said, although it is disappointing that the protocols are not in place. That is the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) was trying to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-06", "file": "debates2004-01-06.xml", "sha256": "59cbe0ae4c4919c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Correctional Services Review", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "There will be 2,750 more probation officers on top of the £100 million investment this year, which will bring into the probation service a further £110 million investment over the next two years. With those 2,750 jobs, there will be an unspecified number of additional jobs within the Prison Service to match the 3,700 places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-06", "file": "debates2004-01-06.xml", "sha256": "59cbe0ae4c4919c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman is reading the wrong document. I do not know whether he has had a chance to read the regulatory impact assessment, but that is the document that we are referring to, and it uses the phrase \"unintended consequence\". That is the line that the Government have put out. We have quoted it, and I am more than happy to do so again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-06", "file": "debates2004-01-06.xml", "sha256": "59cbe0ae4c4919c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "deed, when we privatised so many of the old Government operations, we ensured that the employees had a share. That is why more employees bought and owned shares under the last Conservative Government than ever before. As I recall, at the time the Labour party, including the Paymaster General, bitterly opposed such changes. State ownership, not share ownership, lay at the heart of Labour's beliefs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-06.202.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.248.9", "colnum": "248", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "preceding_text": "oyment in my constituency has gone down by 60 per cent. since 1997. That is, of course, good news, but it still means that 770 people are claiming jobseeker's allowance. Major manufacturing firms have suffered from problems such as the costs of doing business with the eurozone, the relative exchange rate during 2003 and increased costs in other areas, and we lost a major manufacturing plant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.248.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "NHS Performance Indicators", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "For goodness' sake, let me at least start. I know that Conservative Members want to pre-empt every investigation—their leader pre-empted the Hutton investigation today—but rational people without malicious intent allow the other side to have a say before intervening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "NHS Performance Indicators", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "llow the other side to have a say before intervening. [Interruption.] Conservative Members do not necessarily benefit from shouting down a speaker either. Today's debate is much more about the Tory party's failure to come to terms with one simple fact: the national health service has improved, is improving and will continue to improve. If I may use a metaphor, that is really what gets up its nose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.273.7", "colnum": "273", "heading": "NHS Performance Indicators", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "If we are talking about the fragmentary nature of evidence, there was a glaring omission in the hon. Gentleman's own speech. I find it astounding that he failed to refer to the reply that the Conservative party chairman received from no less a person than the Cabinet Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.273.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "NHS Performance Indicators", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is new.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There is a distinction, as an e-mail is not a document, so the matter is at the discretion of the Secretary of State. However, there is no requirement for e-mails to be placed in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.278.5", "colnum": "278", "heading": "NHS Performance Indicators", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Let me make some headway; I shall come back to the issue. The change to which I have referred and which others made during the final weeks inevitably had an impact on the ratings. Some trusts benefited, while others lost out. Another part of the information that was not mentioned earlier is that, after 12 July and before publication on 24 July , not one trust, but 23 of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.278.7", "colnum": "278", "heading": "NHS Performance Indicators", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "tive party requested an investigation from the Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary also took it upon himself, I think legitimately and with due diligence, to ask the permanent secretary in my Department to conduct an investigation. He wrote this morning to the chairman of the Conservative party. I am surprised that the hon. Member for South Suffolk has not been informed by his party chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.278.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "NHS Performance Indicators", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "I am about to deal with the review of data collection, about which the Secretary of State told the Health Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "NHS Performance Indicators", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS trust. Initially, it was awarded a two-star rating, but after a couple of years of steady improvement and management focus on the weaknesses identified by the performance indicators, last year it received a three-star rating. The achievement of three stars has boosted morale and staff were rightly rewarded with an extra day off. Morale has clearly improved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.330.4", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "layed discharges in our hospitals rather than the negative approach of introducing a fines system. These measures will also undo the excellent work that has been established over the last 15 years in fostering good working relationships and partnerships between the NHS and social services departments. That work was long overdue and it has led to a more seamless provision of service. It will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.330.5", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the point that I was making. The hon. Gentleman talks of the lack of money provided by Governments over the last decade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.330.6", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the Secretary of State was listening carefully so I shall repeat what I said so that he can fully understand me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.330.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "I dare say there are countless other examples, but today's debate is not about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "ndards Commission now has responsibility for this important area. In theory that is right, because the commission theoretically took over responsibility in April last year. All domiciliary care agencies operating before 1 April last year should have registered by 31 March , and any agencies wanting to set up after that date had to be legally registered before they could begin providing care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "rating before 1 April last year should have registered by 31 March , and any agencies wanting to set up after that date had to be legally registered before they could begin providing care— [Interruption.] I do not know what the hon. Member for South Dorset (Jim Knight) finds so amusing, but perhaps his constituents can enlighten him as to the reality of some of what I am talking about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-07", "file": "debates2004-01-07.xml", "sha256": "6d04d039f6c219ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Care Homes", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the Government will take any notice. The hon. Member for West Chelmsford is being unfair. I have been speaking for a fraction of the time that he was on his feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-07.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.409.5", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " I do not think that the Prime Minister could be more accountable or open than that. As for the debate, I have already made it clear that it will happen a week after publication of the report, so there will be enough time for the right hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members to consider it. The question as to the handling of the debate needs to be decided in the light of what the Hutton report says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.409.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "It was indeed, but I will not pour oil on troubled waters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Higher Education (Student Support)", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "er that when the Government introduced new student fees in 1998, much of the money was later clawed back by the Treasury. It is bad for taxpayers because, for every extra pound that the universities receive, the taxpayer will have to contribute at least £1.25. Even a Government as wasteful of taxpayers' money as the present one may think that that is not good value. The first question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Higher Education (Student Support)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman. The House should listen to the Opposition spokesman in exactly the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Higher Education (Student Support)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": ", that will fly in the face of everything the Labour party has stood for since its inception. This is a policy born out of Thatcherism. It has been adopted by a party that has lost its way—a party that has sold its principles to a Prime Minister who has led it elsewhere. Perhaps Labour Members think it is okay to say one thing to the electorate and something else when they are in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Higher Education (Student Support)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": " believe the hon. Gentleman, are broadly concerned to do. I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman said that he would examine the Bill carefully, but the point that I make in all candour to him and his colleagues is that when they consider whether to support the Bill on Second Reading, they must decide whether they want to carry through his mis-statement, when he said that he supported up-front fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.428.5", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Higher Education (Student Support)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to ask the hon. Gentleman whether a majority of Conservative Back Benchers support their Front Bench's policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Higher Education (Student Support)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am genuinely grateful for that contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "s are in decline. We have nothing in the way of youth academies. We do not invest in community sports facilities. Again, I maintain that, if money goes into the London Olympic bid, it will take money away from good causes and charities in Scotland and, once again, those Scottish charities will be damaged. I conclude by saying that I hope that London is successful. I wish London all the best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Love", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Love", "preceding_text": "It was not originally my intention to speak in this debate, but given the Minister's suggestion that I should expand on what I said in an earlier intervention, I thought this an ideal opportunity to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I am informed by officials that that is how it has been done in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-08", "file": "debates2004-01-08.xml", "sha256": "7700d3a646cce6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": " with our bid for the games. As has already been indicated, about 81 per cent. of people in Scotland—one of the highest returns—supported the bid. The hon. Gentleman concluded his remarks by saying that his contribution was actually in support of the London bid. My strong advice to him is to keep his mouth shut for the next 18 months and he will do us a tremendous amount of good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-08.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "Jobcentre Plus and the Pension Service are modernising the services that we provide to our customers, including those in the hon. Gentleman's constituency. They are providing improved customer access through telephone centres, the internet and new, dedicated caller offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.526.6", "colnum": "526", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, our child support reforms have led to a considerable increase in the number of parents with care who receive the premium. The figures are available in the Library—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.526.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": "ore than six months—the length of time for which the lending industry will regard it as valid—to deal with the problem of failed transactions, which are much more likely to stem from relationship breakdown, relocation, the chain of selling, the difficulty with funding or change of mind than from technical problems with transparency in the process or deficiency in the information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.552.0", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Curry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Curry", "preceding_text": "ata exchange formats. My final point is that this measure is likely to lead remorselessly to demands for the licensing of estate agents. The only people in the housing world who are not licensed are estate agents, and they will be key players in the process, whether or not they have any expertise. I wait to see the inevitable bandwagon demanding licensing of estate agents rolling towards us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "cks, and it is the main reason why we will vote against the Bill tonight, although we will do so in the hope that we can vote for it on Third Reading—if we can persuade the Government to improve it. We are surprised that the Government are persisting with the packs, given the amount of opposition to them not just from professional bodies, but from the people who actually buy and sell houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "inal research commissioned by the Government for England and Wales was provided by PS Martin Hamblin, which even now does not list property as one of its specialist market sectors. The Scottish Executive, on the other hand, commissioned research by property experts, DTZ Pieda Consulting, which found results completely at odds with the Government's. There are two different sets of research results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.559.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.559.4", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is\".", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "artin Hamblin, which even now does not list property as one of its specialist market sectors. The Scottish Executive, on the other hand, commissioned research by property experts, DTZ Pieda Consulting, which found results completely at odds with the Government's. There are two different sets of research results. [Interruption.] Hon. Members may try to suggest that Scotland is completely different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.559.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bennett", "preceding_text": "time as possible to get evidence from as wide a range of people as possible. When I used to teach—quite a long time ago, I admit—people talked about the Education Act 1944. Twenty or 30 years after it was passed, it was the one Act that dominated people in education. I have looked back over the time since 1997 and tried to pick out an Act that we remember as landmark legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " thought I might help his career by saying that I shall vote for the Bill at 10 pm. He may want to consider his future career path, but I shall vote for the Bill and thought that he would be pleased to hear it. This is the first debate for as long as I can remember in which a Minister has sat on the Front Bench for nearly the whole debate: he went out for one cup of tea, but we can allow him that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "This has been a useful and constructive debate, conducted without political rancour. In that spirit, may I start by saying that the Bill, like the Minister for Housing and Planning, is good in parts? Most Bills, indeed, are good in parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "in vision. If it is, he is not looking at the right picture. It is right that we deal with inadequate housing. Bad housing is frequently linked to bad health and a poor quality of life. Opposition Members speak with great energy, passion and commitment on the business of dealing with the disadvantage and poor quality of life that derive from bad housing, bad health and bad living conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "tion of the house. That information is not provided in the market, and it has to be forked out for again and again. Little wonder that 30 per cent. of transactions fail, even after terms have been agreed. That is an astonishing failure rate for such an important market. Little wonder that the Consumers Association, the voice of the consumer, is adamant that home information packs are needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "SOUTHEND BOROUGH COUNCIL (FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "oice on the floors and ceilings to determine how much they should actually receive. We concluded that it would be appropriate to increase the floor to 4 per cent. and the ceiling to 7.5 per cent. His authority received extra money in November and, in the pre-Budget report, we made a change and more money went in, which was reflected in the ceilings and floors. However, we kept the guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "SOUTHEND BOROUGH COUNCIL (FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "not suppose that he likes to be reminded of that too often. Still, I have no doubt that he is grateful for his supporters such as the hon. Gentleman reminding the House of that track record. Let us consider the council tax and the possibility of capping. Last year, Southend borough council made the choice to increase its budget by 7 per cent., which was much more than double the rate of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-12", "file": "debates2004-01-12.xml", "sha256": "01bb474998932b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "SOUTHEND BOROUGH COUNCIL (FINANCIAL SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "ased by 15.7 per cent., which was substantially above the average and no less than six times the rate of inflation. I must say to the hon. Gentleman that we made it quite clear that such an increase was completely unacceptable. Hon. Members should be in no doubt that we want to see percentage increases restrained to low single figures next year, and we are prepared to use our capping powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-12.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "The Minister may recall the Prime Minister telling \"Newsnight\" in 2002: \"If I could get shot of ever raising a single penny for the Labour party ever again, would I not do it? Absolutely, of course I would.\" Will the Minister help the Prime Minister in this difficult matter by bringing in a clear system of state party funding so that he does not have to rely on dubious business men for his money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.678.6", "colnum": "678", "heading": "National Audit Office Report on Operation Telic", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way; I am delighted to see him at the Dispatch Box. Does he agree that the requirement to deploy in Iraq was urgent? If so, does he also accept the statement made in the NAO report that on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.678.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "National Audit Office Report on Operation Telic", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman usually reads documents with a great deal more care than that with which he appears to have read the NAO report. I apologise for saying that because, as I said, he is generally a fair-minded man. He needs to look carefully at the report's conclusions. He cannot pick out one detail on vehicles without—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "National Audit Office Report on Operation Telic", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the NAO report, which Opposition Members want to debate, concludes that the overall level of protection in relation to NBC equipment was good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "National Audit Office Report on Operation Telic", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": "No, it is not. The report's overall conclusion is that the operation was a huge military success conducted in a hostile and austere environment. We achieved our military objectives and we should have nothing but praise for our military forces, the Ministry of Defence and the conduct of our Ministers throughout the military operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "National Audit Office Report on Operation Telic", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "too, had two bullets each, and it was necessary to have a whip-round around the unit and for the boys to chuck their two bullets into a hat so that the tanker drivers who were going up to the front line would have something like a magazine full of bullets. That is just absurd. We were not short of bullets; there was no reason to be quite so sparing with them, but I am told that that story is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "National Audit Office Report on Operation Telic", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": " glaring deficiencies highlighted in the NAO report are repeat offences, and did not arise for the first time in Operation Telic. The Opposition's main purpose in calling this debate is, following the publication of his defence White Paper, to put him on a warning order and ensure that those lessons are implemented. We must not find ourselves debating them again in a year. The lessons are serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "National Audit Office Report on Operation Telic", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": " time in Operation Telic. The Opposition's main purpose in calling this debate is, following the publication of his defence White Paper, to put him on a warning order and ensure that those lessons are implemented. We must not find ourselves debating them again in a year. The lessons are serious. [Interruption.] The Secretary of State says from a sedentary position that he is thinking of resigning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "National Audit Office Report on Operation Telic", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "ration Telic. The Opposition's main purpose in calling this debate is, following the publication of his defence White Paper, to put him on a warning order and ensure that those lessons are implemented. We must not find ourselves debating them again in a year. The lessons are serious. [Interruption.] The Secretary of State says from a sedentary position that he is thinking of resigning. [Laughter.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Future of the Post Office Network", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "e hon. Members demonstrating their concern as much in Westminster as in their local press, by supporting our motion today and not throwing a comfort blanket over the Government by voting for the Secretary of State's amendment. The so-called consultation exercise is truly an exercise in window-dressing. I hope that, when the Secretary of State gets up to speak, she will give a precise answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.739.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Future of the Post Office Network", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "Having known the Minister since our university days, I have come to respect the fact that he is a genuinely intelligent person, so I am surprised at his comments. With a shadow Chancellor and shadow Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, we are showing in opposition how joined-up Government is possible for the whole of business and economic affairs. That is how we organise our team.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.746.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Future of the Post Office Network", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"One for each post office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Department of Trade and Industry is struggling—it has only 10,000 civil servants, so obviously it does not have the staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-13", "file": "debates2004-01-13.xml", "sha256": "0af06912162dfeba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Future of the Post Office Network", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ially more than £400 million or £500 million a year to do that. Another suggestion is that people would be given a special payment form that they or their agent could take to the post office to receive cash. It is even proposed that for convenience, so that a new form does not have to be issued each week, people could be given several forms stapled together to make a little book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-13.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.804.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.808.8", "colnum": "808", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Neil Turner", "preceding_text": " \"Unemployment never matters.\" The new deal, the New Opportunities Fund, the coalfield challenge and the working families and child tax credits have all contributed to a fall of 700 in unemployment in the Wigan borough. That is proof that the 16th forgotten credo of the right hon. and learned Gentleman will not be followed by this Government. But we do have a problem in places such as Wigan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.808.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.810.7", "colnum": "810", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I think that what the whole country has seen is the total opportunism of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who is prepared to say that we should make judgments about this matter before the inquiry report has even been published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.810.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.810.7", "colnum": "810", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y that we should make judgments about this matter before the inquiry report has even been published— [Interruption.] Yes, that is precisely what the Conservative party's 50-page document has done. We all know that, on the day the report is published, he will stand at the Dispatch Box and call for my resignation. He will do that whatever the report says, and I only hope that the effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.810.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ished. It will also be good for the universities, because they will get about £1 billion a year extra income. The right hon. Gentleman's proposal is to take that money out of a 50 per cent. top rate of tax. He has written to me recently to say that the Liberal Democrats' only spending commitment is to that top rate of tax, which will go towards council tax, university fees and personal care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.818.4", "colnum": "819", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.818.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman realises that it would be grossly irresponsible for any hon. Member to give a cast-iron assurance on any measure without knowing its detail or wording. In terms of the sentiment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ey by the Birmingham chamber of commerce and industry, which found that 76 per cent. of respondents were concerned about the increased costs for their businesses as a result of implementing the regulations. I am sure that the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West pays close attention to that organisation, given the points that he made earlier, and he may well want to follow its survey through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "terested that the Conservative party is appealing to a wider public to help it in its efforts to cut public expenditure. My hon. Friend the Member for Weston-super-Mare (Brian Cotter) and I take seriously the representations that have been made, but when one actually asks business representatives which particular regulations they want us to get rid of, they are not very clear or forthcoming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ng its name and which has collapsed because its administration is too complicated for not only the business community but the public sector to deliver. There are real issues there but, as has been said, we have to deal with red tape practically. If there is too much red tape, let us identify it and get rid of it. I certainly pledge my party's support for any measures that could achieve that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "at, for example, Germany's long-term economic success was not partly founded on the strong consultative mechanisms that we established in post-war Germany, which were part of the driving force behind the German economic miracle. It is a cheap shot for the Conservatives to attribute the difficulties facing the German economy to that, rather than to the consequences and terms of reunification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ng sanctimonious—the comment was made from a sedentary position—let me say that I am perfectly happy to debate on their merits the arguments of the hon. Member for Eddisbury, many of which were fair and constructive. We are entitled to say, however, \"Where does that leave his strategy?\" It seems to me that he has not made a case as to why the Conservative party is opposed to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ever, \"Where does that leave his strategy?\" It seems to me that he has not made a case as to why the Conservative party is opposed to this Bill. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman says that we do not need a Bill, but we do. He says that because, according to his party, we do not need the European Union. If we are in the European Union, however, we need legislation to implement the directive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.856.2", "colnum": "856", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ng that we would not introduce compulsory paternity leave. As a family-friendly person, I think that fathers being with their children is an excellent idea when their partner has had a baby, but should it be a matter on which the Government instruct people? I have done some difficult radio interviews, and I visited a factory in my constituency that made do-it-yourself wallpaper-stripping machines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.856.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "es have to offer unions the opportunity to communicate with the work force. However, they often increase pay rates to those employees who do not attend those sessions. That is another example of how the democratic process is being frustrated. We should put an end to such practices. I wish to bring to the House's attention the case of Mission Foods in Coventry. The company is based in the US—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.861.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.871.5", "colnum": "871", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is a lawyer.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.871.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And sisters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "e of red tape imposed by the Government can be overwhelming for businesses. The Bill contains a number of measures that will add to the burdens on business, and it has been suggested that they may increase during the Bill's passage through Parliament as further concessions are made to the Labour party's union allies. It is cause for concern that this may, quietly, be payback time for the brothers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "d inquired about, or taken up, trade union membership. The Government also need to look at the issue of pensions. I totally agree that pensions constitute deferred pay. I used to be president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, a regional teachers union. I was disappointed to hear the hon. Member for Caernarfon (Hywel Williams) say that he used to be a member of a teachers trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE DAY — Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Derek Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Conway", "preceding_text": "that shows how long ago it was—and in the same post a Christmas card from the leader of the Tory party. Some of my Labour friends were determined to put a stop to that and the following year it stopped. I like to think, in any case, that I was not considered completely anti-trade union. However, part of my dark and distant history was as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Lord Forsyth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-14", "file": "debates2004-01-14.xml", "sha256": "1fb89345b564e7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "DRIVING INSTRUCTORS", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "the broad areas of concern. First, there is concern about the consultation process. The principal vehicle for the consultation was a paper entitled \"Fees for driving tests and other matters\", which was issued by the Driving Standards Agency in April 2003. It would be difficult for the Minister to disagree with the suggestion that proposals for retesting ADIs were not a prominent part of the paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-14.934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-15", "file": "debates2004-01-15.xml", "sha256": "16a2b329d0c8c1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Because it is not about marketisation—it is about getting rid of up-front fees, reintroducing a maintenance grant of £1,500 and making it easier for graduates to repay not just any fee, but their loans. The amount that they will pay back goes down substantially under our proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-15", "file": "debates2004-01-15.xml", "sha256": "16a2b329d0c8c1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.950.3", "colnum": "950", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to note the right hon. Gentleman's support for our specialist schools programme. I hope that he acknowledges, as we do, that they raise achievement among children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.950.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-15", "file": "debates2004-01-15.xml", "sha256": "16a2b329d0c8c1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.954.6", "colnum": "954", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Your time is up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.954.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-15", "file": "debates2004-01-15.xml", "sha256": "16a2b329d0c8c1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.957.6", "colnum": "957", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " different jurisdictions—criminal and family. I recognise both his interest in such cases and also that of other hon. Members, such as my hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Mr. Colman) and my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Redcar (Vera Baird) with whom I know he has discussed the matter. I shall try not to take too long to reply, Mr. Speaker, so stop me when I run over my time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.957.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-15", "file": "debates2004-01-15.xml", "sha256": "16a2b329d0c8c1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "tton's recommendations and an opportunity for the House to vote on the matter? Does the Leader of the House understand the widespread frustration in the House that the Prime Minister feels able to go on the Frost show and answer questions about authorising the release of Dr. Kelly's name, whereas when he is asked questions in the House he hides behind the need to wait for the report's publication?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-15", "file": "debates2004-01-15.xml", "sha256": "16a2b329d0c8c1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.970.7", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I very much welcome the European Scrutiny Committee's decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.970.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-15", "file": "debates2004-01-15.xml", "sha256": "16a2b329d0c8c1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.973.5", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Morgan", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Welsh Assembly voted yesterday to end the defence of reasonable chastisement in relation to parents hitting their children? Under the Assembly's present powers, it cannot do anything more, but will my right hon. Friend urge the Minister for Children to incorporate that policy into the forthcoming children Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-15", "file": "debates2004-01-15.xml", "sha256": "16a2b329d0c8c1db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "At the risk of upsetting the hon. Gentleman, I think, bluntly and flatly, that he is completely wrong. I do not care whether I am the only person in the House who makes this point, but unless that lady had refused to resign, we should not have known what was disclosed in the documents. That is the point that I am trying to make, and on that point I shall end my speech. We actually depend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-15.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-19", "file": "debates2004-01-19.xml", "sha256": "2beeab56ee32033c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1064.2", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "A rather interesting statistic is that people committing motoring offences are four times more likely to receive a custodial sentence than they were before. In relation to the legacy that the right hon. Gentleman's Government left behind, I made it clear that we are now spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1064.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-19", "file": "debates2004-01-19.xml", "sha256": "2beeab56ee32033c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Railways", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I may be wrong—if I am, I will say so to my hon. Friend—but I think he met my hon. Friend the Minister of State to discuss the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-19", "file": "debates2004-01-19.xml", "sha256": "2beeab56ee32033c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Derek Conway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Conway", "preceding_text": "The Bill deals with human welfare, which is rightly the priority for the Government and the House. However, did the consultation involve animal welfare organisations, as many people are close to their pets, especially family pets? There could therefore be a practical difficulty, and the Minister will have to spend time on such difficulties in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-19", "file": "debates2004-01-19.xml", "sha256": "2beeab56ee32033c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "lear that there should be specific protection for the provisions of the Human Rights Act 1998—a point made by the hon. and learned Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews) and others, including my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) . It is not good enough for the Minister to say that he has had a telephone chat with parliamentary counsel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-19", "file": "debates2004-01-19.xml", "sha256": "2beeab56ee32033c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "d manage 36 hours of continuous emergency cover, but that when those 36 hours were up, the emergency services would be spent and unable to continue. That would clearly not be enough if a dirty bomb were detonated in the centre of such a city. We have excellent emergency services in this country, but they are not equipped to deal for long periods with some of the emergencies that we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-19", "file": "debates2004-01-19.xml", "sha256": "2beeab56ee32033c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I thought that I had lost the Minister for a moment; I had not realised that he was in discussion with you. The sole current support for the emergency services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-19", "file": "debates2004-01-19.xml", "sha256": "2beeab56ee32033c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ked to be an emergency plans community adviser in Royston, the town where I live. A number of us drawn from the town were prepared to volunteer to give up a small amount of time to be trained in the emergency procedures that were then thought necessary in case there was a missile attack from the USSR. It was simply a question of informing people of the particular measures in which we were trained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-19.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-20", "file": "debates2004-01-20.xml", "sha256": "f77d7d2952c3ceb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-20.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Your figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Gentleman has double the jobs of anyone else, but he must try to get to grips with at least half of his portfolio—the health service. It is absolute rubbish to say that there has been a 37 per cent. input and a 5 per cent. output in productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-20.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-20", "file": "debates2004-01-20.xml", "sha256": "f77d7d2952c3ceb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-20.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "n productivity in the health service. How perverse is that? The hon. Gentleman should at least give credit to NHS staff by accepting that in millions of ways—through NHS Direct, walk-in centres, more operations being performed in primary care trusts, better purchases of drugs, a 25 per cent. fall in mortality from cardiac-related disease, a 10 per cent. reduction in deaths from cancer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-20.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-20", "file": "debates2004-01-20.xml", "sha256": "f77d7d2952c3ceb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-20.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. There are two ways of achieving that under the new system. First, the patients forums can set up separate sub-committees to consider particular issues of local involvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-20.1203.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1305.3", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Wednesday 28 January .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " lay upon the Table of the House a certificate, that such a declaration has been deposited; That in the present session the Bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it passed in the last 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/2004-01-21.1305.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I was not aware of the boomerang service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1323.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Case for a Civil Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Charles Powell.", "preceding_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Are we quite certain that Mr. Jonathan Powell, over the selective leaking of a law officer's letter in the Westland affair, behaved absolutely impeccably?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1338.2", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Case for a Civil Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman means Mr. Charles Powell, pronounced pole, who is the brother of Mr. Jonathan Powell, pronounced Powell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1338.2", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Case for a Civil Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "d members of the Government. I have great respect for Lord MacDonald, who is more competent than most of his colleagues, and has been brought in to sort out quite a number of messes in his time. However, his background as a trade unionist, a business man and then a Member of the House of Lords has perhaps not made him as sensitive to democratic accountability as some of us think that we should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1366.5", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Case for a Civil Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "ght hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe said, be open to appointment on merit with the exception of the 10 per cent. of jobs that have to be reserved to UK nationals for operational reasons. At the same time, those rules do not reflect the society that we serve. Part 2 of the Opposition's Bill is important, so I hope that they will support my ten-minute Bill when it receives its Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Case for a Civil Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "fers none of the abuse and criticism of the Government that such motions often contain. It merely calls on the Government to introduce \"a Civil Service Bill\". I even remained hopeful after reading the Government amendment, which said that they would introduce a draft Bill and which, in turn, contains very little abuse. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Case for a Civil Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not for long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " Bill\". I even remained hopeful after reading the Government amendment, which said that they would introduce a draft Bill and which, in turn, contains very little abuse. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) —[Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"] he will be back—opened the debate in his inimitable style. What a treat it was to see him back on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1382.6", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Case for a Civil Service Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "It was Mrs. Thatcher who, in 1979, appointed her press secretary as chief of staff. The accusation was made at the time by the then Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1382.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1389.4", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": "The motion is about ensuring that devolution works. The Scottish Parliament is here to stay—all £400 million-worth of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1389.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": " Parliament has made its decision on tuition fees, and I will come to that shortly. Devolution, as Scots know, has reached a fork in the road. We can do as the Government would hope, and keep our hands firmly buried in the sand—failing to accept the natural consequences of devolution and putting the stability of the settlement at risk—or recognise that devolution has moved Scotland on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": "We must accept the consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1391.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1392.8", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": "I give way to the hon. Gentleman at the back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1392.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1399.4", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "The Minister referred earlier to what she described as opportunism. Is she aware that I, in common with all my hon. Friends, stood for Parliament at the last election on a manifesto that spoke of English votes for English matters—and that was before the Prime Minister had broken the promises that he made in the same election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for putting that appropriate comment on the record. I would hope that some Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1401.7", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "No, I want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1401.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1421.3", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "I know that foxhunting is very important to the hon. Gentleman, but I have the same voting rights as him. I vote on the same legislation as he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1422.7", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "ebate if the Conservative party had maintained the sort of support that it had in the past. It is up to Conservative Members to ask themselves why they do not receive support north of the border. I greatly admire the hon. Member for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale: he and I agree on many things, but not on this. I also have to tell him that I hope he loses his seat in the next general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": " expressed that view, and I should be interested to know how many hon. Members have been contacted by anyone demanding such a change. As hon. Members on both sides of the House well know, the Conservatives are suggesting this measure today purely because it is seen as a good piece of political opportunism to take advantage of one or two slight difficulties with the majority on the Government side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": "ely because I want the Union between Scotland and England to survive and prosper, strengthened by devolution, that I hope that the House will reject the Conservative motion today. I urge all those in the House, on whichever side of it they sit, who do not want to see separation between England and Scotland, who do not want to see border guards at Berwick and customs examinations at Carlisle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-21", "file": "debates2004-01-21.xml", "sha256": "9176a24a224722fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Scottish Constituencies (Members' Voting Rights)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "over many such conventions, I doubt that that would last. The proposal in the motion is that the Speaker should certify the category into which Bills should fall. That might help my hon. Friend the Member for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale with any vote on the Mersey Tunnels Bill, especially if such a Division took place after dinner. The situation could be serious if we fail to address the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-21.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-22", "file": "debates2004-01-22.xml", "sha256": "4a6a21a60e4541a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1458.3", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "I understand the concerns that have been expressed, but one could equally argue that it is not really for this, or any, Government to interfere in the way in which trade unions run their affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-22", "file": "debates2004-01-22.xml", "sha256": "4a6a21a60e4541a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1477.4", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "All right hon. and hon. Members are equal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-22", "file": "debates2004-01-22.xml", "sha256": "4a6a21a60e4541a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1481.2", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That is the most outrageous allegation that it is possible to make. Our soldiers, who fought under the leadership of the Secretary of State, form the most effective fighting machine in the world, which the hon. Gentleman is denigrating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1481.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-22", "file": "debates2004-01-22.xml", "sha256": "4a6a21a60e4541a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is not suggesting that people who retire from the armed forces should be exploited in any way by being offered an income less than what the market would otherwise bear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-22", "file": "debates2004-01-22.xml", "sha256": "4a6a21a60e4541a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1499.3", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is leading with his chin. Members of the armed forces are used to waiting for almost everything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-22", "file": "debates2004-01-22.xml", "sha256": "4a6a21a60e4541a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "e not been treated as well as they should have been. In addition, those who married retired servicemen who left the forces before 1978 receive no widow's pension. They will see that they have been overlooked, particularly in favour of unmarried partners. The extension of benefits to unmarried partners is a contentious issue that understandably arouses strong passions on both sides of the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-22.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Constitutional Reform", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The only\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "specific duty on the Secretary of State, not least in view of the hon. Gentleman's comment that we need a voice in Cabinet specifically with regard to the preservation of judicial independence. Our response today helps to some extent to reflect some of those concerns. The hon. Gentleman mentioned that he was concerned when I said that merit should be the overriding criterion in appointments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Constitutional Reform", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "It is entirely true that the Prime Minister will be able to appoint whomever he or she chooses in future as the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, and the legislation would apply to the post in whichever House that occurred. At present, the arrangements work well, and long may they continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ann Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Cryer", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I do not wish to take sides in this argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend raises an interesting point. One cannot help but notice that the original target date is a mere 10 weeks away. Although the Minister for Local Government, Regional Governance and Fire has been one of the most enduring members of the Government—he has remained in the same place since 1997—I suspect that even he does not expect to be in his post in 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.63.5", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " Select Committee, but either the main body of the report or one of the evidence statements draws attention to the history of projected savings, and the fact that they are less than those originally predicted at the time that the amalgamation of local government units takes place. The structure proposed by the Government may save a bit of money on control rooms, but the evidence is disputed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.63.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "e Services Act 2003, and those provisions form clause 29. I hope that he is slightly uncomfortable about incorporating wholesale powers to direct the use and disposal of equipment and premises on a permanent basis. At the time, the Minister told the House that those provisions were short-term, backstop measures strictly related to the immediate prospect of renewed industrial unrest in the service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": ". The Bill extends the statutory duties of fire and rescue authorities to include road accident attendance, yet the prohibition on charging for fire attendance has conspicuously not been extended to cover the new statutory duty in relation to road accidents. The power to charge for a statutory function is directly at odds with the general exclusion of such charges in the Local Government Act 2003.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "able to exploit. That matter will probably be considered further in Committee. The Bill provides, as now, for the appointment of fire service inspectors. There has been much debate, during the dispute and since, about the role of the fire service inspectorate. It would be helpful if the Minister fleshed out for the House the Government's current intentions, which are not discernible from the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "impose a uniform communications system on all fire authorities. Will he confirm that the Firelink system that he proposes is based on the TETRA—terrestrial trunked radio—technology, which has run into huge public resistance over the siting of masts for the police system? If so, does he have any concerns about the vulnerability that comes from imposing such a controversial system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "as encouraging genuine and voluntary collaboration between them in the discharge of their functions so that the existing structures could respond appropriately and flexibly to the new statutory duties and challenges being imposed on them, the Government have chosen to embark on a wholesale reorganisation of the service—exactly the kind of restructuring that Bain explicitly cautioned against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Bennett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Bennett", "preceding_text": "t I suggest that a more balanced work force within the fire service would work better. I do not know why the Government are so slow to get rid of the archaic disciplinary procedures, which everybody thinks are crazy. They must go, and I hope that when the Minister replies to the debate, he will tell us when that will happen. I am disappointed that we have not heard more about the retained service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that there is nowhere else to put Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire, but I agree that the eastern region is not the same as East Anglia. That is what the Government are trying to pretend, but the more they try, the more they dig themselves into a hole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "o deal with an issue that we brought to their attention. I raised the matter when the Deputy Prime Minister made a statement on the White Paper on 10 June , and he promised that there would be compensation for such authorities. He did not say that there would be difficulties because the Government could not get agreement on changing the RSG. He stated in the House that there would be compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "full-time firefighters—it was 0.06 per cent. when I last examined the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy figures. People are queueing up to become full-time firefighters, but there is a 20 per cent. vacancy rate for retained firefighters. One would believe that the Government had already dealt with that urgent issue and produced action plans that were included in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ached to the provisions. Pensions are fundamental to budgets and to reform, and the Government need to say a lot more than they did in the national framework document, which was simply that they were reviewing the financial arrangements for funding firefighters' pensions. That was very helpful last December, but this issue has been around for a long time and it is fundamental to the budgets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": " I agree with Members on both sides of the House about the importance of introducing new building regulations. Improving public investment in sprinkler systems will be critical to the future prevention role of fire services. It has been pointed out that the additional investment in prevention promised by the Government over the coming three years amounts solely to £5 million per annum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "alisation, and half doing that, then making sure that everyone knows that he will wholly do it if they do not do precisely what he says. That is the same thing as doing it. This is a serious matter. The Bill will remove another level of local competence and decision making, and take away the local connection between paying the rates and running the services. I shall finish with three short points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "n. First, I return to his explanation of an aspect of the Bill that reveals his problem. He explained that he had been unable to meet his target on fires because of the large increase in the number of burnt-out motor cars, which was caused by the large increase in abandoned vehicles. Rather than do something about that increase in abandoned vehicles, however, he decides to change the target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "If we vote for a regional assembly we will not have county councils. If we do not vote for regional assemblies, our county councils will lose their powers, so we may as well not have them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": " costs are likely to be low, and ends with the whole of the Isle of Wight, where of course costs are likely to be higher. Costs rise as one goes down the table because the areas are more rural. People like their local structures and fire services. What a waste of the £3.6 billion that has been spent on a tri-service call centre in Gloucestershire, given that it is to be altered or abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.120.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-26", "file": "debates2004-01-26.xml", "sha256": "bd75050a1a21f70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "PETITION — Telecommunications Masts", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-26.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "This gets increasingly pathetic, if I may say so. We receive rather a lot of letters from the right hon. and learned Gentleman about Zimbabwe, and some of them appear to be written in green ink. Does he write them himself, or is there some teenage scribbler in his office? However, the fact is that the Government have made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "f letters from the right hon. and learned Gentleman about Zimbabwe, and some of them appear to be written in green ink. Does he write them himself, or is there some teenage scribbler in his office? However, the fact is that the Government have made— [Interruption.] He is quite right; it is a serious issue and I wish Opposition Members would treat it seriously, instead of playing these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "Instead of playing these foolish and pathetic word games. My right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Power Supply (Compensation for Erroneous Transfer)", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": " that changing one's supplier can deliver lower fuel bills. I also accept that people generally do not go out to shop for a new gas or electricity supplier; they need to have it sold to them. The industry maintains that the most effective way to communicate the advantages of switching supplier is by doorstep selling. Well, that may be so, but the industry needs to understand that aggressive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Power Supply (Compensation for Erroneous Transfer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is entitled to some fairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.166.5", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. On any day, let alone this day, is there anything whatever that you can do to protect us from bogus points of order by creeps?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.166.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": " to me yesterday? He said: \"Poor families should not be deprived of the opportunity of a university education. But should they be responsible in financial terms for those who can afford it? The plan put forward by Mr. Blair is one to help everyone. It may not be perfect but it is a step in the right direction.\" Father Connolly is an independent man who knows about poverty in Africa. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong, but I am happy to discuss the matter with him in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "the House must weigh very carefully indeed. Our proposals will eliminate up-front fees, which are currently a clear barrier to people going to university. At the moment, students and their parents must find £1,125 a year, which would increase to £1,200 a year by 2006, just to be able to get access to the campus. There is no doubt whatsoever that those up-front fees are unpopular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct and I appreciate the support from him and from his vice-chancellor. Again I must make a political point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.180.8", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "m the research that was commissioned by the Government, but, unfortunately they ignored it, because the Bill will raise the costs of going to university for those very pupils who are qualified to go, but are deterred by the costs. The result of the Bill will be to threaten the numbers who go to university in future. Let us trace the history of the Government's approach to funding higher education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.180.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.181.8", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "up fees not of £3,000 but of £6,000, £10,000 or £15,000. I shall quote one of the many vice-chancellors who have made this point. Richard Sykes of Imperial college has said: \"I think this is a good start but it can't stay at £3,000 if we really are going to have world class universities in this country\". The vice-chancellors want the Bill because they want fees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.181.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.182.4", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "t of the independent review, they finally admitted that there were indeed alternatives to their own policy. They have finally conceded that the principle of variability is up for grabs. At least, that is what they have told their own rebels; we shall find out in due course whether they have said the same thing to the universities. I shall now give way to the hon. Member for Watford (Claire Ward) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.182.6", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "hat it is the Government's Higher Education Bill that we are debating today. I certainly look forward to debating with her and other hon. Members the Conservative policy on higher education in the Second Reading debate of the higher education Bill that the next Conservative Government will introduce early in the next Parliament. The big difference between that Bill and this one will be that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.182.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can. I turn now to the detail of the Bill. It creates a new regulatory structure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Brown", "preceding_text": " deal with the gap without compromising fairness. It is essential to examine alternatives, and I agree with the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson) that it is perfectly reasonable to consider mixed funding. There is no reason why that proposal should not be at least considered, for it is entirely rational. I also think it reasonable to consider alternatives proposed by the Opposition in general.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ith meaningless plans. At the end of the day, it has absolutely no powers. It has no powers over admissions, which is surely the key if we are to tackle issues of inequality. It has no powers over what goes into the plans—the Secretary of State has all the powers there—and it has no powers to impose penalties. So what is this guy getting £100,000 for? I would like that job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.199.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.206.3", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "emocracy or our democratic values. There are many other objections to the Bill. Although it is presented as a way of escaping further increases in taxation, it is tantamount to an increase in taxation, and a particularly harsh, arbitrary and unfair increase in taxation, because it will particularly hit people on middle incomes who have bright children. The man who said to me a few weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to be a member of a rare species in the House of Commons—an ex-president of the National Union of Students. It is even more interesting that Opposition Members claim to know what I used to stand for. It is amusing sport because all six ex-presidents stand firmly in the Government's camp on the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Taylor", "preceding_text": "e Bill was moving in the right direction. The best oratory in the debate came from my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) . He made a powerful speech but was particularly unwise to base it on the fact that Conservative Members should observe what was in their last election manifesto. There are fewer of us on this side of the House because we did observe our last manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "nderson, and his predecessor, Derek Fraser, were adamantly opposed to the Bill. Indeed, when I had an argument with the Under-Secretary, he said that he would persuade Graham Henderson to change his attitude. I told the Under-Secretary that he did not have to go that far—all he had to do to guarantee my vote this evening was to promise me an aircraft carrier to build on the River Tees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "ervatives have made up their mind about what they believe in. There would be no guarantee of the success of a graduate tax, because it would not be ring-fenced. Furthermore, the top-rate income tax that the Liberal Democrats talk about has already rightly been dismissed as loaves and fishes politics. There are no guarantees on secure funding. Nothing is for ever. No Labour Government are for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Marsden", "preceding_text": "my right hon. Friends the Secretary of State and the Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education in engaging with and discussing those issues. Many of the issues that we had concerns about have been addressed. I beg colleagues to focus laser-like on the alternatives to the Bill. Are hon. Members prepared to put higher education in a funding deep freeze until the end of the decade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.259.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "aylor), because they really did have a thoughtful approach to resolving this problem. I start by asking: do we need investment? There seemed to be agreement on both sides of the House that our higher education sector needs investment. I say to my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Clare Short) , who asked why we need it now, that a lot has changed since the turn of the century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-27", "file": "debates2004-01-27.xml", "sha256": "b54dbae96df34ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that this is a proper point of order, Mr. Salmond.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-27.275.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Wednesday 4 February .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e House a certificate, that such a declaration has been deposited; That in the present session the Bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it passed in the last 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.] Question again proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.298.4", "colnum": "298", "heading": "DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Bill Olner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Olner", "preceding_text": "Sadly, the plight of ordinary Zimbabweans has gone off the main agenda globally, but they continue to suffer intensely, particularly on food aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.298.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "portant contribution that the Labour movement can make in countries by putting pressure on Governments to increase people's living standards. I shall ensure that I send my hon. Friend a copy, because it deals with one of the ways, along with civil society and a thriving democracy, that Governments can be called to account on the extent to which they tackle poverty and improve health and education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.300.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "erately misled the public on that case. The plain fact is that that allegation is particularly absurd coming from him and the Conservative party, as I recall that even before the publication of the famous dossier he and his colleagues were urging me to take action and accusing me of dithering for not having done so. Whoever else can make that claim, frankly it does not lie in his mouth to make it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.305.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Avian Influenza", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "At least the Minister does not look like a turkey over this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "n to other business, or perhaps those Members who were watching the monitor in their offices suddenly developed an undying interest in the Bill. As I said in opening the debate, the Bill reduces the technical differences between the administration of tax and national insurance. It makes important improvements in the system and helps to protect employees' rights. We had a useful if not brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.334.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The procedures for civil action against employers are proportionate to the small number who seek not to fulfil their obligations under the legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": " travel expenses for overseas employees with that of tax. The Bill brings those changes together. That required primary legislation. As the hon. Gentleman knows, all Governments have to prioritise the measures that go into their legislative programme. We have been able to deliver those legislative changes at this point. The hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for North Norfolk (Norman Lamb) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.335.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "independent regulation of the BBC has never been stronger? At the beginning of his report Lord Hutton refers to the controversy and debate about weapons of mass destruction—whether they exist, and what the Government told the country in the run-up to the war. Lord Hutton is quite clear that these issues are beyond his remit. Will the Prime Minister therefore now undertake to establish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.343.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.343.8", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "tions? That kind of inquiry took place after the Falklands War. Is not the case for holding such an inquiry now overwhelming? Lord Hutton finds, in paragraph 228(8) of his report, that on one level the September dossier was indeed sexed up. In paragraph 228(7) he says that he cannot rule out the possibility that the Prime Minister's attitude \"may have subconsciously influenced Mr. Scarlett\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.343.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.343.8", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " be placed on any published intelligence material in future—at least while the right hon. Gentleman remains Prime Minister? And does the right hon. Gentleman now agree with the evidence of the head of the Secret Intelligence Service that, with the benefit of hindsight, the 45-minute claim was given undue prominence in the September dossier? Lord Hutton chooses his words very carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.343.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "vidence an extraordinarily vivid one? Vital meetings are unminuted, crucial telephone calls are unrecorded. In Lord Hutton's words in a letter to my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) , the notes made by private secretaries were \"very sparse and of no relevance.\" Whatever happened to the recommendations made by the Hammond inquiry into the Hinduja passports affair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " are unrecorded. In Lord Hutton's words in a letter to my right hon. Friend the Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) , the notes made by private secretaries were \"very sparse and of no relevance.\" Whatever happened to the recommendations made by the Hammond inquiry into the Hinduja passports affair? [Interruption.] Oh, yes—just listen. That report, given to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-28", "file": "debates2004-01-28.xml", "sha256": "8326ed9071d5d10e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "h the BBC that it gave scant attention to his welfare? Is not there the starkest contrast between the hours and days that it spent working out different ways of releasing his name to the media, and the two and half minutes that it spent informing him of the consequences of its actions? No one in Government can look back on this episode with pride. The nation will in due course deliver its verdict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-28.345.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-29", "file": "debates2004-01-29.xml", "sha256": "590dcd2d30a113dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Silly question.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "In view of the great importance of this work to many sections of the House, would the Chancellor like to express his pleasure at the remarkable change in fortune this week of the Prime Minister, which means that, in all probability, the Chancellor will be able to stay in his present post for the rest of this Government in order to see it through?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-29", "file": "debates2004-01-29.xml", "sha256": "590dcd2d30a113dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.378.6", "colnum": "378", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should not ask the Minister questions about Liberal Democrat policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.378.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-29", "file": "debates2004-01-29.xml", "sha256": "590dcd2d30a113dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "ng jobs in shops, clubs, bars and hotels, especially through stamp duty land tax. Yet Treasury Ministers seem unaware of what is happening. In a written answer last week, the Financial Secretary told me that stamp duty land tax would \"prevent the avoidance of stamp duty that was formerly common in commercial transactions\".—[ Official Report , 19 January 2004; Vol. 416, c. 1030W .] Yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.382.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-29", "file": "debates2004-01-29.xml", "sha256": "590dcd2d30a113dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " of more than one? The Leader of the House will have heard the calls from both sides of the House for a full inquiry into how this country went to war in Iraq. He will know that the Franks report followed the far less controversial Falklands war. The public want to know why the Government said that there were weapons of mass destruction, yet none were found. Can we expect an early statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-29", "file": "debates2004-01-29.xml", "sha256": "590dcd2d30a113dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The point has been made before and I have answered it. The Committee of Selection will consider the matter seriously. During the Standing Committee's detailed consideration of the Bill, we might find out the Conservative party's policy on the future of higher education. So far, we have had some clear signals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.400.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-01-29", "file": "debates2004-01-29.xml", "sha256": "590dcd2d30a113dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": ", but I know that my hon. Friend's feelings are shared elsewhere in the House. The point should also apply to the chairman of the Conservative party who, when The Sun leak took place, said that it had \"all the fingerprints of a Government which is willing to say or do anything to save its own skin\"— and that we \"now have a morally bankrupt Government which is as corrupt as it is corrupting.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-29", "file": "debates2004-01-29.xml", "sha256": "590dcd2d30a113dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "stment companies—biotechnological companies from Japan—have chosen to invest in Europe instead of in the United Kingdom because of the threat from animal rights terrorists. One of my constituents runs a guinea pig farm—which is controlled by the Home Office to ensure the protection of the guinea pigs—for medical research. He wrote to me saying: \"Before New Years Eve\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-29", "file": "debates2004-01-29.xml", "sha256": "590dcd2d30a113dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "House of Commons Members Estimate", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Successfully?\" .", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " On the motor cycle allowance, I would have liked to declare an interest, but my motor scooter was nicked the other day, so I fear that I will not be able to take advantage of the allowance for some time. Before Opposition Members start to blame the Government for the theft of my trusty scooter, I can reassure them that the police have acted swiftly and successfully to investigate the crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-29.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-30", "file": "debates2004-01-30.xml", "sha256": "4e6bb03336580c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-30.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Sustainable and Secure Buildings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "ot. I have not been at all short of advice on what I should do and say, not only today, but throughout the rest of the Bill's progress. In excess of 30 alternative Bills were offered to me by various individuals and organisations, but I believe that the Bill that I have brought to the House today is the best of the bunch. I am very pleased to introduce a Bill that has the support of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-30.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-30", "file": "debates2004-01-30.xml", "sha256": "4e6bb03336580c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-30.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Sustainable and Secure Buildings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "Of course, wood chips are a renewable source but presumably their combustion produces combustion gases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-30.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-01-30", "file": "debates2004-01-30.xml", "sha256": "4e6bb03336580c9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-30.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Sustainable and Secure Buildings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "Yes. Unfortunately, we cannot regulate to ensure that everyone has a dog—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-01-30.489.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "Not to be too pedantic, the expenditure is actually 21p in England and 570p in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "The school year is a matter for local authorities. On the south-west, we recently moved all matters relating to tourism into the development agencies so that they could become a major part of the economic driver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.515.5", "colnum": "515", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Liddell-Grainger", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that rural radio stations play a vital part in all communities. However, we have a problem in Exmoor, where the local radio station cannot get its signal out across the area. That is partly because it is in a national park—an area of outstanding natural beauty. The station cannot afford to erect hidden trees or trees disguised as masts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.515.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ny years. We have a foreign coach for nearly all our national sports, including soccer, and we could be condemned for that because it says much about the lack of professionalism in the structure of coaching. Our young people—and, indeed, our coaches—are as good as any in the world. We are trying to ensure that there is proper investment and that we have a proper career structure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.530.11", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Chairmanship of the BBC", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "s question and welcome the opportunity to respond, for several reasons. First, whatever the strength of the disagreement between the Government and the BBC over Mr. Gilligan's story, I want to place on the record the appreciation of the House for the outstanding contribution made by Gavyn Davies, both as vice-chairman and as chairman of the BBC. I regret that we now have to appoint a new chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.530.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.530.11", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Chairmanship of the BBC", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "w chairman. [Interruption.] The fact that the decision to resign was Gavyn's, and his alone, is a mark of his honour and integrity and demonstrates his overriding concern for the interests of the BBC. In similar vein, I wish to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the director-general, Greg Dyke, for his inspirational leadership. It is now, of course, for the governors to appoint his successor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.530.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Chairmanship of the BBC", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "ho have—a particular political affiliation should be discounted from the process. We have to proceed on the basis that we are seeking the very best person to do the job and that the process that I have set out today will subject a range of candidates to that kind of scrutiny. Nobody would believe that it was right for the person who becomes chairman of the BBC to be actively political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.536.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "That is a somewhat obscure interpretation of what paragraph (c) of amendment No. 1 would bring about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-02", "file": "debates2004-02-02.xml", "sha256": "0ee53e83382fd49f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Horserace Betting and Olympic Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-02.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.617.7", "colnum": "617", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "As with all fines, the revenue comes back to the Government, except in the case of cameras run by a partnership, where a large proportion of the money goes into keeping the cameras running and to the police. That money supplants what the police would have used to support the cameras in any case. The Heathrow area is sensitive and sometimes congested. People may be fatigued after flights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.624.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "WMD Intelligence Review Committee", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "rnment will, of course, co-operate fully with the committee. The members of the committee will be Lord Butler of Brockwell, who will be the chairman, Sir John Chilcot, and Field Marshal Lord Inge. It will also include two senior Members of this House, my right hon. Friend the Member for Dewsbury (Ann Taylor) , and the hon. Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates) , who will be made a Privy Councillor", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.624.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "WMD Intelligence Review Committee", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " have seen the publication of the Hutton report and the evidence of Dr. David Kay, former head of the Iraq survey group, to a US congressional committee. It has also emerged that the Iraq survey group may take longer to produce a final report than we had all originally envisaged. All that has led the Government now to judge that it is appropriate to establish this new inquiry of Privy Councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.624.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "WMD Intelligence Review Committee", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e's work will be on Iraq—rightly so. It is, however, important to remind ourselves of the significance and limits of the use of intelligence in relation to Iraq. The September dossier made a powerful case for the world to take notice of Iraq. It did not make a case for military action. As the record shows, the case for military action was fundamentally based upon Iraq's breach of UNSCR 1441.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "WMD Intelligence Review Committee", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ible for GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Service for the past two and a half years, it is in everybody's interest that we have the most accurate and reliable intelligence and the best systems for assessing it. That is in the interests of the agencies, of Ministers and of Parliament. I anticipate that if flaws are found in the systems for assessment, the Butler committee will wish to address that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.639.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.642.4", "colnum": "642", "heading": "WMD Intelligence Review Committee", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "tinued: \"Hans Blix's 7 March report demonstrates the terrifying weapons of mass destruction that are missing, and that must still be assumed to be there.\"—[ Official Report , 18 March 2003; Vol. 401, c. 892 .] That was the kind of argument that, along with the arguments of my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) , made me vote for the Government, and I would do so again today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.642.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "early withdrawal, etc.,for disabled children", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": " opinion of the consulting physician, is inevitably progressive, the effects of which cannot be reversed by treatment (although treatment may be successful in relieving symptoms temporarily) and which will be likely to result in the child's death before his eighteenth birthday.'. Amendment No. 3, in page 2, line 44 [Clause 3], leave out 'as' and insert 'in accordance with the provisions of section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "early withdrawal in case of terminal illness", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "rily) and which will be likely to result in the child's death before his eighteenth birthday.'. Amendment No. 3, in page 2, line 44 [Clause 3], leave out 'as' and insert 'in accordance with the provisions of section [early withdrawal, etc.,for disabled children] or as otherwise'. Amendment No. 4, in page 2, line 44 [Clause 3], leave out 'as' and insert 'in accordance with the provisions of section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "early withdrawal, etc., for disabled children", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "nvestments of terminally ill children.'. Amendment No. 15, in page 6, line 36 [Clause 12], leave out 'amount' and insert 'amounts'. Amendment No. 16, in page 6, line 39 [Clause 12], at end insert— '(2A) Regulations under subsection (2) shall prescribe— (a) a standard maximum amount, and (b) a higher maximum amount in respect of child trust fund accounts held by children to whom section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "early withdrawal, etc., for disabled children", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": " under subsection (2) shall prescribe— (a) a standard maximum amount, and (b) a higher maximum amount in respect of child trust fund accounts held by children to whom section [early withdrawal, etc., for disabled children] applies, which shall be expressed as a multiple of the standard maximum amount.'. Amendment No. 19, in page 10, line 39 [Clause 20], after '3(4)(d)', insert 'or by section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "early withdrawal in case of terminal illness", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "ccounts held by children to whom section [early withdrawal, etc., for disabled children] applies, which shall be expressed as a multiple of the standard maximum amount.'. Amendment No. 19, in page 10, line 39 [Clause 20], after '3(4)(d)', insert 'or by section [early withdrawal, etc., for disabled children]'. Amendment No. 20, in page 10, line 39 [Clause 20], after '3(4)(d)', insert 'or by section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "early withdrawal, etc., for disabled children", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "3(4)(d)', insert 'or by section [early withdrawal, etc., for disabled children]'. Amendment No. 20, in page 10, line 39 [Clause 20], after '3(4)(d)', insert 'or by section [early withdrawal in case of terminal illness]'. Amendment No. 25, in page 13, line 13 [Clause 22], at end insert— '(4A) A person who is required by the Inland Revenue to provide information under regulations under section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "early withdrawal by young person in full-time employment", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "fund. (5) On receipt of the proof of full-time employment prescribed by regulations under subsection (3)(b) and an application, the account provider must— (a) release the amounts requested to be withdrawn, and (b) inform the Inland Revenue in accordance with regulations.'. Amendment No. 76, in page 2, line 44 [Clause 3], leave out 'as' and insert 'in accordance with the provisions of section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "early withdrawal by young person in full-time employment", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "mdash; (a) who is such an eligible child because of section 2(3), or (b) in respect of whom a person has informed the Inland Revenue that he is the responsible person in accordance with the provisions of section [ designation of responsible person by young parents ](3).'. Government amendments Nos. 40 and 42. Amendment No. 77, in page 10, line 39 [Clause 20], after '3(4)(d)', insert 'or by section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-03", "file": "debates2004-02-03.xml", "sha256": "19997b95d960e626", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Child Trust Funds Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "ndividuals and corporate entities welcoming the Bill. As I pointed out earlier, that is not surprising, given that the financial market providers ought to gain business from the activity envisaged in it. Lest it seem that these are only Liberal Democrat objections, I want to bring the House back to some of the comments that have been made by independent bodies that have scrutinised the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-03.728.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Wednesday 11 February .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e House a certificate, that such a declaration has been deposited; That in the present session the Bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it passed in the last 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.] Question again proposed,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "It is appropriate for the right hon. Gentleman to talk about getting a better cuttings service, given the Conservatives' record in power of cutting services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend recognise that, in former coalmining areas such as North Durham, many allotments go unused? Will he join me in supporting some communities, such as Sacriston parish council, that want to find alternative uses such as house building on those unused allotments? Will the Minister give some consideration to alternative uses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.751.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "on Benches, in the rest of Britain and in the media, who will demand another inquiry and another inquiry. The truth is that only the removal of the whole Government would satisfy those tinpot Liberals. Some of us voted against the war, some people voted for it. That is a political decision. I stand by it and they will have to do the same. It will be a matter for the judgment of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.756.2", "colnum": "756", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Actually, I can tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman that the specialist schools have far greater freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.756.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.768.3", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "All of that was covered in the inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister referred to the response to the ISC. That Committee produced a balanced report: some of its comments were supportive of the Government's actions and some were less so. The Government's response picked out four key judgments, all of which happened to support their actions. On reflection, does the Prime Minister regret that selective use of material?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " way have found that we did not do so. I will come to what was being said in September 2002, not only by myself, but by everyone else. Issues arise now, because of the evidence that has been given by David Kay, who headed the Iraq survey group. The whole reason for the inquiry that was announced yesterday is that we accept that some things may have been got wrong. We cannot have a situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " story in The Independent today. Dr. Jones is an expert in his field and is highly respected. However, the newspapers today suggest that there is missing intelligence on the 45-minute issue. There is no missing intelligence on that issue. As far as I am aware, Dr. Jones saw all the intelligence that there was to see on it. So did Lord Hutton. The intelligence referred to the article that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "nd is highly respected. However, the newspapers today suggest that there is missing intelligence on the 45-minute issue. There is no missing intelligence on that issue. As far as I am aware, Dr. Jones saw all the intelligence that there was to see on it. So did Lord Hutton. The intelligence referred to the article that he— [Interruption.] Perhaps people could concentrate on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "sity to take action to deal with those threats. On all those vitally important matters, there is complete agreement between us. I also welcome the Prime Minister's decision, announced yesterday, to set up an inquiry into the matters to which he has referred. I believe that the war in Iraq was a just war. My party has been consistent in offering support to the Government and our armed forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.787.5", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is entirely wrong. First, I accepted the conclusions of the Hutton report: that is perfectly true. Lord Hutton did not deal with the issues that I have just raised. In particular, he did not deal with the question of what the Prime Minister said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.787.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Not at all. I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is very confused about this. Let me remind him that the Prime Minister said last week that the Government had a duty to disclose the name of David Kelly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.788.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.789.6", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman read what Dr. Jones said in his article today. What Dr. Jones said is that he thinks that the intelligence should be published. He doubts whether there is any reason of sensitivity for not publishing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.789.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.793.4", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In this House?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I have dealt with that matter, but since the hon. Gentleman raises it, let me deal with it again. Last week, the Prime Minister referred to what I said about him in a television broadcast that I made last August, when I made allegations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.793.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.793.4", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "vision broadcast that I made last August, when I made allegations—[Hon. Members: \"In this House?\"] No, it was in a television broadcast. In that broadcast, I made some allegations about the Prime Minister. In doing so, I quoted—verbatim, I think—from something that had been said on that very day by someone else in an article in The Independent on Sunday . That someone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.793.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "John Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Stanley", "preceding_text": "the degree of unanimity in the top echelons of the British intelligence community about the September dossier, weapons of mass destruction and the 45-minute claim? We now know about that, not least from appendix 18 to the Hutton report, which quotes the letter from the person who describes himself as \"probably the most senior and experienced intelligence community official working on 'WMD'\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I did not write to the right hon. Lady, but she was well aware of my feelings about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": ". I sit, sometimes biting my lip, behind my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) , who is always dripping venom about the BBC, and cannot consider it objectively. He did so again today. The BBC has a programme complaints unit, and it is a great mystery to me why Alastair Campbell did not take that route. His complaint would have gone to Greg Dyke and the BBC governors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "Yes, and they were the very people who, until 12 noon on Wednesday last, were saying, \"This man has done it thoroughly and brilliantly; it is going to be a marvellous report.\" But once they realised that he was taking a certain line, they took a different one themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Kelly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I cannot. I must allow enough time for the Defence Secretary. I now turn to the issue that was raised by the leader of the Liberal Democrats. He said that Dr. Kennedy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will speak for himself. I make it clear that inevitably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "Rather than getting excited at this stage, the right hon. and learned Gentleman should reflect calmly and carefully that the issue of the delivery system was not an issue at the time. There was not a debate in September about the nature of the delivery process. I asked the question out of curiosity. I did not expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-04", "file": "debates2004-02-04.xml", "sha256": "2056d0f549408898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Lord Hutton's Report", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "nd particularly civil servants who are not allowed to answer back—should not have to suffer deliberate denigration of that sort. Civil servants in this country are hard-working, dedicated public servants; they are not party political and they serve Governments of all parties. I am sure that all parties in the House would want to see their professional independence maintained and safeguarded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-04.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.904.4", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "it news of progress in the House of Lords. The right hon. Gentleman would do better to start talking to his Tory friends and the hereditaries in the House of the Lords who continually try to delay Government legislation. Their record on scrutiny of Government legislation is pathetic, to use his word. The House of Commons has a much better record of scrutinising legislation than the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.904.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.904.6", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ble to Lord Hutton; all the intelligence, including on this matter, was available to the ISC. The Conservatives are now, through the prism of Andrew Gilligan's false \"Today\" programme report, trying to rewrite history. The truth is that Saddam Hussein, as we know from United Nations inspections and our own intelligence, possessed huge stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.904.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "May I urge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's concerns on this matter, but I am implementing the rules of the House, in relation, for example, to the time limit on speeches. which the Speaker imposed in order to allow more people to participate. My hon. Friend is saying that we should go past the moment of interruption in certain debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "menting the rules of the House, in relation, for example, to the time limit on speeches. which the Speaker imposed in order to allow more people to participate. My hon. Friend is saying that we should go past the moment of interruption in certain debates—[Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"] Well, the difficulty with that is that there will always be special pleading for all sorts of different Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members' heckles are easy meat to deal with. The difficulty for a Leader of the House, as I am sure will be understood more widely, is that there will always be pleas for extensions to debates on this or that issue. Of course I acknowledge that the Hutton report is a very important issue, but exactly the same representations were made to me in respect of the Higher Education Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.907.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And ladies!", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I will certainly give the hon. Gentleman that assurance, and I welcome his points. I have many friends among the Doorkeepers, and they are an admirable group of gentlemen and servants of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I will. I think that the hon. Gentleman has inadvertently stated something that is not correct. My understanding is that two rebels—if we can call them that—have been appointed to the Standing Committee, and that the Government's majority on it does not reflect their majority in this House as a whole; rather, it takes account of the vote that took place on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Police", "cue_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hazel Blears", "preceding_text": "s gone into local government services. The hon. Gentleman will know, as I do, that the extra money found in December—£340 million—was specifically targeted on social services and the liveability agenda, so that is extra help for local government, too. The Home Secretary is writing to the 10 police authorities that we think are likely to be at the high end of police precept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.975.3", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "On the issue of floors, may I take the Minister back to his comments to the hon. Member for Torridge and West Devon (Mr. Burnett) , who will be sadly missed when he retires at the end of this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.977.6", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "eputy Speaker. I must say that I did arrange a series of seminars a year and a bit ago when we were introducing the new grant distribution formula. I tried to explain the floors and ceilings mechanism then, but clearly I failed. I was about to tell the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) that when authorities reach the ceiling, they do not go down again because they remain on the ceiling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.977.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-05", "file": "debates2004-02-05.xml", "sha256": "281c76ac450cbb42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "adequate the whole settlement is, but we have been there before. As early as November, he said how generous the settlement was and that there was no reason why councils could not continue to improve services while sticking to a reasonable council tax increase. However, within a couple of weeks, the Chancellor of the Exchequer found it necessary to put in the additional sum of £340,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-05.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-06", "file": "debates2004-02-06.xml", "sha256": "b0a0e9c5a4094e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-06.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Wild Mammals (Protection) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "What the CPHA's statement perhaps implies is that those organisations do not believe that the argument that hunting with dogs is inherently cruel would stand up to scrutiny in the courts through the normal judicial process. That is the first reason why it would be foolish for the Government to talk out the Bill, when there is so much to be debated and it would be appropriate to do so in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-06.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "We will take every practical measure necessary to deal with antisocial behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1113.4", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Soon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I shall be happy to consider the details of that case and to discuss it with the hon. Gentleman. I am grateful to him for raising that important matter. The Bill will be published, as we know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Morecambe Bay (Deaths)", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "he way that the Select Committee identified. The hon. Gentleman asked what the Government are doing about the problem. In 2002–03, the positive outcomes achieved against gangmasters and their employees included the identification by the Department for Work and Pensions of 235 overpayments and 1,023 adjustments to benefits worth £405,000, thereby securing 138 sanctions and prosecutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "UK Supreme Court", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "lature—and for no apparent benefit at all—but it is a perilous step backwards because it will extend the influence of the Executive over the judges. How can it be said that this proposal enhances either the separation of powers, or the independence of the judiciary, when the role of the Secretary of State, probably by then an ambitious youngster on the make sitting in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "UK Supreme Court", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "id not include a single proposal from the Opposition about where they want to take the constitution in this country, whether they would repeal a new supreme court and whether they would reinstate the office of Lord Chancellor. We must find out a little bit more from the Opposition before their conservatism, which is cloaked by the hon. Gentleman's fine language, is exposed to the wider population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "UK Supreme Court", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": " Lord Chancellor. We must find out a little bit more from the Opposition before their conservatism, which is cloaked by the hon. Gentleman's fine language, is exposed to the wider population. [Interruption.] The Opposition obviously do not want to see any change, believe that the status quo is sufficient and do not see any particular problem with a politician sitting at the heart of the judiciary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "UK Supreme Court", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "One reform at a time, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "UK Supreme Court", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "Despite the comment of the hon. Member for Aberdeen, Central (Mr. Doran) , the House of Lords has not always had a beneficial effect on Scots law. I refer him to the case of Bartonshall Coal Company v. Reid and its effect on workmen's compensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1149.3", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend clarify the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ns in Scotland—those for the Scottish Parliament and those in relation to local government—and I agree that there is some confusion. All of us who voted last May will recall seeing people who were confused about how the list system worked. Indeed, at the polling station that I was in, an old lady asked for advice from the polling clerk, who looked at me and said, \"Not while he's here.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1158.3", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " how we elect MSPs, but the implications of the changes proposed for councils. Whether that has implications for what the Scottish Executive are doing is a matter for them and not for me. It would probably be against the spirit of the whole devolution settlement if I were to go any further than that. As I have said, the Bill is short and to the point so I can deal with what it does fairly quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "reasons besides. As a consequence of the Bill, if passed, future elections to Holyrood and Westminster would be fought on different constituency boundaries. It has been said that that \"will cause chaos and confusion\".—[ Official Report , 18 December 2002; Vol. 396, c. 864 .] Again, those are not my words, but those of the right hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1163.3", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Irene Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Irene Adams", "preceding_text": "e. Some of us thought that the convention had also found agreement on that, but only the Labour party addressed that issue, and it still seems to be the only party that does so. I hope that other hon. Members will tell us why their parties never got to that point. The 129 Members were to be made up by the direct election to Edinburgh of one Member per Westminster constituency, with a top-up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1164.5", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Irene Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Irene Adams", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. I concede that that is the case. My point is that this system is probably the worst that we could have chosen at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1166.2", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Irene Adams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Irene Adams", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State would have to deal with the recommendations made by the commission and make some sense of them when presenting them to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman explain, for the benefit of my constituents, why 100,000 Scots electors need five Members of Parliaments—and I mean Parliaments, in the plural—to represent them, whereas the constituents of the Isle of Wight need only one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1178.2", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The poll tax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "e believed that the number of first-past-the-post Members should be reduced to the same number as the Westminster constituencies. There should then be a top-up of 49 from the list system, making 108. We also said that we could not understand why 22 Ministers were required in Scotland. I used to work in the Scottish Office in the good old days when four Ministers managed to run all the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1178.2", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Is that why they lost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": " should then be a top-up of 49 from the list system, making 108. We also said that we could not understand why 22 Ministers were required in Scotland. I used to work in the Scottish Office in the good old days when four Ministers managed to run all the legislation. [Hon. Members: \"The poll tax?\"] I should point out that I worked there when the Labour Government were in power between 1974 and 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "That is the very system for which the hon. Gentleman voted in the Scotland Act. It is a consequence of the decision that you took, and you must accept it. He may not have voted for it personally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1186.2", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "I have looked at the amendments suggested by the Scottish Affairs Committee, which effectively propose the death knell of proportionality for the Scottish Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "It is not, as it happens. It is just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend tell the House why he was so keen on the Conservatives being able to run this country for 18 years on a minority vote, damaging Scotland in the process?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1215.5", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "I think that somebody said \"Judas\" from a sedentary position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1215.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Duncan", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman is falling into the trap of asking me to justify a system that the Labour party created. If he has a problem with the relevant part of the 1998 Act, he should point it out to the Secretary of State for Scotland. The right hon. Member for Cunninghame, North (Mr. Wilson) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-09", "file": "debates2004-02-09.xml", "sha256": "d23efecf0cf7fe25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, this is a settlement in the United Kingdom, not in any other part of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-09.1223.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1253.6", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "This is about Scotland.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I will help the hon. Gentleman by giving examples that may assist him in relation to his own constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1253.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1253.7", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members should not tell the Secretary of State for Scotland how to answer a question. I think that he knows how to conduct himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1253.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1267.6", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Again, that suggestion has been made to me in recent weeks, and I am looking at it very seriously. It struck me during my extensive consultations in recent weeks with Members of all political persuasions, and Ministers, that very few people are now arguing for going back to the old hours on Wednesdays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1267.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1336.3", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "It is revenue-neutral compared with what otherwise obtains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1336.3", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": " the poll tax and the council tax. Members may wish to deny the facts, but I am afraid that they will have to face them. One of the real benefits of a local income tax for local government is its buoyancy. Unlike council tax, which must rise every year just to keep pace with inflation, local income tax rates could stay the same because more money would come in as employment and earnings increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1337.3", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way to the hon. Gentleman before. The problem for the Conservatives is that in terms of local taxation, they have \"form\" as long as your arm. That is mainly because they have not got a clue about fairness. I refer them to a debate on the poll tax that took place on 18 April 1988 . The then Conservative Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "apologise to the Whip because I am sure that I shall get into terrible trouble with my party hierarchy, but I have a confidential report on the debates from central office. In a spirit of openness and glasnost, I am prepared to risk discipline by reading out its main conclusions. One must understand how one should read a central office report, and I admit that the first two points are predictable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1357.3", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman disputes our figures, because they stand the test of scrutiny. We are talking about average male earnings—I do not think anyone would dispute that that figure is £525 a week—and average female earnings, which are £396 a week. Those are the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1357.5", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "I am not disputing what the hon. Gentleman says about the difference between median and mean incomes. I choose my figures carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1361.5", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": " the Minister, who offered the pious hope that eventually we will be able to work out a system of charges that will provide recompense. But start-up charges are immediate. Councils have an immediate cash crisis, and these factors will immediately add to that crisis. Local authorities had to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 by July 2002, with full openness coming into effect by 2005.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1370.0", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "David Borrow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Borrow", "preceding_text": "ember of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation. In 1976, the Layfield report came out, following the 1973 rating valuation. It raised issues similar to those that we are discussing. The report included all the sorts of issues that are currently being considered; it raised all the problems with local income tax—the nature of raising the money and all the other technical difficulties", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "ice. At the moment, the Inland Revenue is relatively relaxed about the address from which I send off my tax return, as long as it gets one. Under the new system, it would be vital that the address was right. The hon. Gentleman said that an advantage of his proposal was that it would provide a buoyant source of revenue. I am not sure that I want local government to have a buoyant source of revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": "We would know at which property someone was registered for income tax purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "hat the right hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Mr. Curry) tried to convey last week, when, presumably prompted by Conservative central office, he uncharacteristically lapsed into the use of wholly spurious and bogus statistics. Conservative-controlled councils received on average slightly larger grant increases this year than Labour authorities—6.2 per cent. as against 5.9 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-10", "file": "debates2004-02-10.xml", "sha256": "e29daee9bb80a4b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1377.3", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Local Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "red with 2003–04. In the south-west, the average increase is 5.5 per cent.; in the south-east it is 5.6 per cent., and in London it is 5.4 per cent. That compares with a national average of 5.5 per cent. Let us consider the increases in the three northern regions. In Yorkshire and the Humber it is 5.0 per cent.; in the north-east it is 4.8 per cent., and in the north-west it is 5.2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-10.1377.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1395.3", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be considered on Wednesday 25 February .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e House a certificate, that such a declaration has been deposited; That in the present session the Bill shall be deemed to have passed through every stage through which it passed in the last 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.] Question again proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1402.2", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "As I hope to have the opportunity to say later today, I commend the work of General de Chastelain and the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning. No thought has been given to the matter that the hon. Lady asked about. We are grateful for the commitment that the general has shown to the peace process in Northern Ireland, and I look forward to working with him in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1403.2", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Roy Beggs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roy Beggs", "preceding_text": "We are all aware of the growing culture of mural art in Northern Ireland. This is to be found in both communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1403.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am not changing my mind. The free movement of people is guaranteed throughout the European Union after accession. The free—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1406.3", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "rs will shortly be deciding on the central rail project for roll-on/roll-off trains to transport lorries from north to south, which will halve the north-south traffic on the M1. That is not only supported by people in Broxtowe because of the potential for jobs; it is the only project in human history that has support from employers, unions, green groups and the Freight Transport Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1409.3", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Only around £5 million to £10 million will be given to trade unions over the next few years, to encourage the process of modernisation in the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1409.7", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see that the right hon. and learned Gentleman's attitude to trade unions has changed not one whit. After all, when in government, he opposed the minimum wage, the social chapter and the right of people to join a trade union, even when they wanted to. I am sorry that he is still stuck in the same old groove.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1409.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1412.0", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Spot on.", "preceding_speaker": "Karen Buck", "preceding_text": "ts in my constituency that at this late stage of the year are facing significant reductions in their funding under the children's fund? Will he agree, at least, to go back and look again at the children's fund because although investment is important, consistency is important too? The programme has not been running for long and it is important that we give such programmes the benefit of the doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1411.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1414.0", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " the reason why there is an inquiry? Once it has completed its work, and we know exactly what happened to those six members of the Royal Military Police, we will obviously be in a better position to communicate with the families on the basis of precise details. However, those six people died in the course of their duty in circumstances in which they demonstrated enormous courage and bravery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Parliament and the EU", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "arned Gentleman said that I had been coy about the IGC, and I plead guilty. The reason is that it is impossible to say whether the IGC negotiations will or will not be reopened. I have had many discussions with my Irish counterpart, as the Prime Minister has with the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and with many other colleagues across Europe. The Irish Presidency is collecting voices on the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1420.2", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Parliament and the EU", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A big conversation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "reason is that it is impossible to say whether the IGC negotiations will or will not be reopened. I have had many discussions with my Irish counterpart, as the Prime Minister has with the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and with many other colleagues across Europe. The Irish Presidency is collecting voices on the issue—[Hon. Members: \"What?\"] Collecting voices, that is what they say they are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1432.0", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Special Educational Needs", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ust address the issue. On early identification, there is no doubt that the first six months are crucial. Will the Secretary of State work with the Secretary of State for Health to expand birth-to-six screening, especially for cognitive and sensory development? Will he commission research, which could probably be undertaken by the research council being set up under the Higher Education Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1449.2", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "nother intervention so quickly. Would she accept that no matter how often General de Chastelain tells the community in Northern Ireland how significant an act of decommissioning is, such acts are rendered meaningless for many people by the anonymity and confidentiality clauses? What can she say about ensuring that no confidentiality provision should be invoked for a further act of decommissioning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is democracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for taking a second intervention so quickly. Does he accept that the Government threw away their major leverage over the republican movement by granting the elections last October? It is a great shame that his party and its sister party in Northern Ireland accepted that decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "an for taking a second intervention so quickly. Does he accept that the Government threw away their major leverage over the republican movement by granting the elections last October? It is a great shame that his party and its sister party in Northern Ireland accepted that decision. [Hon. Members: \"It is democracy.\"] With the greatest respect to others who sit on this Bench, could I please finish?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1469.3", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I do not have to hand the figures that he was seeking earlier, but I shall write to him with the detail and place a copy of my letter in the Library. This has been a typically thoughtful, challenging and—for the Government—punchy debate, and I have listened to the many points made. I can well recall making the comments that I made last year, and I shall not repeat them this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1486.5", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1486.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The White Paper does not say that because Governments will want to keep their civil servants involved in such matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1490.8", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, they will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " If those powers are all right for London, why are they not all right for the northern regions? We would give them the same powers and resources and put them in the same situation. The people in the north, where we will hold the three referendums, should have the same opportunity as the people in London. It is not my decision: if the people do not want an assembly, they will vote against it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1490.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I did not pick up that point, so I cannot give the hon. Gentleman a proper answer. In principle, as I was explaining to my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) , we are not planning to include a condition on the proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister gave a barnstorming performance today, and I look forward to campaigning with him for a yes vote in the referendums in the three northern regions. I agree with much of what he said. I was also pleased to see him in thoughtful mode today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "s, and those powers should be announced before the referendums. The Deputy Prime Minister knows that Liberal Democrat Members support regional devolution, but want a much deeper, richer form of it. I am afraid that that is why I have to tell him that, because of the careful wording that the Conservatives have proposed today, but for very different reasons from theirs, we will support their motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1496.0", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "t Liberal Democrat Members support regional devolution, but want a much deeper, richer form of it. I am afraid that that is why I have to tell him that, because of the careful wording that the Conservatives have proposed today, but for very different reasons from theirs, we will support their motion. [Interruption.] The Deputy Prime Minister should wait because we will support his amendment to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1505.2", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ll let go of powers. Any optimism about being able to grab such powers in future is therefore utterly misplaced. I must, however, challenge the hon. Gentleman's attempt to rewrite history in relation to the Conservative party, which is not, and never was, a stick-in-the-mud party. He will remember 1979 as well as I do. The start of Mrs. Thatcher's Government started the revival of the north—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1511.2", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ent say those functions will be: \"Developing the economy of the North West would be at the heart of the assembly's work.\" Of course I want the north-west's economy to be developed, but I do not see how having a regional talking shop will do that, and nor, indeed, do any of the regional business organisations. That is why the regional CBI has opposed it and the chambers of commerce have opposed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1514.3", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that I gave way. It is interesting to have that remark on the record once again. I suggest that the Minister should inform the Deputy Prime Minister of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1520.4", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "ose inequalities in response to that report. Instead, the chief medical officer's annual report for 2001 came to the shocking conclusion that communities in some parts of the north-west and north-east of England had death rates similar to those that prevailed in the 1950s. I do not understand how anyone advancing the case for the status quo could fail to see the importance of that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1520.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "John Grogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Grogan", "preceding_text": ". The role of strategies is much mocked. My hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) spoke from experience about culture and sport. I wish that Yorkshire could have a regional strategy for sport, controlled by Yorkshire politicians. We love sport in the region, although we are doing terribly badly at cricket and football. The only thing that we have to boast about is Doncaster Rovers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1524.0", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "erendums. I listened to the Deputy Prime Minister with my usual care, but I thought that he got into a muddle when he complained that the Government offices were terribly undemocratic. He did not seem to understand that he is accountable to the House for the operation of the Government offices, and it is his colleagues and mine who hold him to account for that—they are, in fact, accountable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1524.4", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly prepared to accept that because I do not think that it is the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1524.4", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ch should be an objective test of public opinion after a prolonged and informed debate. Let the House recall the careful and meticulous way in which the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Donald Dewar, approached the referendum for a Scottish Parliament. I did not agree with the concept of a Scottish Parliament; I fully accept that the debate was comprehensively won by the pro-devolutionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-11", "file": "debates2004-02-11.xml", "sha256": "a0a9d812819795e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1524.4", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "inion after a prolonged and informed debate. Let the House recall the careful and meticulous way in which the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Donald Dewar, approached the referendum for a Scottish Parliament. I did not agree with the concept of a Scottish Parliament; I fully accept that the debate was comprehensively won by the pro-devolutionists. [Interruption.] I do not deny a bit of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-11.1524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1556.3", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend raises an important point. Wherever we go in the world, the Open university is even more famous than some of the other more mentioned universities in the UK.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "There is some flexibility in the specialist schools programme to allow up to 10 per cent. of pupils to be selected on the basis of aptitude in particular specialisms, such as music and sport. We certainly would not want flexibility of a type that suggested a return to anything approaching the 11-plus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1571.2", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be aware that I have announced that we shall review the hours, and I am taking soundings on that and consulting everyone across the Floor as well as our own Back Benchers, including her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1571.2", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "on a Wednesday morning, not least because the parliamentary Labour party has decided that, after the Easter recess, it will meet on a Monday evening. Perhaps my hon. Friend will look at whether that will give her an extra opportunity. I realise that there have been changes to the catering arrangements as a result of the new hours, but the Refreshment Department's income has actually gone up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ut the usual channels, I meant to say that the Committee of Selection had a Division and that the hon. Gentleman's side lost—that is the usual way of doing things when there is disagreement. The fact remains that we have significantly reduced the normal majority for a Committee with a membership of 25 to just three. Included among its Labour Members are some who voted against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1589.0", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "CAP Reform (England)", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "t. Let me return to one point that the hon. Lady made repeatedly in a number of contexts. She said that Ben Gill had attacked the so-called hybrid option. That is true; he said that it was not an option that we could possibly advocate. Let me emphasise that what we propose is not a hybrid system, but a flat-rate system, towards which we are moving on a transitional basis. The two are not the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1591.2", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "CAP Reform (England)", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And Andy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "ether the Secretary of State intended it as a deliberate steer, but the statement as circulated to me, and to the rest of the House now, includes an adviser's note halfway down page 2: \"Secretary of State: Andy\"—I do not know whether that is a familiar reference to me— \"feels that, if possible, we should clarify this point about deductions\". My question to the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "CAP Reform (England)", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Appeals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "he more accurate it is, the less the likelihood of errors. Information will also assist us when we consider how great a provision we need to make for a national reserve. Part of the purpose of such a reserve will be to deal with anomalies that cannot be dealt with any other way, with hardship cases, and with unusual circumstances—perhaps land or leases changing hands in the reference period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Steinberg", "preceding_text": " world—I am not criticising that at all—to find obese people. They even went to Finland—they were probably pronouncing it wrong and thought they were going to Thinland. They spent weeks investigating the subject, when all they had to do was read the report that we produced about two years ago and examine their own Chairman—that would have given them an insight into obesity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-12", "file": "debates2004-02-12.xml", "sha256": "e99ce6e9c7dbae27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "ALLOTMENTS (NORTH-EAST LINCOLNSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Keith Hill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Hill", "preceding_text": "ty, mental health promotion, community networking and cohesion, and educating young people about growing food. Initiatives such as the Department for Education and Skills project, Growing Schools, encourage schools to use the outdoors for education. Allotments allow all sections of the community to produce locally grown fresh fruit and vegetables, often without the use of harmful pesticides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-12.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.5.1", "colnum": "5", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give my hon. Friend that assurance. Clearly, if someone claims asylum here as a Zimbabwean but does so falsely on a false passport and is really South African, that person should be returned to South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.5.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.5.2", "colnum": "5", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that the processes for dealing with people who arrive unexpectedly in our country leave something to be desired? Is the Minister aware of the front page of the Brighton evening edition of The Argus , which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.5.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for her answer to my question. I recently had the interesting experience of visiting a prison for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "EU Enlargement (Free Movement of Workers)", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am genuinely bewildered as to whether the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Gender Recognition Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "If I may, I shall make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Gender Recognition Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "Let me say to my hon. Friend that we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Gender Recognition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman mentioned the Evangelical Alliance and may have said that it was not a major part of the Church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Gender Recognition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "nsure that there could be no discrimination. Insurance has been mentioned a number of times, and there are ways of dealing with that. I think that I may be the only chartered insurer who is a Member of the House—I am certainly one of very few. Believe it or not, underwriters are reasonable, understanding people, and I am sure that separate arrangements could be made with insurance companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.93.5", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Gender Recognition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady makes a practical point, and one way to get round it might be to say that a gender recognition certificate could be used in place of a birth certificate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.93.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Gender Recognition Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " issue is not the individual's rights to a pension but those of dependants, especially in circumstances in which the state has enforced a divorce as a result of the Bill, and the impact on the former spouse. That has not been worked through. It must be done, and I do not believe that Committee is the appropriate place in which to do it. The issue is of such fundamental underlying importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-23", "file": "debates2004-02-23.xml", "sha256": "8bd5c6ee7b15766d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.110.2", "colnum": "110", "heading": "SEROXAT", "cue_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "The Seroxat scandal is one of gigantic proportions, which affects millions of people. There has been over-prescribing and misprescribing of this antidepressant on a scale equalled only by the over-prescription of tranquillisers 40 years ago. It is likely that the legacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-23.110.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "rd with the recommendations and advice from NICE. On implementation, it is not cost that prevents it—more money than ever before is going into the treatment of a range of eye diseases—but lack of trained personnel. We have made huge advances in that area, but the truth is that we cannot just conjure up trained personnel without forward planning and investment for their provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "To start with, we believe in acting on facts. The facts are important. The hon. Gentleman tries to make a point about investment. One of the points that he makes is about targets, but the Conservatives have complained repeatedly about targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "To start with, we believe in acting on facts. The facts are important. The hon. Gentleman tries to make a point about investment. One of the points that he makes is about targets, but the Conservatives have complained repeatedly about targets— [Interruption.] He mentioned an NSF, which involves the use of standards and targets. In terms of the national strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "British Detainees (Guantanamo Bay)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am happy to see the hon. Gentleman. There are five individuals in Guantanamo Bay who are not British citizens but were British residents before their detention, and his constituent is one of them. Their legal position is difficult. We simply do not have a right in international law to make representations on behalf of those who are not British citizens. That is standard and accepted practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Hundreds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McLoughlin", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State is telling us how the Government wish to treat pensioners and about their laudable aim in that regard. Can he tell us how many pensioners were threatened with prison sentences under the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ngs link for all pensioners and the basic state pension is a manifest improvement on anything that pensioners have received through the previous proposals of either of the two main parties. The Secretary of State has again failed to take the opportunity to tell us that he is going to increase the pension credit by earnings in the next Parliament. If he will not do so, it is absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "The research to which the Minister refers was an extremely sloppy piece of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "May I get to the end of this sentence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "en relying, which I shall cite in a moment. The Minister cannot have it both ways. He cannot agree with what I have yet to say on the subject on the one hand while on the other violently disagreeing—albeit with his usual courtesy—with my hon. Friend in writing earlier this month. Or are there two Ministers of the same name prowling the corridors of the Department for Work and Pensions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "pped by nearly a quarter of a million to 3.4m over the past two years.\" There are various possible explanations for that. My hon. Friend has talked about the \"lost generation\" of more than 1 million young people without jobs or proper education and training. That throws into stark contrast the headline figures comparing our rates of youth unemployment with those in countries such as Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.184.3", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "is not increasing but falling back. Another point that my hon. Friend rebutted in his response to the Minister's letter is that if we add the number of young people who are not in full-time education to the number of those who are economically inactive, the sum total is well over a million young people, which is a great worry. In fairness, the Minister has accepted that the issue is serious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "I do not want to press the Minister beyond what is appropriate in what is partly a commercial situation, but I would be grateful for clarification. Current thinking is that the migration will start in the autumn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Social Security and Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that, but he needs to explain why he has indulged in this significant U-turn. I have a whole page of quotations from him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Pension Scheme Wind-ups", "cue_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Cunningham", "preceding_text": "were in exactly the same position. I certainly had a lot of sympathy with him when he raised those issues, because I—along with my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, North-West—was among those making representations to the Secretary of State. It is about time that my hon. Friend and I had another meeting with the Secretary of State to talk about the future of Massey Ferguson workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Pension Scheme Wind-ups", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": " timidity, and, of course, for the fact that it deals with problems in the future. It was pretty clear, as my hon. Friend the Member for Havant pointed out in an intervention, that the Secretary of State had written his speech before he had taken account of what my hon. Friend had to say. Carrying out the role of a serious official Opposition, my hon. Friend set out a range of possibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-24", "file": "debates2004-02-24.xml", "sha256": "d13c1630ece1f0d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "VAT (TOURISM)", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "thern Ireland. Neither can such reliefs be applied selectively according to the use of the hotel or the status of the customer. The hon. Gentleman went on to highlight his concerns about Northern Ireland and the competition created by the fact that it has a land border with another European member state—the only part of the United Kingdom, as he said, in which that circumstance exists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-24.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "t than I do. I also assure him that there will be no contracting out of the final decision on any changes recommended by the Welsh Assembly Government to Westminster. The decision will be taken in the first instance by our Labour Governments and, in the second, by this Parliament. We will retain the ultimate say on whatever changes need to be made as a result of the report's recommendations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.273.8", "colnum": "273", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about milk?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "nd I can tell him that they have gone up by £2,000 to more than £16,000 in the current year. That is not high enough, but the figure is moving in the right direction. When I had discussions at an agricultural college in Ruthin in north-east Wales last week, I was encouraged by the response of farmers and those who work in the industry about their future. There is growing encouragement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.273.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Chief Superintendent John Holt on the commitment that he has shown to community policing? From today, there will be 19 community safety officers in my area, in addition to a full complement of community beat officers and some very lively and active special constables—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have kept our promise to fund councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Of course, when the right hon. and learned Gentleman refers to band D council tax in Sedgefield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Of course, when the right hon. and learned Gentleman refers to band D council tax in Sedgefield— [Interruption.] No, no; the average council tax in Labour areas is actually below that of Conservative areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " that the amount of council tax is at least in part—surely the right hon. and learned Gentleman will accept this—linked to the amount of money that central Government give to local government. Now, it is beyond doubt that we are increasing the amount of money from central Government to local government. What is the right hon. and learned Gentleman's policy? We saw that described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.277.4", "colnum": "277", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Jenkin, I expect better from you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. and learned Gentleman appears to be against the policy; I think that he is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "After about seven weeks as Leader of the Opposition, the right hon. and learned Gentleman should learn how to make a point sensibly. If he is in favour of the policy, let us work out how we make it work. Incidentally, he said in his opening question that teachers are all against the policy, but let me read what the head of the National Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "he Criminal Justice Act 2003 and those on antisocial behaviour, and why we have the largest ever number of police officers in this country. I stress again the importance of ensuring that we invest in the criminal justice system and in additional numbers of police. Conservative policy is to freeze that in cash terms. Let me emphasise what that would mean: thousands fewer police officers in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer specifically the precise point on village hall funding, although I will make sure that the hon. Gentleman gets an answer on it. Of course, I commend the work of the pensioners forum on village halls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jane Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "e to the ordinary criminal law and procedure. Of course, the Home Secretary is right to stress that the Government do not lightly take on the powers in the 2000 and 2001 Acts. It obviously involves difficult judgments and measures that no Government in a liberal democracy would ordinarily consider. The Home Secretary will be happy to know that I include him in that definition of liberal democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security", "cue_speaker": "Brian Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "use of the pressure on parliamentary time. There is a democratic need to disaggregate police and criminal justice legislation from terrorism legislation. So that I can be consistent, I should point out that when we debated this legislation on Second Reading and in Committee on the Floor of the House, I expressed considerable reservations about the issue of religious hatred as dealt with in part 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-25", "file": "debates2004-02-25.xml", "sha256": "86312c6d5a695cf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "een used much does not detract from their deterrent effect. That is an important point that the police and others have made to us. My hon. Friend the Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley) made specific points about part 12 and the bribery provisions. I am well aware of his long-standing interest in bribery, particularly bribery overseas. That relates to his concern about international development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-25.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "constantly filled up with statements. The Government are held accountable to the House through those statements—on top of which, the Government, whether the Prime Minister or other members of the Cabinet, have given regular statements, weekly statements, on all those key issues. May I suggest that that was a typically fatuous question from the shadow Leader of the House? On that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman asked about the Penrose report. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury has said on several occasions, most recently only a couple of weeks ago on 12 February , that the Treasury plan to publish the report in full as soon as possible and that it will answer questions following publication. He asked when, and whether it would be next week. When is when we are ready to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "On the general matter of Prime Minister's questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am inclined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Katharine Gun", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": " was not considering whether the case was in the public interest, but whether there was sufficiency of evidence. Hon. Members will know that there must be evidence not just that supports the charge, but to rebut the defence. The evidence that is available changes over time in every case. Much has been said about this being a sudden decision. The House would rightly criticise the authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.433.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Katharine Gun", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "the public interest, but whether there was sufficiency of evidence. Hon. Members will know that there must be evidence not just that supports the charge, but to rebut the defence. The evidence that is available changes over time in every case. Much has been said about this being a sudden decision. The House would rightly criticise the authorities— [Interruption.] Sorry, am I taking too long?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "cing of the relationship between the Labour Government and the trade union movement, but the money resolution blows away what I had thought was a real division. It now looks more like a façade. The timing is also uncomfortable. Many of us expect that we are likely to be at the hustings within 12 to 14 months, and money will change hands between the trade union movement and the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.447.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.449.4", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "David Wilshire", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful. I was trying to get there without being told that I could not. Missing from the motion is any indication of how much money is involved. We have the Minister's word, but given the way that politics work, he might not be the Minister tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.452.6", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "all into question my relationship with them. The fund is genuinely about good employment relations and good industrial relations. We understand that the Opposition parties would like to have a kick about with the money resolution. However, the Committee will discuss the matter, there will be another debate on Report, and hon. Members will have an opportunity to examine the details over the summer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "cus on the proposals in that document and their implications for Wales. The Liberals describe the new deal as a \"waste of time for unemployed people who only need superficial help\". It also says that the Liberal Democrats would get rid of the child trust fund, which the Government are introducing to ensure that, in future, all children have a financial asset at the start of their adult life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": ", which will affect council tax, and a £250 million cut in international development. That is just for starters, and we will not get anything in return, such as tax cuts that would at least offset the cuts that the official Opposition would make. Which schools will be closed in Wales, and how many teachers will be sacked? Which hospitals will be shut and how many nurses will be sacked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "One of the dangers of this is that people misunderstand the fact that having extra freedom does not mean that they have to use it. People would not lose anything. If they decided that they did not want to change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State seriously suggesting that if crime statistics are going up we should tell lies about it? I will not do that. Is he also suggesting that the chief constable of North Wales police was happily reading Hansard , or can he confirm whether he encouraged him to see the statistics to which I referred?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.470.2", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman for giving way again, and I shall not detain him any more after this, but I want to quote from Richard Brunstrom's letter to him. It said: \"I expect politicians to help manage down the fear of crime in our communities, not to stoke it up . . . You have been unfair to North Wales Police specifically. The growth in our crime figures is due entirely to better recording practices\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.471.4", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "No matter how much Labour Members might like to portray me as a criminal, at this stage I am not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How old?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to contribute briefly to our customary debate to mark our national day—and incidentally also my birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "The implication, as I reflect on our relative destinations, is that Plaid Cymru Members suffer worse weather conditions than the rest of us. I wish them all speed to get home. For the record—I know that irony does not translate well in Hansard— I stress that I meant those comments jocularly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "too—but it is worth remembering that the Conservatives presided over a record cut in hospital beds in Wales, which is one reason why we have today's problems. Plaid Cymru pretended for a long time that it was not in favour of independence. In fairness, it has come clean and said what we believed it to think—it is in favour of independence. I am not opposed to independence in principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-26", "file": "debates2004-02-26.xml", "sha256": "824c8712a49ea5ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "I have agreed to speak for only five minutes to allow somebody else to get in, but your disappointment will hopefully be relieved, Mr. Deputy Speaker, by the fact that it will all be quality stuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-26.500.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-27", "file": "debates2004-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e33fd63a6010077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-27.562.6", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Gangmaster (Licensing) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I have not expressed myself clearly or perhaps the hon. Gentleman has not been listening carefully. My drift—the Grabiner report made this clear—is that there should be a Minister co-ordinating activities right across—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-27.562.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-27", "file": "debates2004-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e33fd63a6010077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-27.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Gangmaster (Licensing) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Picking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Picking", "preceding_text": "The point about the consumer is important, but does my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-27.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-02-27", "file": "debates2004-02-27.xml", "sha256": "e33fd63a6010077d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-27.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Referendums (Thresholds) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "it is rare for people who have died during the year to be removed from the register. Indeed, they often crop up for several years before the local authority gets round to amending it. Under my hon. Friend's Bill, people who had died would effectively have a vote: they would be counted as having voted against because they had not turned out. That is an inevitable consequence of the Bill as drafted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-02-27.587.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman believes that cutting £1.5 billion from the defence budget would help preparations, because that is his policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "on.] That is what he comes to the House believing in. As recently as 6 January , the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex said: \"you can't do defence on the cheap.\" He also said that he would be \"lobbying hard\" to secure more funds for defence. We now know the result of his lobbying. We know that he has lobbied so successfully that the shadow Chancellor proposes to cut £1.5 billion from defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.601.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.607.8", "colnum": "607", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.607.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.607.9", "colnum": "607", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If Mr. Skinner has any objection, he can always leave the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.607.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "e never had one—and I am happy to give the right hon. Member for Wokingham an assurance that we are not interested in prosecuting people in those circumstances. However, we had a considerable debate on that subject in Committee, and the fact is that the vast majority of people who arrive without documents have destroyed them or disposed of them. There is only a very limited range of excuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "was that I do not think that the ouster clause as drafted stands a hope in heaven of surviving judicial scrutiny. It will probably lead to a major confrontation between the judiciary and the Executive. It will not lead to the streamlined procedure that the Government want. I said that the Government do not want the judges to rule, yet the proposal is entirely a product of their Marxist past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.683.2", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ention, this debate is being held against the background of the demonisation of a group of people—asylum seekers—over the past few years, and the Conservative party must accept some responsibility for that. I have seen leaflets distributed in constituencies that caused me to wonder whether the British National party produced them, and some of my hon. Friends can doubtless say the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.683.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.724.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me respond to the points of order, after which the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh) may not need to raise another one. I felt that it was tidy to have four Tellers to report to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.724.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, Etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "four Tellers to report to the House. [Interruption.] The right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) has asked me a question, and I am in the process of explaining what is in order. I invited the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) to fill the space. The House has to move quickly and the Speaker has to take snap decisions. My snap decision will go into \"Erskine May\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.724.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-01", "file": "debates2004-03-01.xml", "sha256": "ef8df6f703dffda1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.726.13", "colnum": "725", "heading": "VISITOR FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That this House approves the First Joint Report of the Accommodation and Works Committee and the Administration Committee on Visitor Facilities: Access to Parliament (House of Commons Paper No. 324) and endorses the Committees' proposals for a new reception and security building at the north end of Cromwell Green.— [Ms Bridget Prentice.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-01.726.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-02", "file": "debates2004-03-02.xml", "sha256": "105aa36872f08e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.800.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "I did not say that we would devise a scheme in the first term of a new Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-02", "file": "debates2004-03-02.xml", "sha256": "105aa36872f08e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.851.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "I begin by declaring an interest, in that I have some private pension provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-02", "file": "debates2004-03-02.xml", "sha256": "105aa36872f08e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.852.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "d been greeted with a chorus of disapproval, and I shall quote just some of the comments made. The Daily Telegraph described the Bill as \"Half-baked\". The Observer said: \"In short, it is not facing up to the gravity of the situation and is not framing policy for the long term.\" The National Consumer Council said: \"The Bill only tinkers at the edges of occupational pensions\". Mr. David Frost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-02", "file": "debates2004-03-02.xml", "sha256": "105aa36872f08e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.852.3", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "on fund ombudsman and a pensions regulator tribunal. That represents a great deal of new bureaucracy, which will need to be examined very closely in Committee. We bid a cautious welcome to the proposals to defer state pension in certain circumstances, but we will be keen to examine the small print relating to tax and the interrelation with means-testing. We touched on those issues last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-02", "file": "debates2004-03-02.xml", "sha256": "105aa36872f08e02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.852.3", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "rnment, the first-class passengers, as in the real Titanic, will have lifeboats, but the steerage passengers—the less strong companies and schemes—will be trapped below decks as the vessel's inherent instability drags it inexorably under the water. I have some news for Labour Members who have been chiding the official Opposition all afternoon about our proposals. I can tell them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-02.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.883.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "After my questions on Monday and Tuesday, I am tempted to aim for a hat trick of toadying, self-serving sycophancy by saying what a wonderful job the Minister is doing! No doubt, however, I would be accused by the sketchwriters of wanting to become Governor of Bermuda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.892.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "uring the Gulf crisis and war of 1990–91, we—the Labour party—gave full, unwavering and undeviating support to the policies of the Government of which the leader of the Conservative party was a member? We never wavered at any time—it was a matter of principle to us—nor did we ask for the publication of the legal justification for the war. Is not that a contrast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.894.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Let me see if I can help the Prime Minister a bit. It is not a consultation period that was extended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.894.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.897.3", "colnum": "895", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answered?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have rather a large majority, and often I do not come here for Divisions. However, the most important thing when holding a Prime Minister to account is questions at the Dispatch Box. In the past six and a half years, I have answered more questions at the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.902.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Crown Prosecution Service", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary intervenes from a sedentary position. If he were answering this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.902.6", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Crown Prosecution Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman is asking a question, and I am listening. What I am trying to say is that the question is too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.902.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.903.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Crown Prosecution Service", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ip at local and area level, so it must be right that the Ministers responsible for those different agencies work together. That is what has happened. The hon. Gentleman made a great many other points. He asked why the Home Secretary said what he did. The answer is that he was asked a question. If the Home Secretary is asked a question, it is right that he should answer it. I would point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.903.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.903.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Crown Prosecution Service", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "ls for the criminal justice system under which the Crown Prosecution Service should take over from the police the responsibility of charging. That involves prosecutors working with the police in police stations. That was in the Criminal Justice Act 2003. The House was involved in discussing that as well as in discussing the opportunity for prosecutors to be able to appeal against terminal rulings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.903.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.903.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Crown Prosecution Service", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Make a statement about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "at as well as in discussing the opportunity for prosecutors to be able to appeal against terminal rulings. [Interruption.] Conservative Members wonder why I am raising these points, but I am trying to explain that those are the building blocks of a programme of improvement and change in the Crown Prosecution Service that will make it a self-confident prosecutor in the public interest in all areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.903.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.908.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Crown Prosecution Service", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about republicanism?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I do not see any contradiction between the independence of the Crown Prosecution Service and a change in its name. The two are not polar opposites. The hon. Gentleman says he has gained the impression that this is something to do with touchy-feely republicanism. Perhaps I can put his mind at rest. There is no intention of making the Crown Prosecution Service touchy-feely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.917.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Trade Justice for the Developing World", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "I respect the hon. Gentleman's sincerity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.921.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Trade Justice for the Developing World", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "The disadvantage of the hon. Gentleman talking about clarity that is unclear is that it serves only to remind the House that he is in danger of confusing not only it but himself. That seems a regrettable state of affairs and I am not sure that I have done the House a great service by giving way to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.921.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.972.8", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Protection of Vulnerable Children", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "It was health and education, and there will be pooled budgets, which the Minister for Children is trying to pool in any case. Children's services would not be affected, so let us not hear any more nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.972.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.972.8", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Protection of Vulnerable Children", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": " the way the Green Paper proposes local authorities and their local partners should. As one northern shire authority puts it, \"The Government seems to have forgotten to tell NHS colleagues that they are supposed to be involved, and have given the PCTs and other health trusts a set of priorities which don't include children and young people's services.\" Overall, valuable time has been wasted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.972.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.983.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I am telling the hon. Gentleman that this good Government have put right the rotten actions of the previous Conservative Government in deliberately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.985.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I should tell those Opposition Members who have constituencies in Essex that much very good, innovative and effective practice is being developed by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.991.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "least one of them has been blighted by those experiences. If they have been watching the Parliament channel this afternoon, I wonder what they make of a debate that has been nothing but a party political wrangle about who did what to whom and how much each party intends to spend. It is a shame when debate on such an important subject is brought down to no more than a party political wrangle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-03", "file": "debates2004-03-03.xml", "sha256": "d9854cf2b0c023ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.1004.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Roger Casale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Casale", "preceding_text": "I welcome the cross-party spirit of the debate, but surely the hon. Gentleman recognises that Government intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-03.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-04", "file": "debates2004-03-04.xml", "sha256": "4bcdad6e4a185ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "o my question, in confirmation of that intent—the Chancellor might bother to listen to this—and told me that small business would not look a gift horse in the mouth. In the light of IR591, 117 MPs signed early-day motion 501, asking the Chancellor to explain what has gone wrong with Government policy and what are now their intentions. The fact is that the Government deliberately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-04", "file": "debates2004-03-04.xml", "sha256": "4bcdad6e4a185ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The question is about unemployment, and there is too much emphasis on the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-04", "file": "debates2004-03-04.xml", "sha256": "4bcdad6e4a185ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "On the future business of Parliament, may I ask the hon. Gentleman to assist the House? He will be aware that Lord Lloyd has tabled an amendment in the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-04", "file": "debates2004-03-04.xml", "sha256": "4bcdad6e4a185ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ed, against the express will of the Government and it will make it impossible to get the Bill through this Parliament. Will the hon. Gentleman prevail on his Conservative colleagues in the House of Lords to ensure that that amendment is resisted? That is important, because that manoeuvre could wreck the passage of a Government flagship Bill. I am sure that he will want to join me in opposing that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-04", "file": "debates2004-03-04.xml", "sha256": "4bcdad6e4a185ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Julia Drown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Drown", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House arrange a debate on debt relief and aid, in relation to which several issues are of serious concern at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-04", "file": "debates2004-03-04.xml", "sha256": "4bcdad6e4a185ae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Women, Equality and Human Rights", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " and abroad—many of which have been highlighted today—continue to exist. The Minister for Women and Equality, who opened the debate, talked in a slightly smug fashion about the late Member for Kensington and Chelsea in a way that was not worthy of the remainder of her contribution. I knew Alan Clark as a colleague; he was always thoroughly charming to me and to all my colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-04.1129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-05", "file": "debates2004-03-05.xml", "sha256": "f74a52abfa0cc780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-05.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Promotion of Volunteering Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "protection to play organisations\"— that is what we are trying to achieve today. My youngest son fractured his wrist while climbing off a climbing frame in his school playground last year. Although I had to reprove him for being caught on the same frame, plaster cast and all, only hours after leaving hospital—little sod—I admired his spirit and certainly do not want to sue anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-05.1151.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-05", "file": "debates2004-03-05.xml", "sha256": "f74a52abfa0cc780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-05.1213.8", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "WILD MAMMALS (PROTECTION) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Friday 30 April .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming debate on Question [ 6 February ], That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-05.1213.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-05", "file": "debates2004-03-05.xml", "sha256": "f74a52abfa0cc780", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-05.1213.11", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS MASTS (REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 20 May .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-05.1213.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1246.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "European Communities Association Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "r as we could. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the e-mail sent to me, and I am grateful for an opportunity to clear up that matter. I visited the office concerned on 4 December and, as I always do, I had a question-and-answer session with staff. I understand that Mr. Moxon wrote three questions that he wanted to put to me. He was not in the meeting, and I did not get to see him, or those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1246.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "European Communities Association Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "answer session with staff. I understand that Mr. Moxon wrote three questions that he wanted to put to me. He was not in the meeting, and I did not get to see him, or those—[Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"] I have no idea why he was not there. Mr. Moxon's questions then went round a number of managers and eventually came to my private office on 12 January . I did not know that until yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1251.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "European Communities Association Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "try not to work, but to set up in business. That applied to all member states under the terms of that agreement up to 1 May this year, after which there will be no further requirements under free movement provisions to allow people to go through some form of process if they are to set up a business. They will be treated like any UK citizen, and the same terms apply in Germany, France, Italy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1251.4", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "European Communities Association Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman that it was this Government who introduced legislation to protect so-called whistleblowers. I wonder what his view of that was at the time. The bottom line is that I am glad that I now know what has been going on; I am glad that somebody has told me—and so are the senior managers. I repeat, though, that I regret the method that Mr. Moxon has used, not because of me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1251.4", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "European Communities Association Agreement", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "legislation to protect so-called whistleblowers. I wonder what his view of that was at the time. The bottom line is that I am glad that I now know what has been going on; I am glad that somebody has told me—and so are the senior managers. I repeat, though, that I regret the method that Mr. Moxon has used, not because of me— [Interruption.] I say that because it has cast a shadow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1252.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "European Communities Association Agreement", "cue_speaker": "John Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "I am almost sorry for the Minister, but I am a great deal more sorry for my constituents and the many other electors who have been kept in the dark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1261.0", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Equitable Life Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "criticism for regulatory failure after 1997. Surely, however, that is not an appropriate or a grown-up way for the Government to respond to a report of this nature. We should not allow ourselves to indulge in the childish game of making competing attributions of blame. We should rather work together to seek to address the harm done to innocent people, many of whom are vulnerable and elderly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1285.5", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "That was the correct representation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1285.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1286.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "I should like to make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1286.5", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "We shall have plenty of opportunity, if I might make some progress, to delve into some of these issues. I will certainly give way to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1286.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1300.5", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. Let us consider the detail of what the Electoral Commission said about the first of the extra two regions that the Government propose to add, Yorkshire and the Humber. At paragraph 2.117 of its December report, it said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1311.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "d cover a third of the United Kingdom and almost half of England. That is a massive amount of people who would have to vote by post. I ask colleagues on both sides of the House to consider what that would mean if it was extended to a general election. I concede that the argument is different for local elections, but if extended to general elections, it will mean the abolition of polling day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1313.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "whole nature of campaigning and of democracy in this country. Before adopting that course, I beg the House to think seriously about the better alternative of compulsory voting. I end where I began with the merits of the specific amendment before us. Many disparaging remarks have been made about Members of the other place, but I believe that they bring knowledge and objectivity to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1313.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1350.4", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "VISITOR FACILITIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That this House approves the First Joint Report of the Accommodation and Works Committee and the Administration Committee on Visitor Facilities: Access to Parliament (House of Commons Paper No. 324) and endorses the Committees' proposals for a new reception and security building at the north end of Cromwell Green.— [Vernon Coaker.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1350.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-08", "file": "debates2004-03-08.xml", "sha256": "19d042425d60b9f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1351.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "NOMINATION OF SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hich that paragraph applies'. (2) In Standing Order No. 121 (Nomination of select committees) , line 10, leave out from 'under' to ', or' in line 13 and insert 'the Standing Orders of this House (with the exception of the Liaison Committee, the Committee of Selection, the Committee on Standards and Privileges and any Committee established under a temporary Standing Order).'— [Vernon Coaker.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-08.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1396.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "GM Policy", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " crops and others, and discovered information about the use of conventional crops and their impact on biodiversity that was not previously known. The vast majority of stuff that we have eaten for generations has never been studied in this way. Cabbage contains 17 or 27 substances that, fed separately in sufficient quantities to animals, can be carcinogenic. Should we all stop eating cabbage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1404.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice)", "cue_speaker": "Calum MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Calum MacDonald", "preceding_text": "The admiral demanded that before the Attorney-General's view was published. What I am really puzzled by is the fact that none of those who oppose the case for the legality of the war addresses the Attorney-General's argument. Will the hon. Gentleman do that now? The Attorney-General said that the Security Council had decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1404.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1406.3", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice)", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "tomaticity' in this Resolution. If there is a further Iraqi breach of its disarmament obligations, the matter will return to the Council for discussion as required under operational paragraph 12.\" Turning to what the Attorney-General has made known, we find that he said that resolution 678 authorised force against Iraq. I do not disagree with that. However, that force related only to Kuwait—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1417.3", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice)", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right—publication is ultimately for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1450.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice)", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "The key word is \"finally\". One of the issues that we want to explore is whether the Attorney-General's advice went through a variety of versions before the Foreign Secretary published the final document in summary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1450.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice)", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "eral's advice went through a series of drafts before it became the final advice that the Foreign Secretary deigned to give the House when he wanted sanction for the war. However, if the Law Officers have a veto over such action—as the Foreign Secretary says—I am very pleased to hear it. I am glad that someone has a veto over military action. My second quotation is from Hans Blix—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1450.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1473.2", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Young People and Democracy", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "age of 16. A 16-year-old can join the Army with their parents' permission, but they cannot be put on front-line duty until they are 17, or 18 for international duties. The reality is that most young people cannot freely join the Army until they are 18. The point has been made that people pay tax at the age of 16. My five-year-old pays VAT on the sweeties he buys with his weekly pocket money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1475.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Young People and Democracy", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "tion, which is not surprising. However, it is also not surprising that the young people who disproportionately voted for the election of a Labour Government in 1997 and 2001 are now disproportionately more disaffected with that Government than other voters as they see the Government breaking their manifesto commitments and wanting to charge students tens of thousands of pounds to go to university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1484.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Young People and Democracy", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "drew attention to our problems with the media. Most of the media to which young people now listen tend to ignore us, while the rest trivialise us. The national broadsheets are a scandal in this regard. When I, like my hon. Friend, was an enthusiastic young political anorak aged 12, 13 and 14, I used to buy The Times and The Daily Telegraph and read a whole page about Parliament on a regular basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-09", "file": "debates2004-03-09.xml", "sha256": "c1cc7113532a3387", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1489.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Young People and Democracy", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "I have only a few minutes left, so it must be a very short intervention, which might be difficult for a Welshman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-09.1489.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1512.4", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "ffordable housing by insisting that 25 per cent. of every new development must consist of such housing, but it would be helpful if deals could be done to enable affordable housing to be developed in other locations in return for luxury housing at the main sites. My constituents in Stapleford would really benefit from that. Will the Minister consider giving councils more flexibility in this regard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1512.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1514.11", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I hope that most people recognise that the Government have delivered record levels of employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1514.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1514.11", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I hope that most people recognise that the Government have delivered record levels of employment— [Interruption.] It is the Government's record that should matter in the end: a huge cut in unemployment, the lowest mortgages and inflation for 30 years, improvements in the national health service and the best school results ever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1514.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1516.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Forty thousand?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hing. Surely the issue is simple: a practice developed in that office that should not have developed. The Minister has already made that clear and she has also made it clear that she was not aware of it. I am trying to put the matter in context, because it is not the case that it involves hundreds of thousands of people a year. It almost certainly involves only a very small number of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1518.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ration. He said that he would look into it and write to me, but I have yet to hear from him. I know that some NHS patients are now being treated, but many more could be. As the Royal National Institute of the Blind told the Prime Minister last week, there are nearly 50 centres with the necessary specialist equipment and support staff, who could be treating many more NHS patients today. Will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1519.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have made it absolutely clear that we will use whatever capacity is available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1524.3", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am happy to join the celebrations of the people of Gibraltar, and to say to them yet again that there will be no change in their constitutional position without their consent. However, let me tell the hon. Gentleman that the discussions that took place were initiated under what was called the Brussels process, which was started by the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1525.2", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Lady says—she is so right—I am not responsible for the content of the replies, but I am responsible for good order in the Chamber, and she was very noisy indeed today; she was noisier than usual, if I may put it that way. Reluctantly, I had to tell her off, and I hope that I will not need to do that again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1555.5", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Seamus Mallon", "preceding_text": "I was not there. I cannot say whether your party agreed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1555.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1561.4", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1561.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1562.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I do not think that you have been listening during the last few minutes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and I am absolutely delighted about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1562.9", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": " people who might want to write to a prosecutor to give reasons why someone should not be the subject of criminal proceedings, but also referred to other sorts of conduct that are not currently criminal. I am afraid that, by the end of the Secretary of State's answer, I was none the wiser; in fact, it will be no surprise to any hon. Member in the House if I say that I was not even better informed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1562.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1585.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "rds and in the presence in Parliament of people who can answer both here and there on behalf of the prosecuting authorities. We had an example only last week of the advantage of that and of how we would suffer as a House if a crude separation of powers approach were adopted. But, then, if one followed a crude separation of powers approach one would remove the entire Treasury Bench from this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1593.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Cambridge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": " Aylesbury razor, but I hope that we can abjure that today and concentrate on two main issues. The overarching aspect of the Bill was enunciated with the fluency and expertise that one expects of a member of that most inner of inner circles of the establishment, an Oxford-educated lawyer. I refer, of course, to the hon. Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Dodds) , who enunciated his objections overall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1611.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "retary of State on the \"Today\" programme this morning, I have some fears; the Government are not coming up with proposals for moving the process on. We fear that, if we do not move the process on, it will move backwards, which would be a great pity. Although the situation in the Province remains serious, the number of killings and bombings and the most serious terrorist offences has reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1611.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1629.4", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "NOMINATION OF SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "h that paragraph applies'. (2) In Standing Order No. 121 (Nomination of select committees) , line 10, leave out from 'under' to ', or' in line 13 and insert 'the Standing Orders of this House (with the exception of the Liaison Committee, the Committee of Selection, the Committee on Standards and Privileges and any Committee established under a temporary Standing Order).'— [Charlotte Atkins.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1630.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "NOMINATION OF SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "rther to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I was sitting in this corner seat when the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) had got nappies on. I am still here and I shall be here when he has gone—done and dusted. Now then, I am very interested in this wonderful Tory-Liberal pact. I have been waiting years for it and now it has burst out. What a funny crowd they are. Get to bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1630.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "NOMINATION OF SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I sat next to the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) in that corner, and I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of remarks that were never put on the record—thanks be to God.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-10", "file": "debates2004-03-10.xml", "sha256": "f770096d46931141", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1630.2", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "NOMINATION OF SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I seek your guidance on, and protection from, impersonation of Members of this House? It has been drawn to my attention that in the Strangers' Cafeteria book, it has been alleged that \"Bob Russell\" made derogatory comments about Fair Trade chocolate and urged Members to eat Mars bars instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-10.1630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-11", "file": "debates2004-03-11.xml", "sha256": "4a1c714d5ef1a773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1650.2", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Colin Challen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Challen", "preceding_text": "May I declare an interest in that, being a vegetarian, I have probably eaten more GM food than many other hon. Members? As far as I am aware, I have not yet shown any ill effects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1650.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-11", "file": "debates2004-03-11.xml", "sha256": "4a1c714d5ef1a773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1667.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorna Fitzsimons", "preceding_text": "ted programmes by drug action teams in constituencies such as mine. They are jointly funded by the police and the local council, and target young Muslims who conceal their use of drugs from others because of cultural and religions considerations and do not use the well-funded services that the Government have provided to fight the pernicious menace of drugs. Does my right hon. Friend accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-11", "file": "debates2004-03-11.xml", "sha256": "4a1c714d5ef1a773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1688.0", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2003–04 — Aviation Servives — DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "llion out of the 60 million people in this country fly by private, chartered plane, she is sadly mistaken. The figures demonstrate that even Posh and Becks fly occasionally from normal airports like the rest of us. The point is that I am quoting not my party's figures but the Minister's. He must explain why the bottom 10 per cent. of people—another 6 million in this country—rarely fly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-11", "file": "debates2004-03-11.xml", "sha256": "4a1c714d5ef1a773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1689.2", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2003–04 — Aviation Servives — DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "In that case, the hon. Gentleman would surely join me in castigating the current American Government for refusing to sign the Kyoto protocol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-11", "file": "debates2004-03-11.xml", "sha256": "4a1c714d5ef1a773", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1711.1", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [2nd Allotted Day] — SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 2003–04 — Aviation Servives — DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": " The environment is a serious matter. The environment is taken seriously throughout the White Paper and the balance between the environment and the growth of aviation is mentioned constantly and clearly throughout it. However, the way in which the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham developed his case was so flawed, simplistic and empty-headed in all regards that it is not worth debating at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-11.1711.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-12", "file": "debates2004-03-12.xml", "sha256": "238c769507140d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-12.1761.0", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Cardiac Risk in the Young (Screening) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": " investigation because of the sudden nature of the death. It is bad enough to lose a child out of the blue, but it is doubly distressing to be subject to investigation, albeit for understandable reasons. Will the hon. Lady take it on board that other aspects need to be considered and that parents who have suffered a terrible tragedy and have the blow compounded need to be treated more sensitively?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-12.1760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-12", "file": "debates2004-03-12.xml", "sha256": "238c769507140d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-12.1763.2", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Cardiac Risk in the Young (Screening) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am not in line to define what a young person is. I think that I am pretty young at 60, frankly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-12.1763.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-12", "file": "debates2004-03-12.xml", "sha256": "238c769507140d49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-12.1768.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Cardiac Risk in the Young (Screening) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "ing can be seen to define diagnosis and support prescribed treatments. Nobody is under any illusion about the fact that some of these conditions will result in death, but surely not in the numbers that we have today—the best guess is four or eight a week. The conditions are inherited. I have a little further to go. I promise the House that I will not be much longer—probably 15 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-12.1768.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "Is not the complexity of the system one of the reasons why take-up is so disappointing? Given that the Government have extended means-tested benefits so high up the income scale, is it not an administrative absurdity that people have to pay tax with one hand in order to get it back as benefit with the other? Could that not be simplified and made much easier for people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.8.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I was tempted to speak on the previous question, but like the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Sir Sydney Chapman) , I would have had to declare an interest. This question is more appropriate, but I have been pre-empted by my hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, South (Mr. Marshall) , who made the sort of Tory-bashing attack that I really enjoy, so instead I will have to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ion on a wide power of intervention, and seeks to ensure that it is used as expected by fire and rescue authorities, is not arbitrary and does not become an alternative or loophole for avoiding established intervention procedures. If the Minister can confirm that the LGA code will be applied to any intervention under the provisions of the Bill, we will not seek to press new clause 3 further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ously downgrading the very target whose fulfilment is the justification for much of the modernisation programme. The foreword to the framework document, which is signed by the Minister for Local and Regional Government, talks of \"a better service that saves more lives\". Whether the service saves more lives depends on the base line, however, and the Government have simply moved the goalposts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "y elderly population has made it difficult to achieve the targets. I hardly think that that circumstance was impossible to foresee at the time when the targets were set. I will accept what he says about the arson targets and scrap metal, although I shall have something else to say about them in a moment, but in relation to accidental fire deaths in the home, the Government have reduced the target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": " were being properly represented. The new clause is well constructed. It refers to \"representatives of fire and rescue authorities or organisations representing fire and rescue authorities\", and to \"representatives of private sector employers or organisations representing private sector employers\". I suspect that there are lessons to be learned, particularly in the light of the mobilisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": " this measure, in keeping with their attempt to regionalise everything and in line with the artificial regions that they are seeking to create throughout the country. It is part of their regionalisation programme, and anything that stands in the way of that is dismissed. The Government say that we are little Englanders and that we are not keen on modernisation, but as we know, that is all baloney.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": " Redwood) suggested that the Minister might not be listening to employers. There is no real evidence that anything that this Government have ever done has involved listening to employers, particularly in the private sector. They are seen as the bogey men, the people who must pay more each time there is a tax rise. As we look forward to a third term of Labour tax rises, if there is to be one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "be an effective method of tackling these issues. I hope that I will be able to satisfy his concerns about engagement with the public and private sector employers, for example. I note that he has recruited two whole-time Back Benchers—if I may call them that—from the Committee, and one retained Back Bencher, who seems to have slipped in, and who will possibly slip out again later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "n his vehicle but physically uninjured? Such a person might tell the fire brigade, which has raced to the scene with lights flashing and sirens blaring, that he does not want to be cut out of his car and receive a bill for £250. He would rather wait while his friendly local mechanic or a chap he knows from down the pub, whom he has just phoned on his mobile phone, comes along to cut him out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ncy service around the political whim of a politician. We will never accept that public safety should be subordinated to the Government's regional agenda through the imposition of a sub-optimal regional structure. I emphasise again that we object not to the introduction of a supra-brigade level for certain purposes but to the transparently political use of existing Government office regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "that arrangement is not appropriate. Systems need to be established to allow professionals to handle operational situations through existing arrangements such as reinforcement, which the Bill provides for. The Under-Secretary may envisage a situation following an unconventional terrorist attack, but powers in the Civil Contingencies Bill provide for the direction of resources in such an emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.108.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.126.2", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the sittings on Tuesday 16th, Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th March— (1) consideration of any Lords Message relating to a Government Bill may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour; and (2) the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Lords Message relating to such a Bill has been received or any Reasons Committee appointed at that sitting has reported.— [Mr. Ainger.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-15", "file": "debates2004-03-15.xml", "sha256": "3c2ff5915881221e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "MMR VACCINATIONS AND AUTISM", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "autism. Autism was not mentioned in the scientific background; had it been, I suspect that the procedure would rightly not have been permitted. When CSF tests on autistic children were required for Legal Services Commission purposes, no hospital in the UK gave ethics approval and children had to be taken to America for the tests. I hope that the hon. Lady understands the point that I making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-15.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "rliament to set the parameters of local authorities' tax and revenue-raising powers. It is a great privilege for local authorities to be able to raise taxes through, for example, the council tax. Imposing charges for car parking or occupation of the road is one thing, but a scheme for raising more than £1 billion a year from the utilities and, effectively, the public is something else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": " whether a cyclist has the extra inches of clearance at the edge of the bus lane necessary for the safe passage of both vehicles. At the same time, the drivers of cars or lorries in the other lane might be attempting to overtake the cyclist, not realising that a bus is about to create the pressure—or pinch point—on the cyclist. That often leaves very little wobble room for the cyclist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "should be decided locally. Local authorities should work with local companies to see if we can accommodate such arrangements. In some areas, bus lanes are not required 24 hours a day, but it is important that local authorities make those decisions. The House will be surprised to learn that I do not favour the big state intervention that the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) advocated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "I rise to support my hon. Friend on his important amendment. I find it extraordinary that the Government want to do so much damage to well established motoring organisations such as the Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Association, and to deny motorists their choice and opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "to impose traffic directors on local authorities. The Bill does not state in what circumstances that might happen or what evidence the Government will have to produce to enable them to act in that way. It does not set a timetable for any review of arrangements in cases in which the Government have declared a local authority to have failed and have taken away its powers of traffic management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should study closely what the Electoral Commission says. It is true that its definition of what forms a pilot differs from the Government's as regards the issue of scale, but it is certainly not the case that it said no to Yorkshire and the north-west. Indeed, it said that those regions in themselves were \"potentially suitable\"—it gave them that designation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "Younger, the chairman of the Electoral Commission, who, I remind him, said that \"it does not follow that the Commission would be unconcerned about the number of pilot regions. As I have mentioned, we expected the Government to nominate three regions and were surprised to learn that the Bill was to be amended to name four regions.\" That is about as strongly worded as letters to Ministers get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "That is not the experience of many who spoke in the previous debates on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ctoral Commission. What we get from that rabble opposite—or those several rabbles opposite—is not honest, open, clear reasons for opposing the measure, but adventitious excuses to avoid something that they do not want to happen. They do not want to give more people more opportunities to vote in elections that they are scared of losing. They want as few people as possible to vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-16", "file": "debates2004-03-16.xml", "sha256": "52379a78a72fbe56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "oting in European parliamentary elections also votes in wards in local authority elections. That is where the potential mischief applies and where we must tread carefully if we are to maintain the integrity of the voting system. I believe that the Government have made an important concession this evening, and it is the first of two concessions that they will make before the end of this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-16.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": " Swayne) . I hope that my kind comments about his predecessor, the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown) , and his positive contribution on the Front Bench did not contribute to his transfer into the silence of the Whips Office. It is slightly paradoxical that the Government were last week criticised for the length of time that we were spending on consulting about our legislative proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "stration described by the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) . That is why I made it clear that we must strike the right balance between the need to consult parties, organisations and individuals in Northern Ireland before bringing legislative proposals to the House, and the need for us to deal with and remedy the problems that those parties, organisations and individuals identify.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "John Spellar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Spellar", "preceding_text": "e need to consult parties, organisations and individuals in Northern Ireland before bringing legislative proposals to the House, and the need for us to deal with and remedy the problems that those parties, organisations and individuals identify. [Interruption.] I understand, as does the House, that we must get that balance right. I do not think that the Government can be accused of steamrollering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should know that we keep those matters under constant review. As I have said, the activities of the Provisional IRA are a cause for deep concern and have been much commented on, and they will feature in the forthcoming talks in Northern Ireland as we seek to find a resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.309.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.314.4", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ight hon. and learned Gentleman was in government. When he was Home Secretary he cut police numbers. When he was Employment Secretary unemployment went up; when he was Minister for Local Government he introduced the poll tax; and when his whole shower were in power we had higher inflation, higher interest rates and higher unemployment, so let us continue this argument between now and election day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "Can I drag the Prime Minister back to reality and invite him to bang a few heads together in the Department of Health, which is threatening one of his major projects in my constituency, Jobcentre Plus, a service that I welcome? Is he aware that arbitrary and retrospective funding changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.315.6", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly look into the project that the hon. Gentleman mentions. Surely he should recognise that what he is calling for is even more money in the national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.315.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "xtra 511 civil servants were hired every week last year, and now we discover from the Gershon report that the Government secretly plan to hire more than 300,000 extra public sector workers over the next three years—after taking into account the reductions that the Chancellor has announced today. What has really been achieved? The number of children playing truant is up by 22 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "g longer and violent crime is at its highest level ever. A 37 per cent. increase in spending on the NHS has led to only a 5 per cent. rise in the number of hospital treatments. The OECD says: \"In the health sector there are few indicators showing unambiguous improvements in outcomes over and above trend improvements that were already apparent before the surge in spending\". It goes on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "t had had any experience first hand or second hand through their families or friends of the health service. Many hands would go up. I would then ask how many of them thought that the experience was good. Exactly the same number of hands would go up. My next question would be, \"Why do you all think that it is getting worse?\" The answer would be, \"We read in the newspapers that it is getting worse.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "ly strong, the price of imports was reduced. I suggest that another reason may be the pressure of globalisation. Because countries, especially in the far east, are trying to acquire a greater share of the UK domestic market, they are prepared to reduce their prices, and in fact prices are lower. Of course, if the prices of imported goods go down, the amount of VAT at 17.5 per cent. also goes down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "ern countries were in charge of it. Western empires controlled it. When America became a strong country, America controlled it. The difference with today's globalisation is that it ain't ours. There are new kids on the block, and they are growing and learning fast. The biggest capitalist country on earth is now extremely worried. Was it Trotsky who said, \"You cannot have socialism in one country\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "preceding_text": " sector of the economy. Despite the fact that the Chancellor enjoys talking about being the productivity Chancellor, he has on previous occasions marched resolutely in the wrong direction on that matter. Today he had an opportunity to start to reverse that trend, but he did not take it where the private sector is concerned. I see that the Chief Secretary is holding up one page of the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-17", "file": "debates2004-03-17.xml", "sha256": "5000de3aac18e5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jack", "preceding_text": "With great respect, that is not what I said. I said that I had the luxury of being able to give a personal view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-17.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.449.3", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for the business, and for that short statement on the traffic incident. I think that we are all relieved that there is no gas outside this place, although it is often said that there is quite a lot inside. May I ask the Leader of the House about his remarks that the Labour party might need to embrace proportional representation to save its marginal seats?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.449.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "overning the election to the House of Commons, the single Member seat is the cornerstone of our parliamentary democracy. The issue is whether we should have the system that we have now, which is first past the post, or whether we should have a system in which we vote 1, 2, 3. I have always favoured the latter, but that is my view. We are having a big conversation about this and other issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend have words with the Treasury to see whether it is possible to organise some training on interpretation of the massive Budget documents that we get every year, aimed at avoiding confusion of the kind that occurred yesterday in relation to green fuels? The Conservative party issued a press release that was so factually inaccurate that it misled the motorist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "t is not what the Chancellor announced yesterday. The head of Newbury's Trinity school and performing arts college said: \"We don't have a balanced budget. Even with the extra £130,000 that we got in emergency funding from the Government, we are still expecting a fiscal year '03 deficit in excess of £100,000.\" Doug McAvoy, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "e Opposition would do what they can \"to ensure that all important front-line services are maintained\". That position is not sustainable. The whole point of the shadow Chancellor's speech in February was that hard choices had to be made and that certain things would have to go. He said that the NHS and schools would not be included, but that everything else would. I am asking about everything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "ho have the ability to take them up? The Conservative party should make its policy choices and come clean about them so that the whole country can debate them. The Government's position is that we want better public services; the Tories' position is to call public spending a waste. They say that less money means cuts to budgets and cuts in opportunities. I shall turn to the famous passport policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "ssport in fee-paying schools. Passporting is all over the shop. I have listened to the hon. Members for South Suffolk and for Westmorland and Lonsdale today, but I wonder what the policy will be tomorrow and what the shadow Chancellor will say tomorrow. Perhaps I can help. I shall ask one or two questions about passporting that the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale must face up to directly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "We are not at all opposed to the principle that parents should choose their schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ouse, I have never seen a performance like it by the Opposition. They have so few Members in the Chamber that they subject the House to the absurdity of people running, as if they were in a Feydeau farce, from Front to Back Benches. Conservative Front Benchers receive a large amount of Short money to pay for their private office. Is Short money now going to Back Benchers? If so, I would like some.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.488.5", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "hire (Mr. Knight) that we want more people to be present, on both sides of the Chamber. May I get on with the main part of my speech? I have never made any criticism of the Government's passion for education and their commitment to that as a priority. This is the first time in the history of this country that we have a Government who ran on such a clear and simple manifesto: education three times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Shall we all start again, Madam Deputy Speaker? Never in my time in the House has there been a Government with such a clear commitment to education as their highest priority over a four-year term. They repeated in 2001 that education was their highest priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Shall we all start again, Madam Deputy Speaker? Never in my time in the House has there been a Government with such a clear commitment to education as their highest priority over a four-year term. They repeated in 2001 that education was their highest priority. [Interruption.] I must say that I was very happy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-18", "file": "debates2004-03-18.xml", "sha256": "4036301a75d664d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "But surely the hon. Gentleman will recognise that the French system provides a far better health service than ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-18.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.562.2", "colnum": "562", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "There has been a particular challenge for major urban and metropolitan forces, not least because, after massive representations, we agreed to a flat-rate increase in the police grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.562.2", "colnum": "562", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bravo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "There has been a particular challenge for major urban and metropolitan forces, not least because, after massive representations, we agreed to a flat-rate increase in the police grant. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Deployment of British Forces (Kosovo)", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "In terms of the timing, the call was made in the early hours of Thursday morning, as I explained, and it is a normal deployment; it is what that force stands ready for. The judgment was made, and we would have thought that the House understood that, as it was a normal deployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Deployment of British Forces (Kosovo)", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "ers do not think so, which is why the Father of the House, my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) , requested an urgent question and was granted one. Clearly, we will take lessons from that if lessons need to be taken. We will take such things into consideration in any future deployment, but should this apply to withdrawals as well? Should justification be given for every decision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.584.5", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "se who can pay to jump the queue to a position above those who cannot afford to do so. Those two aims are incompatible and contradictory. We cannot give everyone the same chance of surviving ill health if we subsidise people who can pay to jump the queue but not those who cannot. We cannot pretend to give everyone a choice if only people who can pay have that choice. Those are simple truths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.584.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.584.5", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " operations, are based on a cruel and callous deceit that is disguised as a so-called passport out of the national health service. The British people do not want a national health service in which public money subsidises queue jumping, which is why we welcome the fact that the next election will be fought on the principle of equal access to health care and why the Budget underlines that principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.584.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "ce to strokes, why did it take the Department and the Committee on Safety of Medicines two years, from notification of the relevant authorities in Canada that prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to elderly people in care homes results in a threefold increase in strokes, to withdraw those drugs from being prescribed to older people in this country, thus causing many additional strokes in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "No, I will hesitate to blame my predecessor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that that is exactly what the Secretary of State proposes. If people have been waiting long enough, they will be allowed access to the independent sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "ng, people whose hopes were raised so high are clearly and understandably disappointed. As an ICM poll showed last September, more than half of those surveyed thought that the NHS had got worse since 1997 and less than a third thought that it had got better. The biggest obstacle to the further progress for which we all yearn is the attitude of the Secretary of State and his ministerial colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "s no wonder that morale among professionals is so low and frustration is so high. Last month, 500 doctors paid for an advertisement in which they said: \"We once believed the NHS was the finest healthcare system in the world. Today few healthcare professionals would make that claim.\" The Secretary of State would like us to believe that he and the rest of the Government are about to mend their ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.599.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "The conclusion drawn from the work done by Derek Wanless is that the failure over the past 20 years to make dealing with poverty a priority has driven health inequality, and that poverty is at the core of much of that health inequality. It was an underlying driver of health problems in the past, and it is now. It was a failure by the Conservatives when they were in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "es that came from the 3G licence sale, for example, which made a huge contribution to bringing down the national debt. The reduction in the national debt owes a lot to that bit of good luck that fell the Chancellor's way. The other piece of good luck is the one that Labour Members always snigger at when it is mentioned—the golden economic heritage that he had when he took over as Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-22", "file": "debates2004-03-22.xml", "sha256": "4804483f12224170", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ope that he will be able to deliver for my hon. Friend on the subject of the Primrose appeal and the associated costs. I leave that with him. We will thank him if he is able to deliver satisfaction for the appeal by turning charitable donations not into tax but into the cancer centre for which they were subscribed. My right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-22.665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman brings a great deal of experience—and, if I may say so without irrevocably damaging his career, a great deal of sense—to most of his contributions. However, I do not think that he was quite accurate on a couple of points there. First, we have a good idea of where the people at executive board level come from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "It is sad when a senior Treasury Minister must resort to such implausible comparisons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.728.3", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "ghted to learn that another 30 systems may be working, but I think that the record is bad enough as it stands. The hon. Gentleman asked about my statistics relating to staff numbers. According to table 6 of the DWP report, headed \"Staff numbers 1997–98 to 2005–06\", which includes whole-time equivalents, the figure for 1997–98 is 97,000 and the one for the current year is 130,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "tee, and I hope that he will re-examine the issue between now and the introduction of the Finance Bill. I do not think that anyone was impressed by the strength of the arguments that certain people put before the Committee, and I would like to think that, as the reasonable man that he is, he might look at the matter again. That is a relatively small complaint in the context of what has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": ". in five years. One does not begrudge giving people a hand up rather than a handout when they need it, but we must ascertain whether the money is being spent wisely. Until last week, I was a housing spokesman for our party. When in an official capacity, I join the ranks of the silent ones, but when I am on the Back Benches, I can make speeches. It is a shocking indictment of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.791.4", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "for Havant (Mr. Willetts) illustrated brilliantly the impossibility of making administrative savings on a serious scale in the Department for Work and Pensions without simplifying the welfare system. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) identified with his customary clarity and mastery the key issue raised by the Budget—namely Labour's third-term tax rises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.791.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.792.4", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "to get value for every penny we spend\". He now tells us that 2 trillion of the pennies that he has been spending each year are valueless. In 2001, the Prime Minister told The Guardian that it was impossible to save that sort of money without taking it out of the schools and hospital programme. Will the Chancellor tell us whether the Prime Minister was wrong then or whether he himself is wrong now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.792.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Balls!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " now and 2008, but at the present rate of hiring the Government, if re-elected, will add 65,450 civil servants over the same period. The Chancellor's policy on the civil service is admirably clear. His aim is to hire people in order to sack them, just as long as he hires a few more than he sacks. I hope that his spin doctors will have a fine time explaining that proposition over the coming months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.794.2", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "l in every sense. It was political because it was aimed solely at scoring a short-term political point; it contained no measures whatsoever to deal with the massive and growing economic imbalances to which the Chancellor's misguided policies have given rise. I want to do something unusual and pay tribute to our friends on the Liberal Benches, who rightly alluded to those economic imbalances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "ay that they sought to revive some dead foxes. To say that they added anything to the substance of today's debate, however, would be false. They said absolutely nothing of value about the real issues confronting the British people. That brings to mind the record of the Conservatives when they were in government. The Leader of the Opposition was Employment Secretary when unemployment doubled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "On that point about science and innovation, did my right hon. Friend hear the shadow Chancellor say that he was going to cut by more than zero per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge and Chryston (Mr. Clarke) and his distinguished record on matters related to overseas development. Not only could the Conservative party not deliver the economic stability to match our investments: it does not even have the desire to do so. It is a party driven by commitment to cuts in public services and lower investment as a matter of blind dogma—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.799.0", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Well, the hon. Gentleman should tell that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "Let the right hon. Member tell that to the shadow Secretaries of State for Defence, International Development and Transport. Or let us return to the quotation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.4", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "In each of their Departments. If that is not what the Conservatives are going to do, let the right hon. Gentleman say so. Answer comes there none. This Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.6", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "e. Let us consider defence. That will give the Opposition another opportunity to clarify their position. We recognise the pressures that are caused by commitments in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq and in the wider fight against terrorism. We will not leave our troops ill equipped or unsupported and we have therefore allocated real-terms increases in defence spending. Will the Opposition do likewise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.6", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "or unsupported and we have therefore allocated real-terms increases in defence spending. Will the Opposition do likewise? [Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] We are entitled to know the Conservative defence policy. Opposition Members would freeze spending on defence and that would amount to cuts of £1.5 billion by 2008—the equivalent of 40,000 personnel. If that is not true, let them now say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.6", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "ative defence policy. Opposition Members would freeze spending on defence and that would amount to cuts of £1.5 billion by 2008—the equivalent of 40,000 personnel. If that is not true, let them now say so. [Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] Furthermore, the Government intend to sustain real-terms increases in spending on international development while the Opposition advocate a spending freeze.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.6", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "ent while the Opposition advocate a spending freeze. [ Interruption .] One Conservative Front-Bench Member says, \"Absolutely\" and another says, \"No.\" Such a freeze would mean a real-terms cut of £229 million in the first two years—the equivalent of eliminating the United Kingdom's programmes for Sudan, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia. If that is not true, let Conservative Members now say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.800.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Chancellors are entitled to prod—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-23", "file": "debates2004-03-23.xml", "sha256": "78037e635c74fd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.802.4", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "to scrap it. It is to fly in the face of the reality of their constituents and our constituents who have been helped back into gainful employment as a result of the new deal. When the Conservatives last had stewardship of the economy, unemployment topped 3 million. We have created 1.7 million new jobs and we continue to create new jobs. That is good news. That is the difference between them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-23.802.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Thousands upon thousands of planning decisions are taken, usually in my name. I often pick up a newspaper and find that it tells me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.894.7", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me deal with the point made by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Mr. McCabe) . I have been able to answer the other points of order. There is a distinction—he is quite right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.894.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Post Office Services", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "t offices and leaving many people who wish to claim benefits with a less adequate system than they had before. This is a classic example of a failure of public policy; yet another example of this Government's failure to deliver; and, even more significantly, a failure to understand the needs of millions of people, especially elderly people, who wish to carry on being paid in the same reliable way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Post Office Services", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "That is an excellent suggestion, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and I will ensure that such a briefing is provided. The successful introduction of the Post Office card account is only part of a much bigger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Post Office Services", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "That is an excellent suggestion, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and I will ensure that such a briefing is provided. The successful introduction of the Post Office card account is only part of a much bigger— [Laughter.] They are very slow over there this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Post Office Services", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": "pposition, and they have shed many crocodile tears. Under the previous Government, 3,500 post offices closed, but not once do Conservative Members refer to that. If they are genuine—and I expect people to be genuine in the Chamber—they should not try to make political gains but should make genuine arguments on behalf of their constituents. That is how debates should be conducted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Post Office Services", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "s great comfort to elderly and vulnerable people in particular. That is the context in which we are considering post office services and the developments that have taken place as a result of the actions and omissions of this Government. The key element in the debate was identified by my hon. Friend the Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) when he so ably, expertly and cogently opened the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Post Office Services", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "No, I will make a little more progress. That is one of the reasons why we are introducing a more modern, efficient and reliable service that increases customer choice, provides better value for the taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.945.5", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Post Office Services", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. A number of Members have made points about Powergen. I know that both Powergen and my right hon. Friend will have heard them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.945.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "nged. What has changed is the fact that the Opposition parties seek to justify using the blocking powers of the other place to thwart the will of the House of Commons. How can the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome, for example, call himself a Liberal Democrat but use the House of Lords as he has done to thwart the House of Commons' views and decisions? He should address that point when he speaks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.962.5", "colnum": "962", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "e. The Government want a one-party, one-Chamber state, where they can ram through their views without debate. In fairness, many of the noble Lords and Baronesses who have spoken about electoral matters in debates on this Bill have many more years of electoral experience than the Minister. Many of them are in another place precisely because they have long experience as councillors and party agents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.962.5", "colnum": "962", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ates on this Bill have many more years of electoral experience than the Minister. Many of them are in another place precisely because they have long experience as councillors and party agents. [Interruption.] The Minister says that noble Lords and Baronesses have no electoral mandate, but many of them have been around in politics for a lifetime and sit in another place because of their experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Clelland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Clelland", "preceding_text": "e case for an elected House stronger. I would argue against that, because one can imagine the situation if these decisions were being made by an elected House. It would be much more difficult for this House to get anything through at all—we would have this legislative gridlock time after time. The Government are right to go back to the drawing board on the constitution of the second Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "eless. These ping-pong episodes are among the most unedifying things that we do in the House. As I said when we last debated these matters, it is rare to hear any new arguments on these occasions. However, there is a new element this time, in the form of the letter from the Electoral Commission, which the Minister has chosen to misrepresent to the House, and whose contents he has chosen to ignore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Pilots!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "he local authorities in England. That is not a pilot; it is half the country. We have heard the absurd argument that it would be a disgrace to democracy if there were no all-postal ballot in the north-west. However, we are not told that it would be a disgrace to democracy not to have one in the south-west. We are told that such a ballot is essential in the east midlands, but not the west midlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "You would rule us out of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if we re-ran a debate on an amendment that has been passed into the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.988.5", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Equitable Life Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "ends on the Front Bench are more than capable of answering the Minister. Indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie) will be winding up. The Treasury Bench appears to have only one Minister interested in the subject; I believe that she will also be winding up. That is a disgraceful state of affairs, on which the hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Plaskitt) should reflect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.988.5", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Equitable Life Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"System failure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "had the society been in good shape, the existence of a regulatory problem would not have been a difficulty for policyholders. We accept this, of course. If a fragile piece of glass is not broken, the fact of its fragility is not a problem, but in this case the glass was broken and fragile. The reason, in part, for that fragility was regulatory failure. The regulatory failure was a necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-24", "file": "debates2004-03-24.xml", "sha256": "3f9a9c6031746895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Equitable Life Inquiry", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "xtremely powerful point. Another fascinating point emerged today for the first time, I think. The Financial Secretary lauded the Government for having improved the personnel who were regulating. Why would it be necessary to improve the personnel who were regulating if there were no failures on the part of the personnel who were previously regulating? Those are obviously operational failures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-24.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-25", "file": "debates2004-03-25.xml", "sha256": "b493db9beba82e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-25.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "e how unpopular that is? Is not the reason for it the fact that the Government have laden councils with extra duties without providing adequate funding? As that is the Government's fault, will he assure the House that there will be a full debate in the Chamber before any capping takes place? Does it not all show that the old adage is true: dogs bark, cats miaow and Labour Governments put up taxes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-25.1057.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-25", "file": "debates2004-03-25.xml", "sha256": "b493db9beba82e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-25.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": " Opposition debates to be brought up at the last minute, which happens frequently? Will he consider introducing a system whereby, if fair notice of the subject matter for Opposition day debates is not given, the time will be forfeit and awarded either to the other Opposition parties or, indeed, to the Government to focus on the consequences of Tory policies, if the Conservative party were elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-25.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-25", "file": "debates2004-03-25.xml", "sha256": "b493db9beba82e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-25.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "May I suggest another saving? The MOD should not to seek to recreate the facilities of RAF Bulmer at another base, which would require substantial capital to replace capital that has recently been invested there. I have made the point in detail to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-25.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-25", "file": "debates2004-03-25.xml", "sha256": "b493db9beba82e2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-25.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Defence Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "I saw that nickel factory from afar—in fact, I smelled it from afar. Standing at the top of the monument in Kosovo Polje—the Field of Blackbirds—and looking across, it was all that was visible on the horizon. The temperature was minus 16° and the smoke was lingering in the distance. On top of everything else, there is serious pollution; it is a very polluted society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-25.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-26", "file": "debates2004-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2eee39dc651d9198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "hin end of the wedge. We knew what would happen, and it did. I opposed Sunday trading as vigorously as I did because the one thing I did not want in this country was a high street Sunday. I said that if we passed the legislation, we would have one—and we have one. Anyone who drives into London on a Sunday, as I frequently have to do now that we have these absurd new hours of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-26", "file": "debates2004-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2eee39dc651d9198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "e. It tries, very modestly, to ring-fence that speciality. The hon. Member for Kettering (Phil Sawford) spoke about his son in the retail trade, and in doing so he illustrated just how commercial our society has become. Only a few years ago, not only Christmas day but Boxing day was special, and the earliest date for the sales was 27 or 28 December ; now, throughout the country it is 26 December .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-26", "file": "debates2004-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2eee39dc651d9198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend because I am a fan of the hon. Member for Hendon (Mr. Dismore) . He is my role model and I sometimes wish that I could do half as well as he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-26", "file": "debates2004-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2eee39dc651d9198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1173.4", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "anity, that are listed. That raises the question of why it is that members of the Jewish faith are picked out when greater numbers of other faiths may not wish to acknowledge the sanctity of Christmas day in the way that most Christians would. The relevance of the Bill to them has to be considered. All in all, I have cantered briefly around the course and have no reason to detain the House unduly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1173.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-26", "file": "debates2004-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2eee39dc651d9198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "ublic, and I have been pleased to hear the support from so many hon. Members today. Christmas day, for many in our rapidly changing times, represents a traditional time for celebration and provides a focal point in a busy and often chaotic period. Christmas is a time for the family; particularly, as we all know, for the younger family members. Speaking personally as a father and grandfather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-26", "file": "debates2004-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2eee39dc651d9198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1193.2", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Genetically Modified Organisms Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The subject of genetically modified crops is a subject that can fill an MP with trepidation, and it is clear that it has so filled the Government deputy Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-26", "file": "debates2004-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2eee39dc651d9198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1198.4", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Genetically Modified Organisms Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "These points of order are turning into a debate. They are not for the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1198.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-26", "file": "debates2004-03-26.xml", "sha256": "2eee39dc651d9198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1229.2", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills — PROPERTY REPAIRS (PROHIBITION OF COLD-CALLING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Friday 30 April .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [ 12 March ], That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-26.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1253.3", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "The answer is that those troops have been busy. We would not deny that fact, and that has put pressure on them. It has certainly put pressure on certain key enabler functions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "European Council/Libya", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "hat we would give up our UN Security Council seat not true; that we would surrender control over our borders not true; and that there would be a European diplomatic service to replace the British Foreign Office not true. The Conservatives want to fight the issue on myths, not on the reality of what is proposed. Let us deal with some of the other myths not always mentioned by the Conservative party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1263.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "European Council/Libya", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e on myths, not on the reality of what is proposed. Let us deal with some of the other myths not always mentioned by the Conservative party [Hon. Members: \"Answer the questions.\"] I am indeed answering the questions. There are the myths that we are to be told to switch to driving on the right; that the Queen is to be stripped of her powers; or that the Germans are to take over our nuclear weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1263.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "European Council/Libya", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I believe that the vast majority of people in this country think it is sensible that we remain part of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "European Council/Libya", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No. I believe that in the end, faced with a decision on whether to remain part of the European Union, which is in effect the position", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Organised Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "but in the meantime existing agencies will work together increasingly to share objectives and a common strategy. Thus we shall begin to see the practical benefits of change during the transitional period. The creation of the agency will give us an opportunity to consider how best to improve performance and co-ordination, especially in the securing of our borders. We will ensure, Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Organised Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I always take notice of the hon. Lady. If I might be really cheeky, I think that I have said to her before that I prefer her body, wherever the spirit might be that she described this afternoon .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Organised Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Having damaged my reputation for ever, I am about to damage it even further by saying that I do not intend to threaten lawyers in the way that my hon. and learned Friend describes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1290.4", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ve caused any upset to the hon. Gentleman, I apologise. For the record, so far as I was concerned, I was visiting Oldchurch hospital in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Romford (Mr. Rosindell) and undertaking a private party engagement in Hornchurch, during the course of which I did indeed comment on the subject of St. George's hospital, but undertook no official engagement there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1305.2", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": " intend to speak in this debate, but I am moved to do so by some interesting distortions of the truth. I challenge any Member who served on the Standing Committee considering the Bill that gave birth to the Electoral Commission, or who participated in any of the subsequent stages, to tell me that any Member, at any stage, moved an amendment that sought to give the commission the power to instruct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1306.0", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "at the Lords have a duty to protect the constitution. There is one fundamental and overriding constitutional point that must take precedence over all else: that only one House is elected. We have yet to have in its entirety the debate on the nature of the second Chamber, what its powers ought ultimately to be, and whether, indeed, it should even exist. A few Members present voted for its abolition", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "That is one of the things that will be considered during consultation. I am told by Opposition Members that they want to see consultation take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": "ay to deal with the issue. In Committee and during today's debate, certain hon. Members have implied that unions never use violent or intimidatory behaviour, but the behaviour of certain unions over past years has shown that, if anything, militancy is again starting to increase dramatically. There were, for example, suggestions that retained firefighters were intimidated during the miners' strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "s. In addition, the amendment is defective in that it refers to the \"company'\" not the \"employer\". It thereby ensures that employers that are not companies have no right of appeal. The hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Djanogly) asked about the response rate to the survey on the CAC. Unless I receive some in-flight information, I cannot give him that answer now, but I will write to him in due course", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Epping Forest (Mrs. Laing) would like to speak to our amendment No. 7.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-29", "file": "debates2004-03-29.xml", "sha256": "b5f1c7418ce931e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Employment Relations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "out job cuts in the public sector, including the way that they slip out news about sackings from her own Department, they should be judged by their deeds. At the very least, they should adopt for their Departments the standards that she seeks to impose through the Bill on other employers, especially those in the private sector who are risk takers as opposed to the non-wealth-creating public sector", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-29.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1404.4", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Louise Ellman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Louise Ellman", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary accept that the views expressed up to now this morning do not reflect the views of all hon. Members? Does he understand that Israel's action in killing Sheikh Yassin was a legitimate response to an extraordinary situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1404.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1415.7", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Stop there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1415.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1425.7", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a minute. That is why the Government have a problem. It is why they are mounting a pathetic attempt to blame everyone else—the civil service, the right-wing press including the Daily Mirror , and now the Conservatives. That is daft. We did not face half a million incomers every year, because we got our strategy right. What emerges from the documents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1425.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " Ministers are accountable to Parliament, not the other way round. If the hon. Gentleman had listened to his own Home Secretary on the radio this morning, he would have heard him say that that was the responsible thing to do if one did not know the provenance of a piece of information. That is what I did until I could confirm the provenance of the document, which was last Wednesday night/Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ll give just a few examples of the people being let in under the scheme. I have concealed individual names to protect their identities. One example is a Ms A. who was a former British asylum seeker. All her claims for asylum and all her appeals were turned down in the mid-1990s. Facing deportation, Ms A. absconded. She was subsequently picked up by the police and removed from the UK in 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "scheme. I have concealed individual names to protect their identities. One example is a Ms A. who was a former British asylum seeker. All her claims for asylum and all her appeals were turned down in the mid-1990s. Facing deportation, Ms A. absconded. She was subsequently picked up by the police and removed from the UK in 1997— [Interruption.] Yes, picked up and removed. Exactly right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Rather sadly, coming from an ex-member of the Public Accounts Committee, barely a point in that intervention was correct. The hon. Gentleman omitted to mention that the Passport Agency was famously computerised under this Government, and as a result one could not get a passport to leave the country—everybody could get in, but one could not get out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1432.0", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "their stay; and applauds the fact that the Government, by investing more staff resources than ever before, has reached the point where the Backlog Reduction Accelerated Clearance Exercise (BRACE) is no longer necessary.\" The allegations are serious and concern sensitive issues with profound implications for attitudes to immigration and for the actions of the Government, both now and in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1432.0", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "es with profound implications for attitudes to immigration and for the actions of the Government, both now and in the future. [Interruption.] It is no good Conservative Members shouting, \"Hear, hear\", because they will not get any jokes or knockabout—these matters should be treated with the gravity that they deserve. This is not a knockabout occasion; this is supposed to be a serious debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1432.2", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ence in November 2002 because the fresh material—not fresh in the sense that the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden has had it for a long time, but in the sense that he has put it into the public arena—relates very much to what was happening in autumn 2002. Yes, Chris Mace and Peter Wrench did work for the Department then, but they have not done so for some considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1432.2", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "en. Some of us—including the Minister of State and me—believe that if material is placed before senior management they should act on it. We are talking about allegations of fraud and forged documents. People who use false papers and have an immigration history that rules them out should be ruled out. It does not require a great deal of intelligence to recognise that, just common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1434.7", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "But I do not remember a single Minister resigning. I remember that BSE cost the country billions of pounds, that it cost people a great deal of misery, and that there were very many allegations, but I do not remember the Secretary of State or any Minister resigning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1434.7", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, she has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "But I do not remember a single Minister resigning. I remember that BSE cost the country billions of pounds, that it cost people a great deal of misery, and that there were very many allegations, but I do not remember the Secretary of State or any Minister resigning. [Interruption.] Hon. Members are shouting that they were exonerated. Well, my right hon. Friend the Minister has been exonerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1434.7", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, you have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "out the confidence that the public need to have and about the morale of staff in dealing with such issues as they undertake a difficult job. The right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden said, \"We value the staff, we have confidence them, and we applaud them for their courage.\" So do we. We have, above all, a duty of care to our staff, and we have not sought to blame them for what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1434.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " the Opposition want to bandy words about who inherited a shambles and who did something about that, we are happy to do so. My right hon. Friend the Minister of State for Citizenship and Immigration has been instrumental in turning the system around in the past 18 months. She has ensured that, instead of a 45 per cent. increase in asylum claims, there has been a 50 per cent. drop in the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Blame civil servants and the media.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "a BBC political reporter did that on the news yesterday. That is not surprising because some of the newspapers that have jumped on the bandwagon have hinted—they have not told lies because not telling the truth is good enough for them—that the matter related to the asylum system rather than entry clearance, and to those who were already in the country and having their cases reaffirmed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1438.4", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ng to get to the truth about the allegations and behaviour involved. When he came back, he wrote a note indicating that he would take action on the appropriate lines to ensure that the allegations were properly investigated. As he had indicated that, I was surprised to learn that, four or five days later, these allegations were made as if no one had been listening or taken any action at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1440.4", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my right hon. Friend. The allegations included one that my right hon. Friend the Minister would not come to the House, as if she had not just been in front of the Home Affairs Committee, answered the private notice question, dealt with Home Office questions at the beginning of last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Say what you mean.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "as his stock in trade. The House will remember the famous interview when he said that he was responsible for prisons policy but not for operations. Paxman asked him again and again and again whether he took responsibility for operations in the Prison Service and he denied it. That is another reason why we shall not tolerate this lousy, opportunist, second-rate, smeary effort from the Tories today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1467.8", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "is not about the individual woman who happens to be the right hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston (Beverley Hughes) . It is about the office holder who happens to be the Minister for Citizenship and Immigration at the Home Office. It deals with a precise and discrete constitutional question about where ministerial responsibility lies. It is not a personal attack on the individual Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1467.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1477.3", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "es (Mr. Ancram) . All the letters ask me to reverse decisions about constituents when the Department has decided that they should leave the country but those Conservative Members want them to stay. Conservative Members want me to use my discretion to overturn decisions that people should be removed from the country. I cannot see a Member on the Conservative Benches who has not written to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1477.3", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Immigration Entry Clearance Standards", "cue_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Beverley Hughes", "preceding_text": "tituents when the Department has decided that they should leave the country but those Conservative Members want them to stay. Conservative Members want me to use my discretion to overturn decisions that people should be removed from the country. I cannot see a Member on the Conservative Benches who has not written to me— [Interruption.] I must finish my speech. Our record, in contrast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "EU Constitution Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "EU Constitution Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": " were negotiating in the course of the run-up to where we are now. If there is not a ratified and implemented treaty by the time we get back to government, Europe as a whole will have to look to see what it is going to do in future. One veto prevents the treaty from happening at all. If that happens, we will, of course, have renegotiation just as this Government have renegotiated every time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1504.3", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "EU Constitution Referendum", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "At least the hon. Gentleman is being consistent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is again repeating something that is not in the Electoral Commission's report, as he and other Opposition Members did yesterday. Let me quote to him the executive summary of the Electoral Commission's report on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1553.1", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "Yes, the Deputy Prime Minister is the guilty man. His attempts at bullying on the issue are well documented. The hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins) was wrong to say that the letter to the Electoral Commission had not been put in the Library: it was there on Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1553.3", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "It was not blocked. The Government did nothing with it. I have the chronology of events in my hand. The Bill was introduced into this House on 17 September , but it was months before it was even debated in the other place. We are now told that the returning officers are in a terrible position, but that is because of the Government's actions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1553.3", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " have the chronology of events in my hand. The Bill was introduced into this House on 17 September , but it was months before it was even debated in the other place. We are now told that the returning officers are in a terrible position, but that is because of the Government's actions— [Interruption.] What did the Deputy Prime Minister write to the chairman of the Electoral Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1553.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may think that it is reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1554.10", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The south-west.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "tions in Yorkshire and Humber on one side of the Pennines and in the north-west on the other side? We could then compare the two. We could look at the problems, such as the level of any fraud that took place and any difficulties in the system, and make sensible arrangements for universal provision. A scientist would say that for an experiment, one needs an experimental subject and a control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1554.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that while the content of the Bill is of considerable importance, the issues are now entirely different? The House of Lords, instead of acting as a revising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.2", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The House of Lords, instead of acting as a revising Chamber, is pitting its will against the House of Commons. That was precisely what the Liberal party decided to prevent in 1910 when its Budget was rejected by the House of Lords. That was why the Parliament Act 1911 was passed with a Liberal majority in this place. Is it not also a fact that it is almost certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.2", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "recisely what the Liberal party decided to prevent in 1910 when its Budget was rejected by the House of Lords. That was why the Parliament Act 1911 was passed with a Liberal majority in this place. Is it not also a fact that it is almost certain— [Interruption.] That lot will never win an election to get a majority in this place, so they are using the other place. It is almost certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.4", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "It is almost certain that there has been no occasion since the Liberal party passed the Parliament Act that the House of Lords has pitted itself against the House of Commons so many times. Does my right hon. Friend agree not only that is it essential for the will of the House of Commons to prevail, but that at the next election we should ask the electorate to agree to a manifesto reducing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.7", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"1979.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to go back to 1910, despite the recollection of the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) . I want to go back to 1969. In 1969 the then Labour Prime Minister, Mr. James Callaghan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-30", "file": "debates2004-03-30.xml", "sha256": "10118a12c9c70000", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.7", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"1979\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to go back to 1910, despite the recollection of the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) . I want to go back to 1969. In 1969 the then Labour Prime Minister, Mr. James Callaghan—[Hon. Members: \"1979.\"]—tried to push through—this is a true precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-30.1563.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1583.4", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " The United Nations World Food Programme is the principal distributor of food aid in Zimbabwe and is targeting more than 4 million beneficiaries. DFID pledged £5 million to the WFP for food relief in Zimbabwe in October 2003. In addition, we are providing supplementary feeding through international and Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations for approximately 1 million beneficiaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1583.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1583.4", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "5 million to the WFP for food relief in Zimbabwe in October 2003. In addition, we are providing supplementary feeding through international and Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations for approximately 1 million beneficiaries— [Interruption.] Those include households affected by HIV/AIDS, malnourished children under five, school children, displaced farm workers and other vulnerable groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1583.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The civil servants who have been suspended were suspended by their line managers in the civil service. Those decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.3", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "And we should get the facts right. When I was Home Secretary, asylum applications were reduced by 40 per cent. The Prime Minister says that they have halved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.4", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I say to the Government side that there will be no shouting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.8", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "seekers is caused by the Government or by delays.\"—[ Official Report , 20 April 1995; Vol. 258, c. 329 .] Let me especially take issue with the right hon. and learned Gentleman's allegation that asylum seekers are being waved through on forged documents. As he knows perfectly well, Bulgaria, which is where most of the applications come from, has never been a major country for asylum seekers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.8", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "right hon. and learned Gentleman's allegation that asylum seekers are being waved through on forged documents. As he knows perfectly well, Bulgaria, which is where most of the applications come from, has never been a major country for asylum seekers. [Interruption.] What he was trying to suggest was that as the asylum figures have come down, they have been switched into other forms of immigration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.8", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "which is where most of the applications come from, has never been a major country for asylum seekers. [Interruption.] What he was trying to suggest was that as the asylum figures have come down, they have been switched into other forms of immigration. [Interruption.] If he wants to get up and deny that, I will be happy to hear him, but I thought that that was the clear implication of what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1590.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1592.3", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Please don't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "eeded funding to provide quality education and would cruelly remove the promised improvements in financial support for the poorest students.\" Financial support for the poorest students is rising under our proposals. At least the right hon. Gentleman has an alternative funding mechanism, unlike the Conservatives, but the problem, as I have tried to explain—I will not go over that again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1602.6", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Higher Education Bill (Programme) (No. 4)", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "as those suffered by nurseries and other parts of our education system. I hope that my hon. Friends who follow me in this debate will not have to make the same points, and I hope that Opposition Members, particularly those who serve in the Whips Office, realise that Her Majesty's Government have done a gracious and generous thing by ensuring that a Bill has a start date and a finish date Upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1602.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1611.1", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": " or background. That is what should happen.\" [ Official Report , 26 February 2003; Vol. 400, c. 256 —7.] The purpose of new clause 1 is to ensure that it does happen, and if the Government are so enthusiastic for it to happen and if Ministers are so keen on it happening, I suggest that we stop the debate now so that they can accept new clause 1 and we can move on. Would they like to do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1615.5", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "they shape their future intakes, is based too much on class prejudice and not enough on academic good practice. We do better if we empower people to take those decisions themselves, rather than trying to be prescriptive from the centre. I agree with the hon. Member for Nottingham, North that something must be done to address those failing schools and communities where education is an alien concept", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1623.5", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong on almost every particular. I wish that I could take more time to refute the arguments that will be made in the later debate. I will be present in the later debate to do that, as I did repeatedly in Committee. Not every youngster will pay a £3,000 fee", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "aresborough (Mr. Willis) rightly said that we do not want an either/or situation: we want to promote the opportunities for young people from working-class backgrounds to fulfil their potential and gain access to higher education institutes. We have heard a lot of scaremongering from the Conservatives about what OFFA will do, but the idea that it will involve social engineering is ridiculous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1626.4", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "he £500,000 fine that can be imposed on universities, but whether universities are allowed to impose a variable fee will depend on the approval of OFFA. Whether they get that approval will depend on whether they carry out the activities required under the access agreement. The key point of how they will be judged on whether they are achieving the targets on outreach will be admissions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1626.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1643.0", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "dge on which all Labour Members were elected and which their Government are proposing to strong-arm them into breaking. New clause 5 and various amendments in this large group attempt to draw out the issue of fees. The new clause would prevent the introduction of top-up fees and tuition fees. Let us consider some of the views expressed about the proposed legislation by outside organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1648.2", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "It was the hon. Member for Rochdale who said that New Zealand is a great model. I take the view that it is sensible to consider what is sensible for the United Kingdom and what UK organisations do. It is not the Opposition who have been saying, \"Let's imitate New Zealand\"; it is the Government and Labour Back Benchers, so the hon. Gentleman is only undermining his own side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1649.2", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Lady, because I have given way to the hon. Gentleman already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1649.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1656.4", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend chairs the Education and Skills Committee as I do, and we usually work well together, but what does he say to the general criticism that his amendment has been construed as a wrecking amendment, because he is a bad loser, having lost on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1656.5", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "preceding_text": "Those are really kind words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1659.0", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "rnment Benches that one could imagine. May I also say to the Secretary of State and the Minister that the disingenuous comments made on yesterday's \"Today\" programme, which have been repeated today, suggesting that amendment No. 128 would open the floodgates in allowing universities to charge fees in excess of £10,000, are absolute nonsense. In reality, two amendments have been tabled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman; I am answering his question, for goodness' sake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman; I am answering his question, for goodness' sake. [Laughter]. I am sorry—I sometimes forget that I am not a head teacher any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1664.3", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"£4,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman welcome the £3,000 bursaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1665.2", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "e school should not receive tuition for nothing when they go to university. That is not what the Government are proposing, however. They are proposing a cap on variability, which is a contradiction in terms. I said that on Second Reading, and I say it again, because that is the reality. By 2010, that cap, by the Government's admission, will starve universities of the cash that they need now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1665.2", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ng, however. They are proposing a cap on variability, which is a contradiction in terms. I said that on Second Reading, and I say it again, because that is the reality. By 2010, that cap, by the Government's admission, will starve universities of the cash that they need now— [Interruption.] Labour Members must not believe all the rhetoric that comes out of fairy house down at Millbank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1665.2", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "ersities of the cash that they need now— [Interruption.] Labour Members must not believe all the rhetoric that comes out of fairy house down at Millbank— [Interruption.] That was a Freudian slip. In the first year of variable fees, the maximum additional income that universities will get—all our universities, given the Government's figures—is about £300 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1672.6", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"She is not a Liberal Democrat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "I understand the Liberal Democrat position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1672.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1673.0", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Robert Jackson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Jackson", "preceding_text": "I want to explain briefly why I shall vote with the Government to secure the Bill's passage, which in contrast to the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Norwich, North (Dr. Gibson) , I want to succeed. I do not want to rehearse the arguments, which have become familiar. Instead, I want to address a word or two of explanation to my party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "el—will over three years pay £1,500 for that student's education. That is an up-front figure; it is the current total figure for three years. As soon as the new system of tuition fees is introduced, a student from a family with a £25,000 income will pay—this is the net figure, taking help into account—£6,300 on graduation, which is a more than fourfold increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "There is a fundamental misunderstanding on the Liberal Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jon Owen Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jon Owen Jones", "preceding_text": "eas Bristol university charges £3,000, there will be a £5,000 difference over three years. Naturally, Cardiff university will be more attractive to those who need to pay the full amount, so there will be a distortion and English students who have to pay the full amount will move to Wales. Given the size of the market—690,000 students in England and 40,000 students in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1696.6", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "-Dearing and pre-1998 when colleges could charge, but when every student had a non-means-tested grant to meet the charge. It is a back-to-the-future proposal. I am amazed at what is going on with the official Opposition. I very much respect their Front-Bench spokesmen. Throughout this debate on the future of higher education, there has been only one Back Bencher on the official Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1696.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1723.6", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That, at the sitting on Thursday 1st April, the Speaker shall not adjourn the House until any Lords Messages have been received or until any Committee to draw up Reasons which has been appointed at this sitting has reported or until he has reported the Royal Assent to any Act agreed upon by both Houses. —[Paul Clark.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1723.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-03-31", "file": "debates2004-03-31.xml", "sha256": "258cdd6ff20b3474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1726.2", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "WANSFELL COLLEGE", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "ision of adult learning, among other matters, directly because of the Government's financial decisions. I could go over all the arguments about finance and funding for Essex county council, but I will not do so because I accept that that is not the Minister's responsibility, and I will not make unreasonable requests of him this evening. I do not expect him to answer for Essex county council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-03-31.1726.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-04-01", "file": "debates2004-04-01.xml", "sha256": "a6943d9a0ee0d176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1783.1", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "ay that I needed to acquire a consent form from elderly people in hospital or anyone who telephones my office before I could make any representations on their behalf. Is that not an infringement of the rights of Members, and is it not clear that some public bodies are beginning to interpret the Data Protection Act in a way that undermines our right to represent our constituents and their families?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-01", "file": "debates2004-04-01.xml", "sha256": "a6943d9a0ee0d176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1787.2", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was a Cabinet Minister in a Government who consistently failed to take responsibility for their own actions and were bedevilled with incompetence and sleaze. I am amazed that he has come here a few hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-01", "file": "debates2004-04-01.xml", "sha256": "a6943d9a0ee0d176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1787.2", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman was a Cabinet Minister in a Government who consistently failed to take responsibility for their own actions and were bedevilled with incompetence and sleaze. I am amazed that he has come here a few hours— [Interruption.] A member of the Cabinet went to prison as a result of that, so I should have thought that he would have a little less aggression in raising such issues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-01", "file": "debates2004-04-01.xml", "sha256": "a6943d9a0ee0d176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1814.1", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Easter Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": " have a kind of proportional system. A sort of vague, messy, bucket of pigs' entrails system has been introduced in London, Wales and Scotland. It is usually known as the additional member system. No one wanted it, and no one wants it now. It is very unclear, vague and not particularly accountable. Personally, as a matter of principle, I am completely opposed to proportional representation anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-01", "file": "debates2004-04-01.xml", "sha256": "a6943d9a0ee0d176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1814.1", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Easter Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": "esentation is that they think that, somewhere, there is a semi-mystical system that will provide perfect representation and a perfect constituency link will be preserved, yet there will also be perfect proportionality. Such a system does not exist. The first-past-the-post system is obviously not perfect, but no system is perfect. First past the post is the nearest to a perfect system that we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-01", "file": "debates2004-04-01.xml", "sha256": "a6943d9a0ee0d176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1834.3", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Easter Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "We have had the odd one or two, as the hon. Gentleman may recall, although I think in fact it was only one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-01.1834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-19", "file": "debates2004-04-19.xml", "sha256": "a8751dee27bd3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You can do better than that, Don.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "Not at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-19", "file": "debates2004-04-19.xml", "sha256": "a8751dee27bd3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "at, Don.\"] I shall not repeat that. Let me give the timetable, for the benefit of the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Foster) and the rest of the House. Yes, there has been slippage, but if Parliament approves the guidance, which I hope it will by the end of April or the beginning of May—that is possible—the first appointed day will be towards the end of October or the beginning of November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-19", "file": "debates2004-04-19.xml", "sha256": "a8751dee27bd3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Iraq and Middle East Peace Process", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "i security forces during recent events. Did the Prime Minister raise with the President the nature of the steps that would be taken to improve the training and effectiveness of those forces? Finally on Iraq, does not everything that has happened over the past year reinforce the warnings that we gave at the time about the lack of a carefully thought through plan for reconstruction in post-war Iraq?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-19", "file": "debates2004-04-19.xml", "sha256": "a8751dee27bd3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Iraq and Middle East Peace Process", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": "We saw what happened to those hundreds of women and children in Fallujah last week. They were not terrorists or fanatics, but when they see what is happening to their own domestic circumstances, the real tragedy is that some of the wilder elements get driven in the direction of the terrorists and fanatics. The Americans must surely understand that. As for the wider middle east peace process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-19", "file": "debates2004-04-19.xml", "sha256": "a8751dee27bd3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.35.4", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Iraq and Middle East Peace Process", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "port it by the people who are attacking them. I think that it is important that we maintain that situation. As for being a terrorist target, I honestly think that the hon. Gentleman does a disservice to us all in suggesting that people in al-Qaeda and other terrorists would somehow be silent if the problems in Iraq did not exist. These are the people who want us to withdraw from Afghanistan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.35.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-19", "file": "debates2004-04-19.xml", "sha256": "a8751dee27bd3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.35.4", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Iraq and Middle East Peace Process", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " but what could be a bigger threat than that represented by 11 September —which happened, let me remind him, before we were in Iraq or Afghanistan? The truth is that if we withdrew from Iraq, we would be told to withdraw from Afghanistan, and if we withdrew from Afghanistan, we would be told to withdraw from the whole of the middle east, and then we would be made to withdraw even more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.35.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-19", "file": "debates2004-04-19.xml", "sha256": "a8751dee27bd3e58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": " in local jobs but to bring people into the area who will probably commute some 35 or 40 miles to work somewhere else. That does not make sense for those new residents, and it does not make sense for my part of Bedfordshire. It is that lack of local democracy—the democratic deficit—that the amendments go some way to remedying and that my constituents have raised with me time and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-19.58.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "We must admire the hon. Lady's brass neck, if nothing else. There is probably limited value in going back over old ground about who is to blame for what.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "smal failure. Virtually no one in the country remains in that small and select band, the friends of Railtrack, but she is one of them. As she ought to know, performance is gradually improving across the network. She mentioned cross-country trains and was critical of the decision to thin the services. As a result of that service thinning, reliability has gone up dramatically. The problem was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the best investment that we could possibly make in stations is to stop them being unmanned or unpersoned? I have seen newly painted stations where the graffiti has been wiped out and the stations have been cleaned up, but the graffiti starts to appear again the next day because the stations are unpersoned or unmanned. We will not get accessibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Europe", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " that we seek, will actually do. Ever since its inception, however, the myths propagated about it have multiplied in those quarters, political and media, which we know to be hostile not just to this treaty, but to the whole notion of Britain playing a central role in Europe. For example, that the EU will be renamed the \"United States of Europe\". No, it will not. It is to remain the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Europe", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "d as our head of state by an EU President of the Council. In fact, we already have a President of the Council, and always have had. Or that Britain will be forced to join the euro, without a referendum and regardless of the economic tests being passed. No, it will not. The existing agreements on the single currency remain in the new treaty. That Britain—this was said by the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Europe", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "erests\". If the Prime Minister wanted a speedy resolution to safeguard Britain's interests on 26 March , why does he not want one today? The Government will have our full support for the speedy passage of the legislation necessary to hold a referendum, but there is no case whatever for asking Parliament to spend months on ratification legislation before obtaining the consent of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Europe", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " said yesterday that it would be not me but the president of Europe who would visit the President of the United States, but it is indeed what he said. He said: \"if . . . the constitution were in force, the president of Europe, not the British Prime Minister, would have met the President of the United States\".—[ Official Report , 19 April 2004; Vol. 420, c. 25 .] That is exactly what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Europe", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "wn to the details of the constitution. There is a very simple reason for that. He is not against a particular provision of the constitution; he is against it in its entirety. Exactly: the Conservatives nod. The right hon. and learned Gentleman's position is not that we should amend this phrase, this clause or that article in the constitutional treaty, but that we should get rid of the whole thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Europe", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "pean Union. That is what is at issue—whether Britain continues at the centre of European decision making, as we passionately believe it should, or we retreat to the margins, where we were when the right hon. and learned Gentleman's party was last in power. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has already said, for example, that he wants to opt back out of the social chapter—has he not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Europe", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, of course not. The referendum should go ahead in any event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.174.0", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Independent Monitoring Commission)", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "ds to cut off funds from both Sinn Fein and the Progressive Unionist party—but can he really be satisfied that today's announcement is sufficient? Frankly, if Sinn Fein is to sacrifice its Northern Ireland Assembly funding because of its links with paramilitary violence, it is surely outrageous for Sinn Fein Members to continue to enjoy both access to and allowances for the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "y in the 1990s. Their record shows why they can never again be trusted with the economy and why our hard-won economic stability cannot be taken for granted. Their extremist policies do not add up, they would require massive cuts in vital public services, and they show why no one can afford to believe the Conservatives, now or in future. Not only have they failed to learn from their mistakes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "d. Their extremist policies do not add up, they would require massive cuts in vital public services, and they show why no one can afford to believe the Conservatives, now or in future. Not only have they failed to learn from their mistakes— [Laughter]— but their new policies are more extreme than before. Underpinning their smiling and laughing faces is hard-nosed, hard-faced extremism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "een identified for us through the work taking place under Sir Peter Gershon, which will be reflected in due course in the outcome of the spending review. What we do not see is any exercise on the Conservatives' part that is comparable with the work into which we have entered in the Gershon efficiency review. Perhaps this afternoon all will be revealed and the Conservatives will unveil their plans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "r the highly complex transitional arrangements that are proposed. We also question the Government's apparent reversal of their own measure introduced three years ago to enable women who take a career break to keep up their pension contributions for five years, based on the amounts that they had been earning at the time they stopped work, rather than restricting them to the stakeholder limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "hanged. The Bill contains a further 51 pages on stamp duty land tax, but fails to address the major distortions now being caused in the residential property market as a result of the Government's stamp duty slab regime. There is a total of six other stealth taxes in the Bill, but after the Chancellor's massive engineered increases in council tax, stamp duty is his second largest stealth tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": " next week, I hope that the opportunity will arise to strike down these proposals, which are very damaging to the Scotch whisky industry. The last Welsh distillery closed 120 years ago, and we have waited all that time to get our whisky industry back. Yet within 16 days of the launch of the first single malt Welsh whisky in 120 years, the Chancellor's iniquitous strip stamp proposal is introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "ust as we have seen belated recognition of the regional economic divide. The Government have recognised the problem of affordability, but the difficulty is that the cupboard is bare of policies. Indeed, the policies in the Finance Bill will make matters worse for housing. It is clear from reading the explanatory notes to clauses 171 to 174 and from drawing on the good offices of the Library—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-20", "file": "debates2004-04-20.xml", "sha256": "092ebb1abe63d5f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.248.0", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": " bar is being lifted. They can now be used for all sorts of esoteric investments, but we will not go down that road. The bar is certainly being lifted and in a way that appears very attractive to many people. Currently, about 200,000 people are in SIPPS or small self-administered schemes. Following a certain day in 2006, it is predicted that there will be an exponential rise in their number—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-20.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.280.4", "colnum": "280", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "The Minister's words about local accountability and local consultation will ring pretty hollow with my constituents in the village of Cottenham, who have seen planning inspectors overrule local opinion and the local authority time and again to grant ever more Traveller permissions on greenfield sites over and above the 35 sites that have existed without dispute for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.284.7", "colnum": "284", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Keith Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Hill", "preceding_text": "Bicester case. On average, the First Secretary of State disagrees with inspectors' recommendations in about 10 per cent. of cases. Last year, the figure was 31 out of 330 applications and appeals. In the Bicester case, the reasons for the First Secretary of State's decision are set out in his decision letter of 18 August 2003 . There is nothing further to add to the reasons given in that decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.284.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.286.4", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "and also that four British soldiers were wounded in the attacks, and our thoughts are with them and their families. Let us be clear. The majority of Iraqi people want a stable and democratic Iraq; these terrorists want to stop them. We—all of us in the international community—have to join that majority in Iraq to make sure that the terrorists do not succeed and that democracy prevails.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.286.7", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "h the remainder of his remarks about Iraq and about the need for us to safeguard the position of the majority of the Iraqi people and to see out the commitments that we have entered into notwithstanding the difficulties that we face? Mr. Speaker, you can always tell when the Government are in trouble. They call on the hon. Gentleman and they start singing \"Help me, Rhondda. Help, help me Rhondda.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.286.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We announced our policy on the referendum yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "y Cabinet government: he performs a huge policy U-turn; he leaks it to the newspapers, and then he tells the Cabinet that there is no time left for them to make a decision. With or without the Cabinet, let me ask the Prime Minister this question to see to what extent he has followed the advice that he gave to his colleagues in his personal memo and to what extent he has thought the matter through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We will be in exactly the same position as, for example, Ireland after its rejection, the first time round, of the Nice treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.288.4", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "If there is a no vote, the treaty cannot be ratified on that basis, which is why we, who support the principle of a constitutional treaty, would then have to sit down with the others and work out the way forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.288.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.288.5", "colnum": "288", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ho support the principle of a constitutional treaty, would then have to sit down with the others and work out the way forward. [Interruption.] But that is a completely different position—let the right hon. and learned Gentleman get up and confirm it—from that of a Government who say that they will not accept any constitutional treaty. Perhaps he would confirm that that is his position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "the status quo remains. As for rejecting any constitutional treaty, let me point out to the right hon. and learned Gentleman that this is a treaty, not a constitution absent from a treaty. It is the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe. In other words, it is a treaty agreed in the same way as Maastricht or any other treaty between the European Union members. It is a constitutional treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I have set out our position with absolute clarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "He says that he wants to find out more about our position. Yesterday, he said: \"let the battle be joined.\"—[ Official Report , 20 April 2004; Vol. 420, c. 157 .] I cannot wait. I make this challenge to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "e wants to find out more about our position. Yesterday, he said: \"let the battle be joined.\"—[ Official Report , 20 April 2004; Vol. 420, c. 157 .] I cannot wait. I make this challenge to the Prime Minister—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] As soon as the constitution is agreed, will he take part in a televised debate with me in which we can explore all these issues? Will he accept that challenge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.4", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The debate that we will have is here in the House. When it is agreed in this House, we will have a debate in the country. To go back to the heart of the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let the Prime Minister answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.6", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " will he answer yes or no? I shall tell him what I think he is trying to do. He is trying to suggest to one part of his party that he rejects the whole idea of a constitutional treaty, but he is keeping open his freedom of manoeuvre in case he wants to negotiate amendments to the existing treaty. It is an obvious distinction—amendments to the existing treaty or no treaty at all? Which is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.289.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.312.5", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Doctors' Hours", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "returned to work in the NHS since February 1999. In total, there are an additional 67,500 more nurses working in the NHS today than in 1997. All those increases will help the NHS in meeting its obligations under the working time directive. I am sorry to have to say that, in relation to consultants and nurses, my amendment understates the actual numbers of additional staff that have been recruited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.315.6", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Doctors' Hours", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "It is. The costs are approximately the same; we are not saying that they would be in addition to the all-doctors option.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.315.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.315.8", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Doctors' Hours", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "No, I will not; I have dealt with that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.315.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Doctors' Hours", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": "I start by referring to a speech that the Minister of State gave in January at a gathering organised by the Royal College of Surgeons. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "London", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am happy to debate that point with the hon. Lady at another time and place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.375.5", "colnum": "375", "heading": "London", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "On the first half of the hon. Gentleman's long question, I advise him to remember what happened in Brent last autumn and in Bermondsey some years ago—both of which were Labour-held seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.375.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-21", "file": "debates2004-04-21.xml", "sha256": "13ca72a0e4f3c232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "London", "cue_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ual promiscuity in some young people. Safe-sex education has ignored abstinence messages and led to many young people becoming sexually active long before they are emotionally mature enough to cope with the consequences. Girls need to be warned of the likely outcome of having sex with a boy who has no interest in getting married or becoming a parent, and who has no income to support a child—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-21.389.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.425.5", "colnum": "425", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": " wonderful job in keeping SDA farmers closely informed and aware of developments. I turn the Minister's attention to the final paragraph of the Secretary of State's written statement. It states: \"I have therefore asked my officials to consider how the next round of rural development programming (from 2007 onwards) can better reflect the needs of upland communities\". That is potentially more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Digging up pitches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "luding the former captain, Heath Streak, which says: \"There has, in our view, been racial and ethnic discrimination in the selection of the national team.\" That seems to put the issue in a different perspective. It is not simply a question of appeasing a despot, the brutal tyrant Robert Mugabe, but an issue about sport. That takes me back to when I was in the picture, more than 30 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "n the question of the European Union constitution, about which the shadow Leader of the House helpfully and generous quoted all sorts of things that I had been saying last year, may I paraphrase Churchill by saying that there is no better diet than eating one's own words? That is precisely what the Prime Minister, I, the Foreign Secretary and a number of others have been doing these past few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.444.5", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "No. As I have explained, there is a clear distinction between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.444.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. If Whips were acting in a personal capacity, should that not result in a deduction of one day's salary in respect of all those who receive public funds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That may well be the case, but let us make some progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.467.7", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I do not know that that will always be the case, but the Security Service did not recommend a screen in the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.467.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.467.7", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " taking sensible precautions where we can. If right hon. or hon. Members wish to ignore the unequivocal recommendation and advice of the security services, that is a matter for them, but there will be consequences for all who take that view. There will be consequences not only for Members of this House, but for the Doorkeepers and security staff who serve the Chamber and civil servants in the Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.467.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ial of anthrax or ricin into the Chamber or, even worse, if a suicide agent released the substance without anybody noticing—we have been advised that that is quite feasible—the particles would immediately begin spreading throughout the Chamber. Because of the way in which air flows work, total contamination could occur within minutes. Decontamination procedures would then be activated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "tect as other weapons on coming into the House. Secondly, whereas for many years terrorists and those who were a threat would act with their own safety taken into account, that is not the case nowadays. There are suicide bombers, and the amount of time available to deal with such a threat is minimal. Thirdly, we are one of the very few Parliaments that has a predictable pattern of behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.472.5", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ny of the same issues: I remember going to Conservative party conferences in the days before heavy security, and it was marvellous to have free interplay with others, which we cannot achieve now. After the 1984 bombing, it was right to introduce security measures, but party conferences still take place. I would be one of the last people to interfere with the traditional operation of our democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.472.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I note the serious and logical way in which the hon. Gentleman makes his case. However, if he were standing in my shoes, and the director general of the Security Service had approached him last year to say that her recommendation, based on intelligence, was to erect a screen in the Chamber, would he have said no to her? That is the decision that the House of Commons Commission and I had to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.478.4", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "adequate. His only answer was that it was aesthetically inadequate: he did not like the look of it. That is an absurd argument. Indeed, if we are talking about a deterrent, this screen is potentially more effective, because it is a more visible barrier, than what is described in the explanatory memorandum. It is important that we distinguish between saying yea or nay to the temporary screen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "opulist point about first and second-class visitors. It is the case now that a visitor queuing in the street cannot get into the Special Gallery but must sit in the area that is now behind the screen. Another point that the hon. Gentleman needs to address is that the recommendation from the Security Service was not for a screen going right the way round the Special Gallery and Press Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "It was a helpful intervention, if I may say so. I wish that the Leader of the House had made those points at the outset. What I find extraordinary is that the argument for a permanent screen has not been developed. A sort of argument has been developed for taking rapid action and producing a temporary screen, but let me come to a much more important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.482.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "Apart from the fact that the screen does nothing whatever to protect the ventilation system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "Yes, and in a sense I wish that we saw more people in the Press Gallery more frequently; looking at it now, it is no security threat whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": " in some way, those on the Front Bench to be put at greater risk. Nothing could be further from the truth, Mr. Speaker. Indeed, I can reveal to you that one of the reasons that I habitually attempt to take this particular seat during Prime Minister's questions is so that I can, if necessary, suddenly interpose my own body between the Prime Minister and the public or indeed the Press Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.498.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Security Screen", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "briefings and more intelligence, and know more about whether there is a direct threat to the Chamber or to the House, whereas I, as a Member of Parliament representing my constituents, have not had all these briefings? How am I supposed to vote on this issue when I do not have the information that some more privileged Members have? I represent my constituents just as much as they represent theirs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.514.6", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Visitor Facilities", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members seem to be talking in code. I realise that when we speak about security, we must be sensitive. Perhaps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.514.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-22", "file": "debates2004-04-22.xml", "sha256": "b02c77eb2e9eb1f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.521.11", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Visitor Facilities", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Of course it is, and these things have to be balanced. I want to finish my speech, because it would be selfish to talk right through to 6 o'clock, so I shall deal with the point quickly. Yes, it is a world heritage site. Therefore, to allow Parliament square to be inhabited by a permanent encampment is, in my opinion, wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-22.521.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-23", "file": "debates2004-04-23.xml", "sha256": "8cad74ab1af5ea6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-23.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Constitution for the European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": " a film. It is not my intention to kill the Bill, but to vote against it because of its flawed nature. The hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon tries to make his case by attacking the constitution, on some elements of which I would agree, and inventing other reasons for attacking the constitution and for voting no, irrespective of what is in the treaty. His case was about as credible as Kevin Spacey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-23.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-23", "file": "debates2004-04-23.xml", "sha256": "8cad74ab1af5ea6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-23.597.2", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Constitution for the European Union (Referendum) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": " the Electoral Commission in its rightly ordained role. This Parliament gave the commission powers so that there would be no hint of party political bias in any such sensitive matter to do with elections or referendums. It would have had a lot to say about how the 1975 referendum was conducted—it was clearly one-sided in terms of the money spent and the publicity given to the \"Yes\" campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-23.597.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-04-23", "file": "debates2004-04-23.xml", "sha256": "8cad74ab1af5ea6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-23.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Remaining Private Members' Bills — OLDER PEOPLE'S COMMISSIONERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 15 October .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-23.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-26", "file": "debates2004-04-26.xml", "sha256": "1e2cc6022e9f8f84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-26.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "and that the hon. Member for Basingstoke intends to divide the House on amendment No. 23. I understand his concerns about reflectivity and representative cross-sections. I have had some personal concerns about positive discrimination: I am vulnerable on that since I have two Estonian parents, which means that the Estonian population of the United Kingdom is over-represented here by a factor of 30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-26.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-27", "file": "debates2004-04-27.xml", "sha256": "9c833cfaaff7bee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-27.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, there is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "er hand, at the express wish of the Liaison Committee, the parliamentary Labour party has moved its meeting from Wednesday mornings to Monday evenings, which is more convenient for its members for other reasons as well, and that has left Wednesday mornings completely free for Select Committees. So there need not be any clashes. There is no majority for going back to Monday hours on other evenings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-27.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-27", "file": "debates2004-04-27.xml", "sha256": "9c833cfaaff7bee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-27.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was a good try!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are talking about the working hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-27.750.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-27", "file": "debates2004-04-27.xml", "sha256": "9c833cfaaff7bee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-27.750.4", "colnum": "750", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has eloquently stated why this is such a difficult issue to resolve. Whatever statements are made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-27.750.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-27", "file": "debates2004-04-27.xml", "sha256": "9c833cfaaff7bee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-27.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady shakes her head, but the Government have effectively given a 36p rebate to the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-27.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.875.2", "colnum": "875", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "Obviously, it is important that the issue is discussed and that the Foreign Secretary looks at these matters, but it is also important to understand that what has happened in Libya over past weeks is hugely important for the safety of the world. I shall certainly take the right hon. Gentleman's views into account when I next talk to the Foreign Secretary about this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.878.0", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " legitimate and relevant questions about what is happening in Iraq now, he grossly misunderstands the nature of our parliamentary democracy. Let me put to the Prime Minister again some of my questions that he did not answer last week. What say, if any, do the Government think that the Iraqi authorities should have on the deployment of coalition troops after 30 June ? Do the Government think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.878.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "not ask questions about what is happening. I do say that, at a time when coalition forces, including British forces, are engaged in trying to defeat these former regime elements and terrorists, and at a time when reconstruction in Iraq is going ahead subject to this appalling attack by terrorists on coalition forces, I would have hoped that he would support those forces and everyone in Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I would have hoped that the right hon. and learned Gentleman would give us 100 per cent. support for the action that is being taken to defeat these terrorists, unless he is suggesting some alternative strategy which we have not yet heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "They will be in place for 1 May , when the accession treaty comes into force, and the package of those measures was announced on 23 February by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. Since we are debating the record on immigration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "And when I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ekers was falling and it was less than half the number today. The Prime Minister does not know when the regulations that would give effect to the measures to which he referred yesterday are going to be laid before the House. He could not tell us when, and he has not given us any clear explanation for this week's shambles. Let me therefore ask him about last week's shambles. Why did he begin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "would give effect to the measures to which he referred yesterday are going to be laid before the House. He could not tell us when, and he has not given us any clear explanation for this week's shambles. Let me therefore ask him about last week's shambles. Why did he begin— [Interruption.] I think that some right hon. and hon. Members on the Labour Benches will be interested in this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.6", "colnum": "882", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " doing a little research on what his position actually is on Europe. There are now 20 Conservative Front-Bench Members who believe in the following proposition put forward by Conservatives Against a Federal Europe: \"Our national aim should be to seek a separate relationship with the EU . . . If it is not possible to attain these ends by negotiation, we must withdraw from the European Union\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.882.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is to carry on taking the decisions that are necessary for the future of this country, the decisions that, in a constituency such as the hon. Gentleman's, have meant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "s to carry on taking the decisions that are necessary for the future of this country, the decisions that, in a constituency such as the hon. Gentleman's, have meant— [Interruption.] Oh yes, this is what it is about. Those decisions have meant more teachers, more doctors, more police, record school results, better national health service waiting times and crime falling. That is what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that the vast majority of leases, such as those providing for retail prices index increases, will be completely unaffected by the provisions. We are talking about a small number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-28", "file": "debates2004-04-28.xml", "sha256": "bcee2cda9211720e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "leases, which are often an important subject for businesses that are not huge and do not have vast arrays of advisers, helpers and people with detailed knowledge. I much honour the Minister who is to reply. I sit on a committee with her and I hear her express ideas simply, coherently and cogently. Indeed, I often agree with her, and I do not think I have ever disagreed with her, on that committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-28.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.989.4", "colnum": "989", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Simmonds", "preceding_text": "between his view and what is actually happening. It is clear that one of the essential roles of—and an apparent Government priority for—the FE sector and local colleges is the provision of basic skills and level 2 courses. Why then are the Government enabling cuts to take place in the FE sector, just as adults needing help are being turned away from literacy and numeracy classes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.989.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "hat it is a very important Bill that protects workers from being robbed of their pensions. We have seen such tragic cases recently, but of course it was under the Tories that such circumstances were created and allowed to continue. On the Home Secretary's preventing courts from releasing psychopathic terrorists, he of course keeps this issue under constant review. If extra powers are needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1012.4", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "e EU, as Giscard said on the \"Today\" programme this morning; it would cause us to be right out of the picture as far as Europe is concerned. It would threaten British jobs, more than 3 million of which are based in companies that trade with the EU. It would also threaten our ability to be at the heart of what is the world's biggest and richest market, and one of its most important political blocs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1012.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am aware of that report. I join my hon. Friend in welcoming the large number of women now being selected by the Labour party in vacant seats. That compares with the dismal record of the Conservatives—and, I am sorry to say, of the Liberal Democrats and other minority parties. We want more women in Parliament, as women represent more than half the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Council Tax Capping", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "no indication from the official Opposition about whether they would use capping powers or not. We know very well that when they were in government, they capped—indeed, they capped repeatedly, in a crude and unfair way—but now that they are in opposition, they are trying to give a different impression, so they go and speak to local government, saying, \"We're your friends. We won't cap.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Council Tax Capping", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " down from the very high levels last year. It is Labour councils that have led the way, with the lowest increases, averaging 4.7 per cent., compared with increases of 5.4 per cent. from Conservative authorities. The hon. Gentleman spoke about the shift of resources. Yes, we accept that resources have been shifted to give a greater reward for deprivation, and it is right that we should do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "nient and sometimes slower than systems that are less democratic, but it is none the worse for that. All Members of the House must defend the right of ordinary people to have their say in these matters, which affect the quality of their lives so directly, and I know that the Minister would be first in the vanguard of that defence. He therefore, ultimately, makes an unconvincing case. I find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1055.4", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Animal and Plant Diseases", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "be sitting in Ministry filing cabinets. I would be willing to give way now to the Minister if he wanted to rise to guarantee to the House that no other information has been withheld and that Dr. Anderson received each and every piece of relevant information relating to the outbreak. I should be happy to give way if the Minister wished to do that, but I am afraid that the fact that he is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1055.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1056.4", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Animal and Plant Diseases", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way because I want to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1056.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1057.0", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Animal and Plant Diseases", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "he officials, who are congratulated. I am happy to say \"Well done\" to those on the ground who were responsible for containing that disease, but the fact that it arrived in this country and that other diseases are being found is a cause for concern and we should look into why that his happening. Another example of a plant disease is sudden oak death syndrome or phytophthora ramorum, as it is known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1057.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1057.2", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Animal and Plant Diseases", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed, it starts from rhododendrons but it then passes to oak and other trees. There is evidence of that in certain parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1057.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Animal and Plant Diseases", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "I missed the hon. Gentleman this morning at Windsor Great Park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1094.3", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Animal and Plant Diseases", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "certainly amounted to more than, in the Secretary of State's words, \"musing about the matter, examining his conscience and asking, 'Oh dear—is there more that I could have done'\".—[ Official Report , 11 March 2004; Vol. 418, c. 1640 .] That is what she said, though the Minister tried to deny it. At least Lord Whitty has admitted that Dr. Anderson should have received that report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1094.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-29", "file": "debates2004-04-29.xml", "sha256": "c26d4cd189d016df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "RAIL TRANSPORT (KENT AND MEDWAY)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "On the strategic basis that he just mentioned, will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-29.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-30", "file": "debates2004-04-30.xml", "sha256": "7b2fc4eb3ac5c43c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1143.7", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sustainable and Secure Buildings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "I believe that more people are beginning to care about carbon emissions. They understand the impact of greenhouse gases on climate change and global warming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1143.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-30", "file": "debates2004-04-30.xml", "sha256": "7b2fc4eb3ac5c43c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Justifiable Conduct) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "ither instance and you will be in danger of being charged with an offence against the person, anything from common assault to murder. Pedantic proportionality is all. If you carry on assaulting your assailant after he is disabled, you will most likely face charges. If you have the opportunity to run away but do not, that may count against you in any assessment of whether you should be prosecuted.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-30", "file": "debates2004-04-30.xml", "sha256": "7b2fc4eb3ac5c43c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Justifiable Conduct) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "Deputy Speaker, I apologise for my unwitting solecism earlier. I meant no disrespect to you or to the House. I thank the hon. Member for North Thanet (Mr. Gale) for the generosity of his introduction, particularly where it strayed into the personal. He said that the Bill was part pedigree, part mongrel. We heard a thoroughly pedigree speech from the hon. Gentleman. Now the House will hear from me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-30", "file": "debates2004-04-30.xml", "sha256": "7b2fc4eb3ac5c43c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Justifiable Conduct) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "our indulgence, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to respond specifically to the question of pedigree that was raised by the hon. Gentleman, a man more familiar with the byways of the BBC than I ever will be. I remember with great affection the time when we were co-presenters on a Sunday morning on LBC. He may not have enjoyed it, but our listeners did. I know that because I spoke to both of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-30", "file": "debates2004-04-30.xml", "sha256": "7b2fc4eb3ac5c43c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Justifiable Conduct) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "ouse. The idea was not some populist attempt to increase ratings, but a genuine attempt by a responsible broadcaster—the best public service broadcaster in the world, the BBC—to connect the two; the people of this country and the process of legislation. The impression might have been given that I was some publicity-hungry jackanapes seeking to lend his name to any passing fad or fancy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-04-30", "file": "debates2004-04-30.xml", "sha256": "7b2fc4eb3ac5c43c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1162.9", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Criminal Justice (Justifiable Conduct) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman not just on my behalf but on behalf of the House. That was extremely interesting and a very good piece of advice. I am a little worried that I might now get a bill for 200 guineas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1162.9"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-04-30", "file": "debates2004-04-30.xml", "sha256": "7b2fc4eb3ac5c43c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1181.8", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "LOCAL LAND CHARGES (FEES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 18 June .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-04-30.1181.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1194.6", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "There has been an increase in the training of doctors in almost every single field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I was wondering when we would hear from the hon. Gentleman. Unfortunately, I do not think that any of us would have minded too much if he had spent the half-hour session just nodding quietly to himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I do not want to make any comment about any particular private care operator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Daily Mirror\".", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I echo those sentiments about the QLR and all the regiments that have served in Iraq and elsewhere in Her Majesty's name. So far as the Daily Record is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1217.2", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "The QLR is my local regiment and has the freedom of the town of Colne in my constituency. I wish to return to a question posed earlier by an Opposition Member. Has the Daily Mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Treatment of Iraqi Prisoners", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I recognise my hon. Friend's interest in protecting the good name of the QLR, but he cannot have heard what I said. It is not for Ministers to interfere in the minutiae of investigations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1227.7", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jimmy Hood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jimmy Hood", "preceding_text": "The constitutional convention was a difficult process for many of us. Some of us were dragged reluctantly to the table to agree to the electoral system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1227.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, they don't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "s. A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to be with several hon. Members in Dover house, where we heard about the new Scottish social attitudes survey. During that session, we heard the key concerns about the performance of the Scottish Parliament and discovered that the Scottish people are several steps ahead of us politicians. They want increased powers for the Scottish Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1242.6", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "A few seconds ago, the Under-Secretary said that the Secretary of State had given an assurance that, if any change were made to the electoral arrangements, either through his commission or amendment to the Bill, it would be inconceivable to impose it without the consent of the Scottish Parliament. That is the position that she outlined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1242.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1255.3", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman would be best advised not to respond to such a tantalising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Thurso", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Thurso", "preceding_text": "nt tabled by the hon. Member for Cunninghame, South, which is far more important and deserves to be considered seriously. That is the suggestion that each of the current Westminster seats in Scotland should be divided into two, with the remaining requirement for 11 Members being made up from two regions. I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that that drives a coach and horses through proportionality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "must be addressed. If the amendments were accepted, we would have five systems. It is unfortunate that we have not had a real chance to debate the merits of the single transferable vote. We tabled amendments to that effect for this debate, but unfortunately they were not selected—I accept that there were good reasons for that. Surely STV would be the most elegant and sensible solution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "There would be support from their Welsh colleague, but the rest would reject it overwhelmingly. Whisky strip stamps are another issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "There would be support from their Welsh colleague, but the rest would reject it overwhelmingly. Whisky strip stamps are another issue— [Interruption.] Labour Members are asking about Divisions, so I would give them one on whisky strip stamps. That is an interesting and indicative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1273.6", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "r fourth in many others. In fact, with 3,659 votes in Strathkelvin and Bearsden, where there were five candidates, he would have come sixth. The absurdity that someone can be elected in one constituency with a vote that would not even have enabled them to come last in another needs to be addressed, so it is reasonable to consider a system that would give us more equally sized constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1273.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tories in Pollok?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Indeed, that is exactly what was said. Not only were the Liberals saying it, but the Trots, the nationalists and, indeed, the Tories were saying it in Pollok.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": " a list system of five or six to top up, depending on whether we want to make one seat of the Western Isles. I identified that kind of problem in my submission. Be that as it may, five or six MSPs crawling over the whole of Scotland has a certain appeal to me, as it will keep them busy and well away from me and let me get on with the work that I think that I do very well for my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Everyone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": " that kind of problem in my submission. Be that as it may, five or six MSPs crawling over the whole of Scotland has a certain appeal to me, as it will keep them busy and well away from me and let me get on with the work that I think that I do very well for my constituents—[Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"] I thank hon. Members. I do not know to whom Hansard will attribute that intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Folkestone and Hythe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment because I want to deal with the issue of the commission and its membership. We were extremely disappointed at the actions of the Leader of the Opposition—I cannot quite remember his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1293.2", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": "rather than 24 months, will be satisfactory—at least to me. I tabled the original amendments before 9 February , when this issue was previously debated. In the light of the work done by the commission since then, and having considered the various issues, I shall not press the amendments to a vote tonight—not least because of the contributions made by Members on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1303.0", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "pportunity to examine the problems of coterminosity, consider voting systems and assess the workings of additional member systems of proportional representation for the Scottish Parliament. However, the genuine difficulties and challenges in the Labour party were much more revealing. The Westminster group and the Edinburgh group take different approaches and the differences emerged in our debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "DATA PROTECTION LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "It is not the Minister's fault—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-04", "file": "debates2004-05-04.xml", "sha256": "f79c50b176b6d16a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "DATA PROTECTION LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The fact that it is not the Government's fault is one of the first things that needs to be put on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-04.1317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The position is exactly as I set it out when I was last asked that question. However, there is a difference between stating my personal view, which I previously outlined at the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "it is true that motoring costs have fallen, not risen, in the past few years. But the point is that we are making our commitment to transport clear by putting a substantial extra investment year on year into our transport system. As a result of the policies outlined by the shadow Chancellor, however, it is the Conservatives' proposal to cut in real terms the transport budget in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We removed the fuel duty escalator. The right hon. and learned Gentleman says that his proposals are not for a cut in every budget other than the NHS and schools, but the shadow Chancellor has said quite specifically that there would be no real-terms increases in any of those budgets. What that means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1334.4", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I would say to the Prime Minister that the policy of the Opposition is not really for the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1334.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1336.2", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Full answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I will certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "No, I am coming to the end of my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1364.0", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": "In fact, our amendment, which was not selected, supports compulsory leasing. Although the Government have consulted on that, they have not yet come out firmly in favour of it—I hope that they will do so. There is a policy vacuum from the Conservatives, as I said earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1409.2", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Christmas Day (Trading) Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "annot—or will not—give us the amount involved. That is absurd. We—the tribunes of the people and the defenders of the taxpayer—are given no information whatsoever by Ministers as to the sums that they propose to extract from the taxpayer to support a Bill. That problem remains and, sad to say, the Minister present has followed the pattern with which we are all too familiar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1427.4", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Genetically Modified Crops", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "I accept the distinction that the hon. Gentleman makes. The fact is that essentially the Government gave the green light—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-05", "file": "debates2004-05-05.xml", "sha256": "f60892ec615b2696", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Genetically Modified Crops", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "ty were fully debated and approved by elected politicians, and were in place before any GM crops were planted. It does not specify the rules, or in any way interfere with or pre-empt the Minister's planned consultation. Even a Minister starting out with every intention to put rules in place before further planting will find those intentions strained, if drawing up the rules proves difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-05.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-06", "file": "debates2004-05-06.xml", "sha256": "20c250053e9c78fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-06.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "one of the many hon. Members who enjoy showing constituents around the House. However, I have noticed lately that a key piece of our history is missing from the Royal Gallery—the death warrant of Charles I. That is one of the most important documents in the history of this House and of this nation, as a reminder of when our valiant predecessors put an over-mighty monarch firmly in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-06.1499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-06", "file": "debates2004-05-06.xml", "sha256": "20c250053e9c78fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-06.1514.2", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "e in Westminster Hall, this is one of the areas to be considered in the review that I am undertaking with regard to statutory instrument 309, which will take account of the differences between employed and self-employed status. I explained the timetable for the review process, and I hope in next week's debate to be able to say more about where it stands and to give hon. Members clearer time lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-06.1514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-06", "file": "debates2004-05-06.xml", "sha256": "20c250053e9c78fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-06.1521.2", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "are issues that have never been addressed, either by this Government or by previous Conservative Governments. Therefore, it would be helpful if we provided for the AFPRB to have a specific remit to keep those legacy issues under review. That would help us and the Minister. Indeed, it would help me when we swap places after the next election, as we would be able to have some independent assessment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-06.1521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-06", "file": "debates2004-05-06.xml", "sha256": "20c250053e9c78fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-06.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensation) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "who will be persuaded to vote with the Government today may, in a year or two, contemplate fighting a constituent's case for compensation. With the proposed standard of proof, they will find it very difficult to obtain the compensation that their constituent deserves. I ask hon. Members not to shame this nation by voting against new clause 3. That is what most reasonable people would expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-06.1536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ith the industry that produces and retails alcohol and a change in the education process, along with the sensible use of family pressure. We also need to give a message to those who give planning consent for large-volume, or vertical drinking, establishments, to get across that there is a need for social responsibility from the business and commercial community as well as from everyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.16.2", "colnum": "16", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "continent were the driving force behind the Licensing Act, and I thought that there had been varying degrees of support from all parties in the House for the experiment of trying to ensure that people drink sensibly over a longer period. I would also advocate that they eat more while drinking at the times of day when drinking is most likely to cause abuse, inconvenience and damage to other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.16.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Iraq: Security/Mistreatment Allegations", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that the hon. Gentleman uncharacteristically failed to listen to my statement; otherwise he would have noticed that I had answered all the questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Iraq: Security/Mistreatment Allegations", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that the hon. Gentleman uncharacteristically failed to listen to my statement; otherwise he would have noticed that I had answered all the questions—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"]—that he set out in his bluster, but I will repeat them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is seeking to extend the questioning of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.40.7", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Put it on the record.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "ho raised the question last week, and I passed a copy to the main spokesmen of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. We tried to contact the hon. Gentleman by telephone today to tell him that the letter was coming; we could not do so. We faxed it to him and I personally put the letter on the board when I came to the House to try to make sure that he had it in advance of today's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.40.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.41.1", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Documents placed in the Library—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "benefit improvements and the tax credits introduced by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. All that is in addition to the Warm Front programme. Let us consider what happened last winter. The House will remember that at the beginning of the winter, just before Christmas and subsequently, we continually heard from various prophets of doom that there would be a winter of black-outs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ort for wind power is matched by confusion and indecision about the future of nuclear energy, which emits no carbon dioxide and, according to the Royal Academy of Engineering, is more cost-efficient than wind. It is no surprise that every time the word \"nuclear\" is uttered, the knee-jerk response from the Liberal Democrat spokesman, who is not in his place, is that those who utter it are obsessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "rices that people have to pay for their electricity. The pool system operated on the basis of prices 40 per cent. higher than they should have been, and driving down those prices was the achievement of NETA—the new electricity trading arrangements. I am glad that my right hon. Friend the Member for Coatbridge—or at least, that is where she comes from. I think her constituency is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Page", "preceding_text": "s why I said that the renewable obligation should be put in place in two years to give home-grown industry a chance to get into place instead of our, once again, drawing in imports. The Government are really good at allowing that: they had the fridge directive and hundreds of thousands of our fridges had to go abroad to be decommissioned because we did not give our home industries time to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Page", "preceding_text": "tate to consulting Ministers of the Scottish Executive on the appointment of the chairman of the nuclear decommissioning authority, but quite another to ensure their assent. I make that point because the Government seem to make many assumptions about Scotland, particularly that the political map will stay unchanged for ever and that there will never be a Conservative Administration up there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-10", "file": "debates2004-05-10.xml", "sha256": "a2a949b6f36cd740", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.118.2", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "heir speeches, but some very interesting contributions were made. The right hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) spoke with his customary knowledge. I was in Sellafield fairly recently—I hope that I wrote to him at the time to inform him, but fear that I might have been a day late in doing so, and postal strikes do not help. It must have been in the second delivery, which never arrived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-10.118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "nyone else because much of the debate in Committee was constructive and intended to improve the Bill. I want to say a little about the Liberal Democrat amendments. I do not like to say more than is necessary about the Liberal Democrats, although we recently combined usefully on the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill, and I do not want to spoil the emerging affair between us and the minor party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Keith Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Hill", "preceding_text": "I rise with a degree of embarrassment, Madam Deputy Speaker, because I have lost my place, and I feel that the House requires an explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.217.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Whitehead", "preceding_text": "I am following the hon. Gentleman's argument carefully. Would not such a plan interfere with the market?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "I did not turn a deaf ear to the question. I did not hear it clearly. The truth of the matter, as the hon. Gentleman knows, is that the market is not perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "hat Tories believe that the market is ever right, that that has nothing to do with authentic Tory philosophy. The Tory party, throughout its history, has understood that there needs to be a proper balance between the intervention of government and other agencies and the free market. That is not a revelation. It is the view that has inspired the party of Disraeli, Shaftesbury and Wilberforce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.246.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "New clause 2?", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Turner", "preceding_text": "I, too, will try to be brief, as I know that many other important new clauses follow mine. New clause 2 would give the Government enabling powers to bring in a national tenancy deposit scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.250.6", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "ce of London houses is now so high, it is very difficult for anyone to use the right-to-buy provisions accordingly. I hope that Government Members will not adopt a prehistoric socialist opposition to right to buy. As my hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) said in ably opening the debate, it is the noblest ambition of all for someone to want to buy their own house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "slation, as we shall no doubt hear tomorrow. I shall not test your patience, Madam Deputy Speaker, by anticipating that debate. The truth of the matter is that there are still significant holes in the Bill. It is all very well for the Minister to say on the radio, instead of here, that he is interested in empty homes. We have been telling him for months that he should be interested in empty homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.283.4", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the specific figures. The process will cost more, but we shall achieve less. The Bill is a typical socialist measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Visitor Facilities", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "he need for oversight, with Black Rod, of the security of the Palace. We should acknowledge that this evening. I have read and read again the report before us, and I think there is an error here. We are in danger of conflating two separate things: the immediate problem of security and the wider aspirations to which my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham (Mr. Banks) referred at length on 22 April .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Visitor Facilities", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "include Parliament Square and the related roads. There is another point that the Deputy Leader of the House and the Committee may have not considered. There is a BBC studio on the green by the Jewel Tower that is hardly ever used. Some trade-off could be arranged with the BBC—I assume that it is the landlord—in order to provide additional space in either the interim or the longer term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Visitor Facilities", "cue_speaker": "David Lepper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lepper", "preceding_text": "In view of the spotlight that my hon. Friend is casting on the bookstall that he loves and that we have all used, he might have averted the danger of our receiving a letter from English Heritage in the near future telling us that that bookshop is also out of order, as was the Westminster Hall bookshop to which the Chairman of the Select Committee referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.299.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-05-11", "file": "debates2004-05-11.xml", "sha256": "1436a204bc61a648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Visitor Facilities", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 12 May , pursuant to Order [ 28 June 2001 and 6 November 2003 ].", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-11.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tom Brake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Brake", "preceding_text": "y lead to military action, is inappropriate does the Secretary of State agree with the idea proposed by the UN that a UN human rights commission should go to Sudan to investigate whether human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed? If so, what does he think the UK Government can do to assist that process and to ensure that that commission gains access to Darfur?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "Conflict resolution in Africa is a key priority for the UK Government. We continue to be actively engaged with our African, EU and UN partners in promoting the peace process in the great lakes region, and in supporting the transitional national Government in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was installed in June last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "lanation for not seeing it has already been given. It is that, in respect of the issues concerning Britain and detainees in British custody, these issues had already been dealt with and we were expecting—indeed, we have received—a further Red Cross report about people in British custody. When the right hon. and learned Gentleman attempts to extract the maximum political mischief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.349.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "This is actually not a party political point. There is support from all quarters of the House for this measure. I know how difficult it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.352.5", "colnum": "353", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is right: this Government have introduced legislation—to deal with a problem that has arisen under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "We are legislating for this year only. Of course, such things are of real concern, as I was arguing, to those who face high council tax increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.366.3", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. There was certainly some incompetence, but it is obvious that the Bill is a panic measure. We do not yet know, because the Minister is being so reticent, when he heard for the first time about the £100 payment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.367.5", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "I must press the Minister further and I shall return to the question whether the payment is a one-off or whether the Government simply intend to make similar payments year on year. It is a harsh fact of political life that once one gives a payment for cold weather or TV licences, for example, pensioners, not unreasonably, become attached to it, and it becomes politically difficult to take it away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.367.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "sion. The Under-Secretary presses me to say that the local MP is my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) , the Leader of the official Opposition. It might also interest the Under-Secretary to know that the other day there was a council by-election in Shepway in which a formerly Liberal Democrat ward was won by the Conservatives with a swing of 31 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " their winter fuel payments—there seems no reason for that early entitlement date. Changing it would not cost the Government huge sums of money. A set of pensioners will feel aggrieved that they do not qualify for the payment, even though they are 70 in December, because they were not that qualifying age three months earlier in September, even though the Department knew all about them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "en the legislation. As my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne and several of my hon. Friends pointed out, council tax bills have risen by 69 per cent. since 1997—equivalent to 3p on the basic rate of income tax. They rose 12.9 per cent. last year and are set to rise 5.9 per cent. this year. In Macclesfield borough council in my constituency, they will rise by 8.4 per cent. this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "e should note in passing that it is good that the Government now have enthusiasm for universalism and believe in non-means-tested, universal benefits. Perhaps, when the Pensions Bill is debated on the Floor of the House next week, the Government will make a policy U-turn—they have made lots of U-turns recently—to support an increase in the basic state pension by linking it to earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-12", "file": "debates2004-05-12.xml", "sha256": "07f471d008d5871a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Estimates and Appropriation Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " the Committees intend that the period in question be 14 working days. As he pointed out, in the past two years the Government and the Leader of the House have helpfully published a calendar of parliamentary sitting times, but of course, there is the inevitable caveat of flexibility. The intention is that common sense be applied, but half-term might cause problems, as the hon. Gentleman suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-12.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Conservatives will oppose the scheme, not least because they could not afford it if their spending cuts plan was implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "forward the Government's policy on the aviation White Paper and the response to it—we are collating the responses to it, including, I hope, a response from the hon. and learned Gentleman—we will be in a position to do as he says and have a debate. On pensions, there is cross-party desire—Government and Opposition—to do something about the workers in this difficult position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend reminds us, the Opposition only asked for two days, but we have given them three. That does not sound like winkling out to me; it sounds like being on the front foot. I hope, by the way, that the right hon. Gentleman will support the Bill and the new pension protection fund—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Indeed. It is extremely important that Sir Nigel, who is the chief executive of the NHS, is not a politician, but a public servant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Indeed. It is extremely important that Sir Nigel, who is the chief executive of the NHS, is not a politician, but a public servant— [Interruption.] He is telling it as it is, and he says clearly that things are improving and that the maximum waiting time for an operation is down to nine months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ruption.] He is telling it as it is, and he says clearly that things are improving and that the maximum waiting time for an operation is down to nine months— [Interruption.] That is half the level under the Conservatives, who are now heckling me. He says that things are improving all the time, with more nurses and doctors, and 167,000 more elective operations in hospital this year than last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The Welsh Grand Committee does not coincide with Welsh questions and will be on a different day—it was moved from the original day at the request of the leader of Plaid Cymru.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " Amnesty International in letters to me fall into a different category. Amnesty does not have access to UK detention facilities, but it has commented on a number of issues. I understand from press and media reports that Amnesty has said that it submitted a dossier to me in October last year. Some may call them reports. I received only one document from Amnesty last October. It is hardly a dossier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.515.3", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I would have hoped for a better intervention than that, but the hon. Gentleman should read exactly what the Prime Minister said. He said that the allegations that had been made and the issues that had been raised had been dealt with. That is exactly the position. The three issues raised by the ICRC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.515.6", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for the Minister to taunt us with this report? If he thinks that it is appropriate to read the thing out, he will read it out, but it is not for him to impose on us the burden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.515.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.517.3", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "That is not part of my ministerial responsibility for the armed forces. I am certain that the editor is not subject to military law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.517.4", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister confirm one thing? He stated categorically that the photographs were effectively fakes. Nevertheless, it was intimated by the Daily Mirror that they could be a re-enactment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the deaths of four young people, and what do we get? We get a point of order from Opposition Front Benchers. Families are outside listening, but the hon. Gentleman is interested only in procedural wrangling from the Dispatch Box. I will deal as best I can with that matter after the debate, but the hon. Gentleman shames his party in what he seeks to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "right hon. and hon. Members will recognise that it would not be appropriate to do so, given the other serious matters that we have had to address today. That is not to say that those deaths are not a serious matter; they are. I therefore intend to return to the issue at an early date. I feel I owe it to the families to ensure that the matter receives the prominence and public scrutiny it deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Daily Mirror .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "I begin by turning the attention of the House back to the points raised by the Minister at the beginning of his speech, particularly his mini statement on what now appear to be the faked photographs produced by the Daily Mail .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.532.5", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "They make reports, and those matters are then acted on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "I have given way more than enough. I have been very generous and I would think that you, Madam Speaker, would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Simpson", "preceding_text": "In the end, we might have to reconfigure our armed forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": " of a demonstrator by British forces in Basra on 4 October . The Minister said: \"On 4 October , on the periphery of a demonstration, British soldiers killed an Iraqi gunman in self-defence. His automatic weapon and ammunition were recovered.\"—[ Official Report , 6 January 2004; Vol. 416, c. 235W .] We read in the Amnesty International report of the death of Hilal Finjan Salman on 4 October .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-13", "file": "debates2004-05-13.xml", "sha256": "8600f45f6fa343b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Armed Forces Personnel", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "process issues to which reference has been made. For example, we were told that the practice of hooding was outlawed by legal directives on military interrogation, given in August 1972 and in the following year. Yet that practice was ongoing between April and September of last year. Why was the illegal practice of hooding, which may have contributed to the death of Baha Mousa, allowed to continue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-13.554.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.682.2", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "But it is not practical to have elections between now and 30 June . That is the date of the agreed handover to a provisional Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.682.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.682.2", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "But it is not practical to have elections between now and 30 June . That is the date of the agreed handover to a provisional Government. [Interruption.] It might meet the hon. Gentleman's point if there were a sufficient and detailed commitment to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.682.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.703.2", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "housands of children are being educated at school. Many ill people are being treated in hospitals. Oil and water are flowing again, in spite of attacks. Electricity supply is restored. Of course that does not hit the headlines, but it is the increasing reality in Iraq. In this extremely difficult situation, where do we find the Liberal Democrats? As usual, they are on the bandwagon of opportunism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "I wholly concur with that view. Let me turn to the views put forward in introducing the debate by the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Sir Menzies Campbell) . On 18 March last year, he said that we went to war on both a threat and a promise. There has been much rewriting of history in the past year by the opponents of war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.731.3", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.731.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's intervention. When Lord Heseltine introduced council tax, a BBC journalist asked him why he did not support local income tax. He looked at the camera and said, \"That is the Liberal Democrats' policy.\" In other words, he had no strong argument against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister confirm that that CIPFA review has an average figure of 3.75 per cent., which is also our average figure? CIPFA has 3. 8 per cent. as the average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ght that any minute we were going to hear about neo-endogenous growth theory, but we did not quite get to that. Given that my Sunday papers told me that a leadership election is now under way in the Labour party, I was impressed by the number of Labour Members who stayed in the Chamber, as I thought that they might be in the Corridors being canvassed or canvassing. It was good to see them staying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "That is a reasonable question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-17", "file": "debates2004-05-17.xml", "sha256": "314153b83cdcffda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yah-boo!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": " played rugby, he will know what I am talking about. We would love to be able to debate the issue across all three parties, but the difficulty is that the Conservatives have no policy at the moment. We know that the Government are thinking about, and consulting on, a new policy. However, I have here the Labour party's local government supplementary manifesto to its 1997 general election manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-17.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "ountry with a view to publishing details of each camera site so that people can see why the cameras were put there and the difference that they make. I have no doubt that it will be necessary for me to ask the local partnerships to consider whether cameras should be present on some sites or whether they should be moved elsewhere. However, the vast majority save lives. It is interesting that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.816.6", "colnum": "816", "heading": "A1", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.816.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": " presumably, and would be worth more than £1,200. If one then added back in the value of the employer contributions, one would get a figure of about £2,500, rather than the £2,385 we have been given. The figure is not clear. New clause 24 alone takes up six pages—one can see why we sought to divide the House on the timing of debates—that none of us really understands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " but perhaps the point was missed—one of the differences in terms of choice. During the period in question, an employee can choose to take out their contribution but not the employer's. Of course, because the transfer value is going to be used for pension purposes, it includes both the employer's and the employee's contribution. That will help to explain the arithmetic to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "hrough a Bill of 282 clauses and 13 schedules, which were debated in 22 sittings in Committee, at the end of the process, the Government suddenly decide that they need to include some definitions of what is being talked about. At times, while listening to the Minister, I felt that I was attending one of the lectures about pension schemes provided by the hon. Member for Northavon (Mr. Webb) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": "say whether a surplus can be considered in terms of the employer's benefit is a bridge too far. I have considered regulators across a range of industries and I have not yet found one from a trade union background. They all seem to come from that group of people who have been involved in the world of the City for many years. I am drawn again to the wisdom of Woody Guthrie, the American folk singer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ing with interventions from his colleagues, but we will discuss the directive further in the next group of new clauses. The purpose of new clause 18 is to write into UK law the \"prudent person principle\", as the Under-Secretary puts it. He talks about prudence. When the tectonic plates start shifting, it is incredible how junior Ministers get their ducks in a row and start to sniff the wind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ts could accrue to the UK financial services industry if we get this matter right. The UK industry is the most developed and sophisticated in Europe, and one would hope that it would be best placed to take advantage of a genuine cross-border market in financial services. The document produced by the European Federation for Retirement Provision has, of course, been my bedtime reading for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.919.2", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "rough 32 Government amendments is too much. I would be happy to give way if the Minister wanted to reassure me that, whether consequential or inconsequential, they are all completely technical amendments. It is wholly unsatisfactory to have 32 Government new clauses nodded through without the slightest explanation for the benefit of the House. I am still hoping that the Minister will put me right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.919.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "I accept that point and, given the suspension of the Assembly, such matters have to be dealt with by Order in Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "s set of amendments refers particularly to women, because if a person buying an annuity—typically, a man—fails to provide for his surviving spouse, it is women, typically, who lose out. In a number of forums—in the House, Westminster Hall and elsewhere—the hon. and learned Lady has stood up for women pensioners in particular and she deserves a great deal of praise for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am conscious of the fact that two Labour Members want to get on to TUPE and consultation by employers, so I will not detain the House for too long with these amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am conscious of the fact that two Labour Members want to get on to TUPE and consultation by employers, so I will not detain the House for too long with these amendments— [Interruption.] That is provided that they do not heckle me. The amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.945.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-18", "file": "debates2004-05-18.xml", "sha256": "e9bd83f2b14d19e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "[Interruption.] Yes, as I am advised to say by the Government Whip, that is very helpful. I am glad that the Minister is prepared to consider the case for pensioner members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-18.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.962.5", "colnum": "962", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "We have made it absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.968.5", "colnum": "968", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the hon. Gentleman that at the hearings that we have been holding, the chambers of commerce and the CBI have been expressing views that have changed from those that the hon. Gentleman suggests they held early on in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.968.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that he failed to read out on Monday all the very positive things that CIPFA said about local income tax? Has he decided totally to reject the idea of a local income tax, even though it is used in America, Japan, Sweden, Denmark and Swinland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm that he failed to read out on Monday all the very positive things that CIPFA said about local income tax? Has he decided totally to reject the idea of a local income tax, even though it is used in America, Japan, Sweden, Denmark and Swinland— [Interruption.] Sorry, Mr. Speaker, I meant to say Switzerland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.969.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that none of that will wash. People are interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Well, \"I certainly don't think that anybody ought to get in any kind of blind panic about this but nor incidentally do I think that there's anything very material that the UK Government can do and obviously one shouldn't blame the Government for oil prices rising.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Well, \"I certainly don't think that anybody ought to get in any kind of blind panic about this but nor incidentally do I think that there's anything very material that the UK Government can do and obviously one shouldn't blame the Government for oil prices rising.\" [Interruption.] That is a quote from the shadow Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.971.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.975.6", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to take points of order, but I must say to the hon. Gentleman that the House has been disrupted, Prime Minister's Question Time has been stopped and the best thing we can do is to get back to business as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "ingbourne and Sheppey (Mr. Wyatt), for St. Helens, North (Mr. Watts), for Ayr (Sandra Osborne), for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. McWalter) and many others. All have expressed deep concern, which we share, about the position of their constituents. I should add that my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) has been a stern social security saint, judging our stewardship of this vital issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "It is a very significant and substantial amount, and it relates to our arithmetic about the size of the scheme. It represents a very significant draw on Exchequer resources, and it will be larger if industry will make a contribution. I set out the four areas of work—stepping stones—and the six milestones. I think that Conservative Members were grappling with those two figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.988.5", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He's behind you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " assistance scheme, and gives us the power necessary to enable us to devise an appropriate structure for that help. I therefore commend the Government new clause to the House as the right route for achieving the outcome that we all desire. I now turn to the two amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) , who is not in his normal place, which is very confusing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman might consider withdrawing their amendments. Those are all the amendments to the Government proposal to set up a financial assistance scheme. The amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) relates to the pension protection fund. It would, in effect, make the pension protection fund retrospective. It provides an apparently simple answer to a complex problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "event insurance\", which underpins something called \"conditional fee arrangements\". It seems to me that the principle that the Department has opened up applies directly to the recovery of lost pensions. The Government are now setting up an after-the-event insurance scheme. The problem for my constituents, many of whom have worked for British United Shoe Machinery, is that the system will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.992.4", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "d it is important to remember that many people had to join a pension scheme as a condition of employment. A significant number of Members on both sides of the House have represented constituents in dire straits very ably, but I think my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, West deserves a special mention as a parliamentary champion of this group of workers, and indeed as a parliamentary hero—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.992.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.993.4", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, we have had several debates on this specific subject, which Opposition Members have raised over a long period. It might well be the case that it was the intervention from my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the Opposition that finally clinched the matter. There were then panic meetings among the Chancellor, the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State. The—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.993.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.995.9", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": " problems or establishing the evidence, which he claimed was the only reason why amending provisions could not be tabled sooner. I understand why sometimes quick and dirty, and sometimes long, slow and carefully considered, amending provisions are necessary. This new clause, however, has been turned out very slowly, but it has not been carefully considered and offers no detail on the scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.995.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been very active on this issue and I would be interested to know whether he regards the new fund as sufficient to address the problems that he has identified. If he does not, what does he think would be a better way forward? I am trying to help him, and other Members on both sides of the House, to identify that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Teutonic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Well, they say that humour is in. I should like to tease out one or two issues. First, we are delighted that we have got the compensation. Even those who are upset that it is only £400 million acknowledge that it represents a scene shift. I will not mention Teutonic plates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "t those were necessary requirements to become a member of the new organisation's board. Certainly, the feeling in much of the industry was that it would be worrying if those people did not have such qualifications—perhaps not all of them. One needs a suitable blend of people with knowledge of investment, funding and so on, and perhaps with a legal background. It is a matter of sadness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-19", "file": "debates2004-05-19.xml", "sha256": "6a6c6726a43b3ee2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "is case, of looking after my own. It might interest the hon. Member for Glasgow, Anniesland (John Robertson) to know that although I am indeed a lawyer, I am a shipping lawyer, so I doubt that I would be much use to the average pension fund and I would certainly not be much use to the board, although I suspect that the prospects of my being appointed to it under the current regime are pretty slim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-19.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "and revaluation. While that report recommends a reduction in indexation, it specifically recommends that revaluation should remain unchanged. We followed that advice. Finally, I should like to clarify the position on borrowing. I hope that my distinction between the cash flow position of the PPF and its funding position has already dealt with the doomsday scenario of the hon. Member for Northavon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1139.5", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "That is one of the reasons why, although technical, the amendments are very important. I am not sure that the House wants me to delay our business by dealing with that specific point now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1139.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1139.5", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "s why, although technical, the amendments are very important. I am not sure that the House wants me to delay our business by dealing with that specific point now—[Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"] Perhaps if I meet my hon. Friend in the Tea Room after the debate, we can discuss the matter at some length, or I could set it out in writing, if that is acceptable to him. Perhaps he would prefer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1139.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1139.5", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "rtant. I am not sure that the House wants me to delay our business by dealing with that specific point now—[Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"] Perhaps if I meet my hon. Friend in the Tea Room after the debate, we can discuss the matter at some length, or I could set it out in writing, if that is acceptable to him. Perhaps he would prefer— [Interruption.] Oh, let us deal with it now, shall we?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1139.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "This has been a long and hard road for those of us who served on the Standing Committee, which had some 22 sittings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1156.2", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": " it was always open to the Government to schedule Report for a different day, but they did not take that opportunity. That shows where their priorities lie. I should tell the Minister, before I share with him some other thoughts from the pensioners' parliament, that they were deeply unimpressed with the Age-Related Payments Bill, which we have the pleasure of debating in Committee next week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1158.5", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "On the basis of your ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I shall not rise to the previous intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1158.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": ". The work could and should have been done only by the Government. Why was it left to Dr. Altmann to produce her figures? They may be right and they may be wrong; I am not in a position to judge. Conservative Members simply do not have resources of that kind. But why have the Government so recently signed up to the notion that they should be in the business of finding out the scale of the problem?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "With respect, the Secretary of State is explaining why we have this delay, rather than whether it is a good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "Well, we did not vote against the Bill on Second Reading and I will come on to Third Reading in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1178.0", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "ful one, as we have seen during our deliberations on the Bill. I was interested to hear my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead (Mr. Field) developing his own line in stand-up comedy here in the Chamber last night. Apparently it is not true that he is going to combine his skills as a pensions expert with his new-found comic talents to star in a new British comedy film called \"Love Actuary\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1181.2", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "John Robertson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Robertson", "preceding_text": "I was not ready for that, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "I shall begin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-20", "file": "debates2004-05-20.xml", "sha256": "ee6f5a3046b1a9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill — 3rd Allotted Day", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": " figure means. The reality is that £20 million a year for the 60,000 people in question—that is what the £400 million amounts to—equates to some £330 per claimant, on average. There are obvious ways in which that money could be graded, and it is clear that some people will claim and others will not, but the figure that we are working with is £330 per individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-20.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-21", "file": "debates2004-05-21.xml", "sha256": "179dcbe95088ed20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-21.1215.0", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "sit on Wednesday mornings enables us to plan our very crowded diaries. The hon. Gentleman mentioned whistleblowers, and I pay tribute to Zad Padda, my constituent as a company, Fusion Personnel, if not as a resident—he lives in Birmingham. He has played a leading role in bringing the issue to public attention and has put his personal security at some risk by taking such a high profile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-21.1215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-21", "file": "debates2004-05-21.xml", "sha256": "179dcbe95088ed20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-21.1217.0", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Gangmasters (Licensing) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": ".\" There is still a very complex enforcement framework, and the Government need to do much more to bring it together. It is rather sad that one cannot verbalise the picture—that would be rather jolly—but it is entitled \"Architecture of Government activity against illegal working\". That is figure 1 of the report, which may reassure some people, but its sheer complexity rather alarms me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-21.1217.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-24", "file": "debates2004-05-24.xml", "sha256": "a3887d139632fd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I take seriously my hon. Friend's advocacy for Thurrock .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-24", "file": "debates2004-05-24.xml", "sha256": "a3887d139632fd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1296.4", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sir Brian!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "The wake-up call for football was what happened with ITV Digital, and I believe that the nationwide league, with its chair, Mr. Brian Mawhinney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1296.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-24", "file": "debates2004-05-24.xml", "sha256": "a3887d139632fd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1297.6", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "al heritage at Stonehenge and elsewhere, but when the Minister for Media and Heritage met people from UNESCO, did he take the opportunity to discuss ways in which we could do more, through UNESCO, to support cultural reconstruction in war-torn countries such as Iraq? Does the Minister therefore think that it would be vital to persuade the American Government to do what we have done recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1297.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-24", "file": "debates2004-05-24.xml", "sha256": "a3887d139632fd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "y on earth are they posting those soldiers, sailors and airmen overseas? Why are they concentrated on Basra and Baghdad rather than Bermondsey or other areas where they may be necessary? The answer is simply that the Government have made no coherent plan to provide additional manpower in the event of this sort of incident. That is why we propose the raising of an emergency volunteer reserve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-24", "file": "debates2004-05-24.xml", "sha256": "a3887d139632fd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "is a mood in all parts of the House in favour of a greater role for volunteers, and the Government should have conceded the point. We called for proper public information and training. The Government seem to be moving on that—all too slowly, but I predict that they will produce a booklet for every household in due course, setting out some of the threats and some of the necessary information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-24", "file": "debates2004-05-24.xml", "sha256": "a3887d139632fd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ed drafting in clauses 1, 2 and 18 on the meaning of \"emergency\"—although there was more to discuss—and of course amendment No. 93, which improves protection for human rights. At the end of our deliberations in Committee, I said that we had not had a sausage from the Government. Perhaps by now we have had a cocktail chipolata; none the less, there is more work to do in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-24", "file": "debates2004-05-24.xml", "sha256": "a3887d139632fd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "y the Queen may do so through an Order in Council if she is satisfied that certain conditions are met. So may a senior Minister of the Crown. However, that part of the Bill includes in the definition of senior Minister of the Crown, \"the First Lord of the Treasury (the Prime Minister) . . . any of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and . . . the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-24.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1421.6", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Consistency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brian H Donohoe", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that answer. He will know that on 2 December I asked the same question—and got the same answer, as it happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. Stornoway is an example of a place where an extremely efficient former social security office is now doing work for the whole United Kingdom. Some 15,000 employees of the Department for Work and Pensions are based in Scotland and many of them are doing work for the whole United Kingdom, which shows why Scotland's membership of the United Kingdom is so important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "What the Post Office is doing, with the support of Government investment and backing from the Scottish Executive, is maintaining a network of post offices throughout our urban and rural communities. I am very disappointed that Members are not willing to face the reality. We saw wholesale post office closures across the network under the last Government; what we have sought to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1428.4", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "BP", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "What a load of nonsense. The First Minister has rightly identified the fact that the declining population in Scotland is a problem: it is a problem now, and it will be in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1430.10", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Doug Naysmith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Doug Naysmith", "preceding_text": "Question 16, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1430.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1436.4", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ann Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Cryer", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend—sorry, hon. Friend; I have promoted him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "May I suggest one way of improving papers for Standing Committees—a sort of modernisation, perhaps even a tidying-up exercise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1458.4", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": " that the doctors got it wrong, and that the gender that they wish to be is not the same as that to which they were assigned at birth. My hon. Friend the Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) —he sends his apologies for not being here—is a doctor, and perish the thought that I should do a disservice to doctors by saying that they make mistakes, but the fact is that they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1458.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1458.4", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "e certainly made so far as intersexual children were concerned, as the television series to which I referred demonstrated perfectly well. One can go further. Who knows how the brain works? We still do not fully understand how it works. Who understands what triggers a person's brain—often at the very young age of three, four or five—to decide that they are in a body of the wrong gender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1458.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1465.2", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman picks a specific example and it is not for us to speculate what would happen in an individual church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1466.3", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "Of course it would be ridiculous to say that we could not have views about the strange practices of various faiths in different parts of the world. The hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1509.4", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has spoken throughout with the passion that we all expect of her. However, the right granted in article 12 of the European convention on human rights is the right to marry someone of the opposite sex. Strasbourg made it clear that it did not recognise same-sex marriage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1509.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "No, it would not. Sadly, I anticipate that this dreadful Bill will get on to the statute book, in which case my position is completely consistent. Although I will vote against the Bill, I have the slight feeling that I could be in a minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": " hon. Members for South-West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous) and for Gainsborough (Mr. Leigh). Although there were people who strongly disagreed with the line that they took, it was important that those issues were raised in such a way and in such a tone by those hon. Members. I also welcomed the contribution of the hon. Member for Daventry, who is always regarded as one of the more reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-25", "file": "debates2004-05-25.xml", "sha256": "e5468b44803692b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1537.0", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "ellous intentions, I am afraid that the Bill opens a can of worms, and we all know what happens when a can of worms is opened. New clause 7, which was proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr. Mitchell) , revealed the outcome: we will split asunder some people who are currently legally married if they wish to follow such a path. The Bill poses as many questions as it answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-25.1537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1553.2", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "In ensuring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1553.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1554.4", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "now Celtic midfielder. Only last week, death threats were painted in the area around his home in Glasgow. Can my hon. Friend the Minister tell the House how much of the welcome £8 million that the IFA has dedicated to football in Northern Ireland will be used to develop the skills of all young players there and, in particular, encourage them always to play the game and never to play the man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have increased the amount of green belt, not reduced it, since we came to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1570.2", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "As the Minister knows, school spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1570.2", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": " hand, but it happens to represent 40 per cent. of local government spending, which is a fairly large slice, and we have made it explicitly clear that it will be increased. Beyond that, as the Minister knows, the overall total for all services across all departments will be frozen for a period while we try to plug the fiscal black hole that we will have inherited from this Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1574.6", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "I suspect that the key figure for most council tax payers is this: despite the fiddled funding and the new burdens, Conservative councils cost an average of £57 less under band D council tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1574.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1585.4", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was of course leader of a council and has practical experience of such matters, so he speaks with great authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1585.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking nonsense. Local authorities that increased their council taxes by unreasonable amounts last year have this year recognised the reality that the public will not accept unreasonable large council tax increases and moderated their demands. That is good and I am surprised that he does not welcome the trend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "elective use of statistics to hide from the harsh truth. They tried to claim that Labour councils benefited from more generous grant increases. That is not true. Labour councils received an average 5.9 per cent. increase, but Conservative councils received 6.1 per cent. They tried to pretend that the Government had rigged the grant system so that all the money \"went north\". That is not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1588.1", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " to claim that Labour councils benefited from more generous grant increases. That is not true. Labour councils received an average 5.9 per cent. increase, but Conservative councils received 6.1 per cent. They tried to pretend that the Government had rigged the grant system so that all the money \"went north\". That is not true— [Interruption.] Such comments have been made time and again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ade very little reference to party politics. He made one or two asides about the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, but most of his speech was about achieving local government that met the needs and expectations of the people whom it serves. I therefore congratulate him on his thoughtful and constructive speech. I am sorry that the Minister for Local and Regional Government has left the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": " authority. The Audit Commission's judgment gave the council the maximum overall score for the use of resources, and its pattern of spend has not moved significantly by comparison with those of other authorities since it was established in 1998. According to the comprehensive performance assessment, the authority is a good authority in terms both of corporate assessment and its service assessment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest in that my wife, who used to work for Devon county council, has been seconded to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and I understand that I should put that on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "1, c. 759 .] What is his problem with snake oil salesmen? What did a snake oil salesman do to him in the past that makes him dislike them so? What remedy did he purchase that did not work—we have only to look to see what it might have been? He should think of the snakes that the snake oil salesmen must kill. I am glad to see extra Conservative Members in the Chamber for their Opposition day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1611.1", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "Cheap points scoring turns people off politics, which is one of the great tragedies of these debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "Last year, the Conservative leader of Devon county council, Margaret Channon, recommended an 18.2 per cent. increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": " the rise, which was fair because of the bad grant settlement. Last year, the hon. Member for East Devon said that the increase in Devon was the Government's fault because of the grant settlement, but the Conservative party also says that the Government have been taking money from the south to give to the north. The Conservative party cannot have it both ways, because it is one thing or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1613.8", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "I have already given way more than enough, and I want to make some progress. I have two or three more points to make. One of the most important aspects of council tax or any local tax is its transparency. The grant system is not transparent. I once heard it said that the Minister was about the only person who understands the maths involved in what he says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1613.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1615.2", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "I should love to give way but I am running short of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1615.2", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "ervices and grants. I could go on, because I have so much to say, but I know my hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) wants to begin his speech shortly. I conclude on this. We have heard much this afternoon about the balance of funding review and it is unrealistic of the Liberal Democrats to expect Her Majesty's loyal Opposition to give detailed alternatives to council tax at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "mber for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) , on the resources given to Macclesfield borough council. He spoke powerfully of the need to allow authorities to plan ahead and spoke at length about floors and ceilings. There are those of us, new to this game, who feel that we have already hit more floors than Frank Bruno and seen more ceilings than Zsa Zsa Gabor, but my hon. Friend was clearly on top of the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1622.2", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "mdash;the intricacies of the future of the balance of local government funding. Interestingly, Professor Gerry Stoker, who was mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Battle) , has contributed to those discussions. We have had a short, yet helpful—at least from our point of view—debate on local government finance. It is the second such debate in the past seven days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Town Planning", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": "numbers; that point has already been discussed. They cannot allow for local variation. Most parts of the south-east are screaming out that they do not want as many houses as the Government want them to take. However, for the past six months I have been asking for an extra 1,000 houses in South Shropshire, but the Minister still cannot provide them because of the centralised approach that is taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Town Planning", "cue_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colin Burgon", "preceding_text": "roposed extension to the ring road. I am not following a nimbyist line on this issue. My constituency has four or five key brownfield sites, and they are not in people's back gardens. I am amazed that anybody thinks that we could hit housing figures by building in people's back gardens. All I can say is that some of the Conservative Members who have spoken must have exceptionally big back gardens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-26", "file": "debates2004-05-26.xml", "sha256": "98874082f346ff3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1664.2", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Town Planning", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "r. There is a similar situation in many other areas. We need to build reasonably near to Luton, but we also have to build in other local authority areas. I have discussed these matters with the hon. Member for South-West Bedfordshire (Andrew Selous) , in whose constituency some of the new houses will undoubtedly be built. Some of my constituents may finish up living in his constituency, over time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-26.1664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1699.8", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "In fact, there are 14 authorities in wave 1, including two reserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1699.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1707.3", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am advised by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State that the Smith report on mathematics is being looked at energetically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1716.2", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oliver!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is always asking for more—that is his job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Iraq: UK Forces Adjustments", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": " of the General Officer Commanding. Indeed, as I indicated clearly to the House, that deployment is on obvious military advice. I have dealt with the immunity question already. On the question of location, I made it clear that it was a deployment to the Multinational Division (South East). The training package and the other matters that the hon. Gentleman raised have already been dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Iraq: UK Forces Adjustments", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": " send any further troops to Iraq. The next day, the quality broadsheets all said—they had clearly been briefed because they all had the same story—that 3,000 troops were to be sent. Now he says that 370 troops will be sent. Does he think that such media manipulation is likely to maintain the cross-party support that the Government have? I warn him that he is putting it in danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Whitsun Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "ell past their chapel-goers' bedtime. We do not get BBC 2 on digital in Wales; we get BBC 2W. That will mean that, tonight, instead of the excellent \"One Day of War\" which BBC 2 is showing—a programme about war all around the world, which has had loads of publicity throughout the country—we shall get \"Sara Edwards' County Set\", whatever that may be, followed by \"Ivor the Engine\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Whitsun Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might not have realised that that is exactly what I am doing by making this speech. The formula for S4C does need to be changed, and the Government are instituting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Whitsun Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "n part, but the bigger problem is that in 1997 there was enthusiasm in politics. We were told that things could only get better, and the public bought into the Labour party's proposal. Things have, of course, got worse rather than better. There has been a failure of delivery throughout the country, and people now feel let down by Labour. That is the background to their disengagement from politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Whitsun Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "s consensual point into some valid remarks about the successes of Labour politics and his point of view. We should all thank him for that speech. The hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Amess) is a regular attender at these debates. On this occasion he raised seven issues. Last time it was nine. On the last occasion he mentioned his local paper three times. Today, he did not mention it once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Whitsun Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " service broadcasting, which is a strength for this country. He is a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, and I know that the broadcasting organisations, which he listed, will note his remarks. It strikes me that if the Spanish situation had occurred here, Alistair Campbell would not have needed to write to Andrew Gilligan, because he could have picked up the phone and got him sacked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Whitsun Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " the situation is unacceptable to him and his constituents, and Department of Health Ministers must take that point into account, which is something that they will want to do. In general, the changes to hospitals discussed in this debate are the problems of success. The changes are the consequences of an expanding hospital programme—10 or 20 years ago, there was a hospital closure programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-05-27", "file": "debates2004-05-27.xml", "sha256": "d509dcd71a6cce60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Whitsun Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ges to hospitals discussed in this debate are the problems of success. The changes are the consequences of an expanding hospital programme—10 or 20 years ago, there was a hospital closure programme. [Interruption.] The changes have occurred because new hospitals are being built and older hospitals on different sites have become redundant, so we are discussing the organisation of improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-05-27.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-07", "file": "debates2004-06-07.xml", "sha256": "5b00ff5ca03ede31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-07.79.5", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Joint Activities with the National Assembly for Wales", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "support it. We recommend, as the Deputy Leader of the House said, that a quorum of both Committees should be required to be present, and that the rules should be relaxed to allow use of the Welsh language in all circumstances. I am delighted that a Welsh Member— the hon. Member for Caernarfon (Hywel Williams) —is here, who will no doubt seek to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-07.79.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-07", "file": "debates2004-06-07.xml", "sha256": "5b00ff5ca03ede31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-07.87.5", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Joint Activities with the National Assembly for Wales", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I refer my right hon. Friend to paragraph 7 of the report, headed \"Privilege\", which says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-07.87.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-07", "file": "debates2004-06-07.xml", "sha256": "5b00ff5ca03ede31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-07.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Nomination of Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "This has been a useful and largely consensual debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-07.111.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.141.6", "colnum": "141", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I call Paul Marsden to ask Question 11.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " who really should be getting the £100 will lose out. If the £100 payment is linked to people who pay council tax and is designed to help the elderly and those on fixed incomes, those who reach 70 after 26 September but who have paid council tax bills for this year really should receive the money. I am not a Department for Work and Pensions official who has pored over this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ntroduce such a wide-ranging power. The Minister can presumably confirm that there is no requirement that such payments be linked to council tax, even in debating terms. Such payments could be for anything: summertime payments, springtime payments, or payments for those aged 77 precisely. This is a very wide-ranging power. I have decided to try to help the Minister by giving him a menu of options.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Age-Related Payments Bill", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "should accept amendment No. 8. We need a proper support system for older people, planned ahead of time so that they know what is coming. In contrast, this Bill will literally be here today and gone tomorrow, as it offers one payment to be made because a problem exists and there is a bit of money to solve it with. We often discuss what the Minister thinks about as he lies on his bed at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "We were doing very well in getting through a debate of such sensitivity with reasoned, common-sense remarks from Opposition Members, even the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Dr. Tonge) , but the hon. Gentleman's comment is as ridiculous as his tie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": "For the benefit of the Chairman of the Transport Committee, I am happy to reply. The precise point is that it is not only I and the Liberal Democrats who are saying that—umpteen organisations, such as environmental organisations, scientific bodies and other very astute people, are saying exactly the same thing, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.195.2", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Marsden", "preceding_text": " development. If the White Paper on air transport is anything to go by, it seems that we are starting the new century having learnt nothing and are heading down a similarly destructive route.\" Those Members who say that this is not a problem and that we can continue to expand and everything will be all right should reply to those environmental organisations, which are particularly concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jenny Tonge", "preceding_text": "hen I challenged the present Secretary of State about saying that there would be 655,000 air traffic movements a year, I was told that that was with a third runway. But, of course, the previous Secretary of State had neglected to mention the third runway—economies of truth indeed. A new report from the Civil Aviation Authority in December 2003 admitted that numbers were underestimated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-08", "file": "debates2004-06-08.xml", "sha256": "fd62bb1255404826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Air Transport", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "If that was the best definition of sustainability that the hon. Gentleman could come up with, we had best leave the matter there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-08.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.264.2", "colnum": "264", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and I regularly meet Cabinet colleagues and Assembly Ministers to discuss matters affecting Wales. In March this year the police were given greater scope for combating antisocial behaviour when the third set of new powers contained in the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 came into force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman made clear his judgment about President Reagan in the debate on foreign affairs on Monday. For my part, whatever people said about President Reagan at the beginning of his regime, I remember that he contributed to reducing weapons of mass destruction, which assisted in world peace today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "For my part, whatever people said about President Reagan at the beginning of his regime, I remember that he contributed to reducing weapons of mass destruction, which assisted in world peace today. [Interruption.] Well, people can make judgments, but I give my judgment as best I can. I remember the many cynical comments that were made about that man, but he did contribute to reducing the cold war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that a number of the local education authorities, which have the right to make that choice, have decided that there will be some of those schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.267.5", "colnum": "267", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that we are all waiting for the final report on those matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.267.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": " believed in a private health service—Conservative Front-Bench Members have made it clear that they want to dismantle the national health service. Let me make it clear to the hon. Gentleman that the number of national health dentists has gone up by 10 per cent. since 1997. There are 36 more consultants than there were in 1997 and the medical school intake has increased by 60 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "To be honest, I am sure that that will be one of the questions that the Prime Minister will address when he appears before the House on Monday. He will make a statement and that is one of the matters that he can deal with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "House of Lords (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "he second Chamber will always be reactionary while it is staffed solely by people who have been appointed. It is also largely representative of the south-east of England and London, rather than the whole of the United Kingdom. That is what happens when the great and the good appoint the great and the good. They know each other because they live in the same streets in Hampstead and Islington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "House of Lords (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "; [Interruption.] It is also wrong to appoint people for life. We used to have a society in which people were appointed for life as professors in universities or as clergy, but surely we have now realised that the whole idea of patronage for life is not only undemocratic but wrong. The words of Isabella in \"Measure for Measure\" come to mind: \"But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "House of Lords (Reform)", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) is close to apoplexy. Those words of Isabella's should apply to all politicians, and we should not have ermine for life. Debates in the House of Lords, which I urge other hon. Members to attend, are always the last refuge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.300.5", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "ecognised, the helpful instructions that the Ministry of Defence tried to give them. That is a pretty small number of complaints to receive given the size of what occurred last weekend. I think that I met the hon. Gentleman's Taunton veterans on the Friday afternoon at the first major event in Caen, and I think that they enjoyed themselves, judging by what I saw of them during the afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.301.3", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "I am going to move on now. My hon. Friend has already asked me a couple of questions, and he may want to hear the answers later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Anne Picking", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Picking", "preceding_text": "It was closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.311.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "end's tribute to President Reagan, whose commitment to individual freedom, personal responsibility and the doctrine of peace through strength was exemplary. Does he agree, as millions of veterans would testify, that if the alternative approach of hand-wringing appeasement and unilateral nuclear disarmament had held sway, our world would be vastly less free and infinitely more dangerous than it is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "he Army medal office in his constituency. The Minister said that he anticipates that the Army will have cleared the backlog after two years. It that proves true, it will be a pleasant surprise. An article in Soldier magazine of May 2004 said that that is not nearly so likely an outcome, and it has been suggested that several years could be added to the time it will take to get those medals issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "preceding_text": "problem disappear, of what happened in 1853. Queen Victoria awarded a Royal Navy campaign medal, 38 years after Napoleon's final defeat at the battle of Waterloo. We should bear in mind the fact that life expectancy today is far greater than it was in 1853. My hope is that many of the 2,000 people to whom the hon. Member for Portsmouth, South referred will remain alive for many more years to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "preceding_text": "whom the hon. Member for Portsmouth, South referred will remain alive for many more years to come. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] I hope that, before they depart from this planet, they will enjoy recognition by their country. I suspect that it is not all simply the Minister's fault. I suspect that civil servants in the Humphrey style are saying that this is not the sort of thing that we usually do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Wareing", "preceding_text": "is always useful for anyone who is to be a Minister and serve in a Government to read chapter 14 of Anthony Sampson's \"Anatomy of Britain\". He says that there are two types of Minister: the Minister who controls his Department, and the Minister who is controlled by his Department. I would like to think that the Minister in charge at the moment is one of the former rather than the latter Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-09", "file": "debates2004-06-09.xml", "sha256": "c39f6eeb80c08cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Veterans' Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "hat we introduced in the early 1990s to encourage soldiers to buy homes—the Navy concentrated mostly on south-west England—was a disaster, and resulted in a big increase in people leaving prematurely. If we want to continue to attract and retain good-quality people in our armed forces, which are still under strength, despite the fact that the manning targets keep getting reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-09.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-10", "file": "debates2004-06-10.xml", "sha256": "bfb2b3bd685b13d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-10.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "red, it will be dealt with in the appropriate way. As a politician, the hon. Gentleman knows that it is not the case that elections under the previous system were perfectly in order in every respect. He knows from Northern Ireland, for example, that there was a regular slogan, \"Vote early, vote often\". He knows that there were other instances of postal vote fraud and electoral fraud. Indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-10.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-10", "file": "debates2004-06-10.xml", "sha256": "bfb2b3bd685b13d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-10.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right about postal voting. There was a Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-10.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-10", "file": "debates2004-06-10.xml", "sha256": "bfb2b3bd685b13d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-10.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Disability", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Given that I moved the motion, I did not think I needed the leave of the House, but if I do, I shall seek it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-10.483.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-14", "file": "debates2004-06-14.xml", "sha256": "123bfa660e93585e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question and for her observations about my previous post in the Northern Ireland Office—and I must say that I greatly miss it, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-14", "file": "debates2004-06-14.xml", "sha256": "123bfa660e93585e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question and for her observations about my previous post in the Northern Ireland Office—and I must say that I greatly miss it, too. [Interruption.] It is quite possible to be perfectly happy where one is and greatly miss where one was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-14", "file": "debates2004-06-14.xml", "sha256": "123bfa660e93585e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.505.3", "colnum": "505", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question and for elevating me to the position of Queen's counsel, which unfortunately I do not hold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-14", "file": "debates2004-06-14.xml", "sha256": "123bfa660e93585e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "community in which they now live. I also share my hon. Friend's frustration at the tendency not only not to accept good news, but to wallow in bad news, but the fact of the matter is that we are politicians, and that is world we live in. The problem is that other politicians, some of whom are not that far from me, glory in being able to generate such confusion. They do it in a dangerous way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-14", "file": "debates2004-06-14.xml", "sha256": "123bfa660e93585e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "G8 Summit", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ent procedures on debt relief remain bureaucratic and slow and fail the countries and the people they were designed to help? Do we not need to target aid to reduce poverty and achieve maximum value for every pound that we spend? Is it not the case that British aid is far superior in that respect—and in almost every respect—to European Union aid? Is there not an overwhelming case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-14", "file": "debates2004-06-14.xml", "sha256": "123bfa660e93585e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.541.3", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I hope that this is the beginning of an entirely new approach by the Liberal Democrats. I welcome that, having given them a good kicking—but, as the polls last Thursday suggest, not a good enough kicking—as regards their attitude to antisocial behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-14", "file": "debates2004-06-14.xml", "sha256": "123bfa660e93585e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "here is consensus on the issue and because we are seeking to implement common sense, it is inevitable that we shall not receive much publicity. People will not learn about this side of politics—about those who work together day after day in Committee, behind the scenes, changing law and making a difference to lives. I appeal to those in the Press Gallery to help us shed a bit of light—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-14", "file": "debates2004-06-14.xml", "sha256": "123bfa660e93585e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "ctions. As the court system cannot currently enforce the existing fine system, is there not a danger that the compensation orders will bite on the generally law-abiding, leaving the real criminals to escape? As I said, despite the new and improved figures from the Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, just 55 per cent. of fines were paid on time and collected in 2002–03—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-14.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-15", "file": "debates2004-06-15.xml", "sha256": "2417ba906a895f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.628.3", "colnum": "628", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There are states in different stages of democratic development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-15", "file": "debates2004-06-15.xml", "sha256": "2417ba906a895f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.629.4", "colnum": "629", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Bob Blizzard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Blizzard", "preceding_text": "Having just returned from an Inter-Parliamentary Union delegation to Brazil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.629.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-15", "file": "debates2004-06-15.xml", "sha256": "2417ba906a895f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Trade Unions (Political Funds) Reform", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan Djanogly", "preceding_text": " these must be approved by the Certification Officer. These rules must safeguard the rights of members by permitting individual members to contract out of contributing to the political fund\" and providing \"that contributing to the political fund shall not be made a condition for admission to the union.\" So what are the unions saying about the proposal of the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (John Mann) ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-15", "file": "debates2004-06-15.xml", "sha256": "2417ba906a895f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Transport", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "in connection with every speed camera in the country. Those data show why each camera position was selected, and what has happened since. It is therefore curious that the Opposition have said not a word on the matter. The hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) said at the beginning of the year that the Opposition wanted a national audit of all the camera sites. At the time, all the controversy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-15", "file": "debates2004-06-15.xml", "sha256": "2417ba906a895f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.716.7", "colnum": "716", "heading": "EU Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "system, it would be entirely conditional on the application of what is called \"the threshold\" and all member states would be required to contribute. I have read carefully through the Government's responses and I see that throughout Ministers say that they will \"defend\" the current rebate. That is super—very encouraging—but what we really want to know is whether they will keep it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.716.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-15", "file": "debates2004-06-15.xml", "sha256": "2417ba906a895f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "EU Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "The Government will accept our amendment and now they are agreeing to my comments. I should probably retire gracefully while I am still ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-15", "file": "debates2004-06-15.xml", "sha256": "2417ba906a895f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "EU Finance", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "ply had not realised until I made the mistake of starting to read the documents available for the debate. In that context, I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for your assistance in obtaining the omission from one of the key documents—that valuable piece of paper is now in my hands. Having said that, to my absolute amazement, I must agree with every word of the Government motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-15", "file": "debates2004-06-15.xml", "sha256": "2417ba906a895f46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "EU Finance", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "adually introduced for the new member states. I believe that the CAP should be abolished and repatriated, as I said, and that we should look again into how we subsidise agriculture—if we subsidise it at all. I think that there is a case for some selective subsidies, but they should be chosen at member state level. I am sure that we would want Welsh hill farmers, for example, to be protected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-15.736.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.767.4", "colnum": "767", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "What everyone understands is that the right hon. and learned Gentleman's position is to say no to not only this constitutional treaty, but any constitutional treaty, and then to renegotiate Britain's terms of membership of the European Union. People know that that position simply cannot be maintained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.767.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.772.6", "colnum": "772", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I think we will wait and see what direction the polls move in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.772.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.785.2", "colnum": "785", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall give way later, but I want to make progress now. If agreement is reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.785.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "awal from international treaty obligations on that scale would completely undermine our continued membership of the European Union. Such an organisation can operate only if all member states agree to abide by the rules. When the right hon. and learned Gentleman stands up to talk about withdrawing from the common fisheries policy and seeking to impose unilaterally legislation that undermines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": ", more than 50 per cent. of people voted for parties opposed to the constitution. If the Prime Minister presses ahead with agreeing the constitution, he will do so in the face of the democratically expressed will of the British people. If he does so, he cannot claim that he is representing the British people. That vote has rendered invalid his mandate to agree the constitution, if he ever had one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.793.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.798.6", "colnum": "798", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has read the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "rporate profits.\" Again, where would that leave the Government's much proclaimed red line? It talks about \"a common immigration policy\" and \"a move towards single EU seats in the different international organisations.\" For a start, that would mean losing our seat on the United Nations Security Council to an EU representative who, on all past evidence, would rarely represent the British view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I have given way to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I have given way to the right hon. Gentleman— [Interruption.]— I have given way three times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "ingly than perhaps any other experiment in international co-operation. The EU has promoted economic growth across the continent, it has safeguarded human rights and it has safeguarded the environment in every member state. Were it such a failure, it would be surprising beyond belief that 10 countries should have been so enthusiastic to become its members in the course of the past few months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-16", "file": "debates2004-06-16.xml", "sha256": "ded9a2f5ef3458eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " British National party, as we saw at last week's election. That should sound warning bells to all of us. At the heart of this should be the need to be absolutely clear and honest with the British people. It is no surprise that sometimes this subject is a big turn-off. It is dry. Only gadflies such as me read these treaties and have some of the literature by their beds to read late at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-16.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-17", "file": "debates2004-06-17.xml", "sha256": "a9813224b91aa475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-17.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "Do the Chancellor and the Minister recognise that the undignified retreat on fuel duties, the recent rises in interest rates, the level of household indebtedness and the halving of the savings ratio all bear out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-17.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-17", "file": "debates2004-06-17.xml", "sha256": "a9813224b91aa475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-17.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "egisters with up to 20 per cent. inaccuracies, which has led to thousands of postal ballot papers being sent out to the wrong people. In Newcastle and in Chester, even babies received postal ballot papers. The Chester Chronicle headline was, \"Blair's Babe: Voting slip 16 years early\". The Labour leader of Birmingham city council, Sir Albert Bore, has called for a national rethink on postal voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-17.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-17", "file": "debates2004-06-17.xml", "sha256": "a9813224b91aa475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-17.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "You would not have thought, Mr. Speaker, from that bravura performance that the Conservatives actually lost the elections last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-17.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-17", "file": "debates2004-06-17.xml", "sha256": "a9813224b91aa475", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-17.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Audit (Wales) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "nd transparency in relation to public expenditure in Wales, all of which will be very welcome. We agree that a single public audit body for Wales headed by the Auditor General is most desirable, given the current arrangement in Cardiff and the duplication. Some hon. Members might recall the slightly jocular tone that I adopted when I made a speech on this matter in the Welsh Grand Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-17.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.983.2", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "bstantive argument that people should have the freedom to choose what they do on Christmas day rather than having it restricted. I am sure that he acknowledges privately, if not publicly, that trying to isolate a store as non-Christian, requiring a register for a licence and identification of every employee is not a serious practical legislative proposition that any of us would regard as workable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.983.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.998.2", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "riend is getting carried away with his own rhetoric. The number of non-Christians in our society is 29 per cent.—almost a third—so we are not talking about a minuscule number. Furthermore, the proposed amendments—and, effectively, the Bill—relate to large shops only. My hon. Friend's scenario with the little Muslim shop on the corner being the only shop open does not apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.998.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1005.3", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "If our hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough were true to his beliefs, he would not accept Christmas presents purchased on Christmas day. So far as the magic of Christmas is concerned, what about the poor family who have a burglary on Christmas eve in which all the presents are stolen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ule 1. I might mention in passing—I will return to this theme on Third Reading—that I have looked at what happens in other countries. Although we should never slavishly follow what happens in other countries, it can sometimes be quite informative. I got the Library to look at what happens in broadly relevant and parallel countries, such as Canada, Australia and the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1007.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "As the Minister with responsibility for consumers, competition and employment, I welcome the Bill in every aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Christmas Day (Trading) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "he tenor of this debate and of the Bill. Perhaps the Minister for Industry and the Regions and her colleague should have a quiet chat to see whose view will prevail. We have heard the Minister who has just spoken welcome the Bill, USDAW and all its works, and so on, while the Minister for Industry and the Regions took a slightly more neutral position. It seems that the Government are of two minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1039.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1048.14", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "TELECOMMUNICATIONS MASTS (NEED AND SAFETY TESTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 16 July .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1048.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1048.17", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "CRIMINAL JUSTICE (JUSTIFIABLE CONDUCT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. Debate to be resumed on Friday 16 July .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 14 May ], That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1048.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-06-18", "file": "debates2004-06-18.xml", "sha256": "d2db20173f91795c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1048.20", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (TELECOMMUNICATIONS MASTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 16 July .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-18.1048.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1076.4", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "The Minister is absolutely right to pay tribute to reservists in the terms in which he has just done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1076.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " Prime Minister's claim that this is a success for him and for Britain? Is not the reality that there will now be new burdens on business and on our public services? Is not the reality that this constitution will make it easier for the European Court to use European Union legislation, such as the working time directive and the works councils directive, to bring in even more red tape from Brussels?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " new burdens on business and on our public services? Is not the reality that this constitution will make it easier for the European Court to use European Union legislation, such as the working time directive and the works councils directive, to bring in even more red tape from Brussels? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Have not business leaders already warned that the constitution will \"harm our prosperity\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "make it easier for the European Court to use European Union legislation, such as the working time directive and the works councils directive, to bring in even more red tape from Brussels? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Have not business leaders already warned that the constitution will \"harm our prosperity\"? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Will there not be more interference from the European Court on asylum policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "more red tape from Brussels? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Have not business leaders already warned that the constitution will \"harm our prosperity\"? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Will there not be more interference from the European Court on asylum policy? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Will that not threaten even the Government's own measures on asylum, including their plans to restrict benefits to those who apply late?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "l there not be more interference from the European Court on asylum policy? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Will that not threaten even the Government's own measures on asylum, including their plans to restrict benefits to those who apply late? [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Will not the Commission mean that the European Union can now interfere, in the Government's words, in \"almost any aspect\" of criminal procedure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "d by unanimity. It is true that there is power to establish a European public prosecutor but it can be done only by unanimity and, therefore, requires our consent. In respect of national Parliaments, yes it is true that if a third of them object they cannot block the European Commission proposal, but for the first time they are able to take objection to it and send it back to the Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ld ever want this country to be in. The real surrender is not the surrender of Britain's identity to a European superstate, but the surrender of the Tory party to a position on Europe that no Tory party in government, when faced with the responsibilities of government and when faced with the realities of government, would ever have dreamt of taking. That is why Lord Heseltine said yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me quote from the Maastricht treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1090.6", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Yes. There is no question of any constitutional treaty going through without the express consent of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1090.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "In respect of the European Court of Justice, many claims about the treaty have been made about previous European Union treaties and they have turned out not to have any substance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read the British newspapers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. A couple of days ago, the treaty was described in one of the Belgian newspapers as: \"A text in the service of Her Majesty . . . it was a text\" with a \"'Britainised' content that they approved . . . Great Britain set its mark on this game . . . the most determined European federalists had no option but to back down.\" I could read out about 30 similar quotations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that we should spend Government money on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-21", "file": "debates2004-06-21.xml", "sha256": "0e46e6b84783e64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Protection Agency Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": " the Government's review of arm's length bodies. He might have mentioned that one of that review's objectives is to save £500 million by 2007–08, but that seemed to slip his memory. My hon. Friend the Member for Erewash (Liz Blackman) pointed out that the agency will have the scope to raise standards. It will have the powers and the independence to publish what it likes, when it likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-21.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is now wriggling. What I asserted back in January was that we had been told by the partnerships—many of which are led by Conservative authorities—that all the cameras were in places that met the Department's criteria. The independent report that we commissioned and published has shown that about 5 per cent. of the cameras—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that the overwhelming majority of those 4,000 responses to the Strategic Rail Authority were hostile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1207.3", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ecrecy, immediately put the ballot paper into a secure box, which goes straight to be counted, or specifically requesting, as the hon. Gentleman described, a postal vote, the whole country now receives a confetti shower of charged, loaded, undetonated ballot papers that are designed to provoke higher returns but are open to all manner of maldistribution and malpractice on the way to being counted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1208.4", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "In a nutshell, when a postal vote is specifically requested, it goes directly to an individual person who wishes to participate in the ballot. That is not the case in all-postal ballots. Indeed, scattering ballot papers all over the place is a process that is almost impossible to police. One person found that their vote was up for auction on the eBay website—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1208.6", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "The whole point is that these practices are almost undetectable, but they destroy confidence. Let us consider the basic administrative problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1208.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1212.3", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "e number of rejected ballot papers has been so insignificant that it has hardly mattered. But when it reaches the level of say, 1 per cent. or 2 per cent., it begins to matter. That is not just because it might be thought to have an effect on the result of marginal contests, but because when subtracted from apparent total turnout, it shows that increased participation is not quite what is claimed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "All I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "All I am saying— [Laughter.] Well, it is a good crack. However, there is a difference between a so-called reputable public opinion poll and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1229.3", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "I have it here—in the Evening Standard report of a poll. I shall give it to the hon. Gentleman later if he wants to see it. If there had been a run-off, that would have been the result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ple claim not to know that an election is being held. It takes quite a lot of effort to ignore all that. I suggest that those people are unlikely to have bothered to give the election any thought at all. They will not have considered the issues involved, or compared the attributes of the various candidates. They disfranchise themselves by neglect and treat their privileged vote with disdain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Boswell) raised important points about the additional costs of the pilots and the Government must address those. He was right to point out that the pilots were over-ambitious. We all knew that the pilots were over-ambitious. Evidence to the Select Committee was that the pilots were over-ambitious. The Electoral Commission, which the Government set up to advise them, told the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "he pilots and the Government must address those. He was right to point out that the pilots were over-ambitious. We all knew that the pilots were over-ambitious. Evidence to the Select Committee was that the pilots were over-ambitious. The Electoral Commission, which the Government set up to advise them, told the Government— [Interruption.] Whether we want to keep the commission or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "rd, Derby, Oldham, and Rochdale—to name but a few places. The system of all-postal voting allows possibly countless instances of intimidation and breach of secrecy in the home or the community that may never be reported or come to light. If the Minister thinks that the only speeding offences committed on the roads are those caught by the cameras and the police, he is living in another world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1253.3", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " my colleague, he certainly confirmed that what the Minister described as a myth is, in fact, dangerously true, given the problems in his constituency and, of course, elsewhere. The hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Singh) described the Minister's statement as \"ludicrous\" in the Yorkshire Post this morning and said that the all-postal pilots led to \"cash and carry democracy\" in his constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Electoral System", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " overstating the extent of improvement in voting in the all-postal pilot areas, and the hon. Member for North Essex made a similar claim, so let me give the figures. In the four pilot regions the average percentage turnout in the 1999 European elections was 20.2 per cent. This year it was 42.6 per cent.—an increase of more than 100 per cent. The increase in the total non-pilot regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "NHS Recruitment and Retention", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "it through a reputable research company and published the results, so that seems perfectly reasonable to me. On the issues relating to nursing, we know that during the past 10 years the average age of nurses has increased from 37 to 41. We know that half the rise in the number of nurses registered in the UK is the result of overseas recruitment, and there are issues about the sustainability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "NHS Recruitment and Retention", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is trying to make a partisan point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1271.6", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "NHS Recruitment and Retention", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the Secretary of State. I have said it once, and I say it again: we will not impose targets on the NHS, but there are responsibilities for the Department of Health, and they include stimulating the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1271.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1272.0", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "NHS Recruitment and Retention", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has demonstrated three times that he does not understand. It is perfectly clear that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "NHS Recruitment and Retention", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not answer—or rather he answered wrongly—my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "NHS Recruitment and Retention", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "heir children will only be treated if the parents sign up for private dental treatment. The issue of dental provision is a serious weakness in the Government's strategy. The chief executive of the local primary care trust wrote to me on 14 June to say that he had expected the recommendations of the Government's review \"to be available to the PCT by mid-May so that we could begin to make progress.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-22", "file": "debates2004-06-22.xml", "sha256": "1b807c7070386fcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1296.6", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "NHS RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "miliar with the hospital because she visited it on 3 March . Unfortunately, however, answer came there none from Ministers in the European Standing Committee; they were unable to explain how a small hospital could employ sufficient consultants to comply with the requirements of the European working time directive. As her hon. Friends left the question unanswered, will the Minister answer it today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-22.1296.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1327.3", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "That is nonsense. A report in The Times does not guarantee that a story is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1328.8", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "arious programmes, sometimes for reduced admissions in specific areas. The programmes are often for school children to encourage the use of sports facilities. I agree with the hon. Gentleman that that can make a big difference in deprived areas and we would encourage more of it. There are some great programmes, such as the street games programme, which we would like to be developed in other areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1328.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1334.2", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": ". However, what is important is that, as a means of getting that—let us be honest about it: not everyone is in the position where they have a decent hospital or school on their doorstep—if there is spare capacity elsewhere within the system as we increase capacity, they should have the freedom to go elsewhere within the national health service. That is precisely what we are advocating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1337.3", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "In certain areas, there will be a greater right of co-decision through the European Parliament. That is important, but there will also be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill [Lords] [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "ent expenditure or proposals and it certainly was not clear from the explanatory notes that accompanied the Second Reading what the financial and manpower impact of the new provisions on compensating victims of crime will be, because those provisions were drafted so late in the day. In fact, I am pleased to hear that the Minister has tabled those amendments. I have yet to see the latest set—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Colleagues and me, correct. We came to vote, but by the time we arrived, the Tellers had disappeared. There were four Opposition Members whose votes were not counted. Can you advise us, Mr. Deputy Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1378.3", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I can probably help the House on this matter. I obviously express my regret to the hon. Member and others who were deprived of having their vote counted. However, the Chair has to accept the Tellers' report. There is a system in operation whereby the Tellers are informed whether the Lobby has been emptied of all those who were willing to come out and be counted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1378.5", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Higher Education Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "It therefore becomes even more a matter of mystery why, within the time available, everyone had not exited from the Lobby. I really do not think that I can add anything more to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order for the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-23", "file": "debates2004-06-23.xml", "sha256": "ceeebdad8232a4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "TURKEY (EU ACCESSION)", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "rovided that the criteria are met, would send a negative message around the world about the EU's credibility. There are some who argue that Turkey is not European, historically, culturally or geographically. I think they do not know their history, their culture or their geography. Turkey's history is Europe's history. From Ephesus to Byzantium, from St. George, who many say was an Anatolian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-23.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept my stronger bid? If Prue Leith succeeds in her plan for a visitor attraction, chefs' training centre and food hall in the Great British Kitchen at Stafford, would my right hon. Friend regard Stafford as sufficiently rural—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1434.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1451.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "l be directed towards increasing capacity for everyone in this country. None of it will be diverted as a subsidy for the relatively well-off few to jump the waiting queue. I can also tell the House today that under that new programme we will limit the whole patient journey from GP referral through out-patients and diagnostic tests and finally to treatment. There will be no more hidden waits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1451.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " be able to choose from a range of services that best meet their needs and preferences. We have been introducing that scope incrementally, as capacity in the NHS increases. By the end of next year, for instance, all patients who need to be admitted to hospitals for elective care will be offered the choice of four to five providers at the time that they are referred for treatment by their GP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1451.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ementally, as capacity in the NHS increases. By the end of next year, for instance, all patients who need to be admitted to hospitals for elective care will be offered the choice of four to five providers at the time that they are referred for treatment by their GP—[Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"]. That pledge, which appears to be news to Members on the Opposition Front Bench, was made three years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1451.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1451.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "w that I want to go further still today. I can tell the House today that, by 2008, every patient referred by their GP will be able to choose to be treated at any facility in England—including, of course, their local hospital—that meets NHS standards and can provide care at the NHS price for the procedure that they need. [Interruption.] From a sedentary position, I am being asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "r choice is in reality for everyone, paid for by the NHS and backed by further resources in the NHS, by continuing reform and by new patient rights. But there is another group of patients for whom local services in the community are important—at least to Labour Members—so we will extend the greater personalisation of patient care to people with chronic and long-term medical conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ients for whom local services in the community are important—at least to Labour Members—so we will extend the greater personalisation of patient care to people with chronic and long-term medical conditions. [Laughter.] Those people are not a matter for laughter; they are people who are suffering from some incurable and extremely difficult illnesses—arthritis, diabetes and asthma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " has the chance to live a healthy life, and to foster prevention as well as providing cures. The White Paper that I will publish in the autumn will set out in more detail our plans to tackle the major causes of ill-health, including smoking, obesity and sexually transmitted infections. We will do that by ensuring that the NHS takes a leading role, but that it involves other relevant organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "is country to the people of this country—our national health service—will not only retain its basic fairness and equity, but be able to meet the expectations of all our people in this new century irrespective of their wealth, race, geographical dispersion or social standing and background. That is how the national health service started and that is how we will continue in this century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "he NHS tells me that they need more targets. They tell me that they need less bureaucracy, fewer targets, more autonomy and more resources which reach the front line. Today, we have heard the Secretary of State reiterate Labour's pigheaded belief that setting a target is the same as getting things done. It is not. It is the staff in the NHS who get things done. It is the doctors, the nurses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "he front line. Today, we have heard the Secretary of State reiterate Labour's pigheaded belief that setting a target is the same as getting things done. It is not. It is the staff in the NHS who get things done. It is the doctors, the nurses— [Interruption.] Is the Minister arguing with me? It is the doctors, the nurses, the professionals in the NHS, the support staff and the managers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1454.3", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "w along. But there is a big difference between the way in which we are going to deliver care for those with long-term diseases and the Government's approach. We are going to design the service around the needs of patients, and there will be an entitlement to a standard of care. The Secretary of State, however, says that he will have community matrons. Community nursing would be a jolly good thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1454.3", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "NHS Improvement Plan", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "to 2.9 million and that the number of episodes of care from district nurses has gone from 2.2 million to 1.9 million. It has gone from 370,000 to 320,000 for community mental health nursing; from 930,000 to 830,000 for chiropody; and from 1 million to 500,000 for community dental services. We are not going to take any lessons from the Secretary of State about what is needed in the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1454.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1475.3", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ith hindsight the European Union is not acceptable since we joined . . . The whole thing was probably a mistake\". He also said: \"The process of renegotiation is a precursor to withdrawal\". There we have it. That is the real policy of the Conservative party. It is supported by the right hon. Gentleman and it is getting lots of nods on the Conservative Back Benches and in their constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-24", "file": "debates2004-06-24.xml", "sha256": "820cd3913e91b499", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [3rd Allotted Day] — ESTIMATES, 2004–05 — Highways Agency", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " a responsible Government to invest in our highway network. I assure him that the next Conservative Government will invest seriously in the highway network in the same way as we did when we were last in government and I was privileged to be the Minister for Roads and Traffic. I opened more roads during the year or so that I was Minister than this Government will start work on in a two-year period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-24.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-28", "file": "debates2004-06-28.xml", "sha256": "17338974fc8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "If people looked at the figures for Paris and Madrid, the two countries that were ahead of us, they would find that one reason we were marked down was the uncertainty of the impending mayoral elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-28", "file": "debates2004-06-28.xml", "sha256": "17338974fc8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.52.3", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "ed, the potential donor audit asked relatives why they said no. In the main, they did not say no because the deceased did not want to donate. In 26 cases, the reason given in the audit was: \"Next of kin not sure whether patient would have agreed to donation.\" That would be solved by presumed consent, as the relatives would be given a presumption because of the failure to opt out where that occurs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.52.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-28", "file": "debates2004-06-28.xml", "sha256": "17338974fc8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " a doctor is struggling to save some patient at a time of grief, the system fails. How can we expect a doctor to summon up the energy to ask the dreadful question, \"Can we have organs?\" One cannot blame them, as human beings, for not wanting to do so. I rest the argument for the moment on the point of maximum grief. Given the history of the matter, is it really necessary to have a three-line Whip?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-28", "file": "debates2004-06-28.xml", "sha256": "17338974fc8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was not him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " the system fails. How can we expect a doctor to summon up the energy to ask the dreadful question, \"Can we have organs?\" One cannot blame them, as human beings, for not wanting to do so. I rest the argument for the moment on the point of maximum grief. Given the history of the matter, is it really necessary to have a three-line Whip? [Interruption.] The former Secretary of State for Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-28", "file": "debates2004-06-28.xml", "sha256": "17338974fc8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "If anyone were at the point of calling lawyers, it would be accepted under the regulations as evidence of people reacting under \"significant distress\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-28", "file": "debates2004-06-28.xml", "sha256": "17338974fc8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.78.6", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": " debate on the issue? The Government may say that they will do nothing and, from what my right hon. Friend said earlier, I suspect that may be the case. However, I should like to know what they would do to promote public debate, as one of the reasons why I shall not vote for the new clause is that I have sat through the whole debate on this group, which has focused on new clauses 1, 2 and 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.78.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-28", "file": "debates2004-06-28.xml", "sha256": "17338974fc8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.92.0", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "I draw the hon. Gentleman's attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.92.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-28", "file": "debates2004-06-28.xml", "sha256": "17338974fc8ece78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.111.3", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "uch a code must deal with in respect of the hierarchy of qualifying relations that are relevant to obtaining consent from those close to a deceased person. The Government are not persuaded of the need for amendment (a) to Government amendment No. 26, which was proposed by the hon. Member for Oxford, West and Abingdon (Dr. Harris) . We believe that it is unnecessary because the authority can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-28.111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-29", "file": "debates2004-06-29.xml", "sha256": "f335e2ccb09bad31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-29.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Marshall", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Marshall", "preceding_text": "May I say to my hon. Friend that I am 63 years old and live in the Shettleston constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-29.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-29", "file": "debates2004-06-29.xml", "sha256": "f335e2ccb09bad31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-29.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "DEPARTMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "The trials were very successful in Leicester. Turnout increased in all three Leicester constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-29.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-29", "file": "debates2004-06-29.xml", "sha256": "f335e2ccb09bad31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-29.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "London Schools", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that. I will come on to some of the broader figures, but the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) raises a legitimate point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-29.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-29", "file": "debates2004-06-29.xml", "sha256": "f335e2ccb09bad31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-29.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "London Schools", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ils need to be practising Christians. In my judgment, one can sustain the ethos of any school—be it a Jewish, Buddhist or Muslim school—provided that a quarter or more of pupils come from the background in question. That said, the issue is of course open to debate. I am clearly against the Greenwich judgment, which is wrong. It is sad that the Tories and Labour did not repeal it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-29.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Trimble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Trimble", "preceding_text": "I welcome the fact that the Government are finally planning in the autumn to have a series of intensive discussions, which, unfortunately, are much postponed. Will the Secretary of State make it clear, however, that that is not just yet another target but that it really is a deadline, and that the Government will stick to this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.272.6", "colnum": "272", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "I heartily agree. It is of course essential for children from all communities to experience not only the religious traditions of the other side, but the breadth of other faiths and world religions, which we are trying to make part of the curriculum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.272.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Let me deal straight away with the Prime Minister's last point. My constituent was told that she would have to wait 20 months for radiotherapy. It turns out that that was a mistake. She should have been told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "nt. My constituent was told that she would have to wait 20 months for radiotherapy. It turns out that that was a mistake. She should have been told— [Interruption.] She was told 20 months, but she should have been told 20 weeks, which is five months. If the Prime Minister and the party in government think that a five-month wait for treatment for someone with a life-threatening illness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let the right hon. and learned Gentleman speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I really do welcome this debate. First, let me point out to the right hon. and learned Gentleman—again—that actually, all schools are given far greater freedom now than under the previous Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.275.5", "colnum": "275", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "he truth is that, under his system, a tiny proportion of schools will get more freedom; under ours, they all will. Under his system, successful schools will not be allowed to expand; under ours, they will. The freedom that our system brings will drive up standards in all schools and allow teachers to impose discipline in classrooms. Does it not all boil down to this: under our system, every—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.275.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "NATO Summit/Special EU Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must wait a little longer in suspense for the answer to his last question. I thank him for his immensely constructive contribution—I do not know whether there is any significance in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "NATO Summit/Special EU Council", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "I know that my right hon. Friend will join me in wishing every success and a safe return to my constituents who are currently serving with the Cheshire Regiment in Iraq. On NATO training, is it our intention to play our part in that equation, and will we be offering the resources at Shrivenham and the wonderful royal college of defence studies to that retraining effort?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Regional Government", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " the abolition of the non-elected regional chambers. I asked him \"what estimate he has made of the costs of abolishing regional chambers . . . where an elected assembly is established; and how those costs would be met.\" He replied: \"It will be for the voluntary regional chambers to decide whether they should abolish themselves.\"—[ Official Report , 8 March 2004; Vol. 418, c. 1228–9W .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Regional Government", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Take them to court, then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "mpliance with the guidelines in respect of the Government's information campaign. Not only does that campaign fail to inform the public; we are advised that the \"Your Say\" leaflets produced earlier this year are clearly intended to promote a yes vote in a referendum. They are therefore in breach of the Government's own guidelines on the work of the Government Information and Communication Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Regional Government", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It's tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "sh;the Deputy Prime Minister—that he has to \"pull the plug\". The Deputy Prime Minister was due to meet Labour MPs in the three northern regions yesterday to discuss whether the Government should continue with the referendums. Well, what happened? Perhaps the Minister would like to inform the House of the outcome of those discussions because they clearly have a bearing on the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.317.5", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Regional Government", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ere lots of problems. A new problem is likely to arise in all-postal referendums: the possibility of massive vote harvesting. The Government must abandon the principle that ballot papers should be sent out in the post to anybody and everybody whether or not they have requested them. That is a recipe for electoral fraud, and it invites the misuse of those ballot papers. If interest and party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.331.3", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Regional Government", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will understand that I was referring to exactly the point that I was making in response to my right hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead, East and Washington, West (Joyce Quin) . The outcome will depend entirely on what particular proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Regional Government", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "s a fair point, but he will recall that the proposal was made against a background where the number of assistance and delivery points attracted criticism in the House when we debated the matter last week. In response to concerns, we have significantly increased the number of assistance and delivery points. It is never possible to provide a single point for the convenience of every community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Regional Government", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "We believe in devolution within our own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Business Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "oday. Until she is prepared to admit that the behaviour of her MEPs is unacceptable, she and her team will have to accept the charge that she and they are dangerously relaxed about the loss of UK plc's hard-won flexibility, against which she fought tooth and nail in opposition and on which the Liberals would only ever have an opportunity to chunter, as they would not understand the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-06-30", "file": "debates2004-06-30.xml", "sha256": "06e07197ba753379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Business Deregulation", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "That is very interesting. I know that my hon. Friend is an assiduous attendee of the Committee. If Opposition Members have good ideas or believe that what the Government are doing is fundamentally wrong, the very least they can do is turn up, explain why and put their views on the record. If they do so, they may even have some chance of influencing what happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-06-30.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any Conservative Member will be coveting the Leader of the Opposition's job, given his dismal performance recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am deeply grateful for my right hon. Friend's support on Iraq, although I must add that he is in good and wide company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.458.6", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "sident Mugabe would dearly like us to seek action by the Security Council and then fail, as that would deliver him the propaganda coup of exposing divisions within the international community. Our view is that doing so now—to try but to fail—would put the cause of democracy in Zimbabwe back, not forward. I have spelled out the action that we have been taking, and that remains the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.458.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "seven years I could indulge in a sort of \"recherche du temps perdu\", but it would serve little purpose because although Zimbabwe's problems are rooted in the past, they are very much current and in the future. Four years on from the last rigged parliamentary elections and two years on from the \"stolen\" presidential election, preparations for the next parliamentary elections are already being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.491.2", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Wyatt", "preceding_text": "utside Zimbabwe in order to put in place the necessary systems, investment and training. It surely is not beyond the wit of Britain to take that lead. I want far greater investment in the people of Zimbabwe who are in this country to prepare and train them for when they return. Sport has obviously been a big part of my life. I once played on the wing for England; fortunately, it was the left wing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "ch measures should be carefully targeted so as not to make the lives of the ordinary, innocent citizens of Zimbabwe, who, goodness knows, have suffered enough, any more difficult than they already are. Where there is perhaps a difference—and I should like to address this at the outset—is over the suggestion that Britain should take unilateral action against Zimbabwe and its Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.519.6", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "ken today about adding names to lists and so on. The suggestion has certainly been made in the past, and Government Members have attended many debates on Zimbabwe in Westminster Hall where demands for unilateral action have been made. From the outset, the Government have taken the view that if we are to be effective we must act in concert with our friends and allies in the international community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.519.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-01", "file": "debates2004-07-01.xml", "sha256": "a891a51b18d2e741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Zimbabwe", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "nd the Foreign Secretary made it clear that we will not ban people from playing cricket here or British citizens from playing cricket in Zimbabwe. At the end of the day, it is a matter for individuals and for the cricketing authorities. Whether British cricketers tour Zimbabwe is a matter for them. The Government have made it clear that we would prefer them not to go. We have said that repeatedly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-01.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-05", "file": "debates2004-07-05.xml", "sha256": "c847386616d56513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Smith", "preceding_text": "Thanks to the new deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-05", "file": "debates2004-07-05.xml", "sha256": "c847386616d56513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Postal Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He comes from a business background, and he can anticipate the problems that businesses encounter. This is a serious issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-05", "file": "debates2004-07-05.xml", "sha256": "c847386616d56513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.557.6", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Postal Services", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": " 2 million Post Office card accounts have already been opened. That scarcely bears out the absurd allegations being made about how we are biasing the system, driving people away from the Post Office card account and making it impossible for anyone to open one. That is complete nonsense.\"—[ Official Report , 24 March 2004; Vol. 419, c. 909–10 .] Well, if it is \"complete nonsense\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.557.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-05", "file": "debates2004-07-05.xml", "sha256": "c847386616d56513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Postal Services", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "ces. I confirm that we care, which is why we are investing £2 billion in the post office network, and why we are spending £10 billion a year more on pensioner incomes. People listening to this debate will find it hard to resist the suspicion that the Conservative party's newly discovered concern for post offices in Leicester, South and Birmingham, Hodge Hill is nothing but opportunism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-05", "file": "debates2004-07-05.xml", "sha256": "c847386616d56513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Personal Indebtedness and Savings", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-05", "file": "debates2004-07-05.xml", "sha256": "c847386616d56513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Personal Indebtedness and Savings", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady made a very serious intervention about wallets, purses and pensions, and it is something with which we are wrestling, but, on her last point about the child care tax credit, I am afraid that she is completely up the spout. We have made it perfectly clear that we have no intention whatsoever of doing any damage to the child tax credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-05", "file": "debates2004-07-05.xml", "sha256": "c847386616d56513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Personal Indebtedness and Savings", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": " Member for West Dorset said earlier, that is why the Conservative party has set up a commission to report on debt and savings. The debt commission will be independent of the party and will report later this year. It will be chaired by the distinguished figure of Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, who was of course head of the Downing street policy unit when Baroness Thatcher was Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.645.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-07-05", "file": "debates2004-07-05.xml", "sha256": "c847386616d56513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 7 July , pursuant to Orders [ 28 June 2001 and 6 November 2003 (Deferred divisions)].", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-05.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-06", "file": "debates2004-07-06.xml", "sha256": "674049e52e114f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I confess that I would like to have turned to this as a first priority seven years ago. Had we inherited something other than an impoverished and undernourished NHS in which there had been under-investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-06", "file": "debates2004-07-06.xml", "sha256": "674049e52e114f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.680.5", "colnum": "680", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "will end: it will remain the case that people will have access to a GP out of hours. That is the legal responsibility of PCTs and it cannot be avoided. My understanding is that the Conservative party supports the changes to the contractual arrangements for the employment of GPs, but they come here and imply that they think that we should not make those changes. What a bunch of hypocrites they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-06", "file": "debates2004-07-06.xml", "sha256": "674049e52e114f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Roads Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " the proposals. The hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso) must be wondering what he should say to distinguish his position from that of the Conservative party. In relation to the M6, we have, as the hon. Gentleman acknowledged, already announced that in principle we support its widening: it is not as though we suddenly decided that its capacity was insufficient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-06", "file": "debates2004-07-06.xml", "sha256": "674049e52e114f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Roads Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " is increasing, with more than 1 billion passengers being carried by the railways last year. Indeed, when the first phase of the west coast main line is completed in September, it will become a more attractive proposition. I cannot agree with what is implicit in his comments, which is that the way to get more people to use trains is to make it increasingly difficult to go up and down the M6—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-06", "file": "debates2004-07-06.xml", "sha256": "674049e52e114f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Roads Policy", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "aking better use of existing capacity. The alternative is to build more lanes on the M42, which would have an environmental effect. My strategy is clear: let us have additional capacity where it is required, but let us get the most out of the assets that we already have. I think that I heard the current Conservative spokesman say such a thing on a Sunday television programme a few weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-06", "file": "debates2004-07-06.xml", "sha256": "674049e52e114f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "to historic houses, which I did not intend to speak on myself, although I am sure that it is a vital matter, pension scheme benefits and contributions and, finally, relief for petroleum exploration activities, on which I had prepared a few short remarks. I hope to have the opportunity to share that information with the House later this evening. My point is simple, and I was not intending to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-06", "file": "debates2004-07-06.xml", "sha256": "674049e52e114f0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "ition whatever. Everyone is aware of that, but some of us would like to go on debating the matters before us. I should like to hear from the Government, and from Treasury Ministers in particular, that provision will be made for us to discuss all these vital matters tomorrow or another day, and that the House will not be deprived of the opportunity to hear my remarks on petroleum exploration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-06.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.828.3", "colnum": "828", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Brennan", "preceding_text": "I know that my right hon. Friend recognises the important contribution of the BBC to the civic and economic welfare of Wales. Was he as concerned as I was when the BBC recently cut the post of nations and regions from its executive committee? Will he ensure in his discussions with colleagues that the role of the nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " country are expanding their numbers, because we have given them a power to expand. However, it is absolutely right that, at the same time, we will not allow a situation to develop where schools are cut adrift and where failing schools are not given the help that they need to succeed. If I may just go back to the point that the right hon. and learned Gentleman made about choice in education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e still have 11-year-olds leaving school without the best results they could get?\" Yes, it is, but it is a scandal that we are putting right—measures he opposed. Of all the extra investment going into our education system, he opposed every single penny piece. Yes, thankfully, results are going up under this Government, but that contrasts with another record—let me read it to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Hooray!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ntry has enjoyed in economic policy for many years. Contrast that with just 10 or 15 years ago, when constituencies such as that of my hon. Friend were often facing interest rates of 10 per cent. or even 15 per cent. We had 3 million people unemployed when the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) was sitting in the Cabinet, and an economy that went from boom to bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e for specialist schools, and they have not led to anything like that which the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West (Mr. Kennedy) is talking about. We are making sure that where schools are failing, we intervene and we help them. That is why we introduced specialist schools and excellence in cities. The city academies that the right hon. Gentleman now appears to be opposing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilton Dawson", "preceding_text": "This Government are leading the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.835.5", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "But why has the decision not already been taken? When I was Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.835.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.835.5", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "But why has the decision not already been taken? When I was Home Secretary— [Interruption.] Oh yes, crime went down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.835.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "How important is our membership of the European Union to British jobs and overseas investment in the United Kingdom? What would the Tory policy of getting out mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Domestic Tradable Quotas (Carbon Emissions)", "cue_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sue Doughty", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. This is not the first time that when a ten-minute Bill has been introduced, the Minister from the relevant Department has not been on the Treasury Bench to hear what was said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Clause 5 — Rates", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "el of fuel duty is important. In my view, it must be brought down in rural areas. As pointed out to the Government on many occasions, provision exists under European law for derogations to allow lower fuel taxes in rural and remote areas where road travel is an essential service. That has been used very successfully in the Greek islands, but not in the islands or remote highland areas of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Clause 5 — Rates", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "this year at a time when the international price of Brent crude oil is at or above $37.84 per barrel. For the benefit of the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie) , today's Brent crude price is almost $2 lower, not $1 lower, than his level. At noon today, it was $35.97 a barrel. I have to tell the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) that this is not a modest amendment. On the contrary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.856.5", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Clause 5 — Rates", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Tyrie", "preceding_text": "that he will help us by sending a letter pointing out where we can find numbers that are clear and unambiguous. The point at issue is valuable, and the House and the country should have deeper knowledge of it. The hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) delivered a typically elegant and interesting speech. He is always thoughtful, but today he seemed almost to be pointing in two directions at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.856.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Clause 5 — Rates", "cue_speaker": "John Burnett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cliff edge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Burnett", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Paymaster General. I think that she is saying that it has the cliff-hanger effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-07", "file": "debates2004-07-07.xml", "sha256": "853933ba6c3a5acb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.883.4", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Clause 5 — Rates", "cue_speaker": "John Burnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Burnett", "preceding_text": "ies. I reckon that there are many such families throughout the country. There are hundreds of thousands or perhaps even millions of people in those circumstances. The mother and daughter—or people in any other relationship—do not realise that at that stage, or as the money is spent, the daughter has acquired an equitable interest in the property. The daughter owns some of the property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-07.883.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues have made it clear that they would cut public spending, the one thing of which we can be certain is that they would not pay for maternity pay and leave, and that they would not keep the rights that we have already introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1008.4", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "m return to work to stack shelves, but not to do professional jobs. Will she talk to her colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department for Education and Skills—some of them are sitting on the Front Bench—about integrating benefits and the student support system to allow women to qualify as nurses and teachers and to take degree courses rather than just diplomas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1008.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Education and Skills (Five-year Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You got it wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "t can be achieved by giving specialist schools the right to choose 10 per cent. of their pupils, and dancing on the head of a pin when it comes to aptitude and ability? How can it be achieved by allowing 500 new independent specialist schools to select 100 per cent. of their students on the basis of ability or similar criteria, and allowing 200 academies to select for whatever purpose they choose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1022.5", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Education and Skills (Five-year Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I cannot give that absolute assurance for a very simple reason: in deciding what to do, such schools have to take account of the local situation, of other schools in the area, of the adjudicator, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1022.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Education and Skills (Five-year Strategy)", "cue_speaker": "Claire Ward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Vote Conservative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Ward", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that nationally 10 per cent. of children do not succeed in getting into one of their choices of school. In the Watford area, about 15 per cent. do not get into one of their three choices of preferred schools. What message does my right hon. Friend have for parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ch endorse the hon. Gentleman's praise for the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Sir Menzies Campbell) . As I said last night, he is one of our greatest parliamentarians and a wonderful person. That was not because of my history in the Young Liberals 30 years ago; it was because I think that he is a genuinely nice person, which cannot be said for all 650-odd Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report 2003–04", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Liberati.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "overnment do everything possible to protect our security. There is tension between doing that and ensuring that we do not abandon the freedoms that we are trying to protect. I know that the Home Secretary becomes enormously irritated with my colleagues and me. I almost choked on my yoghurt—not muesli—when listening to \"Today\" and heard myself described as part of the Libertariat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report 2003–04", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "r security. There is tension between doing that and ensuring that we do not abandon the freedoms that we are trying to protect. I know that the Home Secretary becomes enormously irritated with my colleagues and me. I almost choked on my yoghurt—not muesli—when listening to \"Today\" and heard myself described as part of the Libertariat—[Hon. Members: \"Liberati.\"] It was \"Liberati\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-08", "file": "debates2004-07-08.xml", "sha256": "59e63e3935ee4d1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1084.0", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report 2003–04", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "nts, but one of the most important—and I think that both of us Opposition Members agree on it—was his observation that it is the duty of Opposition parties to probe and ask questions, and that they should not be accused of disloyalty for so doing. If we appear unhelpful sometimes, it is because that constitutional role is incumbent on us, and we would be remiss if we did not fulfil it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-08.1084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "So the Minister does not agree with the chief executive of DrugScope and believes that the resources are sufficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1125.5", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "haviour Act 2003 provides a further range of tools to tackle antisocial behaviour. It reinforces the powers available to deal with antisocial behaviour, and along with the \"Together\" campaign it aims to make a lasting difference to the lives of people who experience antisocial behaviour day after day, and to change culture in communities where antisocial behaviour is tolerated rather than tackled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1125.5", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "tisocial behaviour, and along with the \"Together\" campaign it aims to make a lasting difference to the lives of people who experience antisocial behaviour day after day, and to change culture in communities where antisocial behaviour is tolerated rather than tackled. [Interruption.] We will continue to listen to feedback about the powers available, and we will consider legislating where necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "n of funding direct to the front line; and more flexibility and choice in delivery. Now, following the work that the Prime Minister and I instructed more than a year ago under Sir Peter Gershon—whom I thank—and after a rigorous review of procurement, back-office services and work practices, Departments are today publishing new plans to implement efficiency agreements with the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "der Sir Peter Gershon—whom I thank—and after a rigorous review of procurement, back-office services and work practices, Departments are today publishing new plans to implement efficiency agreements with the Treasury. [Interruption.] Alongside Sir Peter Gershon, I want to put on record my appreciation of the work of our civil servants and their commitment to the ethos of public service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "nd work practices, Departments are today publishing new plans to implement efficiency agreements with the Treasury. [Interruption.] Alongside Sir Peter Gershon, I want to put on record my appreciation of the work of our civil servants and their commitment to the ethos of public service. [Interruption.] It is precisely because the public sector has invested £6 billion in new technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "review really means is more bureaucracy, more targets, more initiatives, more taskforces, more centralisation, more regulation, more borrowing and more taxes. The Chancellor told us about waste—£21.5 billion of waste—yet the entire spending review is about spending more money. Why is the Chancellor the only person in Britain who thinks that the way to waste less is to spend more?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "sh;£21.5 billion of waste—yet the entire spending review is about spending more money. Why is the Chancellor the only person in Britain who thinks that the way to waste less is to spend more? [Interruption.] People up and down the country will be asking themselves this question: who was it that wasted all that money? Who was in charge when 52,000 civil servants were added to Whitehall?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "o pay for that big spending. When will the right hon. Gentleman admit that he is spending beyond his means and that his policies mean third term tax rises under Labour? I confidently predict that in a moment or two when the Chancellor stands to respond, he will—with huge bravura—proclaim that his vast expenditures of other people's money contrast with so-called Conservative cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "n there will be real reductions in spending in all other Departments. The glummest faces in the Chamber are those of the shadow Defence Secretary and the shadow Foreign Secretary, because they know exactly what will happen. I will tell the shadow Chancellor what waste is about. Waste was 3 million unemployed. Waste was the poll tax. Waste was two recessions under the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vincent Cable", "preceding_text": "s the £3 billion identity card scheme, must be cut. If more money has to be found for early years and primary schools, the Treasury's extravagance, the baby bond, must be cut. One of the things that was very striking about the Chancellor's statement was that it contained no reference whatever to the Prime Minister's enthusiasm for choice in public services. The phrase was not even mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Net.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The figures were 84,000 for the UK Administration and 20,000 for the devolved Administrations. I announced in the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Spending Review", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "er not for the Treasury but for the Ministry of Defence and the Chief of Defence Staff, working with the Defence Secretary. What I can say, however, and what Opposition parties cannot deny, is that we have made available the money for the next few years, until 2008, to ensure the proper equipping of our forces. The Liberal party is now urging that we spend more on defence in addition to all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Annabelle Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Annabelle Ewing", "preceding_text": "I was talking about the broad policy and the question of whether we in Scotland would wish to go down the road of a conditional, or \"no win, no fee\", legal aid system. Such policy will be decided not by this place but, quite properly, by the Scottish Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "They will be fleshed out during the consultation and under the regulations pertaining to this part of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "e staff of the Committee, including specialists and others, are free to take advice from any source that they want. I know that when I was a member of the Committee, it took standing advice from an eminent academic lawyer in the field of human rights, and I suspect that it still has such advice. It is not for me to identify the source, however. Those who have the report can read it for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-12", "file": "debates2004-07-12.xml", "sha256": "a8c050ae164e5043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Humfrey Malins", "preceding_text": "not just a link but a residence. My father is a vicar, and I am not entirely sure that any inquiry into the validity of my own marriage—he married my wife and me—would be productive. I remember that there was some strict residence requirement, and my father may have had to finesse the position very slightly. It was a long time ago, however, and I would not want to get him into trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-12.1226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-13", "file": "debates2004-07-13.xml", "sha256": "45eb19f314352d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1237.6", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": " British Overseas Territories so disadvantaged with regard to the EU, when Britain is an EU member? They get none of the advantages, but all the disadvantages are thrown at them. What will the Minister tell the islands when the savings directive means that they will lose $40 million? That money will go to independent Caribbean islands. I am secretary of the all-party Caribbean parliamentary group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1237.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-13", "file": "debates2004-07-13.xml", "sha256": "45eb19f314352d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Spending Review: ODPM Settlement", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " fund begin to deliver the infrastructure required, when the Housing, Planning and Local Government Committee estimates that it will cost at least £20 billion? On regional government, we welcome the proposal that local business people should help decide investment priorities throughout the country. We have not said that we will scrap the regional development agencies; I have never said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-13", "file": "debates2004-07-13.xml", "sha256": "45eb19f314352d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1268.4", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Spending Review: ODPM Settlement", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is a fact that homelessness has continued to rise. It doubled under the previous Administration, but that does not help us. The Government intend to reduce—and probably eliminate—the homeless by 2008.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1268.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-13", "file": "debates2004-07-13.xml", "sha256": "45eb19f314352d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "uragement to the Labour Members who, in Committee, proposed the amendment on clause 81, which deals with the principal objective to promote renewable energy. I have no intention of stealing their thunder by speaking against Government amendment No. 1, which seeks to undo all their good work, but I assure them that if they oppose that amendment and force a vote, they will find us in the same Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-13", "file": "debates2004-07-13.xml", "sha256": "45eb19f314352d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1324.0", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "hat events in London and, to a lesser extent, Birmingham were probably accidental. However, they were wake-up calls that conveyed a warning that we cannot afford to be complacent about the organisation of maintenance—that was the difficulty in London—or taking off supply specific power stations that have not been called in for many years. That was the case with the Lotts Road facility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-13", "file": "debates2004-07-13.xml", "sha256": "45eb19f314352d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": " the honour of chairing. Disconnection is one of the most regrettable and unacceptable manifestations of poverty in our society. We heard pious speeches earlier this afternoon about the lights going out, but if the lights go out for one poor family, that is just as devastating for them as if it happens to the whole country because of the failure of a Government or an electricity company to invest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-13", "file": "debates2004-07-13.xml", "sha256": "45eb19f314352d77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Energy Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "The people who know specifically about energy consumers, representatives of Energywatch, disowned the proposals before the Select Committee that I chair. They are far more expert than the broad-brush merchants of the National Consumer Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-13.1347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1398.2", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "ister also accept that aid workers in Movement for Democratic Change areas have been attacked and food distribution centres forcibly closed, and that ZANU-PF is delivering food to its supporters? Given that most of Zimbabwe's close neighbours are heavy recipients of aid from this country, when will the Government put some real pressure on them to assist us in getting Zimbabwe out of the dark ages?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ussed by the right hon. and learned Gentleman, we should have had council tax rises of more than 8 per cent. last year, but the average was less than 6 per cent., for the precise reason that I have just given him. Average council tax rises are, of course, lower in Labour areas than in Conservative areas. The other interesting point concerns the right hon. and learned Gentleman's shadow Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "n him. Average council tax rises are, of course, lower in Labour areas than in Conservative areas. The other interesting point concerns the right hon. and learned Gentleman's shadow Chancellor. [Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"] Perhaps the Chancellor and the shadow Chancellor are having a conversation together. His shadow Chancellor said that he would freeze the local government budget in cash terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1408.3", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Think about it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, I am not sure that I would say that to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "New Clause 1 — Costs and expenses in infringement proceedings etc", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "he process. The Bill, assuming that the House will approve it this afternoon, remains unfinished business. We must return to some issues if we are to ensure that the role, defence and legitimacy of patents are properly enshrined in future. There are serious concerns if people are not registering patents because it is too costly or they have no confidence in the system and if large companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "New Clause 1 — Costs and expenses in infringement proceedings etc", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "have a commitment to ensure that British businesses improve. We have had good debates on the Bill. As the right hon. Gentleman says, our commitment is to come in line with the European patent convention. That is vital to ensure that our patent system works, and all hon. Members agree with that. It is an important Bill. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Gordon (Malcolm Bruce) is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "intent and capability still in place, and with every dictator with the same intent everywhere immeasurably emboldened. As I shall say later, for any mistakes made, as the report finds, in good faith, I of course take responsibility, but I cannot honestly say that I believe that getting rid of Saddam was a mistake at all. Iraq, the region and the wider world are better and safer places without him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "nqualified certainties, and the question that he must answer today is: why? He has said that mistakes were made and he accepts responsibility, but it is not a question of responsibility—it is a question of credibility. I hope that we will not face in this country another war in the foreseeable future, but if we did and this Prime Minister identified the threat, would the country believe him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "n 1998. Yes, I and others wanted containment to work and at times believed it could work, but the evidence that we have now indicates almost certainly that it was not working. That is why I come back to the point about balance. At each stage, the right hon. Gentleman takes certain parts out of the Butler report and says that Lord Butler found that there was no threat from Saddam in respect of WMD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman must accept that Saddam still remained a threat of some sort, and I think that he does accept that. I think that he accepts that it was important to put back the inspectors into Iraq, and I also think that he accepts that the inspectors would never have been anywhere near Iraq but for the presence of US and British troops. The issue is whether we should have waited longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, Lord Butler does not use the words that the hon. Gentleman did. Secondly, let us consider the judgment at the heart of the matter. The hon. Gentleman says that he is glad that he was not duped into supporting the war, but if he had his way, Saddam Hussein would continue to run Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1454.3", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "h investment not only in defence but in international aid and development; and here at home, with investment in the key drivers of our current and future prosperity and in our public services. In contrast, the shadow Chancellor, who I am sorry to see is not in his place this afternoon, but I can well understand why because he must have rather a lot on his mind because the sums do not add up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1456.0", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "We intend to increase the size of the police force by 40,000 officers. We have shown how that can be done within the financial constraints. I should like to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1459.3", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "sure that it is not in order for even the Chancellor of the Exchequer to interrupt from a sedentary position. The Government's figures in the 2004 spending review show that their planned increase, in cash terms, for defence expenditure is 1.4 per cent. per annum. I was not aware that, even under his new consumer price index formula, the Chancellor was forecasting inflation of less than 2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "ed its current spending levels, output would be 25 per cent. higher. Effective reforms of the public sector need to focus on outputs rather than on spending, and to remove costs and activities that actually achieve little or nothing. That is the context of the Conservative party asking David James and his 60-man team to investigate and address in a bottom-up review each area of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-14", "file": "debates2004-07-14.xml", "sha256": "94ad874e9fd019f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1463.2", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman accuses my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of engaging in a pre-election spending spree. Would he care to reflect on the words of the director general of the CBI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-14.1463.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-15", "file": "debates2004-07-15.xml", "sha256": "c80de7ac8efb2c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows from his constituency experience, unemployment is down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-15", "file": "debates2004-07-15.xml", "sha256": "c80de7ac8efb2c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1534.3", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "What the Chief Secretary's answer to my hon. Friend actually means is that the cuts in central Departments that the Chancellor announced are 71,000, not 84,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-15", "file": "debates2004-07-15.xml", "sha256": "c80de7ac8efb2c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1536.3", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I notice that the Conservative party is now promising to abolish the climate change levy and the aggregates levy, so it must have the means to replace that income. As far as we are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-15", "file": "debates2004-07-15.xml", "sha256": "c80de7ac8efb2c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Librarian's Retirement", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "so for the Opposition, who are very reliant on and grateful for the services provided. It is also right to pay tribute to Miss Baines for significant innovations in recent years, such as the introduction of the debate packs, which have been very useful. Miss Baines deserves our thanks for all her work and our very best wishes for the future. Although I have never actually met her in the gym—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-15", "file": "debates2004-07-15.xml", "sha256": "c80de7ac8efb2c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1563.5", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Rail Review", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "My proposals on devolution are primarily directed at those services that operate within the areas covered by PTEs and so on. In all parts of the network, there are obviously choices to be made and decisions to be taken between services that run within a local area and those that run further afield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1563.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-15", "file": "debates2004-07-15.xml", "sha256": "c80de7ac8efb2c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1577.2", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "No, I have not, but I do not regard that as a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-15", "file": "debates2004-07-15.xml", "sha256": "c80de7ac8efb2c6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Traffic Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " they carry out, may cause as much, if not more, inconvenience to the motoring public? The National Joint Utilities Group takes the view that this is a one-sided, arbitrary fixed penalty regime that does nothing whatsoever to ensure that there is any incentive for highways authorities carrying out works to do so in a reasonable time and with a minimum amount of disruption to members of the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-15.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-16", "file": "debates2004-07-16.xml", "sha256": "4df03f3d3f00d8d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-16.1658.6", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Promotion of Volunteering Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "rong for one of those people, they will not face a kindly Robin Butler-style inquiry that might conclude that things went wrong but nobody is to blame: they will face court action against themselves personally or against the organisation to which they belong. If, as some people claim, there is no increase in this problem, why are insurance premiums soaring out of sight for volunteer organisations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-16.1658.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-16", "file": "debates2004-07-16.xml", "sha256": "4df03f3d3f00d8d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-16.1670.6", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Promotion of Volunteering Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "e Register of Members' Interests states, I have been a personal injury lawyer for some 25 years. I am also a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, and have been a member of its executive committee. I am not taking any cases at present, because I am busy doing other things. This is more than a full-time job. I have observed a good deal of prejudice against lawyers during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-16.1670.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-16", "file": "debates2004-07-16.xml", "sha256": "4df03f3d3f00d8d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-16.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Promotion of Volunteering Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I was sent down that byway by the intervention of the hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) . If people challenge me I tend to react, as I do not believe in perpetuating myths. In new clause 29, the hon. Gentleman has produced an ill-thought-out collection of words; it is a back-of-the-envelope job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-16.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-16", "file": "debates2004-07-16.xml", "sha256": "4df03f3d3f00d8d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-16.1712.3", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Promotion of Volunteering Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More, more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": " the Bill, as the courts already take such action. I realise that I have been going on for some time, but although I need another hour properly to do justice to the Bill, I am being prevailed on to allow other hon. Members to speak, so in deference to my hon. Friend the Member for Falkirk, West, who has been patiently waiting to speak, and to other hon. Members, I shall draw my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-16.1712.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.3.2", "colnum": "3", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "Local regiments play a significant role in encouraging recruitment through regional recruiting teams—I am sorry—through regimental recruiting teams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.3.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.5.4", "colnum": "5", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman indicated earlier that he still agrees with his quote of nine years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.5.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "iend agree that the decision two or three years ago to find additional resources to enable the museum to allow free admission has been extremely successful? Visitor numbers have doubled, with 250,000 attending Hendon and a similar number visiting Cosford—half a million visitors between the two sites. Since the Milestones of Flight and the restored Grahame-White aircraft factory opened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Home Office Strategic Plan", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "happen. The hon. Gentleman asked whether we would give freedom to chief constables. They already have it. We will, of course, provide the funding for the additional community support officers and, through the police grant and the amalgamation of the crime fighting fund, the retention of the record police numbers that we have put in place. They will have the freedom to use those resources sensibly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.26.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "In the case of Telford and Wrekin, the rebate was only 66p for band D property for the full year; in the case of Nottingham, it is £2.48—a significantly higher figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "There is no point in the Minister shaking his head. It is true. Both the police and the fire authorities are monstrously funded. What world is the Minister living in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": " the Member for Nottingham, South, but my hon. Friends made perfectly proper representations on behalf of their authority. My hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, North argued that the increase in council tax above the excess level was only marginal in the case of Nottingham. However, a 9.8 per cent. increase, one of the largest in the country for unitary authorities, is not in my view marginal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ons on behalf of their authority. My hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, North argued that the increase in council tax above the excess level was only marginal in the case of Nottingham. However, a 9.8 per cent. increase, one of the largest in the country for unitary authorities, is not in my view marginal. [Interruption.] Perhaps it was 9.6 per cent., but it was certainly more than 9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "No, because I must respond to other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-19", "file": "debates2004-07-19.xml", "sha256": "7bd91d9efc0d1e4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Public Audit (Wales) Bill [Lords] (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "a little more from the Under-Secretary about the reasons for rushing the measure through. It is not good for parliamentary debate when we have plenty of time—the evening is yet young—and the big business has already been tackled if the Under- Secretary simply comes to the Dispatch Box and says nothing by way of introduction to what, I am sure, he regards as an important Bill for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-19.99.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Transport Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "hout England was to grow by 10 per cent. In practice, outside London, it is static. According to the Secretary of State's own update of the plan just two years ago, the Strategic Rail Authority was to provide firm leadership, strategic direction and funding for the rail industry. In practice, it has been abolished. According to the plan, the maintenance backlog on local roads was to be eliminated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Transport Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "olished. According to the plan, the maintenance backlog on local roads was to be eliminated. [Interruption.] In practice, that target is being dropped. According to the plan, Thameslink and the East London line were to be built by 2010. In practice, those target dates cannot possibly be met. According to the plan, rail freight was to increase by 80 per cent. In practice, in 2002 rail freight fell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.162.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Transport Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "be increased. In practice, that scheme has been put on ice. According to the plan, local roads were to be improved. In practice, the Freight Transport Association reports that their condition is worse than a decade ago. [Interruption.] Not one of those failures received a mention from the Secretary of State but they are the issues that concern daily road users, railway users and freight customers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Transport Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "ilures received a mention from the Secretary of State but they are the issues that concern daily road users, railway users and freight customers. [Interruption.] The consequence of those failures, to which he is so reluctant to own up, is an economy whose competitiveness is weakened every day. According to the CBI, transport congestion now costs British industry more than £15 billion a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Transport Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": " face jams today will face them tomorrow and for the foreseeable future, even if, unlike all those previous promises, the promises in the White Paper are kept. Why do not the Government recognise that charging for road use is acceptable, but only if the money raised is used exclusively to pay for environmentally acceptable road improvements or increases in capacity, or to cut other motoring taxes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "I might be a leader after the Prime Minister is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Pensions (Clawbacks)", "cue_speaker": "Kerry Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry Pollard", "preceding_text": " cent. of final salary. With clawback, Cathy, a part-time cleaner on £8,000 and with the same length of service, would receive a pension of £3,045, which is equivalent to 38.1 per cent. of final salary. These typical examples show that the lower a person's pay, the more they are penalised by clawback. Some schemes are now being run pro rata to help the lower paid and part-time workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Pensions (Clawbacks)", "cue_speaker": "Kerry Pollard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry Pollard", "preceding_text": "ng run pro rata to help the lower paid and part-time workers. [Interruption.] If people realise in good time the effect of clawback on their pensions, they may be able to do something about it, such as paying additional voluntary contributions to make up the gap. If they discover the problem only upon retirement, however, it is too late and they must live on a far lower pension than they expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.192.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the right hon. Gentleman in a moment. Let me make one other point to my hon. Friend the Member for Leyton and Wanstead (Harry Cohen) , which I will elaborate in greater detail later. The intelligence—I will take the House to the JIC assessments in a moment—really left little doubt about Saddam and weapons of mass destruction. That was the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.198.5", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course I take responsibility for that, but I remind the hon. Gentleman that Lord Butler also finds that, in general, the dossier reflects the JIC assessments. I ask hon. Members to read those assessments, and to imagine for a moment that they are the Prime Minister receiving them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.198.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that that was wrong. I do not want to read it all over again, so—even better—I shall read what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " Iraq was necessary. It was just. It was, indeed, arguably overdue. And, let us not forget, it was overwhelmingly successful—a judgement which subsequent difficulties do not change.\" He continued: \"Of course . . . Iraq has become the frontline in the War against Terror . . . I have no doubt that if the West maintains its resolution, Iraq will be a much better place than it was under Saddam.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.206.10", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry. If people read the letter from Dr. Allawi, published only the other day, they will see that he set out the authentic voice of Iraq and its future—what Iraq can now become. Whatever mistakes have been made, my view is: let us rejoice that Iraq can indeed have such—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.206.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Let me remind the hon. Gentleman that he voted against the motion. Let me remind him and the House of what the motion before the House on 18 March said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.209.5", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "Butler says that, but very few people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.209.5", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "y think that weapons of mass destruction will still be found in Iraq? That is the question. Does the Prime Minister still think that weapons of mass destruction are still likely to be found in Iraq? Of course not. That is why I say that, if we had known then what we know now, we would not have been able to vote for the motion that was before the House on 18 March . I am now going to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "It has done long-lasting damage to the reputation of the west and it has gravely undermined our moral authority. The circumstances surrounding the timing and extent of the British Government's knowledge of what had gone on are covered in confusion. Just over two months ago, when the story broke, the Prime Minister assured the House that neither he nor his Ministers were aware of those allegations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "he link with terrorism. Several Members, including the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Savidge) who spoke immediately before me, have mentioned that 11 September inevitably traumatised our American friends and allies, and perhaps even unduly influenced the American Administration. What I found reprehensible at the time was Ministers saying that there was a direct link between terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Liddell", "preceding_text": " only on the battlefield? Sir Richard Dearlove, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, made it clear in giving evidence to the Hutton inquiry that he believed that the evidence in question had come from a credible source. The 45 minutes issue only became an issue after the notorious BBC broadcast. We are dealing today with very serious issues, and the debate has become partisan, which I regret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": ",000 civilian deaths. Many British soldiers are dead, and American casualties are approaching 1,000. That is the blood price that is being paid for the Prime Minister's actions. He has played with other people's chips, and he has done so in a disastrous fashion. When people examine the matter, they will know the reality. The vast majority sense the deliberate deception at the heart of the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Calum MacDonald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Pull the other one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Calum MacDonald", "preceding_text": "45-minutes argument. However, the right hon. Gentleman will recall that during the debate on the dossier the Prime Minister said: \"'Why now?', people ask. I agree that I cannot say that this month or next, even this year or next, Saddam will use his weapons.\"—[ Official Report , 24 September 2002; Vol. 390, c. 5 .] The notion of a looming threat was never put forward as a case for war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.254.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about \"current\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I know of no occasion when the Prime Minister, or any senior Minister, used the word \"imminent\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd) and the hon. Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) . Since a point of order was raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) , I should apologise for the fact that I was absent for some of the speeches. I am afraid that one has to blame Cabinet Government for that, and, I might add, without approval from the Cabinet, the new hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-20", "file": "debates2004-07-20.xml", "sha256": "d8c13a4310bd51b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.288.5", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc.) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Lammy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lammy", "preceding_text": "dments proposed by this House, but proposed that two further consequential amendments be made. Amendment No. 28DA is consequential on amendments Nos. 28C and 28D, already agreed by this House. These amendments introduce an additional flexibility to the procedure for the review process in the High Court. That will be after a case has been considered by the new asylum and immigration tribunal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-20.288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "Birmingham, Hodge Hill borders my constituency, and in an effort to help my neighbour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "nd in an effort to help my neighbour— [Laughter.] I might remind Labour Members that their party was in charge of Birmingham city council during the time to which I am referring, and it still is. No one could fail to have been struck by the number of homes and shops boarded up in that constituency. Take, for example, the parade of shops in Shard End, over which all the flats were boarded up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "he wider community.Those have recently been strengthened in a number of ways, including the commencement on 30 June of new powers under the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003. The Housing Bill also provides new powers applying to both the social and private rented sectors. On Monday the Home Secretary launched his strategic plan reinforcing the Government's commitment to tackling antisocial behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.319.6", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "On behalf of all his colleagues, may I warmly congratulate the Prime Minister on the 10th anniversary of his election as leader of the Labour party today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.319.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, we have increased the number of prison places in this country. Yes, it is true that some let out under early release—who would, of course, have been released later in any event—have committed crimes, but it is a small percentage of the overall figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "done. The right hon. and learned Gentleman says that he is going to save £1 billion through the reduction of asylum costs, but that is going back to his fantasy island, is it not? We have been doing a little research on this. Apparently, the shadow Chancellor actually says that he is going to save £1.8 billion on asylum costs; unfortunately, that is the whole of the immigration budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Certainly. Thousands of fixed penalty notices have been given up and down this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "ble inspiration for many Members—is the autobiography of the late Jeremy Bray, MP, who combined a scintillating intellect with a profound sense of feeling for his fellow human beings. He constantly talks about his own fallibility and his limitations. Is my right hon. Friend confident that the mechanisms that he has in place for dealing with his own fallibility and limitations are sufficient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "In our debate yesterday, we went through all the various issues in relation to this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Rural Strategy", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "eenfield sites in their districts, what kind of building is allowed and where it should go? Why will the Secretary of State not address the rapidly growing menace of fly-tipping, a problem partly caused by her Department's incompetence in not preparing for the implementation of new laws? Why not, for example, make fly-tipping an arrestable offence now? Without such practical steps her claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "ms may be, they cannot replace troops on the ground. As the implications of what the Secretary of State has begun to announce today sink in, will it not seem extraordinary to the British people that there should be such deep cuts across the board when our armed forces have never been so busy or in such demand, and at a time of such an accelerated threat? The incoming Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.359.6", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "I remind the Secretary of State of the fact that three naval bases are capable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.359.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Delivering Security in a Changing World: Future Capabilities", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend thinks through the premise of his initial observation, he will see that the proposals are designed to ensure much greater stability and consistency in the lives of those who serve and, indeed, for their families. That is well recognised by the Army Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.375.7", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "t is why, last October, we announced our intention to hold the referendums by all-postal ballot, against the backdrop both of successful pilots at local government elections in 2000, 2002 and 2003 and of the Electoral Commission evaluation of the 2003 pilots, which recommended that, subject to certain safeguards, all-postal voting should become the norm for future local government elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.375.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ng, so it is necessary to have in place proper safeguards and measures to guard against possible abuse to the greatest extent possible. That is essential—it is our commitment—but the fact that, this year and in previous years, allegations of problems and malpractice associated with postal voting have been made does not in itself raise specific problems in relation to all-postal pilots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.377.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "No, what I was saying— [Laughter]— as the hon. Gentleman and other Opposition Members, whose mirth indicates their reluctance to listen, should be aware, is that we will await the Electoral Commission's response, because it is the body charged by the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.387.5", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "If I visited the north-east, the north-west or any other region solely and specifically to promote a particular position—in my case, it would be the yes position on elected regional assemblies—I would pay for my travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "ing in Blackpool, which is not far from the constituency of my hon. Friend, where the debate was intelligent and sensible. The no campaign fielded an expert on local government, whom I respect greatly, and the yes campaign fielded a councillor with considerable experience of a local authority. I presented the factual basis and the yes and no campaigns argued their cases, which is right and proper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "nd the yes and no campaigns argued their cases, which is right and proper. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for North Essex laughs, but he would be surprised if I went into the detail of what the advocate for the no campaign said, which did not accord with the views expressed by Conservative Front Benchers—I have more respect for that particular spokesman and his expertise than I do for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "oes the Minister agree that there can be no conceivable excuse for cancelling one or two of the referendums? Either he will consider postal voting to be an unsafe system, or a safe one. How can the system be safe in some places and not in others? That is the answer to the question from the hon. Member for Stockton, South (Ms Taylor) . Do we think people behave differently in Bradford than in York?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "If the Minister will confirm that that is so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.397.4", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "em, but say that they cannot spend it on one thing and have to spend it on another—otherwise they will not get it. Does the hon. Gentleman really think that the Government will treat regional government any differently? His faith is touching, but perhaps he should talk to his Liberal colleagues in the north-west who have decided to oppose elected regional assemblies in the referendums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point that had not occurred to me. We face the prospect of confusion and chaos for months after 4 November . That is not in the interests of the Government or others who want to see powers devolved from Whitehall, and it would play into the hands of those who want a centralised system of government in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "olice, roads and so forth. None of that £50 million in the first year will be spent on those things. The costs will be borne by people when they pay their council tax bills. There is also no real democracy. In Cheshire, there are likely to be two assembly members, each representing 300,000 people—the size of a US Congressman's district. That is not democracy or closeness to the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Devolution", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "e comments. The hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) was remorselessly negative in his tone. He revealed the position of the Conservative Opposition, who remain utterly hostile to devolution. The tragedy for the Conservative party, which still does not realise why it has been rejected time and again by the electorate, most recently last week in the by-elections, is that it still hankers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "I shall try not to speak in iambic pentameters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "There may well be, but they are all standing around Westminster and people in Surrey cannot find one when they need one. If the Minister doubts that, I invite him to come and have a look. I am very willing to take him on a tour of Guildford town centre on a Friday evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fire and Rescue Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "I was, of course, well aware of the concern that the hon. Gentleman has expressed. Unfortunately, I am unable to respond at this precise moment, but I can assure him that the change is of minor consequence. I will write to him and clarify the point that he has raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.459.4", "colnum": "459", "heading": "DR. RAJ MATTU", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "s not for us to prejudge the outcome of whatever inquiry takes place. I am afraid that the inquiry will not finish by next January but will go on at least until March, by which time we will be into the fourth year of Dr. Mattu's suspension. If that is normal procedure, heaven help us when the procedure is abnormal. There are two other points to which I should like to draw the Minister's attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.459.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-21", "file": "debates2004-07-21.xml", "sha256": "f73e3610527f272a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.463.2", "colnum": "463", "heading": "DR. RAJ MATTU", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "r. The Department of Health has issued guidance as to what the procedure should include, and has monitored trusts to ensure that it is in place. The trust reviewed its procedures for handling suspensions in the light of that guidance, so we can be confident that its procedures are robust. That brings me to the suggestion that Dr. Mattu should be reinstated while the disciplinary process continues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-21.463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I can understand why the hon. Gentleman reaches that view, but I assure him that he is mistaken. The figure of 5 million tonnes was very much an illustrative figure in the energy White Paper. It was never intended to be a goal or a target, but an initial indication of what was then thought might be possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Grayling's off!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "I had hoped to get in on question 1 and ask my hon. Friend whether he had any information on the stocks of grayling. Unfortunately, I was unable to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.481.3", "colnum": "481", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "May I draw to my right hon. Friend's attention the fact that I wrote to her at the end of May, and I followed up with another letter, drawing attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That was a nice seasonal rant—was it not?—and very enjoyable it was too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "genial companion he is. Both subjects—sitting hours and providing the House with greater opportunities to scrutinise European matters—are before us now. In fact, we were discussing sitting hours yesterday, so I do not know what on earth he is on about. Perhaps I should not be surprised by the standard of those questions: the shadow Leader of the House is not even in the shadow Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Yes, look what happened to the right hon. Gentleman. His successor has been demoted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "In an end-of-term spirit, may I congratulate the Leader of the House on his wit and great courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.497.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.501.2", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It approved them yesterday!", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "Earlier this week, the House approved orders specifying 4 November as the date for the referendums in the three northern regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.501.4", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "overnment's commitment to the House that we would not proceed with the all-postal referendums as planned if the Electoral Commission's evaluation report on last June's all-postal pilots produced convincing evidence leading to the conclusion that it would be unsafe to do so. The commission's report was expected by 13 September . We gave our commitment because we take its views very seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.501.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You got your junior to do it!", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "You've got the junior doing it!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Consistency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I listened to what the hon. Member for North Essex (Mr. Jenkin) said and recalled him saying exactly the same thing yesterday. It is nice to know that he is simply recycling old speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.508.4", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Regional Assemblies", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "It may disappoint my hon. Friend to learn that we are postponing, not cancelling, a referendum in the north-west.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.516.4", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman most sincerely for drawing that matter to the attention of the Chair and the House—clearly, the end of term is creeping in. That matter will be corrected—immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.516.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": " on the streets and whom he will endeavour to serve. The images he painted of his constituency and the evident sincerity with which he spoke of his forthcoming work on his constituents' behalf will serve him well. He comes here with the reputation of being fearsomely bright and hard-working. He will, of course, live that down sooner or later and be accepted among his colleagues as a valued Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "ork and impose something very different. That is unfortunate because the volunteers in our communities who make a major contribution should not be treated in such a way. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have raised the matter both in the Chamber and directly with the Home Office, so I hope that there will be time to think again. Before I conclude my speech, I wish to make a point of my own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.548.2", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "preceding_text": "May I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Edge Hill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "nd Sutherland Highlanders, the Queen's Lancashire Regiment and other constituency concerns, it is also incumbent on us to put those things in context. On the crime figures, The Independent did a good job of being independent this morning. Unlike some other reports, it pointed to the British crime survey, which is the best measurement of crime and which has not changed its methodology for 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-07-22", "file": "debates2004-07-22.xml", "sha256": "74973dd1b195446f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Summer Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ke responsibility for the faults that we have caused by our own policies in that time, but no serious commentator could deny the underfunding in our infrastructure and public services that resulted from Geoffrey Howe's Budget in 1981 and the Lawson policies in the following decade. That tide is turning under the Government's programme. I shall get off what are perhaps party political points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-07-22.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-07", "file": "debates2004-09-07.xml", "sha256": "db14562107eb708c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-07.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "s very selective in his use of statistics. He is using one aspect of the report, which was published yesterday, but he has failed to advise the House that the number of business start-ups has increased by 15 per cent. since last year. Let us be clear about the summaries of business surveys in Scotland. The Conservatives look at a glass and see it half empty. We look at a glass and see the reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-07.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-07", "file": "debates2004-09-07.xml", "sha256": "db14562107eb708c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-07.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman fails to recognise that the Scottish manufacturing sector is more optimistic than it has been for some time and that we have cut some of the burdens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-07.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-07", "file": "debates2004-09-07.xml", "sha256": "db14562107eb708c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-07.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "My geography is not perfect, but my guess is that the hon. Gentleman's constituency is even further away from here than mine, so he speaks with some authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-07.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.708.4", "colnum": "708", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "ward. I pay tribute to the Royal Irish Regiment, which has a distinguished history at home and abroad. As the hon. Gentleman rightly said, it continues to play a vital role. I stress that no decision has been made about the members of the armed forces who would be included in a permanent end-state garrison in Northern Ireland. We are currently recruiting new members to the home service battalions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.708.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.710.6", "colnum": "710", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "creasing. It is important that we use that money effectively in the future, and the plans put forward, which have the support of the chiefs of staff, allow us to make sure that we can carry out the duties that our armed forces do superbly around the world, and allow us to do that in a modern way. That is necessary, because some of the things that we require today were not required a few years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.710.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " pensions are unfunded by their employers. All those things will help pensioners now and in future. But the right hon. and learned Gentleman's proposal on pensions is this: he wants to get rid of the state second pension. Let me spell out to the House what that means. Twenty million people would lose out, including 15 million low-income households and 2.5 million carers. It is a disastrous policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.725.3", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Pensions Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "calls for Government action to tackle the crisis in funded pensions and to ensure dignity and security in retirement for older people. I wish to draw the attention of the House to my interests, which appear in the Register of Members' Interests. I begin by bidding farewell to the previous Secretary of State, who is sadly not in his place. We will miss him. He was a decent and honourable man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.725.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Pensions Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "d in the Lords. We read that the Government are so desperate to get their Hunting Bill through that they are willing to contemplate abandoning the Pensions Bill in order to do so. I see the Minister shaking his head. If he can give a categorical assurance that the Government will not abandon the Pensions Bill in favour of their obsession with banning hunting, I would be very interested to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Pensions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "To quote the late, great Roy Orbison, \"Running scared\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.739.5", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Pensions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " the \"old and cold\" problem, as it has been called, and the problems of fuel poverty. Of course, I am very proud of that. Now that we have had some clarification of the Conservatives' view of the winter fuel payment, perhaps we can get some help on their view of pension credit. At first, Conservative Members said that they would scrap pension credit. Then they said that they would \"reconsider it\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.739.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Pensions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "hirds—2 million—of whom are women. What is more, more than 1.9 million households receive more money than before because of its introduction. In today's complex 21st century society, the role of Government in pensions has evolved considerably since Parliament first legislated—courtesy of the Liberals—to introduce the state pension. That was slightly less than 100 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Pensions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " to sit back for a moment and imagine. This time, I ask them to imagine a Britain where people lose their pensions when their company goes bust and leaves the pension scheme underfunded; a Britain where people are not saving enough for their retirement and individuals have lost confidence in the security of their pensions. We have seen that Britain all too recently. The challenges that face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Pensions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "Given a choice between whether the Minister is very stupid or very clever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Pensions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "e 1.7 million who are missing out is, by definition, living below the poverty line—that every one is living below the minimum level that society considers adequate? If all those people are living below the poverty line, when the Minister talks about doing more for the poorest pensioners he should be concentrating on them. His policies are doing nothing to assist Britain's poorest pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Hospital-Acquired Infection", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " said that MRSA and Norwalk had persisted because the trust had overridden advice to shut wards due to the need to achieve waiting list targets. The chief executive had agreed to that. What is the Secretary of State's response? Last week, he was asked on the BBC \"South East Today\" programme whether by having fewer targets—as we propose—staff would be free to ensure cleaner wards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Hospital-Acquired Infection", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " push himself forward and take the initiative, he publishes his own document rather than letting the chief medical officer do it? I have looked at the two documents. If everything the Secretary of State does is based on the CMO's advice, why was so much that the CMO said only last December left out of the Secretary of State's document in July? He left out any reference to reducing infection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.789.6", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Hospital-Acquired Infection", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "alcohol cleansing product. NewGenn—which is close to Cambridge, so I have met the company staff and used their products—also makes non-alcohol hand cleansing products, which have been used in several NHS pilots. New synthetic antibacterial agents have been developed for the treatment of MRSA. Companies have produced targeted antibiotics and even coatings for walls and doors that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.789.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Hospital-Acquired Infection", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "own ones, but it is possible to identify a number of the interrelated causes. The hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire asked me to grapple with the reason why MRSA is more prevalent in the UK, even though the overall infection rate is lower here than in some countries. Part of the answer is that the strains responsible for most infections in the UK are different from those in many other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Hospital-Acquired Infection", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "er, which is very important. I shall pay tribute to a number of speakers shortly, but let me say first that on another level that aspect is disappointing, because I shall have to junk most of the speech that I had prepared. There we are; that is part and parcel of the life of a Minister, and I will receive no sympathy. Actually, I may have to inject just a little bit of party politics later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-08", "file": "debates2004-09-08.xml", "sha256": "c630c73c1aba4c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Hospital-Acquired Infection", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mr. Norman) —that we should not treat this subject as a party-political football, and we have seen plenty of evidence today that that is not happening. The hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Mr. Burstow) spoke for 17 minutes in his customary style, without—I think—making a single positive suggestion about how we might deal with the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-08.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.850.4", "colnum": "850", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "ffect is on those taking a career break, for example to start a family. The hon. Gentleman should speak to his Front Bench more often, because he is, I believe, one of the more sensible members of his party. Let me give him an example. A medium earner, such as a teacher, with a loan of £10,000 would repay something approaching £30,000, whereas a higher earner working in the City—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.850.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I will stop the Minister. The Minister should stop now, and he should refrain from referring to Conservative policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ember —Second Reading of the Children Bill [Lords]. Tuesday 14 September —Opposition Day [17th Allotted Day]. There will be a debate on higher education, followed by a debate on pensions. Both debates will arise on motions in the name of the Liberal Democrats. Wednesday 15 September —Procedure motion relating to the Hunting Bill, followed by proceedings on the Hunting Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.863.5", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "n their plans before the electors receive their ballot papers? The Leader of the House will realise—as was apparent when he announced the business—that there are differing emotions in all parts of the House and in the country about his announcement on the Hunting Bill, but may I press him on a number of matters? Surely, a Bill of that kind needs more than one day's consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "-sense reasons for a delay in the commencement of the legislation, which I should have thought everybody would understand. First, all of us are concerned with animal welfare, and we should all wish to do all that we can to provide time for the re-homing of dogs used in hunts or their humane dispersal if that is required. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has offered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ispersal if that is required. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has offered— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) asked me these questions; I am giving him the answers. The RSPCA has offered to help, based on its experience of re-homing greyhounds, and we hope that hunts will be able to work with it to achieve that. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The RSPCA is the expert authority on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The RSPCA is the expert authority on this matter. [Hon. Members: \"No, it is not.\"] Oh, I see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "A cardinal principle of debate and of our constitution is, \"That was then, this is now.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will excuse me, I am about to wind up. Logically, the new constitutional treaty is one that the Conservatives should support. As the noble Lord Heseltine has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "apply. What the right hon. and learned Gentleman should apply himself to is why the existing ramshackle treaties, which give European nation states less power than the new treaty, will somehow be beneficial for Britain. Now that the final text of the draft treaty is agreed, Parliament and the British people can debate it on the basis of facts, not the myths and scare stories of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "stitution. It was by building alliances and winning the arguments that we got the right choice for the new European Commission President—José Manuel Barroso, who has the stature, drive and global outlook to drive through reform in the EU—and with our former right hon. Friend Peter Mandelson, we have an outstanding British appointment who has now acquired the key trade portfolio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "Can I refer the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.898.4", "colnum": "898", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The court does not have jurisdiction over common foreign and security policy; it is not necessary because the operational articles are I-39 and I-40 and those referred to in part III. It is a canard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.898.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "I give way to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.900.5", "colnum": "900", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": " a surge in red tape.\" Now that we will have a referendum—I am grateful for that—the people of Britain will decide. I believe that the constitution speaks for itself. I therefore challenge the Government in the run-up to the referendum not to write propagandist White Papers but to send every household in Britain a full copy of the constitution so that people can read it for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "iod' . . . and there is no provision for withdrawal.\" There is no apparent legal provision for Britain to withdraw at present, and the only test case that we have is Greenland, which withdrew only with the permission of all member states, which had to pass appropriate legislation. However, the new, exciting treaty sets out a new arrangement on page 25, which I hope that all hon. Members have read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.921.2", "colnum": "921", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "othing more—that the economy is never hermetically sealed. I do not believe in laissez-faire politics; I believe that the economic is political. One cannot split the two into a false dichotomy. This is also an important moment because it marks a changed rulebook. The old amalgamation of treaties, which I knew to be an imponderable set of proposals when I worked for the BBC in Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.921.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "e of the UK's votes and the other should be decided by the legislative assembly of the devolved territory affected, on a rotational basis if necessary. Finally, we read this week that the Irish Government have said that they believe that the Irish language should become an official language of the EU. I heard the Father of the House say that if everybody is going to fight for their language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "for that—and concentrate on joining the euro, which the Government were perhaps more interested in. The treaty has come back, but as has been reported widely in the newspapers, there is even now a sense that the Government would be grateful if another country voted no before our referendum so that we would not have one. Are Governments more concerned about losing face than the treaty itself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "re all part of the world economy and are all buffeted by global economic forces, but we can at least choose our own interest rates, exchange rate and fiscal policy, and we can decide to reflate or deflate. That is not possible for members of a union in which policies are decided by unelected central banks. That is of fundamental significance. Norway, like us, is free of that control at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "is free of that control at the moment. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) asks about Britain, which has handed power over interest rates to our central bank to control inflation. However, if the Bank of England started to deflate heavily before an election the Chancellor would have a few words to say about that, and we can always take back that power if we choose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "must tell the Minister that the debate is going nowhere, especially when we have the sort of patsy-like material that I see in the White Paper placed in the Vote Office. It beggars belief that we are talking about a constitutional matter, but the Government devote the opening part of the document to telling people what a better deal they get on holiday by being part of the EU and its constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.944.2", "colnum": "944", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gary Streeter", "preceding_text": "erpretation of the constitution. The hon. Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Plaskitt) recognised the need for reform of EU institutions, but concluded that the constitution is the right solution. That is misguided. The hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) called for the Welsh language to be remembered in the constitution and made a passionate case for that for Plaid Cymru—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.944.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.949.4", "colnum": "949", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "that is the official policy of the Opposition. There was a difference in this debate. On this side of the House, we heard discordant voices, including my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, North (Mr. Hopkins) , who spoke, and my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Pollok (Mr. Davidson) , who intervened in the debate. However, on the other side of the House, there was complete and utter unity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "any, in the past, was very unhelpful on parents' access to their children in divorces of German nationals and nationals of another country, although things may now be further forward. I believe that the Germans are wrong, but they will not be told by any supranational body what their national policy is to be. Similarly, Germany denies the right to strike to millions of public sector workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.952.4", "colnum": "952", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "good argument for lawyers. I have dozens of quotes here; I can quote them if hon. Members like. The chief judge of the European Court of Justice, Mr. Skouris, said: \"I do not believe that the integration of the Charter into the Treaty will alter the allocation of powers between the EU and the Member States\". The Opposition Front-Bench team can produce their own lawyers who say something different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.952.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-09", "file": "debates2004-09-09.xml", "sha256": "a392d31423bf9cce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "European Constitution", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "Last year, the right hon. and learned Member for Devizes told us that the new treaty \"for the first time explicitly enshrines the primacy of EU law.\"—[ Official Report , 16 September 2003; Vol. 410, c. 779 .] That is not true. Will he tell that to his constituents?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-09.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that we all share the shadow Minister's enthusiasm for swimming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too generous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ith strong points of view on matters of principle and conscience regarding the Civil Partnership Bill have the opportunity to raise them in the debate. On the Hunting Bill, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has ensured that the moment of interruption will be put back. The House has debated the matter on five occasions and we have been generous in allocating time for the business motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "problem with the witness statements in June. He may be interested to know that a council by-election has subsequently been held, using all-postal votes but without a witness statement, in Darlington. It was held at the end of August and the turnout was some five percentage points higher than in June, when witness statements were used. That is interesting evidence that should be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": "o be thoroughly debated. I want to bring about a system in which looked-after children are greatly advantaged within schools. We must ensure that they receive the equality of opportunity within education that I spoke about earlier. I realise that that has been greatly abused and is likely to be even further abused in view of the greater independence that schools have for their admissions policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Loughton", "preceding_text": " is not a straightforward matter. A child who lives with his birth parents could live next door to a foster child who lives with foster parents. If both applied to an oversubscribed school it might be more appropriate, for whatever reason, for the child with birth parents to attend it. Is it right to be discriminated against in order to promote the educational advances of the child in foster care?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hinchliffe", "preceding_text": "benefit have been crucial in tackling serious poverty among children and families in various parts of the country. I hope that they will learn the lesson that the concept of universality is relevant to other policy areas such as the pensions system, where universal benefits and clawback through the tax system will help us to address poverty, which we are not doing sufficiently at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "No. I understand that while we have been debating this important Bill, a man dressed as Batman has climbed on to Buckingham palace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Buckingham Palace (Security Breach)", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am deeply sorry that the shadow Home Secretary has adopted the tone he has tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-13", "file": "debates2004-09-13.xml", "sha256": "00f2ae8c3936a047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1095.2", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Buckingham Palace (Security Breach)", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The first armed officer's response was rapid. One of the individuals, who was dressed as Robin, gave an interview describing how he was ordered down and was told that he would be shot if he did not do so. That particular individual was apprehended almost immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-13.1095.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "That is an excellent question from an excellent Member of Parliament. First, I welcome her support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1122.2", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Melanie Johnson", "preceding_text": "better for reasons that I can explain later. On the hon. Gentleman's point about the leak, it was not a leak. I understand that a relatively junior member of staff in the Health Protection Agency informed somebody about the proposed change and that that person then informed a national newspaper. In consequence, about a week ahead of a letter that was proposed to go out informing the service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1122.7", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "May I first say that, although this does not deny the challenge on dentistry that we face in any way, the figures that my hon. Friend cites are from an older report published before we changed the system of commissioning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1122.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "who stung me in Committee when I challenged him to tell me when the Conservatives would reveal their plans for higher education. He boldly replied: \"I can assure him that when we publish our policy he will be immensely jealous of it, as it will be much more attractive than the one that either he or the Government propose.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee H , 24 February 2004 ; c. 252.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1144.0", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "n low-income employment, particularly in the public sector, would be particularly disadvantaged. Significant numbers of students will never pay off their debts, because the interest on them will rack up to a point at which it will be impossible to pay them off. The proposals include no calculation of how that debt will be written off. Students taking longer courses in medicine, for instance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1146.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Higher Education", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "Well, let us take the Thomas report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1203.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Older Women", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": " an average of £108. So far I am with the hon. Gentleman, which is why I think this should be a strand of our social policy. But—and these are important qualifications—although older pensioners are on average poorer than younger pensioners, there is a wide variation in circumstances. In fact, over half—about 56 per cent.—of pensioners in relative poverty are under 75.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1205.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Older Women", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Say yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "First, I do not accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1205.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Older Women", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "First, I do not accept—[Hon. Members: \"Say yes\".] I am not going to say yes, because it would be a silly answer. I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's gloomy prognosis. Many people who reach the age of 75 often have a reasonable life expectancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1209.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Older Women", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "cently, we unveiled for consultation our proposals for a lifetime savings account, which we think will be extremely attractive in encouraging young women and men to save for their retirement. Let me deal briefly with mixed-sex wards. It is absolutely disgraceful that they still exist in this day and age. When a Conservative Government are in power, we expect them to become a thing of a past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-14", "file": "debates2004-09-14.xml", "sha256": "54faaec072e24a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1245.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "GURKHAS", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Kirkcaldy (Dr. Moonie) , in the right hon. Lady's debate on 6 March 2003 . Officials of the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office have been conducting a joint review on current policy on naturalisation and settlement of Gurkhas, and in particular, they are looking at how current immigration policy impacts on Gurkhas on discharge. That review is nearing completion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-14.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1256.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree with the farming unions in Wales that imposing a flat rate on the disposal of fallen stock would be far fairer than penalising those who live in more problematic, less accessible areas? What evaluation have the Government made of the huge likely increase in predation of lambs as a direct result of the ignorant move made by the Government today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1256.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must ask the House to come to order. The Chamber is very noisy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1260.2", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "er, that for a long period under the Conservatives incapacity benefit was the result of the way they shunted people off unemployment benefit to make sure that they never appeared in the official figures. So we will take no lessons from the Tories on incapacity benefit. As for the economy, let us compare the economy now with the economy when the right hon. and learned Gentleman was in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1261.0", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "vements in the national health service. We are proud of doing that; it is the right thing to do. It means that, for the first time, instead of health waiting lists going up—they were 400,000 under the Conservatives—they are 300,000 down under us. In respect of the other policy issue that the right hon. and learned Gentleman asked about, which I am afraid has just slipped my mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1261.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hospital cleanliness.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, the economy was the issue before it. What was the last one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1264.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": " wind farm in the Moray firth, says that the greatest single threat to the viability of that project is the charges being proposed by Ofgem and the National Grid Company. Can the Prime Minister explain why it should cost £20 per kilowatt to connect to the grid in the north of Scotland, whereas anyone can be subsidised by £9 per kilowatt if they want a wind farm in central London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1270.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Desecration of National Flags", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " Government or a policy; they belong to all of us. Most people have a sense of possession and belonging whether they were born in a country or whether it becomes their adoptive home. They identify with their flags, often with pride, as we saw in Athens at the Olympic games. Love of country and the symbols of nationhood are deemed by some today to be politically incorrect. I do not share that view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1278.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman is right: that is why the Government have spent so much time listening to those minorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1283.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has played a huge part in these proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1291.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "t. It is clear that there is a strong divide between the two Houses. I am not a great supporter of the House of Lords; indeed, as my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham (Mr. Banks) may know, I voted for its abolition. But the fact is that we have it, and its current role is that of a second Chamber—a Chamber that is perhaps a little more thoughtful and which takes time to contemplate issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1293.2", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend and I mostly agree on this, and I thank her for that intervention. We have a stand-off between the House of Lords and the House of Commons. I have been in politics for a long time, and it seems to me that the best solution in such a situation is to seek compromise, to meet somewhere halfway, and I have to say that, time and again, there is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1303.3", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " be used only very sparingly and for the most important issues. Strong views are honourably held on both sides of this debate. We know that the Liberal Democrats are divided, I have colleagues who want a ban and there are brave proponents of hunting on the Labour Benches. However, the subject is not of paramount importance in the national consciousness. I had a snack earlier in the Tea Room—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1304.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "John Greenway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Greenway", "preceding_text": ". If there is to be a delay of 18 months or two years in implementing the measure, it is inevitable that the next general election will be fought on the issue in constituencies up and down the land. That is not right in itself, and if Labour Members think it will advantage them, they have another think coming. Millions of people know that if the ban goes through, shooting and angling will be next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1305.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "overnment propose to iron out those faults. To date, I have heard nothing better than the possibility of a Committee. Secondly, we have already discussed the role of the Lords in the matter; it has been said that the Lords frustrated the will of the House. That is true. A majority of Members of this place voted for a ban and the upper House came to a different view. However, we must ask why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1307.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Hunting Bill (Procedure)", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "thers, so we need to be cautious about criticising the upper House as being wholly unacceptable. If it is, it is the result of decisions made by the Government. When a Lords Member said that these circumstances were an affront to democracy, I suspect that, because they felt so strongly about the issue, they felt frustrated that the Commons were not listening and were unwilling to compromise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1327.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "etting out of control, people are being injured and things are very ugly indeed. The riot police are in action, police on horses are engaged, 2 ft police batons are drawn and are being brought down on people's heads and backs, and I have seen injured people. Can you approach the powers that be to see whether the House, even at this stage, can find a way to delay this debate to a better time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1333.3", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment; I have just started making a few introductory remarks. With the middle east and Iraq in turmoil, with Beslan and Darfur so much in our minds, people will not understand Labour's warped priorities and the Government's fixation with the sole issue of banning hunting with hounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1335.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "If I may correct the Minister, I think I am right in saying that ACPO, in the form of Chief Superintendent Alastair McWhirter, has made it clear on several occasions that the police do not want a ban.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1335.0", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "If I may correct the Minister, I think I am right in saying that ACPO, in the form of Chief Superintendent Alastair McWhirter, has made it clear on several occasions that the police do not want a ban. [Interruption.] The Minister has made his point and we should get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1336.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKay", "preceding_text": "On a separate point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Can you confirm that there is now injury time because we already have a curtailed debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1336.5", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "about the disgraceful incident in the House earlier? It was an absolute scandal, and whoever they were and whatever argument they were trying to make, they lost it by making that protest. I lose no time in entirely condemning it. I have to say that in my time I have had some pretty sharp reactions to my speeches, but never one quite like that. I have to wonder whether it was something that I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1336.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1338.9", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "If I may, I want to get on to the main part of my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1338.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1341.6", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": " to the shooters and fishers. It has made it absolutely plain that it is going to do so. It is dealing with hunting now; who comes next? All that we country people want is to live and let live. The preservation of tolerance and freedom should be one of the most fundamental duties of this Parliament, and that is all we ask. The Prime Minister recently said that justice, freedom and tolerance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1341.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1344.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew George", "preceding_text": "area? Are their liberties also taken into account? Of course, it is not just a question of liberties in relation to land. Often, those who own the land feel that it is up to them to decide what happens on it. Many of those who live in the countryside do not own much land, but they are entitled to have a view and to have their feelings about how the countryside should be managed taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1364.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I have not had discussions about that because we are concentrating on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1365.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "yside will pay no attention to that; nor will their hatred, sadness and anger be in any way assuaged by the grubby little political deal that the right hon. Gentleman is offering us. We know why the Minister is offering the deal. It has nothing to do with animal welfare, with allowing hunts to wind down or with the 8,000 families who will be thrown into penury as a result of this disgraceful Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1365.4", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is chuntering from a sedentary position, but I allowed him to make a long intervention. From memory, I think that the figure given by Burns is 6,724 full and part-time jobs, equivalent to 8,000 full-time jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1368.0", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that not only low-grade horses but many thoroughbreds are unsuitable for hacking? I have a thoroughbred—a retired racehorse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1384.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Foster", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) and my general committee will be delighted to hear that I am now a member of old Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1396.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "al electoral ploy by the Government. I know that the name of the Minister for Rural Affairs and Local Environmental Quality is on the amendment and that he supports it and will accept it. That is a disgraceful abuse of Parliament. Either hunting with dogs should be banned, or it should not. Surely, that is clear to even the most stupid person on the Labour Benches who supports the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1397.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. I did not hear Mr. Monbiot, but of course that is unfortunately what a lot of people think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1402.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I will not attempt to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham) in that last remark or in his expertise in hunting, both drag and otherwise. In the few moments that I have, I ask the House to be a bit pragmatic. This has been a very sad day for Parliament, as I explained in my speech on the procedure motion. Since then, it has become much sadder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1402.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "e that, I urge hon. Friends who spoke against it to think again. In an impassioned and rather intolerant speech about the countryside, my hon. Friend the Member for North Thanet (Mr. Gale) —he is not here now—said that this is all about not having hounds destroyed before the general election. I do not want them to be destroyed before the general election, after it or at any other time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1402.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " to be banned by the time we go—as we almost certainly will—to the country next year. I want it to be a general election issue because I want the voters in my constituency and every rural constituency in particular—I accept that many urban people support hunting, too—to have the chance to vote for a party that is pledged to repeal the measure before it has come into effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1409.0", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I have five brief points to make, arising from today's events, in asking the House confidently to give the Bill its Third Reading. The first issue is the language and tone of debate. This is an important matter when debate has been so polarised and passionate. In particular, we need to hear a change of tone on the part of the Countryside Alliance in response to today's events. To its credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1413.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "hat the future of hunting with dogs should not be decided on personal preference. He believed that the Bill originally brought before the House was a good Bill and he saw no reason why people should not support it. He then said that people had chosen to ban hunting because it was simpler to enforce. I am personally ashamed that a Labour Government should connive in this triumph of prejudice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1413.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " House was a good Bill and he saw no reason why people should not support it. He then said that people had chosen to ban hunting because it was simpler to enforce. I am personally ashamed that a Labour Government should connive in this triumph of prejudice— [Interruption.] I have always believed that the Labour party and the Labour Government stood for a tolerant and inclusive society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1414.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "elieve that prejudice and bigotry should triumph as grounds for legislation. We have seen similar things in all the world's worst regimes. If people do not like something, they want to ban it. We shall see the consequences. The Leader of the House will have identified with the protest we saw in the Chamber today, because it is precisely the kind of protest that he carried out some years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1414.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "like something, they want to ban it. We shall see the consequences. The Leader of the House will have identified with the protest we saw in the Chamber today, because it is precisely the kind of protest that he carried out some years ago— [Interruption.] The Leader of the House may not have managed to get into the Chamber wearing a tee-shirt, but he certainly got on to a cricket pitch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1414.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": "hall see the consequences. The Leader of the House will have identified with the protest we saw in the Chamber today, because it is precisely the kind of protest that he carried out some years ago— [Interruption.] The Leader of the House may not have managed to get into the Chamber wearing a tee-shirt, but he certainly got on to a cricket pitch— [Interruption.] What we saw today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1415.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Picking", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Picking", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for giving way. My question to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-15", "file": "debates2004-09-15.xml", "sha256": "5cc635699e3db161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1421.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In the light of your statement, will you confirm that you would deplore any briefing by hon. Members on either side of the House to the effect that a Conservative Member of Parliament let the invaders in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-15.1421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-16", "file": "debates2004-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b021d5ce8de5ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-16.1454.0", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " a debate before the ballot. He will know that the issue has been widely discussed over the past 18 months or so. We had earlier authority for the referendum, and that is the basis on which we shall go ahead. He can always travel up to the north-east and join the campaign. No doubt he will campaign on behalf of the Conservative party against regional government for the north-east of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-16.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-16", "file": "debates2004-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b021d5ce8de5ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-16.1463.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "y agree with my hon. Friend's sentiments. It would be absolutely unacceptable for anything like what happened yesterday ever to happen again: that is why you, Mr. Speaker, and other members of the House of Commons Commission—including me—are determined to implement the proper reforms to ensure that it does not happen again. May I take this opportunity to pay tribute to the Doorkeepers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-16.1463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-16", "file": "debates2004-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b021d5ce8de5ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-16.1464.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House to ensure that, when the cross-party motion to impeach the Prime Minister on high queens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-16.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-09-16", "file": "debates2004-09-16.xml", "sha256": "8b021d5ce8de5ec8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-16.1465.5", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-09-16.1465.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-11", "file": "debates2004-10-11.xml", "sha256": "7693455c3e85ded7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-11.20.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Have you received any indication from the Minister for Sport and Tourism that he intends to come to the House to make a statement on the future of the British grand prix? The matter is vital for three reasons. The British grand prix is one of the great events of the UK sporting calendar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-11.20.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-11", "file": "debates2004-10-11.xml", "sha256": "7693455c3e85ded7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-11.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Boswell", "preceding_text": "sly expressed views, which may or may not be consistent with their actual best interests at the time, will be handled. It is important that I make it clear that my personal position remains one of constructive scepticism. I shall listen to the debate and the further exchanges that take place and I may well withhold my support from the Government tonight pending assurances being given in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-11.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-12", "file": "debates2004-10-12.xml", "sha256": "de90d5c53ef7242a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Colchester (Bob Russell) —I almost referred to him as a right hon. Member, but I do not want to undermine the integrity of the Privy Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-12", "file": "debates2004-10-12.xml", "sha256": "de90d5c53ef7242a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Iraq", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "In a spirit of friendship and comradeship, I will not embarrass my right hon. Friend by pointing out all the things that he said when he was in my position about the threat posed by Saddam and his weapons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-12", "file": "debates2004-10-12.xml", "sha256": "de90d5c53ef7242a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that in all political parties in Northern Ireland there is opposition to this Bill. She will also be aware that in the consultation 86 per cent. of the answers were no. Why is the Bill not going to be left until the Assembly is up and running again so that the people of Northern Ireland can make the decision themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-12", "file": "debates2004-10-12.xml", "sha256": "de90d5c53ef7242a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.183.5", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ness partner, a casual boyfriend, a girlfriend, or someone in a longer-term relationship. As developments take place, we may well find that we need to find new etiquette and new manners to enable us, in our changing civil society, to describe others in a form that makes people comfortable. I invite hon. Members to try to think of an appropriate word. As a prize, I offer a bottle of pink champagne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-12", "file": "debates2004-10-12.xml", "sha256": "de90d5c53ef7242a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "er dies. Whatever the good intent, the Bill, as amended in another place, is now unworkable. The impression has been given that the Conservative party has sought to wreck the creation of civil partnerships, which I can assure the House is certainly not the case. That is why my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has said explicitly that he would like to see the amendment reserved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-12", "file": "debates2004-10-12.xml", "sha256": "de90d5c53ef7242a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": " that the Scottish Parliament has already considered the provisions in detail, so it is not a question of running scared. Whether he likes it or not, he must recognise that there is a clear confluence of interest on many aspects of the Bill that have UK-wide application and involve Scotland. For him to suggest that the matter is better undertaken with a piecemeal approach is verging on the absurd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-12", "file": "debates2004-10-12.xml", "sha256": "de90d5c53ef7242a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There is no time limit on speeches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman and hon. Lady will forgive me, but I am under some time pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-12", "file": "debates2004-10-12.xml", "sha256": "de90d5c53ef7242a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "doubt: we are legislating for what Baroness Scotland accepted in the other place is a tiny fraction—5 or 10 per cent.—of a small proportion of the population. I remind the House of an old adage that may seem harsh, but is not intended to be so: sad cases make bad law. To legislate on the basis of the cases mentioned, and to create a whole new raft of law, consisting of 383 pages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-12.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.273.4", "colnum": "273", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the House to be fair to hon. Members who are listening; it is far too noisy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Right. If the right hon. Gentleman accepts the report in full, he has to accept, just as I must accept, that the evidence indicates that there were not stockpiles of weapons, that there were breaches of UN resolutions, because that is what the report says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.280.6", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is what he said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ty is that it is only after the presidential election that the President of the Untied States will be able to focus on that. I am determined, as we have done over the past few years, to do everything that we can to get the parties back into negotiation again. I credit the hon. Gentleman for mentioning the appalling death of the Palestinian girl and the fact that many Israelis die in terrorist acts", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.280.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "raq survey group found, but it is not correct that we said that the regime was irrelevant. If my hon. Friend goes back to the debate of 18 March 2003 , he will see that I described in detail what the regime did. It would be good, perhaps, if we got the same amount of publicity for the report today on the mass grave found in northern Iraq. I will read the details to the House. The person who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "high as it was when Labour came to office in May 1997. The Government have made no progress whatever. At oral questions on Monday, the Minister for Work—it is good to see her here today—seemed baffled when we cited these figures, and did not seem familiar with a table that Conservative Members have studied closely: table D4 of \"Labour Market Trends\", which is published monthly. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "Let me now turn, then, from the Government's failure to reform welfare to their failure to tackle the pensions crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "nces, by Governments over \"several decades\". People outside the House would be interested to know whether the hon. Gentleman accepts his party's share of responsibility for what happened. In particular, will he now accept that when he stood in the 1997 election on the Conservative policy to phase out the basic state pension over the coming years, he and his party were completely and utterly wrong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "coming years, he and his party were completely and utterly wrong? [Hon. Members: \"What?\"] Those hon. Members who shouted out \"What?\" should have read the policy that was advocated by the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) when he was Secretary of State, which was to abolish the basic state pension. They were wrong, and Conservative Members should accept responsibility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.296.2", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "We will be publishing our consultation document on tax reform in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.296.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.296.6", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Helen Jackson", "preceding_text": "I have been listening to the hon. Gentleman for nearly half an hour", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.296.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "ement ages could rise at the same time as savings. Nevertheless, they encapsulate the kinds of choices that our society faces in relation to prospective pensioners who are mostly currently employed, although some are unemployed, self-employed or carers. I will now—briefly, because I realise that other Members wish to speak—put forward an immodest proposal to sort out the pensions mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "owever, tax relief is not necessarily well targeted at the moment, and perhaps I can refer to that later. On the problems with private sector pensions and pension funds—at this point I declare my interest because, as hon. Members know, I chair the parliamentary contributory pension fund and I am also chairman of trustees of the pension fund for the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": " less reticent on the subject of pensions at the 1997 election. I received a letter only today from Mr. Richard Sharp, who is the chairman of the south-east region of the National Pensioners Convention. He enclosed a briefing produced by the Labour party before the 1997 election and asked me to use it to \"publicly denounce them for the charlatans they are on the basis of pre-election commitments.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "n, and it is still a lie. It says—this is the good bit— \"Labour will defend the basic state pension, without means-testing, and ensure that it remains the foundation of our pensions policy.\" Hard as I look from one of end that disgraceful document to the other, I can find no reference to a promise to take £5 billion a year from pension funds if the Labour party won that election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-13", "file": "debates2004-10-13.xml", "sha256": "70e3217cb6f71d6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Pensions and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": ". We have been exhaustively through the eight-point plan, or the 10-point plan as the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West described it when allowing for inflation. However, just as important is our lifetime savings account that is designed to encourage people not already saving—the 9 million whom we have heard about—to do so. These are all well costed, well thought-out proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-13.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-14", "file": "debates2004-10-14.xml", "sha256": "7c42cdd0243290b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"On a free vote?", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ities about the need to proceed with security arrangements for the Chamber and the construction works involved—would be a pilot for the future. I know that Members have strong feelings about the conditions in which we came back in September—feelings that you share, Mr. Speaker. In the end, it is a matter for the House. There will be a vote on whether to retain September sittings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-14", "file": "debates2004-10-14.xml", "sha256": "7c42cdd0243290b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "EU Justice and Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that that is the case. I believe that they simply choose to use this as a Hartlepool agenda to try to get themselves out of a hole. It is an unfortunate misuse of the proceedings. It is a great shame that we have these announcements of doom every time we have a European debate. I am staggered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-14", "file": "debates2004-10-14.xml", "sha256": "7c42cdd0243290b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "EU Justice and Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "have a European debate. I am staggered— [Interruption.] A cameo appearance by the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden. It is staggering that we are debating this at all because we were told after Amsterdam and Nice that there would be no Parliament to have these debates—it was the end of the world every time. I wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman is going to join us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-14", "file": "debates2004-10-14.xml", "sha256": "7c42cdd0243290b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "School Sport", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Twigg", "preceding_text": ", but I want to send out a general message that for the healthy living approach to work, it requires schools to take it seriously, which itself is a challenge, and effective working together, locally and nationally. That is the way to make a success of this, and primary care trusts have an important role to play. Let me finish by saying something about the European year of education through sport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-14", "file": "debates2004-10-14.xml", "sha256": "7c42cdd0243290b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "School Sport", "cue_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are the Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Hugh Robertson", "preceding_text": "ought-provoking contributions. My only regret is that my opposite number, the Minister for Sport and Tourism, is not here to listen to those excellent speeches. Of course, it is an enormous pleasure that the Under-Secretary of State for Education and Skills, the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Twigg) is here, but a visible sign of commitment from my opposite number would have been welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-14.489.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-15", "file": "debates2004-10-15.xml", "sha256": "f365f811db847dcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-15.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Prohibition Of Loading And Unloading At Large Shops Before 9 A.M. On Christmas Day", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "r. Leigh) made a very passionate speech, although it will come as no surprise to him to learn that I do not agree with his conclusions. I want also to pay tribute to the Minister. When we were last here debating this subject, I raised a number of issues with him, as did my right hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) , whose ghost, I feel, is with us, even though he is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-15.570.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I did not say that I was doing a marvellous job, but I am glad to receive the accolade. Organisations in the UK and across Europe are working with us to revamp and improve Europol—another issue that I discussed with Interior Ministers in the past 24 hours—which is crucial if we are to tackle the problem, but the price of the world supply, not just the supply to the UK, fluctuates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " implement them. Do not take my word for it; take the word of someone who has a lot of experience of dealing with the issue, who said we should stop indulging in \"the national passion for denigrating good news\". That was said by a Home Secretary—the current Leader of the Opposition—in September 1995. He should know because, when he first took over as Home Secretary, gun crime rocketed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "rs. Gillan) . In an appearance on News 24 on the same day, she said that the Conservatives would be \"held accountable\" and deliver, and would \"start recruiting those police officers immediately\". How can one start recruiting police officers immediately if it will take a Parliament to raise the money from cutting the immigration and nationality budget at the same time as increasing border controls?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "ountable\" and deliver, and would \"start recruiting those police officers immediately\". How can one start recruiting police officers immediately if it will take a Parliament to raise the money from cutting the immigration and nationality budget at the same time as increasing border controls? [Interruption.] When does immediately not mean immediately? It is when a Tory Front-Bench spokesman says it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. When the Conservative Government of 20 years ago introduced the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the PACE codes, the amount of paperwork legitimately shot up. There is a tendency for all Governments to demand extra statistical information. We are asked at the Dispatch Box to do so. We are asked whether we can find out from any part of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "rk legitimately shot up. There is a tendency for all Governments to demand extra statistical information. We are asked at the Dispatch Box to do so. We are asked whether we can find out from any part of the country— [Interruption.] It seems that we have returned to Nottingham, despite the fact that I gave the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden a perfectly reasonable answer earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.670.3", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "omething on a pad, going back to the station and writing it in a book and then tapping it themselves into a computer, as I saw them doing when I became Home Secretary. That transformation in technology includes the introduction of Airwave, allowing police officers to communicate properly with each other and the station. There are also new methods of ensuring that they do not have to wait in court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that the Nottinghamshire police would like to come to me—I challenge him to ask Steve Green, the chief constable, to affirm this—to ask to go back to the situation that we inherited, when there had been a drop of 1,100 in police numbers over the previous four years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that the Nottinghamshire police would like to come to me—I challenge him to ask Steve Green, the chief constable, to affirm this—to ask to go back to the situation that we inherited, when there had been a drop of 1,100 in police numbers over the previous four years? [Interruption.] Oh yes there had been. Police numbers were tumbling exponentially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Corporal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "In the words of Sergeant Jones, they do not like it up them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.672.2", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "eople will pay a charge that is additional to their passport increase. How on earth can police officers be funded from the Passport and Records Agency? How can the UK Passport Service raise the same money without delivering the service and also pass that money over to the police service instead? It is simply Mickey Mousedom. That is the end of the 10,000 police officers from the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman appears to think that specials are full time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": " lifetime of crime and destruction. It is one of the most important aspects of bringing crime down. It is more than just punishment; it is prevention. Prevention is one of the keys to fighting crime in Britain, as is tackling the drug problem. It does not take much to realise that the current system is failing criminals with drug problems as well. Britain now has a million or so hard drug addicts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Crime", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Mitchell", "preceding_text": "midlands. My hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Green) spent Saturday night on patrol in his constituency, and shared some of his experiences with the House. My hon. Friend the Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer) offered wise words about some of the wider issues on the national stage, as well as issues particular to Nottinghamshire. My hon. Friend the Member for Leominster (Mr. Wiggin) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-18", "file": "debates2004-10-18.xml", "sha256": "1e58828a67cbdcaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "MOBILE PHONE MASTS", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "rnment policy on planning for telecommunications. I congratulate my hon. Friend on covering a huge amount of territory in a short time, as well as taking an intervention from our hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes, North-East. My hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey will appreciate that it is not appropriate for me to make a detailed response to each of the recommendations the group made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-18.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-19", "file": "debates2004-10-19.xml", "sha256": "140813051dfe4d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will probably know that the strategy is the three E's: enforcement, education—I have forgotten what the other one is, but it will come to me in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-19", "file": "debates2004-10-19.xml", "sha256": "140813051dfe4d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that issue. When I was at Milton Keynes station I was en route to the hon. Gentleman's constituency, so I understand the point that he is making. As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey) a few minutes ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-19", "file": "debates2004-10-19.xml", "sha256": "140813051dfe4d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the hon. Gentleman what we are doing. We will introduce the lorry road user charging regime, which is under development at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-19", "file": "debates2004-10-19.xml", "sha256": "140813051dfe4d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support. With him, it is not so much a question of the poisoned chalice as the poison; however, I am grateful—one takes what one can get in this job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-19", "file": "debates2004-10-19.xml", "sha256": "140813051dfe4d9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "CABINET OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support. With him, it is not so much a question of the poisoned chalice as the poison; however, I am grateful—one takes what one can get in this job. [Interruption.] As he says, I am sure that there will be a lot more to come, but if I were him I would take heed of one piece of advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-19.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I must strike a slightly discordant note. Although what the Government are doing is welcome, it is too little, too late for people such as the residents of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.880.5", "colnum": "880", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "Will the Deputy Prime Minister explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.880.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am answering it. I am saying that what I am actually being asked to do by the Liberal Democrats, even if the recommendation comes from our commanders to engage in this operation, is to overrule it politically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "The answer that we have just had from the Prime Minister tells us volumes about his attitude to the truth. He suggested—the Health Secretary urged him on—that there was some link between infections in hospitals and contracting-out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if— [Interruption.] I am sorry if the right hon. and learned Gentleman believes that the standard of cleaning in our hospitals has nothing to do with MRSA, but plainly it has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.888.2", "colnum": "888", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " new legislation that is making a big difference in communities up and down the country, as I heard for myself in discussion with police officers yesterday. We are increasing investment in youth services, and it is important that we do so. I might add that the Conservative party voted against that investment. If by \"learning outcomes\" the hon. Gentleman actually means results in our schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.888.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.890.5", "colnum": "890", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "Given the success of complementary medicine and the 24 practitioners in the Totnes natural health centre, and given that there are virtually no NHS dentists in the whole of south Devon, can the Prime Minister see a way of using some of the unspent funds committed to NHS dental practices in south Devon to purchase homopathic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.890.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.890.8", "colnum": "890", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman that the South Hams and West Devon primary care trust has received an increase in its funding, in cash terms, of 9 per cent. It is for PCTs to use this funding locally to commission services, and there is no reason why, if his PCT considered it the most appropriate use of the money, that could not include complementary medicine—although perhaps not exactly as he described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.890.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Clause 1 — Pension and compensation schemes: armed and reserve forces", "cue_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ivor Caplin", "preceding_text": "I welcome this debate and will try to be brief in my summing up. First, let me congratulate the hon. Member for South-East Cornwall (Mr. Breed) on becoming a grandfather.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.936.1", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Clause 1 — Pension and compensation schemes: armed and reserve forces", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "d to do that, my reply will be that we are able to afford every pound that we spend in Iraq, even though we should not be there. We should not be spending that money and we were misled into that position, so the least he can do is to spend a bit on these proposals. That is where he should spend the money; on those who cannot speak for themselves and who deserve it. I hope that he will do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-20", "file": "debates2004-10-20.xml", "sha256": "57c2abf32404ed11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": " to ensure that it develops formulations for children. Most of the accidents that occur result from doctors and other health professionals using diluted adult formulations for children. Occasionally, the calculations go wrong because the adult formulations are completely unsuitable. If the Minister has any power to persuade the pharmaceutical industry to develop more children's formulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-20.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Joan Walley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Walley", "preceding_text": "Friend send out a strong message to North Staffordshire that we will not tolerate fly-tipping? Will he hold talks with the Environment Agency to see whether we could be a pilot area for a targeted carrot-and-stick approach that improves public awareness of whether we are dealing properly with waste while making it clear to those who do not do so that we will come down on them like a ton of bricks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1017.8", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker. Is it Question 19?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1017.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "resumption that requests from a Select Committee for Ministers or civil servants, including special advisers, to appear before it will be agreed to, subject to Ministers having the final decision. I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would welcome that. There is no need for a sub-committee. The House is paralysed by \"committee-itis\", and that it not a criticism of Select Committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Food fortnight week is an important initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "House whom I would ever accuse of being ungracious. I understand the issues that the hon. Gentleman raises. We thought carefully about the Procedure Committee's recommendations and compared them with the Modernisation Committee's recommendations. Throughout this time, we have tried to build a consensus on programming. Some of the points that we have taken on board show that that is the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I shall deal specifically with those proposals in due course, but I assure my hon. Friend, and the House, that it is not our intention to mess up anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have to acknowledge the fact—although he will not want to—that Britain's independent nuclear deterrent has served us, and the world, extremely well. So, ladies and gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1067.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": " When the Prime Minister rose to his feet yesterday and said that the Black Watch will be home for Christmas, that was a pledge, and we will hold him to that promise. I was disappointed that nothing was mentioned in the statement about when the Black Watch would return. I was also disappointed that no clarification was given: the Secretary of State did not say unequivocally that that would happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "n numbers but fast growing in influence, which I welcome. The Arab-Jewish forum, which I set up as a result of my discussions with Arabs in my area, is being successful. Iraqis in particular will tell those who talk to them, very clearly, that although they were divided among themselves on the issue of the war—like those in the rest of our country—they all wanted rid of Saddam Hussein.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " particularly riveting. The hon. Gentleman made a number of points. He recognised the need for reorganisation and transformation of the armed forces. So he should. None of the armed forces of our NATO allies has not gone through such reorganisation and transformation. His record, when he served in the last Conservative Government was, of course, the contraction and amalgamation of regiments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "organisation and transformation of the armed forces. So he should. None of the armed forces of our NATO allies has not gone through such reorganisation and transformation. His record, when he served in the last Conservative Government was, of course, the contraction and amalgamation of regiments— [Interruption.] Regiments were amalgamated during his tenure. I shall not go into details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-21", "file": "debates2004-10-21.xml", "sha256": "7573d88b190f4402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1114.5", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Served?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I want to make one or two points about the hon. Gentleman's speech. He asked for clarification about the air policing of Baltic states—Estonia and Lithuania. We have jets there, but they will be withdrawn in January 2005. We will be replaced by the Norwegians. The hon. Gentleman also mentioned the tour of duty of HMS Richmond in the West Indies. I served a night on the ship recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-21.1114.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "University Admissions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jonathan R Shaw", "preceding_text": "I am not going to name a university—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "University Admissions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "I am always both amazed and impressed at the ability of my hon. Friend to memorise large sections of text. His ability to memorise that chunk of text is even more impressive than usual, and I am delighted to say that it leads me to a different point that I want to make that relates, funnily enough, to Marxist ideology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "University Admissions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": " it is a little inconvenient to let facts get in the way of a good story, but I prefer facts to misconceptions. I am therefore pleased to have the chance to set things straight today, and I know that he will welcome that. The first misconception is that the Government want to tell universities how to manage their admissions process. Nothing could be further from the truth. Admissions should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "University Admissions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "The core of my argument is, with respect, that the hon. Gentleman misunderstands OFFA's job. The hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) , who is sitting next to him on the Front Bench, suffered with me as we read OFFA's regulations; it was my first job on my first day in post, and it was terrible. The hon. Gentleman should read OFFA's regulations and then he will see for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "University Admissions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right; that is what we have to do. However, I would argue with Chris Patten—or is it Lord Patten?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1174.3", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "University Admissions Policy", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but that depends on which bit of the Ivy league is considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1196.0", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "University Admissions Policy", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": " the detailed guidance from OFFA, from which the Minister demurred. The Minister tried to give reassurance about that. Is my hon. Friend aware of the milestones that are set for universities and vetted by OFFA, and on which the universities will be judged, to assess whether they are doing enough to meet OFFA's terms? Does he share my interest in knowing whether those milestones will include—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Wind Farms", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": " afraid that I cannot. That would give local people the ability to decide whether they want a wind farm. There should be no presumption that that decision will be overturned on appeal, and no presumption in favour of wind energy. There should be a presumption in favour of local decisions. Were that to mean an end to the massive expansion of what I believe to be absolutely hideous wind farms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-25", "file": "debates2004-10-25.xml", "sha256": "ba17a4ded07b727b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "DEVON NHS PARTNERSHIP TRUST", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": " for a first appointment and some who are still waiting. We are talking about potential suicides here. Only this weekend, I visited at home a young woman who has made no fewer than 10 suicide attempts since she was 15. I witnessed for myself the self-harm marks on her wrists. She has been turned down by the community mental health team as somebody for whom they are not prepared to provide support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-25.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "DEPARTMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "The Parliament Act has been used for a number of different reasons historically. Examples are the Sexual Offences Act 2003, the War Crimes Act 1991, which involved a free vote on a matter of conscience, and the European Parliamentary Elections Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1286.5", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "DEPARTMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is no better example for using the Parliament Act than fox hunting? The massive majority in this House has been repeated over and again, on a free vote. Then when the Bill goes to the House of Lords, where the Tories are in abundance, joined by other fox hunters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1286.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "EU Immigration and Asylum Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I regret that the right hon. Gentleman is on the wrong bandwagon. Yesterday and this morning, the Justice and Home Affairs Council was not dealing with the charter of fundamental rights, nor with an abandonment of our border controls; it was working out a five-year programme for justice and home affairs across Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "EU Immigration and Asylum Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "as we have already, in the Mediterranean to stop people reaching our shores. This is really very entertaining because the Opposition seem to think that, if we just wished people away and did not co-operate with other European countries, somehow people would not travel through the Balkans into central and eastern Europe and, somehow, they would not cross the Mediterranean to Italy, Greece or Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "EU Immigration and Asylum Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "no more true today than it was yesterday or the day before because, of course, that Court predates the EU, the treaty of Amsterdam and the constitutional discussions. Even a child learning in school would know that. A child learning in school would not necessarily know the Conservative party's policy on these issues, but I would expect the shadow Home Secretary to know his own party's proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1298.3", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "EU Immigration and Asylum Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "We signed it, but we did so with the protocol that I described earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1304.2", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "EU Immigration and Asylum Policy", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": " Gentleman's question, however, was whether once we are in, we can get out. No, we cannot, without renegotiating that part of the work programme of the European Union. If, however, it were perceived to be bad for Britain in the first place we would not opt in. If that were the case, I imagine that other countries would be experiencing difficulties as well, and we would negotiate our way out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is far more distinguished and experienced than me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1311.3", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "were scheduled to allow the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) , to prepare for business questions, where—this shows how generous we were—he gave me a tough time. On Tuesday 10 February , the Committee that considered the Traffic Management Act 2004 did not have a morning sitting to allow one Conservative Member to attend divorce proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "Other organisations have an even better idea. I was once offered one minute and 30 seconds for my contribution to a debate. Luckily, the Conservative sitting beside me—this was in an international Parliament—was offered the same, so we decided that we would get up, announce our names and our country and sit down. I am sure that that would never happen in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1348.0", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " We are considering a House of Commons matter and it is important for it to be resolved by the House of Commons. I was half-grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for North-East Hertfordshire (Mr. Heald) , the shadow Leader of the House, for his response to my pointed intervention. He did not come the whole way, but I hope he will when, with your leave, Madam Deputy Speaker, he winds up the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1375.4", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "on both sides of the House are committed to making programming work better for all concerned, whether Back or Front Benchers. The strong, principled opposition to programming, which some right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House hold dear, is understandable, but making programming work is what my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House is doing. That is for the benefit of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1380.0", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Programming of Bills", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ld form part of the horse-trading with other Bills before the House, in which case the objective of consensus would, in my view, break down. I do not say that in the light of any particular Bill currently before the House and I say it irrespective of the colour of the Government in power. I simply believe that it would be a fact of political life. I should like to draw my remarks to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-26", "file": "debates2004-10-26.xml", "sha256": "8f6f912ed665dbe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Jaguar", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "I join my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South (Mr. Cunningham) in thanking Mr. Speaker for granting the debate, and I congratulate my hon. Friend on securing it. It is a pleasure to have such a good turnout on the Labour Benches and, to some extent, even on the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-26.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Lidington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Lidington", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that steps towards so-called normalisation, for example the withdrawal of troops from Northern Ireland and dealing with terrorists on the run—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1422.5", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Tony Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Clarke", "preceding_text": "ssues? One is the continuing protection and extortion rackets run by loyalist paramilitaries and aimed against ethnic communities that have small businesses in Northern Ireland. The second is the involvement of the British National party and the White Nationalist party on those estates, almost at the request—and certainly with the co-operation—of some of the paramilitaries there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Just before I get on to that point, I should like to continue the discussion on defence spending a little longer, if I may. It simply is not right. How can the right hon. and learned Gentleman have the shadow Chancellor saying that he is going to impose that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Just before I get on to that point, I should like to continue the discussion on defence spending a little longer, if I may. It simply is not right. How can the right hon. and learned Gentleman have the shadow Chancellor saying that he is going to impose that— [Interruption.] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1427.5", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I always took his advice seriously, but it is important to recognise that a Europe of 25 is a Europe that Britain should be part of. Why? Because 60 per cent. of our trade is with Europe, millions of British jobs depend on our being in the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1427.5", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "k his advice seriously, but it is important to recognise that a Europe of 25 is a Europe that Britain should be part of. Why? Because 60 per cent. of our trade is with Europe, millions of British jobs depend on our being in the European Union— [Interruption.] The Tory party actually wants to use the refusal of this treaty as a means of renegotiating existing membership of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman what is gutless. It is gutless to run from the UK Independence party into a position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " policy now is to renegotiate Britain's existing terms of membership, which would mean that Britain would face either humiliation in that negotiation, or withdrawal from Europe. I agree that it is difficult sometimes in this country to make the case for Europe, but I will carry on making that case because it is right and in Britain's interest. A true leader would stand up to UKIP, not run from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "A decade ago, my friend won the Labour leadership on a manifesto promising change and renewal. Now, after seven years in government, can he think of a single dramatic act of renewal that would make the British public sit up and take notice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1430.3", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Actually, I can think of several—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1437.0", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "St. George's Day (Public Holiday)", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": "To return from planet Zarg where we have spent the past 10 minutes, the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Rosindell) failed to mention one aspect of his Bill. The motion states: \"That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make St. George's Day a public holiday in England in place of the May Day public holiday.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1437.0", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "St. George's Day (Public Holiday)", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": "rade union movement to have a May day holiday in the years when miners were being slaughtered by the hundreds in work, and when there was a battle for improved working terms and conditions. Although it was not fundamental to people's lives, it was always a dream to have such a holiday. May day also has religious connotations, and is a celebration of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph the worker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "New Clause 10 — Victims of persons subject to hospital order with restriction order: representations", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "itled \"Putting Victims First: the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill\". It says: \"The Home Secretary also announced today that the Government is setting up a review into the law on murder.\" On the second page in notes to editors, it states: \"The murder review was announced by the Home Secretary during the debate on the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Bill in the House of Commons today.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.3", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "New Clause 10 — Victims of persons subject to hospital order with restriction order: representations", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.5", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "New Clause 10 — Victims of persons subject to hospital order with restriction order: representations", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I may be able to help with the original point of order. It would have been perfectly feasible and possible for me to have made the announcement to the House had the Opposition not filibustered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.9", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "New Clause 10 — Victims of persons subject to hospital order with restriction order: representations", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Had the Opposition not filibustered deliberately to wipe out the Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.11", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "New Clause 10 — Victims of persons subject to hospital order with restriction order: representations", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "That was a calculated way of avoiding a Third Reading debate. I do not understand why Opposition Members felt it necessary to do so and why they could not face me at the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1542.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1543.6", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "New Clause 10 — Victims of persons subject to hospital order with restriction order: representations", "cue_speaker": "David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Maclean", "preceding_text": "It is, Madam Deputy Speaker. We have all heard the Home Secretary accuse Opposition Members of the parliamentary abuse that is filibustering. That is an absolutely outrageous suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1543.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1543.12", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "New Clause 10 — Victims of persons subject to hospital order with restriction order: representations", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "It is, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1543.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-27", "file": "debates2004-10-27.xml", "sha256": "58816c24ea25a52d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1553.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "DEMENTIA SERVICES (NORFOLK)", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "lic consultation process, which will commence later this year. The hon. Gentleman is a member of a party that says that it believes in power to the people, local decision making and devolution. Yet one could interpret his comments this evening as following none of those principles. He seems to have made up his mind before he has listened to the consultation and the views of his constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-27.1553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-28", "file": "debates2004-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3aecf4ccb61793d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1561.2", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "Government procurement rules mean that schools often have to award food contracts that are based on price. What steps could be introduced to make it easier for schools and local authorities to source more food from local and organic producers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-28", "file": "debates2004-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3aecf4ccb61793d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1567.5", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "ilities, and a greater focus on education? Does he agree with me, and with the excellent county councillor, Ray Howard, that there should be no proposal from Essex county council that would threaten one of our three excellent secondary schools on Canvey Island—not least because of the increased pupil numbers that would result from the 4,000 extra houses that the Government are forcing on it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-28", "file": "debates2004-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3aecf4ccb61793d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1580.0", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Reform of Laws on Murder", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "On procedure and the House, provocation and partial defence, which are central to the review, were part of the debate on the Bill and were raised on the back of the Law Commission report. In fact, amendments sought to draw down on that report. Therefore it was apposite for the Third Reading debate to reflect the debate in Standing Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-28", "file": "debates2004-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3aecf4ccb61793d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Reform of Laws on Murder", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I do not recall a Home Secretary not being able to make a speech on Third Reading of a major Bill, including—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-28", "file": "debates2004-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3aecf4ccb61793d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1583.2", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Reform of Laws on Murder", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I am doing my best, Mr. Speaker, to act intelligently so that the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) does not get too aerated. I do not remember, even on very controversial Bills—I have been no stranger to controversial Bills over the past seven and a half years—not being able to make a speech as a Secretary of State on Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-10-28", "file": "debates2004-10-28.xml", "sha256": "3aecf4ccb61793d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "o home? The day before, he was extolling the virtue of systematic guillotining of Bills, and he forced through his motions in the teeth of opposition from the official Opposition, the Liberal Democrats and all other parties in the House except the Labour party. What does he say today? Will he put an end to this sort of nonsense? Finally, a fox managed to walk into Portcullis House yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-10-28.1588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.6.4", "colnum": "6", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Bob Russell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Snobbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Russell", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that millions of people who play darts regard it as a sport, as do local and national newspapers and television? Is it not time that the sports bodies in this country recognised darts as a sport, as millions of people believe it to be, and stopped behaving in an elitist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.6.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "No, it was not. Secondly, the reference to revenue-neutrality was an error. It was a term in common use that was misunderstood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "not. Secondly, the reference to revenue-neutrality was an error. It was a term in common use that was misunderstood. [Interruption.] Let me explain. The point being made was that revenue is not a motivator for this legislation. It is my job as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to establish the regulatory framework; it is the Treasury's responsibility to establish the taxation regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.31.7", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.31.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Clive Efford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Efford", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend mentioned my borough, Greenwich. Several planning authorities in the Thames gateway area may be attracted to the idea of having a casino; what is the best way of deciding which should have planning permission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "eading, in Committee. The practical obstacle created by a cap is that the whole thrust of the regulatory and planning system is to leave decisions about new casinos to local people, but if an arbitrary limit is imposed, what do we say to those local authorities—there may be a significant number—that present applications for new casinos just as the cap is about to be reached, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Whittingdale", "preceding_text": "The Bill takes us from a situation in which there are no such machines to one in which there may be 50,000. That is not, in my view, cautious liberalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Joan Humble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Humble", "preceding_text": "travel further, they plan how they are going to spend their time and money. That would be a much better system, and hopefully it would address some of the concerns that many Members have expressed. If we can deal with planning and look again at destination casinos, we can allay many fears and build on what local communities want. My hon. Friends have been waiting for me to mention Blackpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "ther the Government think that that is sensible. How would they like to run a business employing many people and spending much money, if all the time they were subject to the danger of a Government bringing in new regulations that could put them out of business? It seems to me that that is a daft proposal and that it should be scrapped in Committee. I apologise to Members for going on far too long", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "lity and say, \"Support the Bill. It's only 20 or 40 super-casinos—nothing much.\" The reality is that gambling is already growing exponentially. Last year alone, 12 million people gambled via the red button on the Sky interactive service. Gambling is being introduced into our homes, making it easier than ever before to participate. Before long, it will be possible to gamble on a mobile phone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": "tter in a referendum. Even in the European Court, there would not have to be an appeal if the people themselves so decided. If we are serious about using the Bill as another agent of regeneration where all our other policies have failed, we cannot have more than one casino per region. Otherwise, the casinos will not go to the poorest areas; they will naturally go to those that are most attractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Grogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Grogan", "preceding_text": "ling warehouses. The machines are designed to mesmerise people and keep them making three or four pulls a minute to try to win £1 million. I do not want to be distasteful, but some big casino warehouses in the States change their carpets every three months, because some gamblers are so keen not to miss out on a win that they do not go the bathroom and stand in front of the machine all night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-01", "file": "debates2004-11-01.xml", "sha256": "93f0b8cb1cc33265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gambling Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": " casinos, which is the big bone of contention that divides so many of us on the Labour side and the Opposition from the Government. The solution is to split the Bill in two: 90 per cent. of it is non-contentious—let it sail through. If we are told in few moments' time that that cannot happen, I shall vote against my own Government with a very heavy heart. I shall not vote for Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-01.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-02", "file": "debates2004-11-02.xml", "sha256": "f5a3564cfc87a9f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "We estimate that the rate has risen by about 5 per cent. over the past couple of years, so the increase is about 2.5 per cent. a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-02", "file": "debates2004-11-02.xml", "sha256": "f5a3564cfc87a9f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": "I rise in support of new clause 2, which was tabled in the name of the hon. Member for Mid-Dorset and North Poole (Mrs. Brooke) and to which I am co-signatory, and amendment No. 34, which stands in my name. They are complementary. My amendment would remove the role of the children's commissioner for England from the Welsh equation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-02", "file": "debates2004-11-02.xml", "sha256": "f5a3564cfc87a9f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Excellent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Martyn Jones", "preceding_text": "I rise this time, I hope, to speak to the correct group of amendments. It all shows how keen I am to get my views on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-02", "file": "debates2004-11-02.xml", "sha256": "f5a3564cfc87a9f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The purpose of the new clause is to amend the Children Act 1989 to provide a subsidiary measure to that in section 1 of the Act dealing with the child's welfare being of paramount consideration, so as to make it absolutely clear that the intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.232.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-02", "file": "debates2004-11-02.xml", "sha256": "f5a3564cfc87a9f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Some social worker?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that even if no one is charged, the police or some social worker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-02", "file": "debates2004-11-02.xml", "sha256": "f5a3564cfc87a9f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "e may or may not agree with that, but she was convicted of assault—for those who say that people do not get charged and convicted, that is one case. The judge quashed the conviction, saying: \"If a parent cannot slipper a child, the world is going potty\". I do not know whether the judge is still alive, but I suspect that he will think that many in the House are indeed going barking mad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-02", "file": "debates2004-11-02.xml", "sha256": "f5a3564cfc87a9f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Children Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, who will never have children so he will approach the matter differently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-02.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.293.6", "colnum": "293", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Alan Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Howarth", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that thanks to the new deal, to successful education and training policies, to a business-friendly strategy by Newport city council and to the Government's good management of the economy, unemployment in Newport has halved since 1997—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.293.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the success of the alley gating project in Caia Park in my hon. Friend's constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "There are many potential St. Pauls on the other side of the House. Indeed, the Liberal Democrat record is not a good one. Frankly, they have opposed at every level in the House legislation that we have put through to combat antisocial behaviour, yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Certainly, that will be one of the points on which we campaign in Wales over the coming months. Labour introduced the minimum wage, Labour will increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have not seen that particular email—of course I have not—but if the right hon. and learned Gentleman is trying to suggest that the DCMS has had corrupt conversations with people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.303.7", "colnum": "303", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "[Hon. Members: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman gets worse. First, the fixed-penalty notice is not a substitute for the ordinary criminal offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.303.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.308.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "ade the recommendations, an entirely different set of people would be in the Chamber, complaining bitterly that it was not advantageous for them to have offices in their constituencies. Many hon. Members do not have staff in the House. The proposal is not as draconian as it appears at first sight. The SSRB also recommended that hon. Members should have computers as well as a laptop for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "draconian as it appears at first sight. The SSRB also recommended that hon. Members should have computers as well as a laptop for themselves. [ Interruption .] If the work station is based here and shared by a member of staff, I presume that it would not count against the £7,500 reduction in the IEP, which would allow hon. Members to have two members of staff here with only one work station.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "rovide a proper service and to live in their constituency, which is a central part of modern parliamentary life. May I make a further point in relation to what the hon. Gentleman has just said? Eight individual MPs gave evidence to the SSRB, including the Opposition deputy Chief Whip, the chair of the Labour party, the Liberal shadow Leader of the House, and many other Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So are we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "There is a lot of substance to the hon. Gentleman's argument, but the public in our constituencies are treated by the Inland Revenue in a certain way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "There is a lot of substance to the hon. Gentleman's argument, but the public in our constituencies are treated by the Inland Revenue in a certain way. [Hon. Members: \"So are we!\"] Well, we are not, because we get a higher rate than is generally given. Anyway, this is ultimately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "stituencies are treated by the Inland Revenue in a certain way. [Hon. Members: \"So are we!\"] Well, we are not, because we get a higher rate than is generally given. Anyway, this is ultimately— [Interruption.] Look, I understand the concerns. For goodness' sake, I acknowledged the concerns earlier by saying that I understand the points that are being made, particularly the sharp change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am sorry but I must stick to what I said earlier; otherwise, like a parent with a—I will not continue with that line of thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I do not remember any such recommendation from me unless it was in respect of Conservative Members of Parliament. It would be good to see more Labour Members of Parliament in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "hat situation will usually apply to us. Members will face an effective increase of 2 per cent. because the 1 per cent. provision will apply to only six months in the current year. I entirely agree with the reasonable and equitable improvements suggested for beneficiaries. However, pensionable age remains a fraught question, and there is no way that we are dispelling worries about that today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.347.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "Butterfill) and my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Mrs. Campbell) have put in a huge amount of time and effort on behalf of us all—often without thanks, as we have seen this afternoon. I thank them and all the other Members who have taken part. I emphasise that, as this is a House matter, this will be a free vote for Back Benchers on this side and, I know, on the Opposition side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "d the recommendations of the independent report from the SSRB, which the House commissioned. He cannot cherry-pick, should not cherry-pick, and has not cherry-picked the recommendations. This is an independent report and it is presented to us to ensure that the integrity of the House is maintained. I want to go through some of the arguments in favour of the motion and against the amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Members' Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "y-picked the recommendations. This is an independent report and it is presented to us to ensure that the integrity of the House is maintained. I want to go through some of the arguments in favour of the motion and against the amendments— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Buckingham (Mr. Bercow) would stop chuntering, he might find that he has some sympathy with what I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Sessional Orders and Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "That is an interesting point, and I shall certainly bear it in mind, as will the Home Secretary. We are trying to move by consensus. This is a House matter, and we have been criticised, understandably, for being a bit slow on it. We do not want to rush into things. A lot of care has been taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Sessional Orders and Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "There is legislation that deals with the issue of witnesses, so I would have thought that the measure was not necessary. I agree with the hon. Gentleman, however, on his earlier comments about the Osmotherly rules. The fact that Lord Hutton can come into an inquiry and have all the witnesses and documents that he wants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.383.4", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Sessional Orders and Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "ggests that it is needed to oppose any activities \"to hinder Members by any means in the pursuit of their Parliamentary duties in the Parliamentary Estate\". The breadth of that is remarkable. It covers any activity that we undertake to hinder hon. Members. I want to hinder some of my hon. Friends in reaching some decisions on specific Bills. I want to do that through argument, lobbying and debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.383.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Sessional Orders and Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Connaught square.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "ld) referred to himself as a member of the Hyde Park Tories—I am not quite sure what that described—but there is a case for a designated area in an appropriate part of London where people can speak their mind and have an audience that is attentive and perhaps even influential. Perhaps he would join me in suggesting that we move speakers' corner from Hyde park to St. James's park—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Sessional Orders and Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "l makes eminent sense. In my view, the police need this reminder. On both of the two occasions on which I was prevented from entering the House, the police were responsible. When George W. Bush was in the area—I understand that he has been re-elected President of the United States—I and other MPs were prevented from getting anywhere near the House of Commons for some considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-03", "file": "debates2004-11-03.xml", "sha256": "eca28bbf0a593590", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.414.2", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Sessional Orders and Resolutions", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "themselves. The irony is that demonstrations become effective only when some inconvenience is caused. That is the heart of the matter, and I support those who have argued so eloquently about the importance of giving a voice to people who are willing to inconvenience themselves to raise a concern. In this case, we are talking about Brian Haw, but the principle applies to the nation. Mr. Mega—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-03.414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-04", "file": "debates2004-11-04.xml", "sha256": "be5caac06ad349ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.463.2", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Well, let us await the outcome of the referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-04", "file": "debates2004-11-04.xml", "sha256": "be5caac06ad349ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "n 19 weeks since the contract was award to Cooneen. In that time, the Chinese subcontractor—People's Liberation Army factory No. 3533 in Chongqing—has not been able to produce fabrics that meet the specifications for tensile strength, tear strength, shrinkage and infra-red reflectance. How long does Cooneen have to meet the specifications in the contract before it is awarded elsewhere?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-04", "file": "debates2004-11-04.xml", "sha256": "be5caac06ad349ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I hear the snide comments from the Opposition. Is it suggested that we should have a trade embargo with China?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-04", "file": "debates2004-11-04.xml", "sha256": "be5caac06ad349ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "se I want to make progress. The amount invested in the procurement stream must have an impact on it—that is a given. The industry knows that, but it is beginning to realise that the cash register is no longer in place. We will not feed a future overspend in the present, so we must deal with the situation. Is the hon. Gentleman asking for the budget to be increased, and if so, by what amount?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-04", "file": "debates2004-11-04.xml", "sha256": "be5caac06ad349ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.529.0", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He already is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "the truth hurts and that we only get really angry with criticism when it is justified. As many hon. Members said, the report needs a proper reasoned answer, not the Minister's petulant response, and the important points need to be addressed. If the Minister of State has moved to the right of my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) , he should start to be called Genghis by Labour MPs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-04.529.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Pond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Pond", "preceding_text": "If the Department were trying to hide something, I would not be standing at the Dispatch Box now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but it is a matter of record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.568.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "EU Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ce of completing the single market, developing flexible labour markets, and promoting sustainable growth. The Council adopted a new five-year work programme of measures in the area of justice and home affairs. There are great benefits for the UK in co-operation with our European partners on these issues. Illegal immigration affects all member states. However, the opt-in protocol for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "EU Summit", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "r has been all talk. Four years ago, he said that he did not want a \"single, legally binding document called a Constitution\" yet that is exactly what he signed a week ago. The director general of the CBI has said that the constitution will not help business. The Prime Minister's own former chief economic adviser has said that it will \"entrench Europe's economic failings and drag Britain down too\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "EU Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Norway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "nited Kingdom.\" That destroys the effect of the right hon. and learned Gentleman's point. As for his view that we should have a bold strategy of renegotiating the existing membership of the European Union, it is, as some his hon. Friends have pointed out, simply not on the table. He would have to get the agreement of every one of the other members to renegotiate that. How many members have agreed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "EU Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "y of these measures. That is the pick and choose Europe, if you like, that I thought the right hon. Gentleman and others supported. It is precisely what we are able to do. Indeed, it is more than that: if at the end of the process we decide not to opt in when the measure is first discussed, after that discussion, we can also decide to opt in. Of course, once we opt in, we are part of that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "EU Summit", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "sues one by one. As my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary rightly said, it is the best of both worlds. The hon. Gentleman probably represents the mainstream view in the Conservative party today. It is not really about opting in or opting out, or this veto or that veto. What he and his colleagues want is a fundamental restructuring of Britain's existing relationship with the European Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "f last week's decision, but the House should remember that elected regional assemblies are just one part of the wider programme of devolution and decentralisation in England. For a decade or more, it has been recognised that there are issues that must be dealt with at regional, rather than national, level, but which need to be co-ordinated over an area larger than any single local authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "view of the Secretary of State for Education and Skills in seeing \"councils as agents of central Government\"? This is an urgent question; it cannot be fudged or kicked into touch. People up and down the land are living under the threat of huge house-building targets proposed by unelected regional housing boards. Is the right hon. Gentleman not duty bound to get rid of those housing boards as well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.590.2", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "e Conservative party was demanding referendums on the European constitution and the euro to give people choice. But referendums cost money. People need to be provided with information and leaflets so that they may make proper decisions, but that costs money, albeit not the tens of millions that the hon. Lady was talking about. The actual cost of running the referendum was £2.9 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "eful that he took part in the debate and for the statement and visit by the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West (Mr. Kennedy) , in support of the regional assembly. I am bound to say, however, that I did not find many more Liberals beyond them who were in favour of it. The others on the ground melted away, so there was no great Liberal support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am just giving the facts. The people decided that they did not like the idea of more politicians. Perhaps the council tax played its part in that, even though it would have meant a £12 million saving, with 10 more councils abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ls, that costs became really extraordinary. Most people who speak about the evidence of reorganisation of local government refer to the way in which it was done under a past Administration, when 18 councils were abolished without any consideration. I therefore do not accept that we have reached an ideal stage in local government. We stand for unitary authorities, as the right hon. Gentleman knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.600.5", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes a point about the unelected junta, but it is staffed by many Tories, I understand. Out of 100, 44 Conservatives sit on it. I just make the point that they seem to be actively participating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the proposal would be defeated by 40:1 in the east of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It was Bury.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I was trying to recall the hon. Gentleman's constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I was trying to recall the hon. Gentleman's constituency—[Hon. Members: \"It was Bury.\"] It is not Bury now, though.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.605.4", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "How much has this failed experiment under the Deputy Prime Minister's stewardship cost to date? Why does he not understand that what people want, whether they are in the north-east or in my region—he likes to call it East Anglia but we still like to think of ourselves as Hertfordshire, and we will fight for that all the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.605.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.605.5", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's contribution was a little short on history. Did not the Tories abolish Berkshire? The right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) nods. Where was the hon. Gentleman fighting then? Presumably, he was a candidate objecting to what his Government were doing. The cost of the election in the north-east—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.605.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Regional Referendums", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Fine—and that is what we are doing. The south-east and eastern regions are matters for negotiation, but the previous Administration imposed housing figures on local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Over 200.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": " struggling to understand what that is, so when the Minister winds up the debate, I hope that he will set out why the Government are confident that they will meet the 19 per cent. target, yet fail to meet 20 per cent. The projections that his officials are making must be really tight to enable him to reach that conclusion. By my count, at least 150 Labour Members signed the early-day motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": "ate, I hope that he will set out why the Government are confident that they will meet the 19 per cent. target, yet fail to meet 20 per cent. The projections that his officials are making must be really tight to enable him to reach that conclusion. By my count, at least 150 Labour Members signed the early-day motion—[Hon. Members: \"Over 200.\"] I am being told that the figure is more than 200.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Matthew Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Matthew Green", "preceding_text": "t conclusion. By my count, at least 150 Labour Members signed the early-day motion—[Hon. Members: \"Over 200.\"] I am being told that the figure is more than 200. [Interruption.] Well, the bigger the number gets, the more uncomfortable the Minister looks. I hope that the Labour Members who signed the early-day motion will back that up with their votes. There is a lot of good in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Lady, but I am about to finish. I am usually very generous with interventions, as she well knows, but I want to give other hon. Members time to speak. Perhaps she will be one of them. The freedom from fear and the freedom from want are fundamental objectives of any decent Government, and this Government should live up to those principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-08", "file": "debates2004-11-08.xml", "sha256": "0c84924a4ce5ed1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "e are talking seriously about tackling fuel poverty, I can certainly describe my wish list—as the Minister well knows, for I have berated him about housing improvements on several occasions. We should think not just about social housing but about private housing. Social housing sometimes has to be knocked down and replaced, but we must also deal with fuel poverty in the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-08.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.696.5", "colnum": "696", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Mullin", "preceding_text": "de to what has been going on. They have thus been willing to co-operate with the international community to bring the situation to an end. I would like to draw the House's attention to an aspect of the tragic situation that does not get the attention that it deserves. A growing feature of the problem is that the rebels are making more attacks on civilians, aid convoys and Government installations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.696.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Ruane", "preceding_text": "I am pleased about the review of the partnership provision of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. I believe that a lack of co-operation is the main reason for the underperformance of crime and disorder partnerships. Will my right hon. Friend consult Members in all parts of the House who have a worm's eye view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "That is an excellent idea. I congratulate my hon. Friend on being a special constable—the only person among us who can go out on Saturdays and Sundays and do that imaginative job for his constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The agency will drive best practice. It will bring together the National Centre for Policing Excellence and Centrex, the centre for training excellence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Police Reform", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "Substantially fewer than currently operate the National Centre for Policing Excellence, Centrex and the Police Information Technology Organisation; indeed, that is the purpose of putting the agencies together. The reason we do not have a figure is that we are reconfiguring the service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes an obvious point. People can make their own arrangements, and there may well be all sorts of arrangements we do not know about. Homosexual siblings may live together with other people, but that does not affect what I am saying. We did not ask for the Bill; in fact, we oppose the principle of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.736.5", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "I was referring to the earlier Lords amendments, which undoubtedly wrecked the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.738.5", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Eagle", "preceding_text": "ill. I do not know why he did that, but if he was arguing along the same lines as Lord Tebbit in the other place, we can all fathom his real reasons. Even if Labour Members had a sudden conversion on the road to Damascus and accepted the amendments, I suspect that the hon. Member for Gainsborough would vote against the entire Bill on Third Reading. That puts the debate in its proper context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.738.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "propriate to remind hon. Members that the tight guillotine imposed by the Government prevented us from debating 118 clauses in Committee. We were unable to debate a host of Government amendments and debated only six of the 29 schedules. In view of the limited amount of time that the Government have given us today, it would be over-indulgent for one hon. Member to take more than a fair share of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "That does not work, because my hon. Friend believes that the Bill will damage marriage as an institution through creating civil partnership entitlements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "e as an institution through creating civil partnership entitlements. [Interruption.] If he believes that marriage will be damaged by conferring civil partnership rights on gay couples, it is thoroughly illogical of him to suggest that marriage would not be undermined by giving the new rights to people who could avail themselves of the opportunity to get married in a way that gay couples could not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "o not think that it should be interfered with in the way that some Members want. In rejecting the amendments that my hon. Friends the Members for Aldershot and for Christchurch have perfectly honourably tabled, and to which they are speaking, I want to leave them with this simple thought; we cannot have it both ways when addressing the issue of civil partnership and the rights of gay people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "overwhelming. None the less, for the benefit of Members who have not heard all our proceedings, it may be useful for me to rehearse the arguments once again, and to assist those who have to some extent been misled by assertions made in newspaper stories and advertisements that appeared in our press today. Perhaps I can say, \"Here we go again,\" and some Members may be able to join in at the chorus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": " ensure that such couples are treated more fairly. However, this Bill is not the appropriate vehicle for that. That is a separate issue and it deserves separate attention in the Finance Bill. We cannot choose to deal with one set of injustices in preference to another. Respect is not a zero-sum game, and neither is love. We do not weaken one loving relationship by affording recognition to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.766.4", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "asons in earlier debates, so I will not rehearse them tonight, but I wish that those who support the Bill and oppose new clause 1 would understand that we are not in the business of wrecking the Bill with the new clause. Would that we could by the new clause wreck the Bill. Sadly, we will not be able to do so. To impute to us the motive that we are using the new clause to wreck the Bill is unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is much better versed in such matters than I am. I know that you, with your wisdom, Mr. Deputy Speaker, will have heard the submission that my hon. Friend made. I am sure that he was right. Our motivation is the fact that the Bill is transparently unfair. The hon. Member for Wallasey (Angela Eagle) rejected Conservative Members' concerns for justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.767.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-09", "file": "debates2004-11-09.xml", "sha256": "9ba712d79bbd1938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Partnerships Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "d issues of conscience divide hon. Members on both sides of the House. Those of us who are clearly in a minority must not be churlish, but that does not mean that we abandon what we believe to be right. I received this morning a petition from many hundreds of constituents who are deeply troubled about the Bill. They are not nasty, homophobic people; they hold to traditional views and values—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-09.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-10", "file": "debates2004-11-10.xml", "sha256": "203ae01c5fd01668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.832.2", "colnum": "832", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": " on the table that will raise additional development finance now, which is what we need if we are to make progress towards the millennium development goals. The question that the sceptics have to answer is, if not the IFF, what other proposals are there for raising the additional finance now? The finance is needed now to invest in the long-term development of Africa and other developing countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.832.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-10", "file": "debates2004-11-10.xml", "sha256": "203ae01c5fd01668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.834.6", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "nxious as anyone else to resolve the issue, and of course I should like to resolve it in the way that he and many other hon. Members have suggested. However, he will know that the six-month qualifying service required at the time has been reviewed independently on many occasions, and the recommendation has always been to retain it. I repeat that we are trying to find a way through this difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.834.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-10", "file": "debates2004-11-10.xml", "sha256": "203ae01c5fd01668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.836.4", "colnum": "836", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "But cannot the Prime Minister see that the way in which this whole issue has been handled is a complete shambles? The Secretary of State for Defence has said repeatedly that the Scottish regiments will be abolished, but the Prime Minister has briefed newspapers in Scotland that they will be saved. I have the headline here: \"Saved!\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.836.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-10", "file": "debates2004-11-10.xml", "sha256": "203ae01c5fd01668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "en in the future in relation to British troops. Perhaps we should say this. First, we should pay tribute not just to the British forces but to American and Iraqi forces for what they are doing in Falluja. Let me make three things very clear. First, many of those in Falluja are foreign jihadis from outside Iraq; they are people who have no right to be in Iraq at all. Secondly, the operations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-10", "file": "debates2004-11-10.xml", "sha256": "203ae01c5fd01668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House agrees with the Lords in the said amendment. This one should be easy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.888.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-10", "file": "debates2004-11-10.xml", "sha256": "203ae01c5fd01668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Human Tissue Bill", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": "ry said, those amendments were important and the Minister has accepted that. We have to say that, on this occasion, unlike the others where the Government clearly listened and volunteered the amendments themselves, we had to wait for the Government to fail to secure a majority in the House of Lords. Thank goodness for the fact that it is a more proportional Chamber, if I may put it that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-10.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-11", "file": "debates2004-11-11.xml", "sha256": "064b42e9cc2c938b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "That is a very disappointing reply. I know that the Government are trying to turn things round and that six new NHS dental suites will open in my Pendle constituency next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-11", "file": "debates2004-11-11.xml", "sha256": "064b42e9cc2c938b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.911.6", "colnum": "911", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. The Conservative proposition is simply not to join the euro and not to accept the existing European constitution, but to renegotiate our membership of the European Union. As for the roadshows, there have been 150 events that the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.911.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-11", "file": "debates2004-11-11.xml", "sha256": "064b42e9cc2c938b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.911.6", "colnum": "911", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "is simply not to join the euro and not to accept the existing European constitution, but to renegotiate our membership of the European Union. As for the roadshows, there have been 150 events that the Treasury— [Interruption.] Well, I started it off with the first meeting, the Chief Secretary has done three, the Financial Secretary has done seven, the head of the European business unit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.911.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-11", "file": "debates2004-11-11.xml", "sha256": "064b42e9cc2c938b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "imate came from University College London, and it was a net figure including both immigration and emigration. The scaremongers who claimed that more than 1 million people would flood into the country were absolutely wrong, and the intent behind their scaremongering has been exposed. On the north-east regional assembly, I recall the Deputy Prime Minister coming to this House and making a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-11", "file": "debates2004-11-11.xml", "sha256": "064b42e9cc2c938b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "I acknowledge the point that the hon. and learned Gentleman makes. I heard what the Prime Minister said, and I realised that such questions would then arise. If the hon. and learned Gentleman had listened carefully to the Prime Minister, he would know that he said that this is a matter for the Secretary of State for Defence at the end of the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.935.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-11", "file": "debates2004-11-11.xml", "sha256": "064b42e9cc2c938b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Family Doctor Services", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "e NHS, as he intends, it would be quite impossible for primary care trusts to maintain the investment that is going into the NHS front line. Primary care would suffer in the same way as hospitals from those reductions in resources. So there is no accuracy behind his claim that we are not properly investing in NHS primary care services—we are— and his proposals would make matters worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-11", "file": "debates2004-11-11.xml", "sha256": "064b42e9cc2c938b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Family Doctor Services", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": " He will need to explain the difference between a trained district nurse working in the community and a trained first-contact nurse visiting a sick patient at home out of hours. The truth is that there is no difference in those scenarios. Other health care professionals can help in the delivery of out-of-hours services, and it would be absurd to argue that they should not. It makes sense to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-11", "file": "debates2004-11-11.xml", "sha256": "064b42e9cc2c938b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Family Doctor Services", "cue_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Burstow", "preceding_text": " is shaping the way the system is working. The motion refers to out-of-hours services. There is still much confusion about how such services will work after 1 January . The Select Committee on Health, whose Chairman intervened earlier, rightly raised concerns about the costs, planning and implementation of a huge change to the provision of family doctor services out of hours. I support the change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-11.966.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I will certainly do my best to do that. I may tell my hon. Friend that that was the first visit I have ever made during which I met the entire majority in one day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1013.9", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I venture to suggest that that is not in Hansard , as the hon. Gentleman suggests from a sedentary position. What I did say was that about 43 per cent. of those who registered had either said that they were in the country before 1 May or did not answer that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1013.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1013.9", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "from a sedentary position. What I did say was that about 43 per cent. of those who registered had either said that they were in the country before 1 May or did not answer that question— [Laughter.] Well, let me explain to those who cannot work it out that that means that some of those people were probably in the country before 1 May , but it does not mean that they were here illegally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1013.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The number of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is correct to say that the convention on refugees was not designed for the problems of economic migration, but it is no easier to claim asylum under that convention in the United Kingdom than in any other country in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1019.2", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, she did not.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "To bring the Minister back to her responses to my hon. Friends the Members for North-West Norfolk (Mr. Bellingham) and for Surrey Heath (Mr. Hawkins), she gave it away when she intimated that half the fixed penalty notices issued in the pilot schemes replaced criminal action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1058.5", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am happy to confirm that. Clearly, in the early months of the pension protection fund—perhaps the first year or so—there should be little demand on the ombudsman. We therefore think it important that the same individual—the same man in this case—should undertake both roles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1058.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1058.5", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "t would require the general taxpayer to foot the bill. On reflection, we introduced an amendment in the other place allowing regulations to be made to allow the grant-in-aid to be recouped by a levy on pension schemes. That brings the funding of the PPF ombudsman into line with the approach already in place for organisations such as the pensions ombudsman, the PPF board and the pensions regulator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1058.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1059.1", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "Let me make a little more progress; the hon. Gentleman can polish his question even further if I give him a few more seconds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "That is an extremely good question, and I thought that I might deal with that point very shortly. I am bound to say that it is always useful to give the one-nation tendency in the Conservative party— I think that the hon. Gentleman is still a member of that group—an opportunity .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "t deal with that point very shortly. I am bound to say that it is always useful to give the one-nation tendency in the Conservative party— I think that the hon. Gentleman is still a member of that group—an opportunity . [Interruption.] I can now reply in the affirmative: the regulations will be subject to the affirmative procedure. While the costs will be payable by all eligible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives resist attempts to heap more taxation on people. The reality is that we suggested—in fairness, I must add that the Minister took up the suggestion—that a new person was not needed to carry out the job of the new ombudsman. We hoped that there would be some saving, because the same person would be involved. We are trying to make the point that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether that was a yes or a no. It is unclear to me whether Her Majesty's official Opposition are going to vote against the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Pensions Bill [Ways and Means]", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "We heard a lot from the very right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst, but I was not sure what he was saying. Does he support the pension protection fund? If he does support it, does he support the idea of an ombudsman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1068.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Keith Hill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Hill", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I am conscious that I may be straining the patience of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "I welcome this debate on the Thames gateway. I am pleased to see so many hon. Members from that area both behind me and on the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": "I welcome this debate on the Thames gateway. I am pleased to see so many hon. Members from that area both behind me and on the Government Benches. [Hon. Members: \"Not behind you.\"] I do not think that the area is over-represented by Conservatives yet, but perhaps by the end of next year things will change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ice of the Deputy Prime Minister; we have heard about a Cabinet Committee; we have heard about a new office—until hearing the Minister's speech, I knew nothing about it—being launched somewhere in the Thames gateway earlier last week. It is just not clear exactly who is in control and where the lines of accountability lie. I hope that the Minister will clarify that for the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "ned into these developments to maintain insurability.\" His colleague, the policy officer Sebastian Catovsky, quoted recently in \"Regeneration and Renewal\" said: \"Big development sites such as Barking Reach, Thamesmead, Greenwich peninsula are all very low-lying and, even if well protected, could have problems.\" I am quoting insurance professionals who will have to provide policies for those homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Linda Perham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Linda Perham", "preceding_text": "re use. In the last four years, Gants Hill residents association has complained to me about the neglect of the Woodford avenue area. Mustafa Redif, the manager of Serene's fish and chip shop on the Woodford avenue, told me recently that he felt that his corner of Gants Hill had been overlooked when it came to regeneration—a view shared by other residents in Gants Hill's \"forgotten quarters\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "e can assume that in the time in which it is to take place, London will have grown by almost 1 million people. The project envisages the building of 120,000 houses. That presages the possibility of at least 250,000 newly housed people. However, Transport for London has estimated that only 35,000 to 55,000 jobs will be created. This is the most important thing that Ministers should listen to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-15", "file": "debates2004-11-15.xml", "sha256": "0e26ab7ebc21e072", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Thames Gateway", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "entary questions, particularly those asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Castle Point (Bob Spink) , lack the detail or strategic thinking that I have been talking about. On 21 October 2004 , my hon. Friend asked at column 861W how many fire stations and how many firemen and women will be required in the Thames gateway between 2003 and 2016—a fairly simple question, one would have thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-15.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1150.5", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Give me your answer do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1150.7", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "When the Minister takes up the invitation from the hon. Member for Nottingham, North (Mr. Allen) to go to Nottingham to discuss transport issues with the city council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1150.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1150.7", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "e being used to persuade the people of the Nottingham area about the good sense of the airport's proposals are inaccurate and do not properly display the flight path. A further matter that she should discuss with them is the expulsion of aviation fuel from the aircraft that use Nottingham airport, which may be causing dairy cattle to become sterile as a result of their ingesting the expelled fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1150.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1150.7", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "er matter that she should discuss with them is the expulsion of aviation fuel from the aircraft that use Nottingham airport, which may be causing dairy cattle to become sterile as a result of their ingesting the expelled fuel. [Hon. Members: \"Come on!\"] This is a matter of huge environmental importance not just to the people of the city of Nottingham, but to those who live in the surrounding area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1150.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurrah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I have already done that. I am pleased to tell the hon. Gentleman that the trains have been able to run at 125 mph since this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1158.4", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "In my role as a Cabinet Minister, I divide my time between my various duties. I am responsible to Her Majesty the Queen on Duchy business. As a member of the Cabinet, I sit on 17 Cabinet Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1160.9", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Public Health White Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "m the drive for modernisation and improvement that is spreading across the rest of the NHS. Our starting point is informed choice. That means an approach that respects the freedom of individual choice in a diverse, open and more questioning society. It also means addressing inequalities so that everyone can have real choice—addressing the differences that locality and social conditions make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1160.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Public Health White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ght of his statement. The House will have seen copious leaks of the White Paper and will be able to judge how many of them were informed speculation and how many were just spin. In any case, after all that, what have we got? Labour's big conversation has turned out to be all talk. After seven years of a lack of priority for public health, all the Government can offer is gimmicks and a nanny state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Public Health White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " White Paper and will be able to judge how many of them were informed speculation and how many were just spin. In any case, after all that, what have we got? Labour's big conversation has turned out to be all talk. After seven years of a lack of priority for public health, all the Government can offer is gimmicks and a nanny state. [Interruption.] As one would expect, the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Public Health White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "in this country have risen by more than a third in the last decade, and at a rate far greater than in the rest of Europe. Obesity may soon be this country's greatest preventable cause of disease and premature death. The proportion of people who smoke, which fell by a third in the 1970s and 1980s has been virtually unchanged since 1997. British teenagers are now among the healthiest drinkers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Public Health White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "of Europe. Obesity may soon be this country's greatest preventable cause of disease and premature death. The proportion of people who smoke, which fell by a third in the 1970s and 1980s has been virtually unchanged since 1997. British teenagers are now among the healthiest drinkers— [Laughter]— I mean the heaviest drinkers in Europe. We are seeing serious levels of liver disease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Public Health White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "eve in the old 'Nanny State approach'\", yet now they believe in the new nanny state approach, but not in doing things that really work. For years, public health needs have lacked priority, the public health service has fragmented and the messages given out by Government have been inconsistent and incoherent. Yet the Government have not understood that the solution lies in reversing those failings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Public Health White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ilings. [Interruption.] The Government should give public health a priority and create a unified and influential service. They should provide coherent and consistent messages based on evidence. Instead, the Secretary of State reaches for more gimmicks and for bans. Four months ago, the Secretary of State said smoking was one of life's small pleasures, but today he wants to ban it in public places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Public Health White Paper", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "ave access. Typically, the Secretary of State did not even mention the central importance of achieving smoke-free environments in those public places to which children have access. The Government's approach simply risks delaying progress. It could send smokers home and thus expose families and children to more second-hand smoke. On the advertising of foods for children, Ofcom said this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": " the problem of people in the here and now who have lost their pension rights, while taking a more measured approach, in respect of time for debate and for implementation, to ensure that they got the Bill right. That was certainly the attitude of the then Government towards the Pensions Act 1995. I am afraid that matters are even worse than I described. Not only did we not have a draft Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "t opened this debate was not entirely clear in his answer to my intervention, but I think we can take it that from that day to this no one—but no one—in industry has come forward to say that they might even consider making any kind of offer to top up the £400 million, exactly as we predicted at the time. That particular fig leaf has, sadly, been torn away from the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Pensions Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Waterson", "preceding_text": "ner and Newell pension scheme. I know about the Minister's reluctance to talk about that scheme; that is perfectly understandable and we wish it well. We all hope that its difficulties will be resolved in due course. The way things were put, however, meant that people in that position—perhaps I can stop referring to that particular scheme, and instead refer to \"those in that position\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to my hon. Friend's courage today. When he was elected in a by-election not very long ago, many of us had campaigned on his behalf, and were rather bewildered suddenly to find that we had supported somebody who backed registered hunting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1267.9", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not willing to give way to the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald (Miss Widdecombe) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1267.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1268.0", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "e Llangeinor hunt. To categorise it as red-coated toffs riding to hounds would be to ignore the upland hill-farmer, whom I know well and who, in his eighties, still trots behind the hunt, enjoying the ride along the upland areas of the Garw and Ogmore valleys, as he did when he was a teenager and the valleys were full of collieries. To portray that hunt in terms of class war is to disregard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wolverhampton, South-West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "No, it does not differ, in any of the adverbs that my hon. Friend has just uttered. On the other hand, as my hon. Friend—I am sorry I have forgotten his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "efend our voting record. Many Labour Members represent rural constituencies where there are hunts, and they will have to justify what they have done, defend their position and look for votes, and I suspect that they will get them. A pro-hunting Labour peer told me, \"Under no circumstances must you allow us to win on this, because if you do we will ride roughshod over your legislation at any time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rehab.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I know many people who hunt and whom I consider to be friends of mine. Some are Opposition Members, including a number of prominent Conservatives, but I still feel that they need help. I regard myself as a sort of friendly psychiatrist in this, and I think the first way that we help those who are doing something wrong is to stop them doing it and then we can put them into some sort of counselling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1305.0", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "ed to get help where we can. My hon. Friend echoed a point that had been made before. He spoke about the teachers, the doctors and the constables in his constituency who mount horses and follow the hunt in their serried ranks. Quite apart from what that might mean about empty surgeries, burglars on the streets and classrooms without teachers, he says that we are making criminals of those involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "supported the middle way group and fought with small resources a great battle to introduce evidence into the discussion, but, to our great frustration, people are not willing to listen to that evidence even now. Is the hon. Member for West Ham even aware of the Kreeger report, which was done in the 1990s and which showed that a fox is under greater stress when it is hunting than when it is hunted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "rs: \"Oh!\"] The hon. Members who jeer probably did not know until this minute that the Kreeger report even existed. Are the hon. Members who want to ban hunting with dogs aware of the research that we sponsored that indicates surprisingly high wounding rates when foxes are shot compared with when they are hunted with dogs? Whether we like it or not, with dogs, it is all or nothing; with guns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1308.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1314.2", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No—agrees\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. For clarity, is it \"disagrees\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1314.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-11-16", "file": "debates2004-11-16.xml", "sha256": "d37a02d90c7939a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1314.4", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. \"Agrees\".", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in the said amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-16.1314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-17", "file": "debates2004-11-17.xml", "sha256": "54746bad06628057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Phil Hope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Hope", "preceding_text": "ambers\". Such crass misunderstanding has been repeated today. The Conservative party published planning guidance in 1992 that said: \"up to date regional planning guidance is necessary in every region\". Conservative Members now want to sweep that aside, but the consequences of that would be that housing, transport and infrastructure would be taken away from every single one of their constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1341.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-11-17", "file": "debates2004-11-17.xml", "sha256": "54746bad06628057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1349.2", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "g throughout London. Crime in London is down, not up, and as the commander in Brixton said: \"I think Mr. Howard is out of touch . . . Maybe 10 or 20 years ago his comments would have been more accurate but there are now more police in Brixton. There are no more no-go areas and things have improved tremendously.\" I prefer his words to those of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, or indeed my own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-17", "file": "debates2004-11-17.xml", "sha256": "54746bad06628057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1351.5", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "he Post Office proposes to close the Newton Abbot Crown office and the sub-post offices in Queen street and at Keyberry and to replace them with one franchise given to Costcutter. Will the Prime Minister condemn the Post Office for refusing to allow any other local business to bid for that franchise, and will he support the commercial workers union in asking for the sell-off and franchising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1351.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-17", "file": "debates2004-11-17.xml", "sha256": "54746bad06628057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1351.7", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "Will he support the commercial workers union in asking for the suspension of the sell-off and franchising until the Trade and Industry Committee has completed its report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1351.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-17", "file": "debates2004-11-17.xml", "sha256": "54746bad06628057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1354.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can answer Sir Patrick and then there will be no need for further points of order. Those matters are for the Government, not the Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-17", "file": "debates2004-11-17.xml", "sha256": "54746bad06628057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1354.7", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not worry about the Parliament Act. That is for me to worry about and look after—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1354.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-17", "file": "debates2004-11-17.xml", "sha256": "54746bad06628057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1401.2", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Jamieson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jamieson", "preceding_text": " how the threat to us is changing. The hon. Gentleman asked about exercises. We have in place a co-ordinated, cross-governmental programme for exercises, which covers a comprehensive range of domestic, disruptive challenges, including accidents, natural disasters and acts of terrorism. I can confirm that one such exercise is happening in my constituency over the weekend and during next week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-17", "file": "debates2004-11-17.xml", "sha256": "54746bad06628057", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1423.5", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Housing Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "se, outside this place and in it, who fought for the cause of eliminating fuel poverty, including all-party groups and, indeed, to those who embarrassed the Government when it became clear that they had started to renege on a public commitment made more than 15 times. When more than two dozen of a Government's own Members rebel on an amendment in support of the Lords, of course it is embarrassing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-17.1423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1469.8", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Point of order, Mr. Letwin?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1469.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. This is a genuine point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Yes, we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Some of those present have been Members of Parliament for a considerable number of years but have never seen the Parliament Act invoked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1471.5", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "mmitment that he has repeatedly given at the Dispatch Box, and therefore in the House, that Labour Members of Parliament have a free vote is compatible with the activity of Government Whips trying to get Labour Members to vote for a specific amendment? Secondly, on a point of order directly for you, last night, when at a high level assurances were given to right hon. and hon. Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1472.2", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Peter Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Pike", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have been listening to one or two people sitting round me in the House, and it is clear that everyone has a different interpretation of what is happening. We recognise that we are in an unusual position, and we are depending on you to guide us to ensure that at the end of the day, this Hunting Bill is carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "The Minister is not being unreasonable with the House this afternoon, even to those of us who fundamentally disagree with the Bill and who are 100 per cent. in support of hunting. He is advancing a number of propositions, but is he prepared to advocate from the Government Front Bench that Labour Members should vote for 31 July 2007 ?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1487.0", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "o, I should say that this debate has all the feelings of the final act of a sombre and melancholy tragic drama. For me, it is the end of a kind of parliamentary nightmare—a ghastly rural soap opera in which ignorant urban interests triumph over the countryside. For a few moments last night, I was glad that this would be the last time that I rose at this Dispatch Box to discuss hunting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1490.6", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "On legal challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1490.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1490.7", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There are still too many conversations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1490.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1495.3", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. For the sake of clarity, the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Peter Bradley) is actually speaking to his amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1495.6", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bradley", "preceding_text": "As the House can tell, I am not moving, but I am speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1495.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1503.3", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "When I was a member of a political party, I used to get involved in tactics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1508.4", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Civil Contingencies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "Following the concerns voiced both in this House and the other place, we have reconsidered the issues of sunsetting and reporting on the use of part 2 of the Bill. The Government remain convinced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1508.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1518.2", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Explain.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "eir amendments to the Hunting Bill, to which the Commons have insisted on their disagreement, for which insistence they assign their reasons. They insist on their amendments to which the Commons have disagreed, for which insistence they assign their reasons, and they disagree to the amendment proposed by the Commons in lieu of the Lords amendments, for which disagreement they assign their reason.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-18", "file": "debates2004-11-18.xml", "sha256": "29887ae0ac544dad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1518.3", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Hunting Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I read these messages; I don't understand them. It was not a Glasgow man who wrote that one, anyway. As the Minister made clear to the House in his remarks earlier today, a rejection on these lines has brought us to the end of the road. I am satisfied that all the provisions of the Parliament Acts have been met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-18.1518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "e programmes in Liverpool. I have had a lifelong love affair with the town since I was a student at the technical college many years ago. Kirkby went through hard times in the 1980s and early 1990s, with unemployment levels as high as 60 per cent. in some parts. However, I am pleased to say that thanks to the sound economic stewardship of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "ption, \"scousers\". As the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Johnson) will no doubt confirm, if any Conservative Members have an issue with that, they should be warned: the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and I have a little arrangement. My constituency, in its various shapes and sizes, has in the past been represented by William Ewart Gladstone, between 1865 and 1868—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": " came as quite a surprise to be described in one national newspaper as \"all nose, bone and moustache looking for all the world like a first world war Tommy about to go over the top at the Somme.\" For a while, I consoled myself with the thought that I was just not photogenic. However, when I suggested that theory to my wife, she would not hear of it. \"No, dear\", she said, \"you just look like that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.7.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "It is a great honour to second the Queen's Speech, although that was not the only emotion that I felt when I was asked to do it. Equal amounts of honour and trepidation came over me after I said yes, which I tend to say too readily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "limpse of their view of the world. However, I am not always prepared for some of their questions. One year, St. Peter's Brownies troop were given the task of designing my Christmas card. After judging the drawings, and handing out the prizes, I chatted to them. Katie, aged 7, came up to me and with great seriousness asked, \"Were you in the Houses of Parliament when Guy Fawkes tried to blow it up?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "o receive extra help. Before coming to Westminster, I had little idea of the day-to-day life of an MP. It was drilled into me that whatever else an MP does, they are expected to vote. To miss a vote is a dreadful thing. The punishment for such a heinous crime is cruel and unusual, and at the discretion of the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Glen—sorry, Glasgow, Rutherglen (Mr. McAvoy) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "we are already going to save £1 billion from logistics and procurement; in other words, there are no savings of £900 million for the Tories to make. The other saving that the shadow Chancellor says he will get is from the new deal. He says that if he scraps the new deal he will save money, but the new deal is cutting unemployment and saving money for us. The fantasy does not end there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": ", but we have to be realistic. My hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Mr. Oaten) has been consulting not only the many Liberal Democrat-run local authorities that have had recourse to the orders and found them useful, but authorities of other political persuasions as well. Where a developed view is concerned, I listened to the Leader of the House's interview on this issue on Sunday night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23.xml", "sha256": "378b5fb383608cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Debate on the Address — [First Day]", "cue_speaker": "Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "ork that is being done elsewhere. The next item I want to refer to is the legislation to be introduced \"to combat discrimination in the provision of goods and services on the grounds of religion, as well as race, sex and disability\". The right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West (Mr. Kennedy) suggested that age should be added to those categories. I am worried about those matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Speaker's Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ect every Member of this House to co-operate fully with those officials who are responsible for ensuring our security. Before the Clerk gives the customary First Reading to the Outlawries Bill, I must put to the House the Sessional Order to the Metropolitan Police. We will continue to pass this Order until we have the new legislation, which the Government have promised, about demonstrations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.2.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.7.4", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, as follows: Most Gracious Sovereign. We, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom and Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.7.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "e programmes in Liverpool. I have had a lifelong love affair with the town since I was a student at the technical college many years ago. Kirkby went through hard times in the 1980s and early 1990s, with unemployment levels as high as 60 per cent. in some parts. However, I am pleased to say that thanks to the sound economic stewardship of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "ption, \"scousers\". As the hon. Member for Henley (Mr. Johnson) will no doubt confirm, if any Conservative Members have an issue with that, they should be warned: the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and I have a little arrangement. My constituency, in its various shapes and sizes, has in the past been represented by William Ewart Gladstone, between 1865 and 1868—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": " came as quite a surprise to be described in one national newspaper as \"all nose, bone and moustache looking for all the world like a first world war Tommy about to go over the top at the Somme.\" For a while, I consoled myself with the thought that I was just not photogenic. However, when I suggested that theory to my wife, she would not hear of it. \"No, dear\", she said, \"you just look like that.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "It is a great honour to second the Queen's Speech, although that was not the only emotion that I felt when I was asked to do it. Equal amounts of honour and trepidation came over me after I said yes, which I tend to say too readily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "se of their view of the world. However, I am not always prepared for some of their questions. One year, St. Peter's Brownies troop were given the task of designing my Christmas card. After judging the drawings, and handing out the prizes, I chatted to them. Katie, aged seven, came up to me and with great seriousness asked, \"Were you in the Houses of Parliament when Guy Fawkes tried to blow it up?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.10.0", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "o receive extra help. Before coming to Westminster, I had little idea of the day-to-day life of an MP. It was drilled into me that whatever else an MP does, they are expected to vote. To miss a vote is a dreadful thing. The punishment for such a heinous crime is cruel and unusual, and at the discretion of the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Glen—sorry, Glasgow, Rutherglen (Mr. McAvoy) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.10.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "te to Jim Marshall, who had a distinguished record as a Member of this House for almost 30 years. His sudden death last May shocked us all. Principled and independent-minded, he voted for what he believed in, and he did so without the fanfare of publicity. Honourable in every sense of the word, he was highly respected by friends and political opponents alike. Westminster is poorer for his absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " our football team would be pretty happy with just at the moment. The hon. Gentleman is also an adviser to William Hill, so I hope that he can explain something that I found on its website today. Under \"Political Bets\" is a section headed \"Peter Mandelson Specials\". The bet is that Peter Mandelson will not last the full term. The odds are 4:1 and I am told that the Chancellor has filled his boots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ebsite today. Under \"Political Bets\" is a section headed \"Peter Mandelson Specials\". The bet is that Peter Mandelson will not last the full term. The odds are 4:1 and I am told that the Chancellor has filled his boots. [Laughter.] I am sure that I speak for the whole House when I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the characteristic warmth, eloquence and sincerity with which he addressed us today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "we need to? Yet two nights ago, her Department was lit up like a Christmas tree. When asked why, her spokesman helpfully explained by saying that the lights were either on or off. He is clearly going to go far in this Government. The truth is that we can tell the Prime Minister's mood from the tune that he sings. In 1997 it was, \"Things can only get better\"; in 2001, \"We've only just begun\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman will find that pensioners are more interested in the real difficulties that they face today than in what might happen in 2050.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.2", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "has looked in detail at the reports from the committee on taxpayer value that we have published. They spell out in great detail how we will save enormous amounts of money by getting rid of bureaucracy and waste in this bloated and fat Government. The reports are all in the public domain, and people have had an opportunity to challenge them. Will he say which of those reports he criticises and why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.4", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman might have done some home work before intervening in such a crass way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.11", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "It was the right thing to do then, and restoring the link is the right thing to do now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.11", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "0 years. It has become a different place. Under this Chancellor over the past seven years, there has been a move to make pensioners more dependent on the means test and the state, and on filling in complicated forms to get the help that they need. That is why we must take measures to help pensioners as soon as we get back to government. That is what we are going to do. Let us talk about education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.17.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "as we all know, a kind-hearted individual, but he is also someone with a sharp sense of humour, as we have heard today. In addition to other remarks made about his personal appearance, one parliamentary sketch writer rather unkindly described him as looking like a serial killer. My hon. Friend wasted no time in dropping the journalist a note to warn him that appearances \"are not always deceptive\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "we are already going to save £1 billion from logistics and procurement; in other words, there are no savings of £900 million for the Tories to make. The other saving that the shadow Chancellor says he will get is from the new deal. He says that if he scraps the new deal he will save money, but the new deal is cutting unemployment and saving money for us. The fantasy does not end there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "She did not get it through renegotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the Lib Dems?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "where they were. No wonder—he served as a Minister in that Government for 10 years, seven of them in the Cabinet. He introduced the poll tax. He opposed the minimum wage. He was a key economic Minister when interest rates rose, unemployment topped 3 million and negative equity took its toll. He is not the hope of a successful Tory future because he is the reincarnation of a failed Tory past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Is that it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "heir pledges. I simply say that that will increase hugely the income tax—top and basic rate—of millions of families. The wealthiest will find a way of avoiding it; it is ordinary families that will be hardest hit. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats will oppose the measures on crime that the same families will surely welcome. The truth is that the policies of the Opposition parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "te—of millions of families. The wealthiest will find a way of avoiding it; it is ordinary families that will be hardest hit. Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats will oppose the measures on crime that the same families will surely welcome. The truth is that the policies of the Opposition parties—[Hon. Members: \"Is that it?\"] It is about all they deserve, but I have more if they want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Kennedy", "preceding_text": ", but we have to be realistic. My hon. Friend the Member for Winchester (Mr. Oaten) has been consulting not only the many Liberal Democrat-run local authorities that have had recourse to the orders and found them useful, but authorities of other political persuasions as well. Where a developed view is concerned, I listened to the Leader of the House's interview on this issue on Sunday night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-23", "file": "debates2004-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e9f0956a58886c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Harry Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Barnes", "preceding_text": "ork that is being done elsewhere. The next item I want to refer to is the legislation to be introduced \"to combat discrimination in the provision of goods and services on the grounds of religion, as well as race, sex and disability\". The right hon. Member for Ross, Skye and Inverness, West (Mr. Kennedy) suggested that age should be added to those categories. I am worried about those matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-23a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-24", "file": "debates2004-11-24.xml", "sha256": "7df2ee8530975712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Second Day]", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "ave recently arrived. That was why I suggested to the Home Affairs Committee the idea of entitlement cards. That suggestion was taken up by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and has now found its way into the identity card Bill. It is a good proposal, although it emphasises too much the conveniences of ID cards to the Government and not enough the value of an ID card to the individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-24", "file": "debates2004-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d5518ff2f021e457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.109.4", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend said before several interventions interrupted him, the elections will be held on 30 January .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.109.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-24", "file": "debates2004-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d5518ff2f021e457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.111.5", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman takes such a negative and pessimistic view. I heard similar comments about the prospect of holding the presidential elections, yet they were an outstanding success. He should be a little more optimistic as he is supposed to represent an optimistic party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.111.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-24", "file": "debates2004-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d5518ff2f021e457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.119.6", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "Another magnificent intervention by Mogadon Geoff. The whole House will be glad to see that he has woken up after a distressingly tiresome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.119.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-24", "file": "debates2004-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d5518ff2f021e457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "ave recently arrived. That was why I suggested to the Home Affairs Committee the idea of entitlement cards. That suggestion was taken up by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and has now found its way into the identity card Bill. It is a good proposal, although it emphasises too much the conveniences of ID cards to the Government and not enough the value of an ID card to the individual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-24", "file": "debates2004-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "d5518ff2f021e457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "I invite my hon. Friend to wait until we see the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-24a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "r record for what it is; disgraceful. Their policies would have made Britain less, rather than more, secure. On asylum, I am astonished that the right hon. Gentleman, as a former Home Office Minister, has the temerity to raise this matter. He knows that when we came to power we inherited an absolute shambles in a system that tries to cope with illegal human trafficking and illegal migration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "There was such a review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.242.4", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Simply because when the police apprehend someone, they will know who that person is if he is carrying an identity card. That is the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.242.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says he will. In that case he will have to explain how on earth a Conservative Government could do anything on Canvey Island or anywhere else when they are committed to such drastic cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "apital into the railways by unlocking the huge development potential in and around our stations, which are adjacent to some of the most valuable brownfield sites in the country, remains shamefully unexploited. Unlike the present Government, the next Conservative Government will have a timetable for action. That will include longer contracts for the best train operators and a major programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You're joking!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": " under the last Conservative Government, carbon dioxide emissions were falling; over the first six years of the Labour Government, they have risen. Unless there is an urgent policy change, Britain has no chance of meeting its targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions. To make matters worse, the Prime Minister has failed to show the international leadership that Baroness Thatcher provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": "as commented that \"rapid growth in air transport is in fundamental contradiction to the Government's . . . goal of sustainable development.\" On this issue, the Government are not even all talk; they are no talk. Surely it would be a start if air travel documents contained information similar to that which now appears in car advertisements, disclosing the emissions that the relevant flights caused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Yeo", "preceding_text": " Surely it would be a start if air travel documents contained information similar to that which now appears in car advertisements, disclosing the emissions that the relevant flights caused. [Laughter.] Once again, let us just place it on the record that the Under-Secretary of State for Transport thinks that the problem of carbon dioxide emissions from aviation is a hysterically funny matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.320.0", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Barker", "preceding_text": " coast is absolutely ridiculous. The proposal also flies totally in the face of all the regeneration proposals on which I have been working on a cross-party basis with the Labour Member for Hastings and Rye (Mr. Foster) and with Labour-controlled Hastings borough council. I refer to the Hastings and Bexhill taskforce proposals to regenerate the area. Critical to that have been the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-25", "file": "debates2004-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "7d846f794dee4281", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Environment, Transport and Local and Devolved Government Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": " Gentleman also spoke rightly of the responsibilities of the developed world to help the third world if disaster is not to befall our environment. On one of the specific points that he made from a position of considerable experience, I am happy to assure him that we are firmly committed to protecting the green belt and its functions, including preventing towns from joining up. We have added—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-25a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29.xml", "sha256": "d1fa33dea316910e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fourth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "her than deeply confused a policy that, on one hand, talks in a disapproving way about drugs, but on the other, seeks to declassify cannabis? Young people took the move as a signal that the Government were telling them that it is okay to smoke cannabis. That is probably why last week's European drugs report showed that Britain's 15-year-old boys smoke more cannabis than those in any other country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ry, but the hon. Gentleman simply does not have that right. No lives are being put at risk as a result of the introduction of Bowman. It is disgraceful that such a remark should come from a member of the Conservative party, which failed to implement the Bowman project over so very many years, when this piece of equipment is coming into service at long last after years of delay and procrastination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I listened carefully to the hon. Gentleman's observations. Of course it is right that we should pay tribute to the distinguished record of the three separate regiments that he relies on for his argument. The various distinctions that he has brought together are the result of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Selous", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Have you had any indication that the Secretary of State for Defence intends to make a statement about cuts to battalions of English infantry regiments? I understand that a decision to cut—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have just finished an hour of defence questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "As a stickler for not saying I have a number when I do not have one, I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will tell me. Would he like me to give way so that he can tell me how many times I voted? I remember voting for the renewal of the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.387.2", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "sentences. Thirdly, we welcome the introduction of measures to strengthen the charitable sector. I associate myself entirely with what the Home Secretary said at the end of his speech. Again, however, we will scrutinise the details extremely carefully. This is an area that needs serious reform, and it would be quite easy to get it wrong. The Government have been in power for more than seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are illegal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "I have a simple question. Does the right hon. Gentleman object to those people coming here and working, and aiding and lifting our economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ble to pursue other crimes. Police officers to whom I have spoken suggest that burglars have taken up anything from robbing whole truckloads of new equipment to smuggling drink, tobacco or drugs. That is not surprising. After all, the Home Secretary can scarcely claim that he is catching more burglars—not when detection rates for burglary have fallen since the Government came to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " the streets. That is perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the whole Queen's Speech. In 1997, the Labour party promised to relieve the police of unnecessary bureaucratic burdens and to get more officers back on the beat. Seven years later, the Government pledge to reduce bureaucracy and the costs of government to promote efficiency. Recently, an article by Leo McKinstry in The Spectator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "her than deeply confused a policy that, on one hand, talks in a disapproving way about drugs, but on the other, seeks to declassify cannabis? Young people took the move as a signal that the Government were telling them that it is okay to smoke cannabis. That is probably why last week's European drugs report showed that Britain's 15-year-old boys smoke more cannabis than those in any other country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that. The Home Office is famous for the immigration computer collapse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " will try to address the problem on Second Reading and Report so that we can get a clearer idea of the likelihood that the system will work. Fourthly, when the Government have decided the purpose of ID cards, will they really be the most cost-effective way of tackling the problems? At the moment we barely know who is in our country because we have no proper embarkation controls at our ports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "we barely know who is in our country because we have no proper embarkation controls at our ports— [Interruption.] I am happy to give the exact story to any Labour Member who wishes to intervene, so I do not think that they should. Reintroducing such controls, as we will do, will cost a mere £27 million, which is nothing at all compared with the £3 billion cost of the cards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "contempt for human and animal life through television, magazines and newspapers; indeed, even through the very toys that we buy our children. At about this time of year, I do my usual tilt against the windmill by proposing a Bill or tabling an early-day motion on banning the sale of war toys. If people want to know where the gun culture starts, it is when we give realistic toy weapons to our boys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " to place burdens on me. This Government have chosen the route of Robespierre. I am not suggesting they are going to cut our heads off literally, but their metaphorical position is to set up a committee of public safety to allow them to control every aspect of our lives, and to ensure that they control the levers of our very breathing and the way in which we exist and go about our lawful business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-29", "file": "debates2004-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c92554f2982f6d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Home Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " return on the massive investments that they have made in trying to curb crime. We hear about drugs, but we know that the drug treatment that the Government envisage is a pale imitation of what is available in Sweden, or indeed, in the more enlightened states in the US, and has not worked. We hear about ASBOs, but from what we see on the ground, most of us believe that they are not working at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-29a.460.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-30", "file": "debates2004-11-30.xml", "sha256": "b70cb03efca098a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Fifth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Tim Collins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tim Collins", "preceding_text": "It is clear that giving schools complete freedom to decide their own admissions policy does not involve banning them from taking into account the postcode—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30.593.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-30", "file": "debates2004-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "54fefc6bc4f7ace9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.495.5", "colnum": "495", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am sympathetic to the idea of a cross-cutting question session on Africa. I pay tribute to my hon. Friend's work and to that of my hon. Friend the Member for Clydebank and Milngavie (Tony Worthington) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.495.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-30", "file": "debates2004-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "54fefc6bc4f7ace9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Deepcut Allegations", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "If I did, I, too, should choose my words carefully. The situation is that one of the deaths was declared a suicide, two resulted in open verdicts and one has still to be determined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.503.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-30", "file": "debates2004-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "54fefc6bc4f7ace9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "hieved nothing. If the Minister of State is happy that half way through a financial year 75 PCTs and 73 NHS hospital trusts are forecasting deficits because he and his colleagues have imposed costs on the NHS that are far in excess of the financial resources that are made available, along with unfunded GP contracts, unfunded consultant contracts and risks associated with \"Agenda for Change\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-30", "file": "debates2004-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "54fefc6bc4f7ace9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ed in the front line, has been saved. In May this year, I followed that up by announcing that we aim to halve the number of arm's-length bodies that support the NHS. That was the target, but I do not know whether the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire thinks it worthwhile. Should we not have had a target? Should we have wandered around talking about the matter, without any objectives whatsoever?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-11-30", "file": "debates2004-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "54fefc6bc4f7ace9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Health and Education", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What mind?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ministrators, officials and managers. I have never been one of those who say that administrators do not add value. The idea that doctors would run their surgeries without receptionists or that surgeons and consultants would spend their valuable time not operating on and treating patients but on doing all their typing is absurd—it could come only from the mind of a Conservative Front Bencher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-11-30a.532.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01.xml", "sha256": "54a8235edbde95be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Sixth Day]", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Exeter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "rease that proportion. In January, the Government are promoting the year of science in China—Lord Sainsbury is going out there—and in December there is a UK financial dialogue taking place with China. I welcome those steps. However, we need progressive policies on science and skills. As a chemistry graduate, I am very sad that Essex university is closing its chemistry department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01.xml", "sha256": "54a8235edbde95be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.668.5", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Sixth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": "0 onwards. It is worth focusing on the macro figures and on the Office for National Statistics figures in relation to that public sector spending. By the end of this tax year, spending and taxation in cash terms will be up by about 60 per cent. The question begs itself; where has all that spending gone? Every citizen knows that they do not see improved delivery of anything like 60 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.668.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01.xml", "sha256": "54a8235edbde95be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Sixth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "preceding_text": "h thing as society. They swept all that away and it was every man for himself. Members may not believe this, but at the Michelin factory in Stoke-on-Trent all those years ago, apprentices were given free milk, lunch tokens and sun-lamp sessions to keep them healthy. Remember what the Tories did to apprenticeships—they disappeared. I am not asking for the return of the sun-bed sessions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01.xml", "sha256": "54a8235edbde95be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Sixth Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "preceding_text": " a carefully crafted auction of 150 rounds. My right hon. and hon. Friends immersed themselves in the intricacies of game theory. Now compare that care, competence and prudence with what went on before. I remember the privatisation of the National Bus Company in 1986. I remember it very well because I was working in the City at the time, with Barclays De Zoete Wedd, the bank charged with its sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01.xml", "sha256": "54a8235edbde95be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Sixth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who told you that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ests. As we come to the end of the debate on the Queen's Speech, perhaps as well as covering some of the Bills that are in the speech I might ask about one or two Bills that are not in it. We are in a strange position because we have all the Bills that have been announced in the Queen's Speech but if there is an election next May, as we have been told, very few of them are likely to come into law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01.xml", "sha256": "54a8235edbde95be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address — [Sixth Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has just arrived.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "omic arena. Financial insecurity is at least important as physical security, and is an equally niggling anxiety. The Chancellor's record has exposed the British economy and individuals in the country to a range of insecurities, including the balance of payments deficit, the budget deficit, and the problems of economic inactivity and insufficient savings. It is a pity that he is not in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.615.7", "colnum": "615", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "The Minister will have recognised the direct quote from the Belfast agreement. He will know perfectly well that, according to the agreement, \"total disarmament\" was expected by 22 May 2000 —four and a half years ago. When will he stop listening to the lies of Sinn Fein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.615.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.634.5", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor launch his personal election campaign with his customary brio and to discuss the very poor fiscal position that he is in. Today I want to take the opportunity to do something different and examine the Chancellor's economic record, which he is both pleased about and proud of. He frequently presents his economic record as being all for the best in the best of all possible worlds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.634.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I personally never opposed the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "One does things out of party loyalty that one does not necessarily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "One does things out of party loyalty that one does not necessarily—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] I have never personally opposed the decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "One does things out of party loyalty that one does not necessarily—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] I have never personally opposed the decision. [Interruption.] I have been in favour of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.9", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " told us that his great vision, which he has been adumbrating in various newspapers recently, is to increase Britain's competitiveness—a very laudable ambition and one indeed that the 1997 Labour manifesto told us would be one of the Government's main hallmarks. It stated: \"We will build a new partnership with business to improve the competitiveness of British industry for the 21st century\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.637.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.638.3", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "gh extra taxes and is producing astonishing little result. Our plans to reduce the bureaucracy of the DTI by four fifths will assist British business by reducing the tax on British business and by reducing the degree of unnecessary interference in British business, thereby promoting its interests—long overdue. Let us turn to growth. The Chancellor is proud of his record on growth, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "nds and I do not intend merely to cut regulation; we intend to cut the drivers of regulation. We intend to change the culture that creates regulation by cutting the bureaucracies that produce it. As the hon. Gentleman wants to talk about regulation and the question of what we shall abolish, he tempts me to move immediately to the very question of the Chancellor's statements about regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman has indicated that he is not giving way. The Government Back Benches are far too noisy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.646.5", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"At capacity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for sometimes saying things that his Front-Bench colleagues will not say. He claims that the fiscal deficit is £40 billion and suggests that the economy is running beyond capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.646.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.647.8", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give us the figure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The savings ratio reflects the cycle; it reflects the point at which the economic cycle is. If the United States' savings ratio is 2 per cent. and ours is 6 per cent., what conclusions does the hon. Gentleman draw?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.647.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I thank the Chancellor for allowing me to intervene at last. I shall not respond to any of that garbage, as I would be surprised if the Chancellor could really delude himself that any rational being would listen to such stuff. I shall do something else, and defend the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "If the shadow Chancellor had said that my figures were wrong and could prove that they were, I might have had some respect for what he has just said. However, he said on \"Breakfast with Frost\" on Sunday that he would find £35 billion of savings. Does he deny that? Of course, he does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "John McFall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Exeter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John McFall", "preceding_text": "rease that proportion. In January, the Government are promoting the year of science in China—Lord Sainsbury is going out there—and in December there is a UK financial dialogue taking place with China. I welcome those steps. However, we need progressive policies on science and skills. As a chemistry graduate, I am very sad that Essex university is closing its chemistry department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.666.5", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Howard Flight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Howard Flight", "preceding_text": " spending splurge from 2000 onwards. It is worth focusing on the macro figures and on the Office for National Statistics figures in relation to that public sector spending. By the end of this tax year, spending and taxation in cash terms will be up by about 60 per cent. Where has all that spending gone? Every citizen knows that they do not see improved delivery of anything like 60 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.666.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "quired for many of the functions to which I have referred. Some Liberal Democrats may well want to get rid of the Department of Trade and Industry; but do they want to get rid of the offshore supplies office in Aberdeen, which serves the North sea industry? Do they want to get rid of the expertise of the Department responsible for energy? If they do, there might well be serious consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin O'Neill", "preceding_text": "e. Across the country as a whole, every one of the bleeding-heart Liberal Democrats who wants to appear liberal would indulge in special pleading for the little niche that is for ever theirs. They may say, \"But you couldn't do away with that,\" but which bits could we do away with? Which bits do they not like too much? Which bits are concentrated only in Tory or Labour seats, or in Victoria street?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I agree that that is alarming, but the difference is in how interest rates go up. In earlier times, they were traditionally much higher and had been for many years, but they went down to 2.5 per cent. and have now doubled. That is a substantial jump in the calculation that people make and considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "preceding_text": "h thing as society. They swept all that away and it was every man for himself. Members may not believe this, but at the Michelin factory in Stoke-on-Trent all those years ago, apprentices were given free milk, lunch tokens and sun-lamp sessions to keep them healthy. Remember what the Tories did to apprenticeships—they disappeared. I am not asking for the return of the sun-bed sessions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "preceding_text": " a carefully crafted auction of 150 rounds. My right hon. and hon. Friends immersed themselves in the intricacies of game theory. Now compare that care, competence and prudence with what went on before. I remember the privatisation of the National Bus Company in 1986. I remember it very well because I was working in the City at the time, with Barclays De Zoete Wedd, the bank charged with its sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Farrelly", "preceding_text": "Quite right. We are all committed to a stronger Europe, but we did not decide the level at which we entered the ERM, out of which we were then unceremoniously dumped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.724.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.727.5", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who told you that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ests. As we come to the end of the debate on the Queen's Speech, perhaps as well as covering some of the Bills that are in the speech I might ask about one or two Bills that are not in it. We are in a strange position because we have all the Bills that have been announced in the Queen's Speech but if there is an election next May, as we have been told, very few of them are likely to come into law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.727.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-01", "file": "debates2004-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "ab494c93795e7e28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.727.5", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Economic Affairs", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has just arrived.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "omic arena. Financial insecurity is at least important as physical security, and is an equally niggling anxiety. The Chancellor's record has exposed the British economy and individuals in the country to a range of insecurities, including the balance of payments deficit, the budget deficit, and the problems of economic inactivity and insufficient savings. It is a pity that he is not in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-01a.727.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02.xml", "sha256": "facbc2a212f87bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ation and Skills and I have asked the chairman of the National Employment Panel, Sandy Leitch, to build on today's decisions, report on the long-term skills needs for intermediate and degree level skills in the economy, and work with employers throughout the country to ensure that every employee is offered those new opportunities. The successful economies and societies of the next 20 years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02.xml", "sha256": "facbc2a212f87bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02.854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Campbell", "preceding_text": "My schools in Cambridge are extremely grateful for the extra money that has been received throughout this Government. May I point out to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "I am aware of those attempted scams. The hon. Gentleman has raised them and brought them to the attention of the authorities. I thank him for doing that because it helps warn small businesses of the problem. I would say to small businesses, and everybody who sees offers on the internet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ation and Skills and I have asked the chairman of the National Employment Panel, Sandy Leitch, to build on today's decisions, report on the long-term skills needs for intermediate and degree level skills in the economy, and work with employers throughout the country to ensure that every employee is offered those new opportunities. The successful economies and societies of the next 20 years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor feel a little isolated? The fact is that the tide is going out on the Chancellor's credibility. The tragedy is that the Chancellor is spending, borrowing and taxing so much because he is not getting value for taxpayers' money. He says that he has a plan to cut waste. Whose waste? It is his waste. We have paid all the taxes. Where has all the money gone? This is the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Pre-Budget Report", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": " by a third, an economy that has slipped from fourth to eleventh in international competitiveness, and an economy that has grown more slowly than that of any other major English-speaking country. The Chancellor cannot make up for his failures of public service delivery by parading new schemes. His pledges to pensioners and council tax payers today will not make up for 70 per cent. increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Local Government Finance Settlement", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I would expect the hon. Gentleman to recognise that his own county of Bedfordshire has received a 6.5 per cent. increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Local Government Finance Settlement", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "I would expect the hon. Gentleman to recognise that his own county of Bedfordshire has received a 6.5 per cent. increase— [Interruption.] I would also suggest that the hon. Gentleman moderates his language in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "aud him for being a one-question man. Whatever he asks, he manages to get in a spurious point about the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. I am glad that the hon. Gentleman supports the Government's policies on loan sharks. May I therefore assume that he will encourage his Whip to ensure that the consumer credit Bill is given a free run through the House of Commons and the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-02", "file": "debates2004-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "128d2f71fbeb61d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-02a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-06", "file": "debates2004-12-06.xml", "sha256": "da04cad56ca07528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "preceding_text": "ar that the chief executive had no idea what was going on. Railtrack has now been replaced by Network Rail, and there is a huge subsidy for the railways. It is difficult to know from the figures what is investment and what is subsidy, but the Government have made two attempts prior to the introduction of the present Railways Bill to put things right. I have already talked about Network Rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-06", "file": "debates2004-12-06.xml", "sha256": "da04cad56ca07528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He's Santa!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "lway between places in Greater London and places outside Greater London.\" In our view, that drafting is far too vague. Will the Minister consent to look at it again in Committee, with a view to tightening it up? We have heard about only part of the Government's transport policy in this debate. The Secretary of State likes to put himself forward as a benign, friendly, white- haired gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-06", "file": "debates2004-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "c8175e3867e34ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I do not think that I have ever described the likelihood of the licence fee being replaced as \"inconceivable\". I have certainly said that I think it unlikely, improbable and so forth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-06", "file": "debates2004-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "c8175e3867e34ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Benefits Uprating and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Frank Field", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wait for Turner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Frank Field", "preceding_text": " have unfolded in their programme, does he accept that voters quickly acclimatise to Government success, and then look to what the Government might do next? Given that the Tory party and the Liberal Democrats have outlined their plans for long-term reform, does he think that it will be easier for us to fight an election if our election manifesto includes a hint about our long-term pension reforms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.913.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-06", "file": "debates2004-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "c8175e3867e34ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.913.4", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Benefits Uprating and Welfare Reform", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "ll progressive, and they will be crucial in this debate. Many people would do well to wait for the Turner report, because Turner's analysis of the problem is exceptional. He says that even if the Government pushed him to produce his report more quickly he would not do so, because he believes that a comprehensive report that tackles the issues is much more important than a speedily produced report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-06", "file": "debates2004-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "c8175e3867e34ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stringer", "preceding_text": "ar that the chief executive had no idea what was going on. Railtrack has now been replaced by Network Rail, and there is a huge subsidy for the railways. It is difficult to know from the figures what is investment and what is subsidy, but the Government have made two attempts prior to the introduction of the present Railways Bill to put things right. I have already talked about Network Rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-06", "file": "debates2004-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "c8175e3867e34ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He's Santa!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "lway between places in Greater London and places outside Greater London.\" In our view, that drafting is far too vague. Will the Minister consent to look at it again in Committee, with a view to tightening it up? We have heard about only part of the Government's transport policy in this debate. The Secretary of State likes to put himself forward as a benign, friendly, white- haired gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-06", "file": "debates2004-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "c8175e3867e34ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Railways Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I will certainly try to return to Merseytravel in a moment. I want to pick up on many of the points that hon. Members have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-06a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07.xml", "sha256": "159f24da4d311af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1056.4", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"This is cross-party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what we are attempting to do. I can feel the differences of opinion that will exist in political parties in the House as well as between them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1056.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07.xml", "sha256": "159f24da4d311af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1057.5", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "We can deal with satan worshippers quite easily through the law. What we would not want to do is to incite people to do something themselves against them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1057.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07.xml", "sha256": "159f24da4d311af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1057.5", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The devil is in the detail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "t upholding the rule of law. It is about ensuring that where there are loopholes that exclude a particular group because they are faith group, as opposed to a nationality, they can be included. I do not want people going out inciting others against devil worshippers; I want to deal with the devil worshipping in whatever form it takes. It is probably best that we deal with the detail in Committee .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1057.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07.xml", "sha256": "159f24da4d311af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1066.7", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "mpted to tell the hon. Gentleman that I will do so only if he comes with me to Hampshire, but I might be misunderstood. However, I told the Home Secretary that we need a full review, which will consider the sort of evidence that the hon. Gentleman mentioned. I do not object to CSOs, as long as they are additional to the police—that is the point that I was making about the word \"supplanting\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1066.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07.xml", "sha256": "159f24da4d311af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1080.4", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "said: \"The business of state is mine; let no man meddle in it\" and his authority for such a sweeping assertion was something called the divine right of kings. I might take exception to that concept, though I see that new Labour increasingly toys with it. Am I not assaulting a religious belief when I say that James I had no such divine right? What crime could I have committed under the Bill?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1080.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07.xml", "sha256": "159f24da4d311af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "ould even prevent comedians from poking fun at religions. It is a measure of how civilised we are that we can tolerate and withstand fun, jokes, jibes and criticism. The Bill is a move backwards to a less tolerant society. I can just imagine the thought police dragging Dawn French, under arrest and in handcuffs, off to prison after a particularly challenging episode of \"The Vicar of Dibley\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07.xml", "sha256": "159f24da4d311af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": " beliefs, reflect on them and see whether they have a tendency to conduce to bad behaviour in certain circumstances in a multi-racial, multi-religious society. That is one of our society's values, and we bring it to those of different religious persuasions. It is unlikely that the Government will rein back on this provision, but I reiterate what I said at the beginning of this short speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07.1108.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for raising this issue, although I did not see him during the rest of Health questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "After the hon. Gentleman's earlier demonstration of expertise, I shall be very careful about how I answer his question. If the provision could be interpreted in that way, we shall make sure that the wording rules out such an interpretation. There will be an interesting debate in Committee about citizen's arrest more broadly, whether the person involved is going to Spain or elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "not talking about all the things that we would expect in a free society, which I read out a moment ago: criticising beliefs, criticising practices and having a really good argument. Three years ago, we discussed these matters and nearly reached an agreement—we were within a whisker of it. In the other place, the argument was that that Act was an inappropriate vehicle for passing this clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1054.4", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"This is cross-party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what we are attempting to do. I can feel the differences of opinion that will exist within political parties in the House as well as between them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1054.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1055.5", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "We can deal with satan worshippers quite easily through the law. What we would not want to do is to incite people to do something themselves against them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1055.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1055.5", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The devil is in the detail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "upholding the rule of law. It is about ensuring that where there are loopholes that exclude a particular group because they are a faith group, as opposed to a nationality, they can be included. I do not want people going out inciting others against devil worshippers; I want to deal with the devil worshipping in whatever form it takes. It is probably best that we deal with the detail in Committee .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1055.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1059.6", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " knew that I would get support from my right hon. Friend for that point, at least, which is particularly true where civil liberties are concerned. So although my party supports the establishment of SOCA, we will consider parts 1 and 2 of the Bill very carefully. The agency takes up only some 50 per cent. of the Bill, and it is perhaps appropriate that a so-called SOCA Bill is a Bill of two halves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1059.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman quoted the Prime Minister correctly, but at the time we all took it—he clarified it for me afterwards—that he meant \"supplementing\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1064.7", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "mpted to tell the hon. Gentleman that I will do so only if he comes with me to Hampshire, but I might be misunderstood. However, I told the Home Secretary that we need a full review, which will consider the sort of evidence that the hon. Gentleman mentioned. I do not object to CSOs, as long as they are additional to the police—that is the point that I was making about the word \"supplanting\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1064.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "aid: \"The business of state is mine; let no man meddle in it,\" and his authority for such a sweeping assertion was something called the divine right of kings. I might take exception to that concept, though I see that new Labour increasingly toys with it. Am I not assaulting a religious belief when I say that James I had no such divine right? What crime could I have committed under the Bill?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1078.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "ould even prevent comedians from poking fun at religions. It is a measure of how civilised we are that we can tolerate and withstand fun, jokes, jibes and criticism. The Bill is a move backwards to a less tolerant society. I can just imagine the thought police dragging Dawn French, under arrest and in handcuffs, off to prison after a particularly challenging episode of \"The Vicar of Dibley\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McWalter", "preceding_text": "r beliefs, reflect on them and see whether they have a tendency to conduce to bad behaviour in certain circumstances in a multiracial, multi-religious society. That is one of our society's values, and we bring it to those of different religious persuasions. It is unlikely that the Government will rein back on this provision, but I reiterate what I said at the beginning of this short speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-07", "file": "debates2004-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "427547316d55b798", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hoban", "preceding_text": "e practices that they adopt in propagating those beliefs. The issue is one of definition, and the courts will have to decide an issue—what religion actually is—that philosophers have failed to resolve over centuries. We may provide protection that should not be extended to such groups, particularly when they express dangerous views. Religion is a matter for debate and discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-07a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-08", "file": "debates2004-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1cf194b53ac98614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1149.6", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) has said that Ministers should talk up Wales when they go abroad and the hon. Member for Caernarfon (Hywel Williams) has said that we should use the instruments of the British state to promote Wales abroad more effectively. The hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy nods. He should sort out his Assembly group in Cardiff—he nods at that, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-08", "file": "debates2004-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1cf194b53ac98614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Well, we will give the President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-08", "file": "debates2004-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1cf194b53ac98614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the Prime Minister what his Home Secretary says about me. He thinks that I was the first Home Secretary to focus on cutting crime. That is what he says. Now I shall tell the Prime Minister what his Home Secretary thinks about the current Foreign Secretary's time at the Home Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2004-12-08", "file": "debates2004-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1cf194b53ac98614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "ategically; and the Secretary of State for Education and Skills has not developed as expected. He also says that the Prime Minister does not like being told the truth and—as no doubt the Prime Minister will agree—that the Chancellor is a bully. Could the Prime Minister please arrange for the Home Secretary to make regular reports on his Cabinet colleagues and place them in the Library?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-08", "file": "debates2004-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1cf194b53ac98614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1162.2", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I think that we have had quite enough. Since we are talking about records as well as the comments that people make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-08", "file": "debates2004-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1cf194b53ac98614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1162.2", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ad quite enough. Since we are talking about records as well as the comments that people make—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] Well, the right hon. and learned Gentleman does not actually want to discuss the alternative records of his time in office and our time in office, but that is what I am going to do. When he was responsible for employment, it went down and unemployment went up by 1 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-08", "file": "debates2004-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "1cf194b53ac98614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1192.0", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "I join the hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Tyrie) in thanking the Paymaster General and the Economic Secretary for the briefing that they gave us a week or so ago. In particular, I thank the Paymaster General for returning to me an item of clothing that I left in her office at the end of our discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-08a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09.xml", "sha256": "b134cb090f72f7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1276.4", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "isn't done soon in Morriston, then superbugs will be the norm.\" There has been a huge rise in MRSA under Labour, and 5,000 people a year are dying as a result. The Leader of the House likes to say that it is safer under Labour—not in hospital, it is not. Can we have that debate? Finally, the Leader of the House will remember that the Government used to publish an annual report on themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1276.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09.xml", "sha256": "b134cb090f72f7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It did not work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "uld be the mess-up with the 40,000—I thought it was 60,000—PCs in the Department that went wrong the other week. The Secretary of State did not come to the House, and I do not believe that there was a written ministerial statement. The shadow Secretary of State wrote a letter that was replied to—I was grateful for a copy of that—but the strategy was to try to keep it quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09.xml", "sha256": "b134cb090f72f7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": " afternoon. We all know that, sometimes, Secretaries of State with easy announcements to make come to the House, but those with difficult debates to face slough them off on junior Ministers. The right hon. Gentleman has not done that. The Opposition will not be congratulating him on much else. Speaking as a member of the Select Committee as well as an Opposition Front-Bencher this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09.xml", "sha256": "b134cb090f72f7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1334.2", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ys a privilege to have a debate on the estimates. If one is the Chairmen or a member of a Select Committee, it provides an opportunity to bring some of the deliberations that we conduct across the road—in our case, in Portcullis House—into the very heart of the Chamber. It also a privilege to be the Chairman of a great Select Committee, such as the Education and Skills Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09.xml", "sha256": "b134cb090f72f7bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "EUROPEAN DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "preceding_text": "At least my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle) knows when to stop digging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09.1368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85f8e4a08a46fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1261.2", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman is extremely concerned about the impact of the Watermoor closure. Both Postwatch and the Post Office thought about it very carefully. I understand that most customers are already choosing to shop in Cirencester, and there are direct bus services from Watermoor to the main branch in the town centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85f8e4a08a46fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "isn't done soon in Morriston, then superbugs will be the norm.\" There has been a huge rise in MRSA under Labour, and 5,000 people a year are dying as a result. The Leader of the House likes to say that it is safer under Labour—not in hospital, it is not. May we have that debate? Finally, the Leader of the House will remember that the Government used to publish an annual report on themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85f8e4a08a46fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — VOTE ON ACCOUNT, 2005–06 — IT Projects (DWP)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It did not work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "uld be the mess-up with the 40,000—I thought it was 60,000—PCs in the Department that went wrong the other week. The Secretary of State did not come to the House, and I do not believe that there was a written ministerial statement. The shadow Secretary of State wrote a letter that was replied to—I was grateful for a copy of that—but the strategy was to try to keep it quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85f8e4a08a46fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — VOTE ON ACCOUNT, 2005–06 — IT Projects (DWP)", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": " afternoon. We all know that, sometimes, Secretaries of State with easy announcements to make come to the House, but those with difficult debates to face slough them off on junior Ministers. The right hon. Gentleman has not done that. The Opposition will not be congratulating him on much else. Speaking as a member of the Select Committee as well as an Opposition Front Bencher this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85f8e4a08a46fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1327.0", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY — [1st Allotted Day] — VOTE ON ACCOUNT, 2005–06 — IT Projects (DWP)", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister moves on, is there not an important issue about how the Department responded? The first I knew about the problem was when I turned on the television on Friday morning of the week in question. No information was given to the House about what was going on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85f8e4a08a46fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Academies", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ys a privilege to have a debate on the estimates. If one is the Chairmen or a member of a Select Committee, it provides an opportunity to bring some of the deliberations that we conduct across the road—in our case, in Portcullis House—into the very heart of the Chamber. It also a privilege to be the Chairman of a great Select Committee, such as the Education and Skills Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-09", "file": "debates2004-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85f8e4a08a46fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1366.3", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "ALLOTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Chapman", "preceding_text": "At least my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Kilfoyle) knows when to stop digging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-09a.1366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13.xml", "sha256": "5d3aa5fe466ed8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13.1465.1", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "In a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13.xml", "sha256": "5d3aa5fe466ed8b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "n of 50–50 parenting is absolutely not in the best interests of children. I have heard the protests from the Conservative Front Benchers, but it is clear that if they are going to talk about equal parenting, which they both have done, they should realise that the common usage of \"equal parenting\" means 50–50 parenting. They will either have to understand the terminology properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1383.5", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "They have already fallen for the first time. According to the most recent labour market statistics, there has been a very small fall of 4,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1385.0", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "tter of Turner and Newell very carefully. We have the institutions, the financial assistance scheme and, more importantly, the PPF in place, should any further action on any scheme be required. On the abolition of payable tax credits, the hon. Gentleman is making a very partisan point. It was an essential part of a package of corporation tax reforms that included both the main and small companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "School Discipline", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that it was entirely consistent to give head teachers control over not only who they exclude from their schools, but who they admit to them. That is entirely consistent. I suppose that the hon. Gentleman is being consistent as well, because he does not support giving head teachers control over either admissions or exclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1458.3", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Family Justice", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way to the hon. Gentleman twice already. Other Members wish to speak in the debate. The Government have attacked our proposals, and indeed refused to back our amendment on co-parenting, which was tabled as part of the recent Children Act debate. I am sorry that the Minister chose not to comment on the validity of or the arguments about our amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Family Justice", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "In a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1465.3", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Family Justice", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "Again, the hon. Gentleman has used the word \"equally\". I understand that to mean dividing children equally between their parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1472.9", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Family Justice", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "r practices to do publicly funded work. Yet in the context of the Green Paper and the development of law in this sphere, we should not be aiming to enhance only what is done in court, but what is done before the court stage, where legal aid can be crucial. We need an expansion, not a diminution, in the availability of legal aid. As I said, this evening's debate has not been of the highest quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1472.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Family Justice", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Pathetic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "offer to try to make the point that is being missed or deliberately ignored. What about circumstances in which one parent is very sick? It is in neither the parent's nor the child's best interests for that person to be fully involved in the child's upbringing. It is better for the parent to have, if possible, long-term treatment, to recover and, in due course, to return and reintroduce themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Family Justice", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "a presumption of 50:50 parenting is absolutely not in the best interests of children. I have heard the protests from the Conservative Front Benchers, but it is clear that if they are going to talk about equal parenting, which they both have done, they should realise that the common usage of \"equal parenting\" means 50:50 parenting. They will either have to understand the terminology properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1491.6", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Family Justice", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": " My hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Howarth) was right to say that having two parents should be treasured, welcomed and valued. That really ought to be our starting point, rather than that of the hon. and learned Member for Redcar. As I listened to her comments, I began to conclude that she does not believe in the value of two parents. The only way of interpreting her rabid attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1491.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-13", "file": "debates2004-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "aeddf12fa791db13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1494.6", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Family Justice", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Leslie", "preceding_text": "h;it could also be for grandparents, siblings and others. We can debate the issue, but we disagree with the Opposition on that point. It is important that we develop many aspects of policy in this area, and, after wide consultation, the Green Paper was published in July. We want easier access to legal advice on relationship breakdown, and we can do that through existing hotline arrangements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-13a.1494.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14.xml", "sha256": "cfaaecee7ac5e6a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14.1534.7", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "New Clause 1 — Excluded decisions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Jim Dobbin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Nos. 37, 38 and 6. Amendment No. 32, in page 14, line 10, leave out clause 24. Amendment No. 42, in clause 25, page 15, line 5 at end insert— 'and it was explained to P before reaching his decision that the withdrawal of the treatment in question might include the withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration.'.pa Government amendment No. 39. I call Iain Duncan Smith to move new clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14.1534.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1524.7", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And woman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I profoundly believe that every sane and intelligent man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1524.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1532.7", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Jim Dobbin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "s Nos. 37, 38 and 6. Amendment No. 32, in page 14, line 10, leave out clause 24. Amendment No. 42, in clause 25, page 15, line 5 at end insert— 'and it was explained to P before reaching his decision that the withdrawal of the treatment in question might include the withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration.'. Government amendment No. 39. I call Iain Duncan Smith to move new clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1532.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "count of their current circumstances. Such cases will prove a struggle, and there is no way of avoiding that. There is the question of what is in the person's best interest medically, and the proxy's view as to what is in their best interest. Both will have to be taken into account. Let me deal briefly with an issue to which I shall perhaps return at the end of my speech—if I ever get there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "From the Chair, I am doing my best to make sense of the proceedings this afternoon. I have said more than once to the Under-Secretary that it is clear that all hon. Members believe that the precise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "s this afternoon. I have said more than once to the Under-Secretary that it is clear that all hon. Members believe that the precise— [Interruption . ] Order. We are considering serious matters and people outside will not take kindly to our not being more orderly. The letter that hon. Members mention is clearly crucial; its precise terms are crucial. Hon. Members are entitled to expect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1576.3", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1576.5", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not precisely a point of order for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1576.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1590.2", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Butterfill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Butterfill", "preceding_text": "stified. I am worried about the extremely wide scope of the new clause, the huge discretion that it gives to the Secretary of State and the lack of any independent adjudication on the appropriateness of such actions. May I just recount what happened to my mother? When she was in her late 70s, she was dying of cancer. She went to the Salisbury hospital, where she had an exploratory operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1590.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-14", "file": "debates2004-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "5b6f37eebd1f329f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Capacity Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to speak about new clause 3, but the more I read it, the more worried I become. Given the position of the right hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) , I take it that he is proposing a measure that has been approved by the General Medical Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-14a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15.xml", "sha256": "a71a5d78e54327da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15.1661.3", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me come back to the promise about housing. It was to cut rough sleepers and we have done that very substantially indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15.1661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15.xml", "sha256": "a71a5d78e54327da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15.1662.3", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "n enigmatic man that will surprise even those who think they know him. I particularly recommend to the Prime Minister the Home Secretary's helpful assessment of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues. Will the Prime Minister promise to read the book carefully, so that when he comes back to the House in the new year he can give a full explanation of his Government's total failure to deliver?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15.1662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15.xml", "sha256": "a71a5d78e54327da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Twice a year, we have an opportunity for a day of group therapy on Europe but European competence covers many Departments. For example, it involves trade policy, migration policy and development policy. Yet junior Ministers from the other Departments do not even do us the courtesy of attending the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15.1675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me come back to the promise about housing. It was to cut rough sleepers and we have done that very substantially indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is simply not the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1660.3", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": "n enigmatic man that will surprise even those who think they know him. I particularly recommend to the Prime Minister the Home Secretary's helpful assessment of the Prime Minister and his Cabinet colleagues. Will the Prime Minister promise to read the book carefully, so that when he comes back to the House in the new year he can give a full explanation of his Government's total failure to deliver?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1660.5", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Actually, I have some holiday reading of my own lined up, a volume of diaries by a certain Woodrow Wyatt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1660.5", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Actually, I have some holiday reading of my own lined up, a volume of diaries by a certain Woodrow Wyatt. [Laughter.] We could do a swap of reading matter. In the diaries—this is not a laughing matter because of what it says about the Tories; just listen to this—he recalls a meeting with the right hon. and learned Gentleman on 19 March 1991 .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That was when the right hon. and learned Gentleman was Employment Secretary. Just listen to this: \"Michael Howard didn't agree with my view that we should have a June election . . . before it was realized how serious the underlying recession had been and unemployment went on going up. He said, 'Unemployment never matters.'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "aid, 'Unemployment never matters.'\" [Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] And it did not matter to him, because when he was Employment Secretary unemployment went up by 1 million; now he is committed to cutting the new deal that has helped 1 million people. He can make his jokes about that book, but unemployment does matter to this Government and that is the difference between this Government and that Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I seek your forbearance to enable me to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1673.2", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Twice a year, we have an opportunity for a day of group therapy on Europe, but European competence covers many Departments. For example, it involves trade policy, migration policy and development policy. Yet junior Ministers from the other Departments do not even do us the courtesy of attending the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1676.4", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly look at my hon. Friend's suggestion, as it is a constructive idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1676.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "is possible to negotiate to bring powers back from Brussels to Britain. The Prime Minister told my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the Opposition that \"no one will support his attempt to renegotiate the conditions.\"– [Official Report, 20 April 2004 ; Vol. 420, c.161.] The Minister for Europe takes a different—and, I have to say, on this occasion—a more realistic view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1719.2", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"WEADS?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": "t. It is perfectly reasonable for Turkey to join the organisation, however, although perhaps we ought to give it a different name, as I suggested in European Standing Committee B. I have wrestled with possible different names, none of which sound impressive or snappy, but one possibility would be the \"Western Eurasian Association of Democratic States\". That would be a reasonable description—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1719.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1735.3", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made a wise intervention. His position does not differ greatly from that of the Government, which is that we must see that those criteria are being met as part of the rules for accession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1742.1", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "rongly in this instance, that it also applies to coal—of restructuring. America has not dealt with the problems that it should have dealt with to restructure the economy and make it more competitive. The same applies to agriculture in the mid-west. I doubt whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman would put forward the common agricultural policy as a paragon of virtue compared with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-15", "file": "debates2004-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "ca35135bb1551d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "European Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "On election monitors, I offered the hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale, West (Mr. Brady) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-15a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-16", "file": "debates2004-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "a279807f1603cbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1783.8", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "What we need to know from the hon. Gentleman, given that he is so obsessed with the 1 per cent. national insurance increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1783.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-16", "file": "debates2004-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "a279807f1603cbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1785.4", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "It would clearly be inappropriate for me to comment on an individual taxpayer, due to taxpayer confidentiality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1785.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-16", "file": "debates2004-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "a279807f1603cbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1786.5", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Boateng", "preceding_text": "I recall those days only too well, having shared an office with my right hon. Friend for most of them—and they were bad days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1786.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-16", "file": "debates2004-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "a279807f1603cbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Future Infantry Structure", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "o larger, multi-battalion regiments is the only sustainable way in which to structure the infantry for the long term. In implementing the new system, the Army will ensure that the regimental traditions, heritage, cultures and local connections will live on in the new arrangements. Golden threads of identity will be preserved in any new uniform, for example, by the retention of accoutrements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-16", "file": "debates2004-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "a279807f1603cbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1800.0", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Future Infantry Structure", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ly considered these issues, carefully considered the military advice that has been available to him and to Conservative Front-Bench Members, and approached the matter in a proper way. Instead, he has chosen to make party political points, which he is entitled to do, and has produced an entirely incoherent response to a set of carefully thought-out proposals based on the best military advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-16", "file": "debates2004-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "a279807f1603cbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1819.2", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "ce that Sir Alan Budd's report will be published before the House rises next week? Some very important issues are involved. If, as we now understand, the Home Secretary was not at fault, somebody else in the Home Office was, and clearly the new Home Secretary needs to take action. On the Belmarsh detainees, it is extraordinary that the Leader of the House comes here and reads out part of a letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-16a.1819.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.1924.0", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "mething is renegotiated by agreement, it is not renegotiation. That is why, to be frank, at least the United Kingdom Independence party has an honest position on this. It wants to get Britain out of Europe because it recognises that renegotiation on those terms is not possible. The truth is that the right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot point to a single ally for his renegotiation—not one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.1924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.1944.8", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "but I believe that we should take the opportunity of that investment to secure wider benefits, such as those that I have just set out. The security issues here are critical and they need to be faced up to by those who oppose the introduction of the scheme. It is the case that a secure identity scheme will help to prevent terrorist activity, more than a third of which makes use of false identities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.1944.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.1976.1", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "tion asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) because the scheme would have included the powers for which the police might be looking. In my village, my neighbours will have to carry an identity card in a few years' time, but I will not have to do so because my passport is not up for renewal until 2012—lucky me—but that is a two-tier system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.1976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "s that we cannot have anything because there might be abuse; we cannot say that because a measure will soon be outdated we had better not do it at all, or we would never buy a computer; nor can something be opposed because one is so opposed to anything that might be used by the EU that one votes against it in any case; that is barmy and we know exactly why some people are making such points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.1983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2016.2", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Marsha Singh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marsha Singh", "preceding_text": "is right or wrong that the situation occurred, an identity card might help to solve a misunderstanding and to stop the problem before it goes any further. On civil liberties—although I did not hear many arguments about the subject—given that many democratic countries, especially in Europe, have identity cards, are we claiming that their standards of civil liberties are worse than ours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2018.0", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "ms, while my right hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon referred to the whole issue being an empty vessel and secondary legislation being needed to deal with the thing properly. My right hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates) spoke clearly in favour of identity cards, saying that this was the subject of his maiden speech probably more years ago than we would care to mention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2018.0", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "t I take a different view, as the measure did not seem to make any difference at all. Those cards were used only by drivers. I acknowledge that that was a long time ago and that the biometric capabilities of the new cards might make a difference. The fact remains that this country is not ignorant about the use of ID cards against terrorism. Similarly, a number of right hon. and hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " another balanced contribution, did exactly the same. Among other memorable moments was the admission by the hon. Member for Winchester (Mr. Oaten) that we need to spend money to put biometrics into passports. We now have the Liberal Democrats' support for that. Will he therefore now explain why he and his colleagues have been making an arithmetical calculation that takes all that money out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20.xml", "sha256": "55d754640d886c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2022.3", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "HOME OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "he speech that he gave then and the one that he gave today is that—I hope that I recollect this correctly—he said that this policy had been hawked around by civil servants for years, and that when he was in government it was rejected. I am really sorry that his memory is so poor. He was a member of John Major's Government, who announced plans for an identity card scheme in August 1996.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20.2022.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1893.0", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Cryer", "preceding_text": "I welcome the introduction of dispersal orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1904.6", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Honorary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I understand the issue raised; indeed, my honorary Friend has made this point consistently for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1904.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1920.0", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Brussels European Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " private meeting with Chancellor Schröder? Does he agree with his own Minister for Europe, who, with the ink barely dry on the constitution, now says that the \"Treaty won't be the last word\"? Earlier this year, the Minister for Europe signed a document calling for new EU taxes, a common immigration policy, a single welfare system and the surrender of Britain's seat on the UN Security Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1920.0", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Brussels European Council", "cue_speaker": "Michael Howard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Howard", "preceding_text": " the referendum, so that the British people can have their say and so that we can give a lead to Europe, instead of following others? Will he now tell the House what he plans to do if the constitution is rejected? Is not the fact of the matter that the constitution is a block on the kind of reform that an enlarged Europe needs? Was not the Prime Minister's own former economics adviser right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1922.0", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Brussels European Council", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "mething is renegotiated by agreement, it is not renegotiation. That is why, to be frank, at least the United Kingdom Independence party has an honest position on this. It wants to get Britain out of Europe because it recognises that renegotiation on those terms is not possible. The truth is that the right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot point to a single ally for his renegotiation—not one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1922.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1937.1", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Sir Michael John Austin Cummins", "cue_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Tyler", "preceding_text": "Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Allan) has reminded me that that is by no means the sort of activity that one would normally associate with retired military personnel, or indeed with those whose main hobbies were equitation and tapestry. The process has been remarkably smooth compared with many other processes of a similar nature. The other thing I wanted to mention is that there has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1937.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1946.3", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jean Corston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jean Corston", "preceding_text": "the Bill as part of its normal scrutiny process. We will write to the Government on any issues of concern that arise on human rights. If the past is anything to go by, we will have an amicable and proper exchange—all such exchanges are, of course, published. Two years ago, I conducted a consultation with 100 organisations in my constituency on the Government's consultation on identity cards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1946.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1952.3", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I reassure my right hon. Friend that we will consider that. The system that we have at the moment, and that we are suggesting in terms of addresses, is similar to the system that currently operates for driving licences, and enables—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1952.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1954.11", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1954.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1954.14", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "We shall make a judgment, and if the Bill has not changed at all, that judgment will be pretty sceptical. We shall make a judgment on the five tests that I shall explain in a minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1954.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1957.4", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We've got driving licences.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Yes, it does, but the use of driving licences as straightforward identification in the United States is common. The vast majority of Americans carry driving licences—photo ID—so there is a distinction. We start from different positions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1962.2", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that the hon. Gentleman should have addressed that question to the Home Secretary rather than to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1962.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1963.3", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "rnational terrorism. It is right that we listen to those people and support the principle that the architecture for their introduction should be put in place, but it is also right that we ensure that the proposals are scrutinised very carefully, so that we achieve the aims of the Bill at minimum cost and minimum incursion on people's liberty and privacy. That is why we will support the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1967.1", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I do not want to rake over old coals, but the hon. Gentleman has got off lightly on this issue for far too long. It cannot be the case that the hon. Gentleman supported ID cards to the point where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1967.1", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I do not want to rake over old coals, but the hon. Gentleman has got off lightly on this issue for far too long. It cannot be the case that the hon. Gentleman supported ID cards to the point where— [Interruption.] As a matter of fact, that assertion is not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) because the scheme would have included the powers for which the police might be looking. In my village, my neighbours will have to carry an identity card in a few years' time. I will not have to do so because my passport is not up for renewal until 2012—lucky me—but that is a two-tier system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1981.0", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "s that we cannot have anything because there might be abuse; we cannot say that because a measure will soon be outdated we had better not do it at all, or we would never buy a computer; nor can something be opposed because one is so opposed to anything that might be used by the EU that one votes against it in any case; that is barmy and we know exactly why some people are making such points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.1981.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Mates", "preceding_text": "Such information would have to be visible. Information about a person's blood group— O, B or whatever—could be visible to the naked eye. Such information would not have to be hidden away in some high-tech piece of plastic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "That is a good point, because convicted paedophiles are already on a national database and are already known to the police. The question is: who has access to that information? What if somebody walks into their local post office or Blockbuster and puts their card into the reader, which states that they are a convicted paedophile? What will happen to that man when he walks out of Blockbuster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Thomas", "preceding_text": "iles are already on a national database and are already known to the police. The question is: who has access to that information? What if somebody walks into their local post office or Blockbuster and puts their card into the reader, which states that they are a convicted paedophile? What will happen to that man when he walks out of Blockbuster? [Interruption.] Will he be a safe man on the street?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2014.2", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Marsha Singh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marsha Singh", "preceding_text": "is right or wrong that the situation occurred, an identity card might help to solve a misunderstanding and to stop the problem before it goes any further. On civil liberties—although I did not hear many arguments about the subject—given that many democratic countries, especially in Europe, have identity cards, are we claiming that their standards of civil liberties are worse than ours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "ms, while my right hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon referred to the whole issue being an empty vessel and secondary legislation being needed to deal with the thing properly. My right hon. Friend the Member for East Hampshire (Mr. Mates) spoke clearly in favour of identity cards, saying that this was the subject of his maiden speech probably more years ago than we would care to mention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Mercer", "preceding_text": "hat I take a different view, as the measure did not seem to make any difference at all. The cards were used only by drivers. I acknowledge that that was a long time ago and that the biometric capabilities of the new cards might make a difference. The fact remains that this country is not ignorant about the use of ID cards against terrorism. Similarly, a number of right hon. and hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2018.1", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " another balanced contribution, did exactly the same. Among other memorable moments was the admission by the hon. Member for Winchester (Mr. Oaten) that we need to spend money to put biometrics into passports. We now have the Liberal Democrats' support for that. Will he therefore now explain why he and his colleagues have been making an arithmetical calculation that takes all that money out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2019.1", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The sort of readers that the hon. Gentleman suggests will be needed are not the test as to whether identity cards will have any functionality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2019.1", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "s on a number of layers, and can be used in different ways. Of course there will need to be readers, and if we are to use cards for access to public services that will need readers too, but each decision will need to be made on a case-by-case basis for the purposes of those public services, according to a cost-benefit analysis of what investment we need to put in to get the best benefit out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-20", "file": "debates2004-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "29840f990a4803e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2020.3", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "he speech that he gave then and the one that he gave today is that—I hope that I recollect this correctly—he said that this policy had been hawked around by civil servants for years, and that when he was in government it was rejected. I am really sorry that his memory is so poor. He was a member of John Major's Government, who announced plans for an identity card scheme in August 1996.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-20a.2020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2048.0", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "It is delightful to hear about so many people cycling and how good it is for people's health, but does the Minister agree that cyclists sometimes can be a complete and utter nuisance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2048.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2050.5", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patsy Calton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patsy Calton", "preceding_text": "rail lines by at least two years, failed to find funding for the implementation of the south-east Manchester multimodal study's recommendations for transport investment, and failed to recognise that an estimated £60 million of investment is required in signalling and track on the Manchester-Oldham-Rochdale railway line, which would not have been needed if Metrolink phase 3 had been approved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2050.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I think, Mr. Speaker, that I have got the long and the short of it; the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso) can feel confident that his position as principal spokesman for the Liberals is not under threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2090.0", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "d open to traffic in 2009.\"—[ Official Report , 17 December 2003; Vol. 415, c. 920W .] The point about that announcement is that neither the then roads Minister nor the chief executive of the Highways Agency has made any contact with me or my neighbouring Member of Parliament. I defy the Minister to find a road scheme in the country for which there is a clearer need for new investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "ing a substance similar to napalm when the invasion began and we have heard stories from certain people and bodies, including Reuters, who have been in the city that such dreadful weapons have been deployed there. I have tried to get answers here, but to no avail. Al-Jazeera was banned before the second battle for Falluja, so one reliable source from which we got information before has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2106.2", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " What a ludicrous policy the Government are presiding over. There is a gaping credibility gap between so much of what the Government say and what is happening on the ground. I could regale the House with many other examples but I do not have time to do so. The cases that I have highlighted show what a pig's ear the Government have made of policy on law and order, asylum and immigration since 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2118.0", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "articularly want to focus are the foundation of a parliamentary democracy: collective Cabinet responsibility and individual ministerial accountability. Let us, first, consider the former—Cabinet Government. We now know that the Cabinet did not even see the Attorney-General's full advice. Notwithstanding that we still have not seen it, the Cabinet was not provided with it. On 17 March —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2118.0", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "nding that we still have not seen it, the Cabinet was not provided with it. On 17 March — [Interruption.] If the Minister would like to contradict me, I shall give him the opportunity to do so, because the fact of the matter is that on 17 March the Cabinet was given only the summary. It is in the Butler report, and it was contrary to the ministerial code, which states, in paragraph 23—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21.xml", "sha256": "8c6a38cca41853df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2118.0", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "r is included in . . . papers for the cabinet . . . the conclusions may if necessary be summarised but, if this is done,\"— this is the crucial thing— \"the complete text of the advice should be attached.\" That did not happen in the Cabinet meeting, so the Cabinet was also misled about the content, inasmuch as the caveats in the Attorney-General's final view were not there for it to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21.2118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2046.0", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "It is delightful to hear about so many people cycling and how good it is for people's health, but does the Minister agree that cyclists sometimes can be a complete and utter nuisance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2048.5", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Patsy Calton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patsy Calton", "preceding_text": "ail lines by at least two years, failed to find funding for the implementation of the south-east Manchester multi-modal study's recommendations for transport investment, and failed to recognise that an estimated £60 million of investment is required in signalling and track on the Manchester-Oldham-Rochdale railway line, which would not have been needed if Metrolink phase 3 had been approved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2048.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I think, Mr. Speaker, that I have got the long and the short of it. The hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso) can feel confident that his position as principal spokesman for the Liberals is not under threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2061.1", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is aware of my responsibilities, but for the avoidance of doubt, I am happy to repeat them to him and the wider House. I have responsibility for policy co-ordination across government and I obviously have responsibilities for the Duchy of Lancaster. I sit on 17 or 19 Cabinet Committees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2064.1", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Milburn", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of being shy or secretive; that is precisely why the information will be published in the normal way. The hon. Gentleman keeps saying that he knows the date of the election. I am sure that we would all like to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2088.0", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Virginia Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Virginia Bottomley", "preceding_text": "d open to traffic in 2009.\"—[ Official Report , 17 December 2003; Vol. 415, c. 920W .] The point about that announcement is that neither the then roads Minister nor the chief executive of the Highways Agency has made any contact with me or my neighbouring Member of Parliament. I defy the Minister to find a road scheme in the country for which there is a clearer need for new investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2102.1", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alice Mahon", "preceding_text": "ing a substance similar to napalm when the invasion began and we have heard stories from certain people and bodies, including Reuters, who have been in the city that such dreadful weapons have been deployed there. I have tried to get answers here, but to no avail. Al-Jazeera was banned before the second battle for Falluja, so one reliable source from which we got information before has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2104.2", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": " What a ludicrous policy the Government are presiding over. There is a gaping credibility gap between so much of what the Government say and what is happening on the ground. I could regale the House with many other examples but I do not have time to do so. The cases that I have highlighted show what a pig's ear the Government have made of policy on law and order, asylum and immigration since 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "articularly want to focus are the foundation of a parliamentary democracy: collective Cabinet responsibility and individual ministerial accountability. Let us, first, consider the former—Cabinet Government. We now know that the Cabinet did not even see the Attorney-General's full advice. Notwithstanding that we still have not seen it, the Cabinet was not provided with it. On 17 March —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "nding that we still have not seen it, the Cabinet was not provided with it. On 17 March — [Interruption.] If the Minister would like to contradict me, I shall give him the opportunity to do so, because the fact of the matter is that on 17 March the Cabinet was given only the summary. It is in the Butler report, and it was contrary to the ministerial code, which states, in paragraph 23—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "r is included in . . . papers for the cabinet . . . the conclusions may if necessary be summarised but, if this is done,\"— this is the crucial thing— \"the complete text of the advice should be attached.\" That did not happen in the Cabinet meeting, so the Cabinet was also misled about the content, inasmuch as the caveats in the Attorney-General's final view were not there for it to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2160.2", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " we had on 18 March 2003 . I believe that those hon. Members who come to the Chamber and say that they wish the sovereignty of Parliament to be re-established, as they see it, so that it becomes the cockpit of debate, as they rightly argue, have a responsibility on their shoulders to stick to the facts of the debate and not put into the public domain arguments that were not used at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2160.2", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ies have delivered record numbers of jobs, with 2 million more people in work and the lowest unemployment for 30 years. The minimum wage has risen again; it is now £4.85. We have record numbers of police, some 12,500 more than in 1987. We saw crime fall again—5 per cent. last year and now down by 30 per cent. since 1997. There are more nurses and doctors, with 77,500 more nurses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2004-12-21", "file": "debates2004-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "e50f14b772681909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2160.2", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "Christmas Adjournment", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "s have waiting times. That is a tremendous record of improvement. I shall come to some of the matters raised in the debate. However, with the experience of attending these debates, I have learned that it is more constructive for individual Members to take up the points that they have raised with the Ministers concerned and ensure that letters are sent. I hope that I can stand on my record on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2004-12-21a.2160.2"}